OFFSPRING
In an unusual scene outside Budapest, Hungary, a stork tends its chicks in a nest on the ground, rather than atop a tree, chimney or pole. The parent birds both have broken wings and, though treated by veterinarians, cannot fly or build a nest in their normal habitat. (Tibor Olah / EPA)
A Sumatran orangutan named Anita, feeds her offspring, Atina, at the Singapore Zoo. The Sumatran orangutan is categorized as critically endangered in the wild. (Wong Maye-e / Associated Press)
Proving she has a face that a mother could love, baby Manjula gets a nuzzle from Betty, an Indian rhinoceros, at a zoo in Berlin, Germany. (Arno Burgi / EPA)
A 3-month-old wallaby checks out the world outside the pouch at a zoo in Gettorf, Germany. (Heribert Proepper /Associated Press)
Its mother attends a 1-day-old camel, born into the circus life in Rapperswil, Switzerland. (Eddy Risch / EPA)
The ants are safe for the time being as an anteater rests on its mother’s back at the Cali, Colombia, zoo. (Carlos Orgega / EPA)
If your father is a trumpeter swan in the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, you may look like an ugly duckling, but you’ve got a future. (GREG NEISE, AFP/Getty Images)
A many-eyed ball of fur is made up of a red-belliled tamarin carrying two offspring on its back at the Gettorf, Germany, zoo. (Heribert Proepper / Associated Press)
A heavy-lidded Verreaux’s eagle-owl chick eyeballs visitors at a bird breeding facility in Walsrode, Germany. The species is native to sub-Saharan Africa. (Holger Hollemann / EPA)
A South China tiger tends its two cubs at the Laohu Valley Reserve in South Africa’s Free State. Tigers at the reserve raise their young without human initervention, as part of a process of preparing them to be returned to the wild. (Save China’s Tigers / EPA)
A 10-day-old great gray owl lets keepers at the Leipzig, Germany, zoo know that it’s ready to be fed. (Waltraud Grubitzsch / EPA)
A young fishing cat, a water-loving Asian species, is out of its element before photographers at a zoo in Berlin, Germany. (Arno Burgi / EPA)