tiger cubs.
Tigers are rare enough in general, with all six existing species currently on the endangered list. Keeping that in mind, imagine if your zoo managed to breed a litter of four super-rare white tigers, one of which is albino. You would have hit the breeding-program jackpot. And that's exactly what's happened for the Yalta Zoo in Yalta, Ukraine, where these quadruplet kittens were born on Sunday, May 6. Litters of these seldom-seen animals normally number two or three, so these four cuties are rare indeed, not to mention adorable as all get-out. Watch the video below to see zoo staff bottle feed these odds-defying, days-old cutie pies. ...
Daily Squee asks a good question regarding this video of a tiger cub and a piglet: Are we witnessing a scene from "Winnie the Pooh" come to life? Is Tigger spooning Piglet, reminding us that some of the finest children's-literature-turned-into-film gave us some of the cutest animal characters? Granted, this Tigger is more laid-back than his animated alter ego, and Piglet didn't have spots, but we'll take what we can get -- especially if it's a video of a tiger cub spooning a piglet. Does it get any better? More Cute Animal Videos ...
Malayan tiger cubs. Julie Larsen Maher, Wildlife Conservation Society What's cuter than a tiger cub? Half a dozen tiger cubs! Six tiger cubs made their public debut at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo in New York this week, according to to the WCS. The cubs come from two litters and two different subspecies of tiger. Three are Amur tigers and three are Malayan tigers. Their arrival has zoo staff cheering. This is the first litter of Amur tigers born at the Bronx Zoo in more than 13 years. And it's the first time that Malayan tigers have ever been exhibited in the Bronx. The cubs can be seen at the zoo's Tiger Mountain exhibit, in adjacent exhibits that separate the ...
Babies, babies, babies. They're everywhere, including the Denver Zoo! The Denver Zoo has welcomed several new additions recently, including some that are so darn cute we just have to share. From the endangered but adorable Amur tiger cub quadruplets, to Ady, the talkative sea-lion pup, cuteness abounds this year. Just check out the gallery below for proof! http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=874809&pid=874808&uts=1278510656 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf Cutest Baby Animals of 2010 (so far!) We've got baby fever. Baby animal ...
Hope comes in many forms. In this case, it comes with eight adorable little paws and a whole bunch of stripes. Two rare Sumatran tiger cubs made their television debut this morning on NBC's "Today." The pair was born May 25 at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash. Including these new additions, there are just 74 Sumatran tigers in captivity in North America and only a few hundred exist in the wild. The birth of these cubs is particularly remarkable because their mom and dad, Jaya and Bali, were pretty clueless when it came to continuing their critically endangered species: "Neither one could seem to understand what needed to be done," Andy Goldfarb, staff biologist at Port ...