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  • 30
    Mar
    2012
    1:29pm, EDT

    Mwah! Baby animals smooch mom and pop

    Is there anything cuter than baby animals? Yes! Check out these baby animals kissing their parents!

    Oliver Berg / EPA

    Polar bear cub Anori cuddles with his mother Vilma at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany, on March 29. Anori was born on Jan. 4 and has stayed in a closed enclosure with his mother for the past two months. He is the half-brother of Knut, who died in 2011.

    Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters

    A male Sumatran orangutan dad gets a kiss from his cub inside their enclosure at a city zoo in Moscow on March 30.

     

    More: Fox makes friends with cats and eagle 
    Harry the hippo calf receives royal treatment from his handlers 
    Comfort blanket gets baby elephants to feed 
    Rescue pup may be world's smallest

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    Animals kissing, and showing affection is like bonding. They groom each other in many different ways, which makes them very sociable with their kind and us too.

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  • 22
    Jan
    2012
    12:21am, EST

    10-day-old baby flamingo makes appearance at zoo in Cali, Colombia

    Jaime Saldarriaga / Reuters

    A pink flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), born in captivity ten days ago, is seen at the zoo in Cali Jan. 21, 2012.


    Jaime Saldarriaga / Reuters

    By Jim Seida

    A candidate for cutest thing ever?

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  • 27
    May
    2011
    12:56pm, EDT

    Bodo Marks / EPA

    A young swan cuddles with his mother at the Alster lake in Hamburg, Germany, May 27, 2011.

    Spring means lots of cute baby animals - including this young swan

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    A contender for our cutest thing ever?

    See more animal photos in our weekly slideshow, Animal Tracks.

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    Kar, hogy nem csak ilyen fotokat lehet latni a vilagrol!

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  • 19
    May
    2011
    1:43pm, EDT

    Waltraud Grubitzsch / AFP - Getty Images

    Eight months old baby sloth Camillo yawns at the zoo in Halle, eastern Germany, on Thursday, May 17. In the wild, sloths live mainly in tropical rainforests of Central and South America.

    Sloth got your tongue?

    Slideshow of wondrous animal photos here.

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  • 26
    Apr
    2011
    9:11am, EDT

    Baby turtles hatch and head out to sea in the Bay of Bengal

    Biswaranjan Rout / AP

    A boy helps a newly hatched baby Olive Ridley turtle enter the sea, at the Rushikulya river mouth beach in Ganjam district, about 85 miles from the eastern Indian city Bhubaneshwar, India, on Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Millions of baby Olive Ridley turtles are hatching and entering the Bay of Bengal sea in the past few days.

    Biswaranjan Rout / AP

    A newly hatched baby Olive Ridley turtle make its way past a human footprint at the Rushikulya river mouth beach, April 26, 2011.

    Biswaranjan Rout / AP

    Newly hatched baby Olive Ridley turtles enter the sea for the first time.

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

     More about the Olive Ridley turtles.

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    so what is that kid doing trying to catch them, pick them up??? leave them alone haven't we done enough damge to the turtles and earths animals.

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  • 4
    Aug
    2010
    12:37pm, EDT

    Ali Jarekji / Reuters

    'Zeina,' licks one of her four newborn cubs inside their cage at Jordan's zoo in Yaduda on Aug. 4, 2010.

    Joechen Luebke / AFP - Getty Images

    Three snowy owls chicks stand on a barrel at the Hanover zoo in northern Germany on Aug. 4, 2010. The birds are also known in North America as the Arctic Owl.

    David W Cerny / Reuters

    A Rothschild giraffe, 'Nora,' is seen with her newborn foal at Prague's zoo on Aug. 4, 2010. The male baby giraffe was born on July 24, 2010.

    Baby animals

    I need a break from looking at photos of fires and floods. Here's some cute baby animal photos that moved today. Check back next week to see if any of them make next week's edition of Animal Tracks.

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    Yay! Babies!

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