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Barn owl chicks sit in a box in Israel’s Beit Shean Valley, near the border with Jordan. The chicks are the product of a joint Israeli-Jordanian project launched in 2002, to use barn owls as biological pesticides.Picture: REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Baby tapir Parima explores her enclosure for the first time at Hagenbecks Zoo in Hamburg, Germany, while protective mum Carmina keeps a watchful eye on her…Picture: Action Press / Rex Features

An eight-day-old tufted capuchin baby is carried by its mother through their enclosure at the Serengeti animal park in Hodenhagen, western GermanyPicture: HOLGER HOLLEMANN/AFP/GettyImage

Malang, a one-month-old female langur, is cradled by her mother Untala, as she makes her public debut at Howletts Wild Animal Park, near Canterbury, KentPicture: Gareth Fuller/PA

Cheetah cubs play at Laikipia, Kenya. Blair Roberts, who captured the scene, says: I came across a mother cheetah with adorable playful cubs of about 6-8 weeks old. I observed as she sat patiently watching her young as they tussled and rolled around play-fighting.Picture: Blair Roberts/Rex Features

A cheetah cub gives another cub a high-speed piggy back as they play on the savanna in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Ndutu Plains, Tanzania.Picture: Paul Souders / Barcroft Media

Four-week-old Florida burrowing owlets stand in their nest at a park in Miami, Florida

Photograph: Rhona Wise/Reuters

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Elephants walk in the Amboseli national park, Kenya

Photograph: Ding Haitao/Corbis

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A green-winged dove chick with his father at the Edinburgh zoo

Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

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A juvenile gentoo penguin with an adult on the Antarctic peninsula. The adult penguin will catch fish, krill or squid and digest it or hold it in for a while. When it is ready, it will regurgitate the food into its beak, before placing the food into the baby penguin’s mouth

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A baby sea eagle sits in a nest at a wild animals park in Eekholt, northern Germany

Photograph: Carsten Rehder/AFP/Getty Images

A two-day-old baby Asian elephant gets used to his wobbly legs while exploring his enclosure at Tierpark Berlin zoo. The male elephant calf, who does not have a name yet, weighs 102kg and is 91cm tall

Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

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A baby tawny owl at Folly Wildlife Rescue by Gavin Parsons 

Baby birds gallery by Gavin Parsons