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Two five-week-old leopard cubs named Chant and Sloka sit with a one-year-old orangutan named Rishi, at T.I.G.E.R.S.

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A baby gibbon, which was born on 8 February, is wrapped in a towel at the zoo in Schwerin, Germany. The female gibbon, which weighed 450 grams at birth, was abandoned by his mother and has to be raised by hand

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Elke, a five-day-old Francois Langur, makes her debut at Taronga Zoo's Wildlife Hospital in Sydney. Keepers have decided to hand-rear the monkey after she was rejected by her mother

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A newly born Madagascar lemur named Tahina is seen at Besancon Zoo, France. Tahina is one of only 17 Madagascar lemurs living in captivity worldwide

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Two-week-old Ruffles, the red ruffed lemur investigates a pear at Lemur Land in Blair Drummond Safari Park

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Koda, an American miniature horse that was also born as a dwarf, walks with Yarrambat Veterinary Hospital's cat

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Two-year-old Colt Bullen rides his miniature horse Prancer and comes face-to-face with Hercules the Clydesdale horse, in Melbourne, Australia

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William the miniature pig and his best friend Charles the giant rabbit, at Pennywell Farm in Devon. Bosses at the farm say the friendship developed after ten-week-old William was moved into a pen next to the rabbits

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Baby Fennecs are seen at Sunshine International Aquarium in Tokyo, Japan.

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A long-eared jerboa is photographed by a tourist in north-west China

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Adam Morley of Melton Mowbray, Leics, takes a litter of 18 playful dalmatian pups for a walk

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There's only one word for it when this young cub got sight of his first ever snow - panda-monium. Giant panda cub Fu Long was clearly delighted to be frolicking with his proud mum at Vienna's Schoenbrunn zoo as heavy snow covered the whole of Europe

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Is it a cow or is it a sheep? It's a lamb that looks like a Friesian cow, pictured in Altay Prefecture, China

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A baby wallaby sits in a zoo attendant's lap at Edogawa Natural Zoo in Tokyo, Japan. The staff of the zoo have raised the young wallaby after her mother neglected her

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A four-day-old sea lion cub lies in its enclosure in the zoo in Vienna

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A startled hippopotamus dashes from his hiding place.Despite being one of the larger members of the animal kingdom, hippos can be shy creatures

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A meerkat warms up under a heat lamp at Battersea Park Children's Zoo

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Two trainers and two beluga whales make a heart shape during a performance in an aquarium in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province