Archive for the 'Endangered' Category

OMG! That little guy is so crazy cute, we don't know what to do!

At Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, Jamie, an Indian Rhinoceros, gave birth to a male calf named Jiyu.

His name means compassionate friend, and that's just too sweet!

The little baby and his mama are spending time "off exhibit," which means they're away from the public, bonding as a family in private.

There was a lot of heavy rain recently, so the two-week old calf gets to splash around in mud puddles!!

This little baybay is extra special, as it's estimated that there are under 3,000 Indian Rhinos left in the entire world.

So hopefully he grows up big and strong, and can start pumping out rhinos of his own!

But don't grow up too quick just to get to breeding. You're young, enjoy the mud puddles while you've still got them.

[Image via David Parkinson/Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo.]

Have you ever heard of the Southern Pudu??

It's a South African deer that is known as the smallest species of deer.

They usually measure under a foot-and-a-half tall and weigh around only 25-pounds.

Due to overhunting and habitat loss, the Pudu is considered vulnerable, so every new birth is a special one!

Just like this little cutie who was born at Nordens Ark in Sweden.

He is so incredibly tiny and so painfully cute it's ridiculous.

It's like if you took the cuteness from a kitten and puppy, injected it into a baby deer then blasted that fawn with a shrink ray and made it the size of a cat.

We could literally just stare at pictures of this little guy all dayyyyy!

Check out the video (above) to get lost in a world of tiny animal cuteness.

There are few things cuter than tiger cubs!

We somehow find them even cuter when they're endangered - we guess because they're so rare and special.

That's why we were so excited to learn that three endangered Malayan Tiger cubs were born at Busch Gardens Tampa!

At the Perth Zoo in Australia, thirteen baby Western Swamp Tortoises were born!!

The zoo has been working since 1989 to help conserve these tortoises because they're critically endangered.

They're rebuilding their wild population through their captive breeding/reintroduction program.

Since the program started all those years ago, over 800 tortoises have been born there and 600 of those have been successfully reintroduced into the wild!!

That's ahmayzing!

When these little guys are born they're so crazy small it's ridiculous!

We really realllllly want one! These little guys are painfully cute and we think they'd be perfect just crawling around our hands, all small and cute and tortoisey.

Too adorbz!!

[Image via Daniel Scarparolo/Perth Zoo.]

This is absolutely heartbreaking.

A cute little koala bear made his way back to his home in New South Wales, Australia.

But once he got there… it was all gone.

The area had been cut down and chipped by logging operations.

A volunteer from a rescue operation licensed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service called WIRES snapped a pic (above).

The most heart wrenching part?

No word on the babe's name yet, but a critically endangered Sumatran Tiger cub has been born at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington.

Not only is this great for the Sumatran Tiger species in general, but this is great for people who love cute animal photos.

In fact - these may be the cutest!!!

Here's what one tiger expert said:

Tabu, a Bollywood actress who starred in Life of Pi is being charged along with four other actors for the killing of a protected animal.

The poaching case is a 14-year-old and is finally going to trial next month for the shooting of a blackbuck, a protected antelope.

Tabu and the four other actors were shooting a film in 1998 near Jodhpur when the shooting took place.

What's crazy is if they're convicted, they could face up to