Baby Orangutans Enjoy the Early Years with Mom
In the animal kingdom, many animals only stay with their mother for a few short weeks or months after birth. This is not the case with baby orangutans for they remain in the presence...
Category: Apes
White-Faced Saki Monkeys: More Cute Than You Can Fit In A Sack!
We’re not going to lie folks, white-face Saki Monkeys grow up to be kind of scary looking, but when they’re babies, they’re pretty adorable. Natives of Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela; these...
Baby Gorilla Arrives In Unusual Way
Anytime a baby animal is born it’s an event for us here at the zoo, but when a baby arrives to world in a special way, it’s an even bigger deal. That’s the case...
Go Bananas for Baby Baboons
Sometimes when you see one of these cute baby animals, you might think of them as regular monkeys and in fact, they are closely related to tree-dwelling monkeys, but these terrestrial, ground living baboons...
Chimp Monkeys Around With Tiger Cubs
Check out these pictures taken at TIGERs (The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species) in South Carolina, US. Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you, that’s Anjana, a female chimp, helping zookeeper China...
Gorillas: The Largest Primate Still Starts Out Small
Baby gorillas are active, fun-loving primates that use the central African forests as their playground. Baby gorillas weigh only 3-4 pounds (1.4 to 1.8 kg) at birth; half the weight of a newborn human...
Baby Bonobos: Our Cute Little Relatives
Found only in the Democratic Republic of The Congo, the Bonobo is an endangered species of primate thought to be one of the closest living relatives of humans. In fact, bonobos share 97% of...