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Photograph by Norbert Rosing
Baby harp seals, like this one on the ice in Newfoundland, Canada, turn from snow white to silvery gray as they get older. -
Photograph by Chris Johns
African wild dogs, like these pups in Botswana in southern Africa, live in big groups called packs. All the adults in the pack help care for the pups. -
Photograph by Mattias Klum
In a meerkat family, everyone pitches in to help raise the little ones. Here, a baby meerkat (with an ant in its mouth) clings to a relative in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. -
Photograph by Tim Laman
A snow monkey, or Japanese macaque, plays with a snowball on Honshu island in Japan. Snow monkeys live farther north than any other monkey. Their long coats keep them warm. -
Photograph by Norbert Rosing
Mother polar bears almost always give birth to twins, like these two cubs in Arctic Canada. The cubs will stay with their mom for almost three years before they go off on their own. -
Photograph by Norbert Rosing
A Canada lynx kitten rests in a clearing in Montana. Lynxes are short-tailed cats related to bobcats. They have extra-wide feet that keep them from slipping when walking on ice and snow. -
Photograph by Beverly Joubert
A lion cub rests on a fallen tree in Botswana in southern Africa. Lions are the only cats that live together in groups, called prides. Other wild cats, such as tigers, live alone. -
Photograph by William Albert Allard
A baby Asian elephant walks through tall grass at an elephant refuge in Lampang, Thailand. Sometimes an elephant calf sucks its trunk, just like a human baby sucks its thumb! -
Photograph by Frans Lanting
A newborn giraffe relaxes under a tree in Zambia, in southern Africa, as oxpecker birds clean its skin of ticks and other bugs. -
Photograph by Ira Block
A baby orangutan munches grass under a tree at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas. Young orangutans live with their mothers until they are around seven years old.
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