The Newest, Cutest Baby Animals from the World's Zoos & Aquariums
It’s been a busy week for Belfast Zoo with the birth of two tiny baby monkeys. The new Lion-tailed Macaque and Black and White Colobus Monkey are being looked after well by their mums and the other females in their groups. Sometimes the mothers will even pass the babies off to responsible aunts and older sisters while they go take a break.
On an unrelated-to-anything-scientific note, baby Colobus Monkeys look to us like a cross between a sheep, a bichon and a tiny old man…
The Belfast Zoo's resident male Red Kangaroo is named Randalph, which zoo staff decided was close enough to "Rudolph" to name his newest joeys Dancer and Prancer. The largest marsupial in the world, Red Kangaroo's reach up to 190 lbs (85 kg) and almost 5 feet long from head to tail but at birth they weigh only .02 ounces (75 grams) and spend their first 150 days in mom's pouch!
Family portrait
Earlier this month, the world’s smallest deer, a Southern pudu, gave birth at Belfast
Zoo. Baby Caju is 3 weeks old and is the first Chilean pudu birth for
Belfast Zoo and the first captive birth of the species in Ireland.
The Belfast Zoo welcomed a new baby Malayan tapir on June 22nd. Tapirs may look like pigs with mini elephant trunks but they are actually most closely related to horses and rhinoceroses. The zoo is currently having a naming contest for the little girl. May we suggest Schnozzy or Schnozzella?
Schnozzella does her best "Blue Steel"
Last week, the Belfast Zoo in Northern Ireland welcomed three healthy little California sea lion pups to three different proud pinniped mothers: Stella, Holly and Ariel. Sea lion pregnancy is no brief affair, lasting 11-12 months!
A shiny little sea lion
Pretty sure this conversation consists of a low pitched "arf", followed by a high pitched, "arf-arf-arf"
