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Safari Babies

A trip to the zoo to see baby animals can't compare with seeing newborn wildlife on a safari. Check out our round-up of the cutest baby elephants, cheetahs, zebras, baboons, tigers and more.

A baby western lowland gorilla chews a bamboo shoot at the primate sanctuary run by the Cameroon Wildlife Aid Fund in Mefou National Park, just outside the capital Yaounde.

A lion cub plays with an adult male at the Masai Mara National Wildlife Reserve, Kenya. The red on the paws and the full belly indicate that the cub has just fed.

The Nairobi National Park in Kenya is home to these (non-identical) twin zebras. Photographed in Nairobi National Park in Kenya.

Taken in a private game reserve bordering the Kruger National Park, South Africa, a baby elephant climbs on her mother.

A baby giraffe stands next to her mother on the plains of Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve.

Three 1-month-old female African lion cubs lie together at the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv, Israel.

A 2-week-old baby proboscis monkey is carried by his mother at the Taman Safari park in Bogor, West Java.

An 11-year-old orangutan holds her baby at Taman Safari in Pasuruan in Indonesia's East Java province.

A baby hippopotamus climbs out of the mud in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

This adorable cheetah cub looks anything but menacing.

A young bonobo ape, a primate unique to Congo and humankind's closest relative, clings to its mother at Lola Ya Bonobo sanctuary just outside the capital Kinshasa.

A baby mountain gorilla rides on its mother's back on the slopes of Mount Mikeno in the Virunga National Park, Africa's oldest national park, in Congo.

A gazelle calf in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

A mother cheetah carries her cub in the long grass.

The adorable face of a baby baboon eating leaves in a tree.

A baby elephant walks between 2 adults in the plains of the Masai Mara National Wildlife Reserve, Kenya.

A 3-week-old calf rhinoceros stands by his mother.

A baby baboon nestles on his mother's back as she feeds on the top of a concrete pole in Kenya's Tsavo West National Park.

A 1-month-old baby silver langur is carried by his mother at the Taman Safari park in Bogor, West Java. <b>Want to see more baby animals? Check out <A HREF="/Places_Trips/Travel_Ideas/Family_Travel/Slideshow_Aqua_Babies">Aqua Babies</A> and <A HREF="/Places_Trips/Travel_Ideas/Family_Travel/Slideshow_Zoo_Babies">Zoo Babies. </b?

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