Western lowland gorilla Bana holds her new baby born Oct. 11 at the Lincoln Park Zoo. The unnamed infant will be put on display starting Wednesday, Oct. 17, at the zoo's Regenstein Center for African Apes. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times
Western lowland gorilla Bana holds her new baby born Oct. 11. at the Lincoln Park Zoo. The unnamed infant will be put on display starting Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the zoo's Regenstein Center for African Apes. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times
Western lowland gorilla Bana holds her new baby born Oct. 11 at the Lincoln Park Zoo. The unnamed infant will be put on display starting Wednesday, Oct. 17, at the zoo's Regenstein Center for African Apes. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times
Western lowland gorilla Bana holds her new baby born Oct. 11. at the Lincoln Park Zoo. The unnamed infant will be put on display starting Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the zoo's Regenstein Center for African Apes. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times
Western lowland gorilla Bana holds her new baby born Oct. 11. at the Lincoln Park Zoo. The unnamed infant will be put on display starting Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the zoo's Regenstein Center for African Apes. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times
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Two North Chinese Leopard cubs (Panthera pardus japonensis) look out of a basket as they are presented for first time to the public at the Tierpark Zoo in Berlin, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. The North Chinese Leopard twins were born on Aug. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A female bison calf born May 16, scampers with its mom Leotie and the other bison at Brookfield Zoo's Great Bear Wilderness Exhibit Wednesday morning. The female calf marks the first birth of this species at the zoo since the early 1970's. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times
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Lincoln Park Zoo's newborn zebra colt with his mom, Adia. | Lincoln Park Zoo photo
Mama dolphin Piquet swims with her new calf at the Shedd Aquarium. | ©Shedd Aquarium ~ Brenna Hernandez.
Shedd Aquarium, announces that its beluga whale Mauyak (MAH-yak) successfully gave birth to a healthy calf Monday, Aug. 27, at approximately 2 a.m. Sheddâs animal care team estimates that the calf is 4½ feet long and weighs about 150 pounds. Both mother and calf appear to be doing well and will remain under 24-hour observation by the animal health staff in Sheddâs Abbott Oceanarium.
In this Sept. 23, 2012 photo provided by Utah's Hogle Zoo, mother giraffe Kipenzi stands behind her baby girl shortly after birth. The new baby giraffe and her mother went on display at Utah's Hogle Zoo for the first time on Oct. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Utah's Hogle Zoo)
A kiwi chick hatches at Auckland Zoo in Auckland, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, during its spring breeding season. The chick, a flightless bird that will grow to about the size of a domestic fowl, is the fifth born this season and has been named Nick 1. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Greg Bowker)
Female liliger cub Kiara, a hybrid between a lion and a ligress, at the Novosibirsk Zoo, in Novosibirsk, eastern Sibiria, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Kiara is the first female liliger born over a month ago at the Novosibirsk Zoo. Kiara's mother, Zita, stopped producing milk almost immediately after giving birth, so Zoo employees placed Kiara in a separate facility and feed her with a special milk mix. The cub plays with a house cat which also provides motherly warmth. (AP Photo /Ilnar Salakhiev)
