Korea's Everland Zoo is home to some of the all-time classic ZooBorns. In this shot, photographer floridapfe catches one of the zoo's Pigtail Macaques in dreamland. Sleeping off a turkey hangover perhaps?
Three-week-old White-Cheeked Gibbon baby 'Walli' drinks bottled milk in the arms of surrogate mother Christina Schneider at the Schwerin Zoo in Germany yesterday, November 25th. The baby was not accepted by its mother and therefore has to be raised by hand. 'Walli' has to be fed every two hours. The hand raising will take about six months.
Photo credits: Jens Buettner / European Pressphoto
These tiny twins are the newest addition to the Pygmy Marmoset family in Houston Zoo's Natural Encounters rainforest. Weighing in at about a half ounce as babies, marmosets are the smallest monkey in the world.
Two baby Hamaydryas Baboons were recently born at the North Carolina Zoo. With 19 baboons and counting, the NC ZOo has the largest troop of baboons in the United States. In the wild, baboon troops can range from 5 to 250 members.
The baby langurs keep coming at the Columbus Zoo! On August 29, parents Gumby (mom) and Digby (dad), welcomed another bright orange offspring, the third for Gumby and fourth for Digby, including baby Fernando, who was born in July. The babies' coats will change to the silvery-gray of adulthood between three to five months after birth. Highly social monkeys, langurs often snuggle in groups
with the baby in the middle.
Near Hamburg, Germany, Hagenbeck Zoo visitors enjoyed the antics of a pair of baby baboons as they got up to some "monkey business". The historic German zoo's collection dates back to the 1800's, but the baboons have always been a star attraction.
Zoo keepers and veterinary staff at Denver Zoo are working around the
clock to care for emperor tamarin twins, orphaned after the death of
their mother. Yana, the twins’ mother, died on July 30, just three
weeks after giving birth from cancer.
Our first entry from Zoo la Boissière du Doré outside of Nantes, France, this little baby Squirrel Monkey clings tightly to mom's back in pictures taken this week. Interestingly Squirrel Monkeys have the largest brain to body mass ratio of any primate at 1:17 (versus 1:35 for a human!).
One of the best known Old World monkeys, the last wild Barbary Macaque population in Europe lives on the rock of Gibraltar, occasionally wandering into town to cause mischief. This baby macaque was born in the last few weeks at Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands, a rare open facility that allows its primate residents to wander around freely and build their own social groups. Thanks to photographer Jean Kern for sharing these photos as well as for his work on orangutan conservation.