Happy Mother’s Day! I thought it would be nice to share these photos of different animal moms and their baby cubs, cygnets, piglets, pups, joeys, calves, and more on this day.
Baby Animals and Their Moms (Because It’s Mother’s Day)
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One of two 14-week-old twin polar bear cubs rests on her mother Giovanna during their first presentation to the media in Hellabrunn Zoo on March 19, 2014, in Munich, Germany. #
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A young cygnet, amongst the eight born only days previous, rests on his mother's back on May 5, 2017, in Bradford on Avon, England. Nesting beside the famous Town Bridge in the historic Wiltshire town, the newly arrived cygnets have been causing a great deal of interest among locals and visitors alike. #
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A lion cub nuzzles up to its mother, 4-and-a-half-year-old Kashifa, while she keeps an eye on her five cubs on June 5, 2014, as Zoo Miami officially introduced the family to the public. #
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Alinga, a female koala that was born on October 19, 2013, and left her mother's pouch in May 2014, rides on her mother's back in the Zoo parc of Beauval in Saint Aignan, France, on July 19, 2014. #
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A female giraffe calf, right, born in the early morning of June 22, 2015, is licked by her mother, Ellie, at the Oklahoma City Zoo in Oklahoma City, on June 23, 2015. #
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Sarani, a female snow leopard, explores her habitat with one of her four-month-old cubs which were making their public debut at the Brookfield Zoo on October 7, 2015, in Brookfield, Illinois. #
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A Titi Pigmeo, born in captivity 10 days previous, hangs from the back of its mother at the Santa Fe zoo in Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on May 13, 2011. #
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