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Ayu Rosalina, a Sumatran elephant calf that was born on Tuesday, stands near her mother at the Conservation Response Unit (CRU) Sampoiniet, in Aceh Jaya, Indonesia. The Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild in under 30 years unless immediate steps are taken to protect its rapidly diminishing habitat, environmental group WWF said on Tuesday. IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, raised its listing of the Sumatran elephant subspecies from endangered to critically endangered after nearly 70% of its habitat and half its population has been lost in one generation
Photograph: Heri Juanda/AP
(Source: Guardian)
Category 2 Last Chance to See, Adult Winner: Florida Manatee by Ibrahim Roushdi. Photographer Ibrahim Roushdi said: This is an adult and calf manatee at sunrise. It was an amazing experience to be able to swim with and interact with these, frankly adorable, creatures.Picture: Ibrahim Roushdi / ZSL
London Zoo reveals winners of the ZSL Animal Photography Prize 2012
Mishmi Takin calf Hobbit with his mother, Cava, at their enclosure at Highland Wildlife Park, near Kingussie, Scotland. Hobbit is the first calf to be reared in the Highland herd since 2010. Stocky and surefooted, these animals are natives to Bhutan, Northeast India, northern Burma and the neighbouring border areas of China in the eastern Himalayas. They can be found living at heights of up to 14,000ft
Photograph: Alex Riddell/Highland Wildlife P/PA
(Source: Guardian)
A Mother’s Love (explore) by Chris Mullineux on Flickr.
A bison calf pesters its mother for feeding. Photographer Christine Haines captured the scene in Yellowstone Park.Picture: Christine Haines/Rex Features
An albino whale calf swims near its mother in this aerial photo snapped high above the shorelines of the Cape, South AfricaPicture: Robert Harding / Barcroft Media
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
(Source: Guardian)
A white rhino and her calf walk in the dusk light in Pilanesberg national park in South Africa. Museums are on alert as organised crime looks for new sources of rhino horn
Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters
A two week-old eastern bongo calf looks out from under her mother at Sydney’s Taronga zoo. Eastern (or highlands) bongos are critically endangered with as few as 75 remaining in small groups of 6-12 animals in their Kenyan upland range. Bongo are one of the largest species of antelope in the world and are recognised by their striking russet colour and large antlers which extend over their backs
Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images
(Source: Guardian)
Walrus Mother and Calf
Photograph by Paul Nicklen
Eve, a baby pygmy hippo, takes a first look at her outside pen with her mother. The pygmy hippo was born on New Years Eve 2011 at the zoo in Edinburgh.Picture: David Cheskin/PA
Pictures of a rare white humpback whale calf near the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia.
(via frolickinparadise)
A month-old pygmy elephant calf – an endangered species – on Malaysian Borneo. Numbers of elephants in south-east Asia is the cause of some concern, with the Sumatran elephant now critically endangered, and Thai elephants being hunted for their meat
Photograph: Malaysia Wildlife Authorities/AFP/Getty Images
An Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) and its calf in the Meghauli Chitwan forest, Nepal. The latest population count has shown that rhinoceros numbers have risen to 534 across Nepal from 435 animals in 2008, as attempts pay off to counter poaching for the rhino’s highly priced horn
Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images
(Source: Guardian)
