London Zoo's most recent arrivals, African black footed penguins: Primrose (right) and Regents, named after local landmarks Primrose Hill and Regents Park. Eight-day-old Primrose and Regents, aged five days, are being hand reared after they were rejected by their parents. In ten weeks they will be integrated back into the group
Ornithologist Brian Little checks two barn owl chicks in Kielder, Northumberland. A farm, where holiday makers can watch barn owls in their nest via CCTV, was celebrating a baby boom of chicks today following one of the harshest winters on record for the beautiful creatures
Lushui, the red panda holds her three month old panda cub in her jaws in the panda enclosure at Chester zoo
An image from a monitoring camera shows giant panda mother Yang Yang holding her newborn cub inside a birthing box at Vienna zoo
An orphaned baby rabbit seems to cry out for its mother moments after the pair were brutally attacked by a dog. At just days old this tiny cottontail rabbit wants the one thing it cannot have - a hug from its mummy. The cute creature was remarkably unscathed during the savage canine attack which took place in Connecticut, USA
A three week old hippopotamus calf swims near her mother Kathi in the zoo in Berlin