Weekly Adorbs for Aug. 27-31

MEERKAT MADNESS 

One of Dudley Zoo's three baby meerkats was spotted exploring its surroundings after opening its eyes for the first time this week. It's got so much to see! 

CUTE CHECK-UP 

Bai Yun's cub had its second exam today. No word yet on whether it's a boy or girl, but it's a healthy 2.2 pounds and growing.

MOVE OVER, BIG SIS

Indianapolis' newest elephant calf, Nyah, is now 2 months old and has gained more than 100 pounds since she was born. She loves hanging out with her sister, Zahara, and exploring the world. 

SNOW-LEOPARD SHOW 

Two snow-leopard cubs are getting ready for their debut. They look ready. They're as cute as can be.

REACH FOR THE STARS

Zoo Miami is proud to be the second U.S. zoo to welcome critically endangered Jamaican iguana hatchlings. 

SLOTH STARE

Cincinnati Zoo's sloth takes a moment to contemplate life. 

WATER BABY 

Bixby is settling into her new home at the Aquarium of the Pacific. 

BLACK CRANE 

A black crowned crane watches the photographer in its enclosure in the zoo in Dresden, Germany. 

CALF CHARMING

A male American bison calf walks with its surrogate mother at the Bronx Zoo. 

TINY TASMANIANS 

Taronga Zoo's Tasmanian devil keepers have welcomed the first joeys of the season. They have left their mom's pouch and now snuggle next to one another in their nest box. 

PRECIOUS PENGUIN

Daley, the hand-raised penguin at Blackpool Zoo, is growing up very quickly. He's losing his baby feathers, so his appearance is a bit scruffy at the moment.

TINY PAWS 

An employee of Taygan Park carries a lion cub into its new home. The Taygan Park is the largest lion park of Europe. 

VIP GUESTS  

Crystal, a female gray wolf, roams the new world enclosure during a sneak peak of the new American Trail at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C. 

WOMBAT WELCOME 

Taronga Zoo welcomed the first Southern hairy-nosed wombat to be born in 30 years. The joey has been named Turra, which means shadow/shade from the Aboriginal Kaurna language group. 

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS 

Samantha Viar feeds her goat, Oreo, handfuls of oatmeal in their backyard in Tennessee. 

THANKFUL KISSES 

Buster, a 2-month-old Terrier mix, gives an SPCA worker a kiss in Houston. Buster was among 70 cats and dogs evacuated from St. Bernard Parish Animal Control in anticipation of Hurricane Isaac.

BONGO BABIES 

A group of baby bongo antelopes gather around their mother at Zoo Berlin. 

MEET THE BEAVERS 

One of three North American beavers swims in a man-made beaver dam at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The beavers -- Chipper, Buzz and Willow -- will welcome visitors to the new exhibit this weekend. 

MONKEY ON YOUR BACK 

A lazy long-tailed macaque and a chital deer show they are good friends as they go for an afternoon stroll in Malaysia.

IT'S A GIRL

Swazi the elephant at San Diego Zoo Safari finally gave birth to a beautiful 205-poud calf.

PRECIOUS PANDA CUBS 

The Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum of Natural History welcomed new red-panda cubs. They're not supposed to pick favorites, but if they had to, they'd pick these. Shhh. Don't tell the other animals. 

PIT STOP 

Two circus lions rest in their cage parked on zoo grounds in Asuncion, Paraguay. The lions are two of the seven African lions and nine Bengal tigers from an Argentine circus that were stuck in a Paraguayan border town for two months and recently moved to a shaded area at the Asuncion Zoo. Paraguay's wildlife agency hopes they will be more comfortable as circus owners and Argentine officials work out the circus animals' paperwork for re-entry.

DOLPHIN PODS

Here is the very first glimpse at the newest member of the Indianapolis Zoo dolphin pod. He looks happy to be there. 

JAGUAR CUBS 

Tulsa Zoo and Living Museum's jaguar cubs are growing up more and more each day. 

OWL EYES 

A rescued tawny owl perches on a branch as it waits to be released back into the wild at the RSPCA West Hatch Wildlife Centre in Taunton, England. 

MONKEYING AROUND

Two-year-old chimpanzee Nori plays with one of the adult chimps in their exhibit at the North Carolina Zoo.

PRECIOUS PORCUPETTE

A baby porcupine, also known as a porcupette, is weighed at St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park. 

RHINO BABY 

Andatu the Sumatran rhino (born in June) is getting cuter every day. Andatu is the first rhino ever born in human care in Indonesia, and perhaps only the eighth Sumatran rhino born in human care in the world. 

MEERKAT HUGS 

Even these little furballs show each other some love every now and then. 

GORILLA GROUP

A silverback named Cantsbee leads the largest group of mountain gorillas monitored by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund’s Karisoke Research Center.

MOMMY AND ME  

A new baby Grevy’s zebra was born last Monday evening at KMDA Planckendae in Belgium. Mother Betina gave birth to a strong and healthy female foal weighing just over 66 pounds. 

BELUGA BABY  

A beluga whale at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium swims with her newly born calf at the aquarium's Abbott Oceanarium. 

KITTEN CUDDLES 

A 10-week-old lynx cub made its debut at the Montreal Biodome. It might be prancing around on its own in its enclosure, but its mother is still keeping a watchful eye out.

TEASING TIGER 

A tiger sits in a cage in Puerto Falcon, Paraguay and sticks its tongue out at customs as it tries to cross the border of Argentina. 

WHAT STORM?  

The honey badger at Naples Zoo isn't concerned about Hurricane Isaac. Not one bit. 

PANDA PARTY 

Panda Fu Hu celebrates his second birthday with a cake in his compound at the Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria. 

TAPIR TWEE

The Palm Beach Zoo welcomed a three month-old Baird’s tapir calf. A Baird’s tapir (Tapirus bairdii) is a large, hoofed mammal, closely related to the horse and the rhinoceros. It will grow up to weigh 500-600 pounds. The zoo’s male calf already weighs more than 100 pounds at only 3 months of age.

PIERCING GAZE  

A shoebill stares into the camera at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo. 

NEW CHICK ON THE BLOCK  

The Smithsonian's National Zoo welcomed a new tentant at the Bird House: a downy flamingo chick. Zookeepers are hand-raising the chick, and will join its flock within the next few months.

WHY THE LONG FACE? 

A Mastino Napolitano parades during the International Dog show in Rotterdam. We wonder if he's upset he didn't walk away with anything.

CAREFUL CROSSING 

A macaque with an offspring clutching onto its torso balances between power lines above a parking lot in downtown New Delhi. 

SNEAK PEEK

Here is a close-up of Lincoln Park Zoo's new Bolivian gray titi monkey baby at the Helen Brach Primate House. It's so tiny! 

MERRY OX 

A participant dressed in traditional Bavarian lederhosen arrived with his cow for the fifth ox-racing championship in Muensing, Germany. 

SWAN LAKE 

Swans and ducks get together for a nice summer swim at Wannsee Lake. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TIAN TIAN

Tian Tian the panda celebrates her birthday inside her enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo. She is 9 years old.

TINY TRAVELERS  

Keepers at the Taronga Zoo are celebrating the success of breeding feathertail gliders. They are the smallest gliding mammals in the world.

GROWING CUBS 

It's been a year since Sumatran tiger Jumilah gave birth to her three cubs. Take a peek at this one who is getting into its birthday present.