A mother duck was walking with her ducklings along an Oklahoma highway when the seven little ones fell through a storm grate. Witnesses say she was so distraught about the situation that the duck threw herself into the passing traffic to bring attention to her plight.
Concerned citizens stepped in and the mother duck watched as they pulled each of the young ducklings to safety.
This little polar bear wanted to show his mom some affection.
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Augo the polar bear cub plays with his mother, Malik.
One-year-old Augo almost looked as if he was getting a stern telling off from his mother, Malik, but he wrapped his arms around her neck for a cuddle. The little bear delighted visitors to Aalborg Zoo in Denmark with the PDA (public display of affection), according to photo agency Rex Features.
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Augo the polar bear cub looks like his mother is telling him a thing or two.
Photographer and zoo worker Sussi Kober explains: "Augo is a playful little bear and enjoys playing around and being mischievous. Sometimes it seems as if he is testing his mother, but he will always win her over with some affection - or a big hug!"
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Augo knows the way to a mother's heart: a big hug.
Mish Whalen, (Senior Multimedia Editor) is a mom who knows that bear hugs are great but mom hugs are even better.
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These tiger cubs at the Gandhi Zoological Park in India were 30 days old on Dec. 4.
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Yamuna and her two cubs during their first public viewing.
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Check out these two absolutely adorable cubs that were born to Yamuna, a white tiger, at the Gandhi Zoological Park in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, in early November. The park named the two little guys Luv and Kush.
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Western lowland gorilla mother Bana holds her new baby at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago on Nov. 18.
A gorilla has given birth in Chicago to a western lowland gorilla. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.
Update Nov. 28:
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that trainers discovered the 9-day-old infant dead in her mother's arms. A preliminary necropsy showed the cause of death to be blunt force head trauma or a skull injury, according to Megan Ross, the zoo's vice president of animal care.
Zoo officials introduced the new baby gorilla to the public on Nov. 18. She is the first Western lowland gorilla born at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo since 2005.
The baby gorilla doesn't have a name yet. Her mother is 15-year-old Bana, who gave birth for the first time. Her father is Kwan, a 22-year-old silverback gorilla.
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Newborn orangutan Awang seeks shelter in the arms of his mother Farida at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Nov. 15, 2011.
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A ten-day-old female elephant calf stays close to its mother Panang in the Munich Hellabrunn Zoo, in Germany on Tues. Nov. 8.
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The ten-day old baby elephant, who has not been named, met the public for the first time.
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Three lion cubs play at the Santa Fe zoo in Colombia, on Nov. 4.
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Cutest things ever? I think so! These little lion cubs were born in the zoo on Oct. 9, 2011. See more lion cubs here.
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The two newest members of the giraffe herd at Lion Country Safari in West Palm Beach, Fla. in the maternity pen on, Nov. 4.
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Rafiki, one of the two newest giraffe calves eats green leaves poking through a chain-link-fence.
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Mature giraffes check cars for treats.
Lion Country Safari, a safari park in south Florida, welcomed two new giraffe calves this week, bringing the count of giraffes born on safari up to 58! Ayanna, a third-time mother, delivered a 6-foot-5 male calf Oct. 22, and two days later, Lilly, a first-time mom, delivered a 6-foot-1 male.
According to Lion Country Safari, both babies are with their moms. They will be segregated in the maternity pen to allow bonding time.
Female giraffes reproduce year-round beginning at about 4 years of age. Their conception peak is usually during the rainy season, and their gestation lasts approximately 15 months. Giraffe calves are born while the mother is in a standing position, and they drop to the ground head first.
The average life expectancy of a giraffe is 25 years.
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Four baby capybaras are accompanied by their mother on Nov. 3, at a zoo in Germany.
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They may look like a cross between a monster chipmunk and a giant hamster, but they're something else again: capybaras. The largest living rodents in the world, they are related to guinea pigs. They are native to most of Latin America.
These capybaras were born at the zoo on Nov. 1.
See another fun photo of a capybara here.
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Jumilah is seen with one of her cubs.
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Sumatran tiger Jumilah is seen with her cubs at the Taronga Zoo on Oct. 25 in Sydney, Australia.
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The Sumatran tiger cubs, born in August to mother Jumilah, were introduced to the public in Sydney, Australia for the first time this week.
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An unnamed newly born Bornean orangutan is held by her mother Kalim at their zoo enclosure on Oct. 20.
That little face! The Los Angeles Zoo welcomed a new baby Bornean orangutan on Sept. 19. This is the second baby for the zoo's female Bornean orangutan.
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New born dolphin, Doerrte, swims with its mother Delphi at the Duisburg Zoo in Germany on Oct. 17.
Wilkommen (that's German for "welcome"), baby dolphin Doerrte!
Germany's Duisburg Zoo welcomed the little bottlenose dolphin, one of three dolphin babies born to different mothers at the zoo last month.
Doerrte seemed to be most outgoing, while the others preferred to take their first public swims in the background.
Mother Delphi was also born at the Duisburg Zoo, Europe's biggest dolphinarium.
See video of the new babies, here.
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