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May 23, 2014 |
Spring babies 2014
Around the world, animals new to this earth experience life. In zoos and in nature, photographers captured a variety of species during these moments. --Leanne Burden Seidel (31 photos total)

Baby pygmy hippopotamus "Lani" eats with its mother "Ashaki" on May 17 at the Basel Zoo. It has been 14 years since a baby pygmy hippopotamus was last born at Basel Zoo. Lani came into the world on March 18, when it was still a little cold for her outside. Now, she joins her mother in the outdoor enclosure on warm, sunny days. Lani is one around 135 pygmy hippopotamuses in the European Endangered Species Programme. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images) #

Two brown bear cubs play in their enclosure at Juraparc animal park near Vallorbe April 7. Ursina, an 18-year old female bear gave birth to two cubs, King and Zoe, the twelfth and thirteenth cubs of the park, on an unknown date in January 2014. The parent bears were separated before the birth to avoid conflict between the father and cubs. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) #

Rizki, 10 months orphaned Bornean orang utan starts learning to bite and eating leaves at Surabaya Zoo as he prepares to be released into the wild on May 19, in Surabaya, Indonesia. The two baby orangutans, brothers, were found in Kutai National Park in a critical condition having been abandoned by their mother on May 14, 2014. The Centre for Orangutan Protection (COP) have since been nursing the animals back to health, treating them for malnourishment and 16 wounds predominantly to the feet and hands. (Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images) #

Newborn baby seal Conchita (R) and her mother Celia at the Boudewijn Seapark in Brugges. The baby seal is most likely female and is named after Austria's bearded transvestite and winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest Conchita Wurst. In the event it does turn out to be a male, it will be named Conchito. (Boudewijn Seapark Animal Park via AFP/Getty Images) #

Spix Macaw chick 'Karla', weighing 26 grams, appears to be happily smiling as it is held by a keeper at the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP), in Schoeneiche, Germany, on April 17. Two Spix Macaw (Cyanopsitta Spixii) parrots, which are already extinct in the wild, hatched at the ACTP in the past few days. (PATRICK PLEUL/EPA) #

A baby peregrine falcon is held as Glenn Stewart, director of the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group places a band on its leg near the edge of the 33rd floor of the Pacific Gas & Electric building in San Francisco, May 7. Three young falcons got a band on each leg, one is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service bird band that shows a phone number to call in the event someone finds a peregrine, the other is a visual identification band that can be read from a distance with binoculars. (Jeff Chiu/Associated Press) #

A Java mouse-deer cub, one of the world's smallest hoofed animals, and its mother at the Fuengirola Biopark, near Malaga. The latest specimen of the world's tiniest deer -- a rare species no bigger than a hamster -- has been born in a nature park in southern Spain. The baby "deer-mouse" became just the 43rd living member of this species in Europe when it was born on April 9. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) #

Mother armadillo Zowie, welcomes her newborn Southern three-banded armadillo baby at the Animal Ambassador Team, in Tampa, Fla. The baby was able to walk and roll into a ball within moments of its birth. Southern three-banded armadillos are the only species of armadillo that can fully roll up into a ball. The baby armadillo currently weighs 118 grams, which is about the weight equivalent to an average cell phone. (Busch Gardens Tampa/Associated Press) #

A rescued baby male Sumatran orangutan named Siboy undergoes rehabiliation at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program center in Sibolangit district in northern Sumatra island. The orangutan was rescued by Indonesia's ministry of forestry personnel and Orangutan Information Center on April 15, 2014 in nearby Langkat district in a small patch of forest and agricultural plantation. The critically-endangered primates population are dwindling rapidly due to poaching and rapid destruction of their forest habital that is being converted into palm oil plantation. (SUTANTA ADITYA/AFP/Getty Images) #