ANIMAL PHOTOS

 

1. family of baboons enjoy the sun in their enclosure at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg.
   
2. A baby squirrel curls up into a tiny ball while his mother gently carries him in her mouth to the safety of the nest. (Photo: Morkel Erasmus/Solent)
   
3. Two grizzly bear cubs spar with each other. (Photo: Andy Rouse / Rex Features)
   
4. Kriba the Western Lowland Gorilla cuddles her baby, named Kipenzi, in their enclosure at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. (Photo: Newspix / Rex Features)
   
5. A lion cub is carried in its mother's mouth in the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya.
   
6. newborn White-Handed Gibbon baby is seen with its mother Bettina, aged 32, as she climbs a rope at the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv.
   
7. Seven ginger guinea pigs rescued by The Blue Cross animal charity. (Photo: The Blue Cross)
   
8. The Verreaux sifakas in Madagascar
   
9. John the baby goat makes friends with Charlie the chick at Reddish Vale School Farm near Stockport.
   
10. This newborn chick, who is just a few weeks old, has apparently struck up an unlikely friendship with a kitten who helps protect her from pesky vermin.
    
11. Einstein exhibits no dwarf characteristics and is simply a very small miniature horse. His mother Finesse stands a relatively tall 32 inches and his dad Painted Feather slightly smaller at 30 inches.
    
12. flamingo loses its balance and falls over whilst trying to stand on one leg in its pool at Moscow Zoo.
    
13. A meerkat investigates a daffodil at at Knowsley Safari Park, in Merseyside, Liverpool. (Photo: Julian Hamilton / Mercury Press)
    
14. The polar bear cub Vicks walks under mother Olinka's legs in their enclosure at the Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam. (Photo: Reuters)
    
15. Wallaby joey Pip plays amongst the daffodils at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, Dunstable, Bedfordshire.