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Koza, the lion cub was born and lived at the Wild
Animal Park in Escondido, California.
Koza lived together and played with a puppy named Cairo
and gained widespread publicity. However, Koza was
unfortunately mauled by an adult lioness, receiving
three bites which severely damaged his spinal cord. The
5 month old cub was put down in the end. |
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This baby gorilla, named Baina, was
born April 8, 2005, to the world's first test tube
gorilla, TIMU, who lost interest in her baby only seven
hours after giving birth. Baina was raised in a nursery
exhibit adjacent to the indoor gorilla exhibit so the
smells and sights of gorillas were always familiar.
Over several months, Baina was introduced to a new
mother, Rosie. Eventually Baina was placed in the cage
with Rosie, who quickly strolled over to the screaming
baby and comforted her by coddling her on her chest.
When Baina climbed too high on a fence, Rosie gently
brought her down and placed the baby on her back and
strutted away on all fours. |
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Knut is a captive-born polar bear
born at the Berlin Zoo on 5 December 2006. Rejected by
his mother at birth, he was subsequently raised by zoo
keepers. He was the first polar bear cub to survive past
infancy at the Berlin Zoo in over thirty years. Knut
became a popular tourist attraction and commercial
success. |
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Outside a polar bear den at the
Denver Zoo, two tiny cubs were found just hours after
they had been born and abandoned by their mother. The
cubs were so chilled that thermometers did not show any
body warmth at all. On that day, November 6, 1994, the
zoo began its fight to save the twin cubs, Klondike and
Snow. The young adult polar bears now live at Florida's
Wild Arctic attraction. |
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Dema, a Sumatran tiger licks Nia a
baby orangutan in a nursery room at the Taman Safari zoo
Wednesday Feb. 28, 2007, in Bogor, Indonesia. The tiger
and orangutan baby, which would never be together in the
wild, have become inseparable playmates after they were
abandoned by their mothers. |
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THE Yangon Zoological Gardens is
celebrating the birth of its first Bengal Tiger cubs in
more than 16 years. Three cubs were born on March 17,
but one was killed by its mother, Noah. |
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Giant pandas play in a tree at the
Research and Conservation Center for Giant Pandas in the
Wolong Nature Reserve on March 6, 2007, in southwest
China's Sichuan province. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)
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The pika was named the second cutest
endangered animal in North America in a recent World
Wildlife Fund. This one is seen at Denali National Park
in Alaska. The pika faces extinction as global warming
is forcing the animals to move higher up in the
mountains, leaving them with fewer housing options.
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The chimp lives primarily in West
and Central Africa. Chimpanzees, along with gorillas
and orangutans are the closest living relatives to
humans. Our close cousins spend a lot of time in the
wild learning all sorts of things from their mothers.
For instance, chimps have learnt that termites attack
anything that disturbs their nest. By inserting a twig
into an opening of the nest, termites will crawl onto
it. Pull out the twig and “lunch is served”! Baby chimps
watch their mothers do this and thus also learn to fish
for food in this way. |
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If you ever get wild
animal baby pictures of leopard on safari consider
yourself extremely lucky. The mother leopard prefers to
keep the cubs hidden as much as possible because they
are vulnerable to predators especially when she goes on
a hunting foray |
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The White-tailed deer,
also known as the Virginia deer, or simply as the
whitetail, is a medium-sized deer found throughout most
of the continental United States, southern Canada,
Mexico, Central America, northern portions of South
America as far south as Peru, and some countries in
Europe.
The species is absent from much of the western United
States, including Nevada, Utah, and California (though
its close relatives, the mule deer and black-tailed
deer, can be found there). |
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These cute little
animals are an endangered species. Bilby's don't drink
water, they get enough from the food they eat. They
sleep during the day in deep burrows and forage at night
and are found mostly throughout the arid, dry areas of
Australia.
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The Ring-tailed Lemur
is a relatively large prosimian and is found only on the
island of Madagascar.
Although threatened by habitat destruction and therefore
listed as vulnerable, the Ring-tailed Lemur is the most
populous lemur in zoos worldwide, with approximately
2000 in captivity. They reproduce readily in captivity
and typically live up to 30 years (16 to 19 years in the
wild). |
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The Red Fox
has the
widest range of any terrestrial carnivore, being native
to Canada, Alaska, almost all of the contiguous United
States, Europe, North Africa and almost all of Asia,
including Japan. As its name suggests, its fur is
predominantly reddish-brown. |
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Gibbons are small apes
that occur in tropical and subtropical rainforests from
northeast India to Indonesia and north to southern
China, including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo and
Java. Gibbons are masters of swinging from branch
to branch at distances of up to 50 ft and at speeds as
much as 35 mph. They can also make leaps of up to 27 ft
and can walk upright with their arms raised for balance.
They are the fastest and most agile of all
tree-dwelling, non-flying mammals. |
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A black panther is a
black color variant of one of several species of larger
cat which are often known by the term panther. "Panther"
in North America is most commonly used for the cougar
(Puma) and in Latin America it is most often used to
mean a jaguar and elsewhere in the world it usually
refers to the leopard. |
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The guenons live in
Sub-Saharan Africa, and most are forest monkeys. Many of
the species are quite local in their ranges, and some
have even more local subspecies. Many are threatened or
endangered because of habitat loss. |
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The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa. White lions are not a separate subspecies and they have never been common in the wild. Regarded as divine by locals, white lions first came to public attention in the 1970s in Chris McBride's book The white lions of Timbavati  . |
