Sixteen giant panda cubs pose with staff members at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China’s Sichuan province Feb. 3, 2010. The cubs, born in 2009, were separated from their mothers and moved into their new nursery this week.

A baby gibbon sits on a swing in its enclosure at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo Jan. 4, 2010. The gibbon, born Sept. 23, 2009, has yet to be named. Zoologists have difficulty determining a gibbon’s sex when it’s this young.

A baby antelope is fed milk at the Chester Zoo in northern England, Jan. 22, 2010. It is a Kirk’s Dik-dik antelope, a rare type that is one of the world’s smallest. The baby is being hand-reared at the zoo after its mother rejected it during recent cold weather there.

Tantan, a one-month-old male Francois’ Leaf Monkey, relaxes with his parents at the Zoorasia zoological gardens in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009.

This Oct. 7, 2009 photo provided by SeaWorld San Diego shows sea turtle hatchlings transferred to a holding pool at SeaWorld San Diego. The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld grew by 82 in October when the eggs hatched on Shipwreck Beach without human help.

In this photo, zookeeper Nadja Radovic holds two 12-day-old white lion cubs at the Belgrade Zoo, Serbia, Sept. 30, 2009. The two cubs, an extremely rare subspecies of the African lion, were born at the Belgrade Zoo. White lions are unique to the Timbavati area of South Africa and are not albinos, but a genetic rarity.

Boniface, a 40-day-old lion cub, is seen here during his first appearance for press at Kazakhstan’s Karaganda Zoo, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009.

Germany’s Hannover Zoo welcomed this week two new leopard cubs to their zoo family, the Los Angeles Times reported. The two cubs, who are still unnamed, weighed just over a pound after their May 31, 2009, birth. Leopards typically grow to an adult weight of 130 pounds, so these cubs still have some filling in to do. The cubs’ mother, Saia, cares to one of the youngsters.

A 12-day-old Nile hippopotamus plays with its mother, Chombi, at Malaysia’s National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur July 29, 2009. The baby hippopotamus has not been given a name.

Three baby fennec foxes, including the one seen here, made their public debut June 20, 2009, at Tokyo’s Sunshine International Aquarium. Fennec foxes, known for their outlandishly large ears, are nocturnal creatures that live in the deserts of North Africa.

Hasani, a 6-month-old western lowland gorilla, sits in the grass at a gorilla exhibit during his first public viewing at California’s San Francisco Zoo, June 5, 2009. Since his mother rejected him at birth, zoo staff members have raised him. A surrogate gorilla mother was trained to care for Hasani and has accepted the newborn as her own.

A Siberian wolf cub, born at the end of April, walks around a park at the Servion Zoo near Lausanne, Switzerland, May 27, 2009.

[Photos and captions from ABC News]

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