Cotton Balls or Honduran White Bats?
Imagine you were walking along in the Honduran forest and you looked up into a leaf and saw these little white puffballs. You might think “Oh, how nice, I need some cotton balls to...
Author: The Zookeeper
Grand Cayman Blue Iguanas Born in San Diego
These reptiles are critically endangered so it is good news that 9 were recently hatched. Conservationists at the San Diego zoo have been working to reproduce more of the blue lizards for more than...
The Echidna: Hatching Cute Puggles Every Day
Along with the platypus, the echidna (aka the spiny anteater) is one of only two species of mammal that lays eggs (they’re known as monotremes); as the mother will lay a single soft-shelled leathery...
Pygmy Hedgehog – Sonic and Peaceful Spined Critter
The pygmy hedgehog has been a popular domestic pet (not legal in all US states) for about 20 years now although the domestic variety originally comes from African species. No doubt its popularity was...
Brown Little Beaver Baby
Baby beavers are already well developed when they are born with hair, teeth, and eyes open. They are ready to take on the world, swim, and even feed themselves after only a month. This...
The Binturong: A Sweet Smelling Tree-Climber
If you look up in the trees of South-east Asian countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam, you might catch a glimpse of...
Baby Gerbils, the Baby Rodents You Might Like
Gerbils are not indigenous to the Americas or Europe so if you come across babies it will probably be in a nice little pet cage environment. This is more likely to be pleasing than...
The Fennec Fox: Look At Those Ears!!
At only 2 to 3 pounds (1 to 1.5 kilograms) of total body weight, the African desert dweller known as the fennec fox is actually the smallest wild canine in existence. Known for their...
Tiny White Monkeys
Tiny white monkeys (triplets) were born in Essex, UK not long ago and they are already out and about on display. These Geoffroy’s marmosets are from Eastern Brazil and when the grow they will...
World’s Smallest Monkeys – Pygmy Marmoset Babies
The World’s smallest monkey (aka “the finger monkey”) is even smaller when first born. Imagine that. And then they grow up but they still remain tiny, a large adult may be 5 inches tall....