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)

EPA

Sept. 16, 2014 9:28 AM PT

A picture made available on 13 May 2008 shows the big eyes of a young Verreaux’s eagle-owl (lat.: Bubo lacteus, also known as milky eagle owl) pictured at the breeding station of BirdPark Walsrode, Germany on 06 May 2008. Just under five weeks after unhatching, the typical strong eyelids of the milky eagle owl are present. The sex of the offspring is yet unclear and will only be certain after a DNA analysis is performed for the eyelids only serve for communication and are not sex-specific. Verreaux’s eagle-owls are common in the sparsely wooded African savannas and is akin to the European owl.

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)