HARVEY WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY

Wildlife Babies; AKA The Cute Zone

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These images not only contain pictures of animals, but cute pictures of animals. Mostly photos of baby animals. This baby animal picture gallery contains cuteness and adorable wildlife babies that may make you want to adopt them. Please resist the temptation of adopting babies like these. Adopted wildlife such as these cuties tend to grow up, eat you out of house and home, destroy your house, eat your pets and possibly your children. You are better off just to buy prints and greeting cards of them instead. Make sure to visit the rest of my website to see more photos of animals. Photos of baby animals can be found throughout the site.

This mom only had one cub. Because the cub didn't have to share milk with any siblings it was much larger than cubs of this age usually are.
  
Four Month Old Leopard CubKikilezi female's four month old son. August, 2012
   
This cheetah cub was about six months old. It looks like he was posing for the camera, but his tail was twitching, so he was likely irritated with my presence, so we took a few pictures and moved on.
     
  
   
These twin deer fawns eat together, play together, sleep together and are pretty much inseparable. They are also quite affectionate toward one another.
   
This cub was running towards us (probably 60 meters away). He was trying to keep up with his pride. He is part of the famous marsh pride in the Masai Mara.
     
  
   
  
     
  
   
  
These cute little polar bear babies stop playing briefly as their curiousity got the better of them. I think they were wondering what the shutter relase sounds were, so they stopped what they were doing and stared at us.
     
  
This little baby elephant kept trumpeting and mock charging us every time we turned over the engine. Our guide figured he probably thought that our jeep was growling at him.
   
  
These bobcat kittens are wildlife models.
     
  
These baby ellies are orphans living at the Daphne Shedrick Elephant Sanctuary. They heard the dinner bell. Knowing their noon bottle of milk is ready, they waste no time to claim their lunch.
   
  
     
  
This is a baby langur monkey in the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, India.
   
These spring brown bear cubs are wild brown bears living in Alaska.
   
I saw this black backed jackal family from across a field about 50 meters away. I noticed that something had caught their attention in the bush, so I focused on them. Seconds later a baby came running out of the bush to greet mom and dad. The baby was left in the safety of the thick brush while his parents were out hunting. This family greeting is one of my favourite pictures.
     
  
   
This six month old cub looks like he is smelling the daisies. He is actually trying to eat them. Due to his big paws and poor dexterity, he had a difficult time getting them into his mouth. By the time he finally got a taste of one, he decided that he didn't like the taste of them after all and spit it out.This is a picture of a domestic black bear cub. This image was recognized as "highly honored" in the 2011 Natures Best wildlife photography competition.
   
     
  
A day den is a somewhat sheltered area that the mother polar bear finds so her and her cubs can rest for a couple hours, several hours or an entire day. If the cubs are tired or a storm comes in, this den provides enough shelter for the bears to stay comfortable. This mother had triplets in this day den.
   
  
     
  
Our guide knew we wanted to see cheetah cubs and knew of a mom and four cubs that were located in the South Mara area. On a hope and a prayer we drove 45 minutes to see if we could find them. 30 minutes after arriving there we found the family. The long shot paid off and we had some really great sightings.
   
  
This blonde brown bear cub was in a field in Alaska.
     
  
This young masai giraffe was wondering toward the herd as the oxpeckers were enjoying a grooming session.
   
  
Gaye took this picture. These fawns were cute as they peered at us from behind the trees.
     
  
Polar bear cubs can be quite playful and they don't often stray very far from their mother, so it is common to see the cubs battling on top of their mom.
   
  
This bobcat kitten is a wildlife model living in Montana
     
  
Our guide knew we wanted to see cheetah cubs and knew of a mom and four cubs that were located in the South Mara area. On a hope and a prayer we drove 45 minutes to see if we could find them. 30 minutes after arriving there we found the family. The long shot paid off and we had some really great sightings.
   
  
This baby langur monkey was part of a troop of monkeys. Watching monkeys is so entertaning that even the babies are entertained by the action sometimes.
     
  
Picture of polar bear cubs playing on their mother.
   
These lynx kittens are wildlife models.
   
This impatient cub ran ahead of mommy, then lost her in the tall grass, so climbed this dead tree for a better vantaget point.
     
  
Meet Ralphie, one of the red pandas from the Edmonton Valley Zoo.
   
  
These two lion cubs were playing on top of a huge dead fig tree. The two month old baby is trying to get away while the six month old cub forces him to put on the brakes.This picture won the 2010 Governors' Camp wildlife photo contest. Jonathon Scott was filiming a scene from 'The Truth about Lions' about 40 feet away from us just on the other side of this fig tree.
     
  
This polar bear baby is really clumsy. They were trying to run to their mommy, but the one in the front wiped out and rolled into a small brush.
   
  
This bobcat kitten is a wildlife model living in Montana, USA.
     
  
   
This curious bear cub had climbed a tree to avoid a male bear down on the ground. sitting high in a tree is boring, so I caught his attention as he was peering at me from behind the branches.
   
This cinamon bear cub climbs a tree to avoid a big male bear, then watches him from the safety of his perch.
     
  
This is a three week old cougar cub living in captivity
   
These two little rascals were really duking it out and finally rolled off mom as they were biting one another.
   
This brown bear cub is clamming on the ocean at low tide with his mother and siblings.
     
  
Spring is a great time to photograph gosslings at Hawrelak Park in Edmonton, Alberta.
   
Our sighting of this eight month old cub wasn't long but the light was fantastic. He played with his mom for a bit, then posed for us in the great golden afternoon sun,
   
These brown bear cubs take a short break, then run to catch up to mom. They are on the ocean floor at low tide to dig for clams.
     
  
This little character was posing for us in South Africa. Even as a baby I think he knows he is the King.
   
Spring is a great time to photograph gosslings at Hawrelak Park in Edmonton, Alberta.
   
This lion cub is bored as the lion pride rests during the heat of the day. Mom's tail is swatting away flys, so the baby enjoys a good game of "catch mom's tail".
     
  
   
These two brown bear cubs are hanging out with their mommy at low tide. Mom digs up clams and shares them with her kids.
   
A cozy polar bear family in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada.
     
  
   
These two brown bear cubs were running across the ocean floor at low tide in an attempt to catch up to mommy so she could dig up some clams for them.
   
This racoon is a wildlife model in Montana.
     
  
This picture was taken at the Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary. The bears are wild, but are habituated to people. It was a very interesting and at times nerve wracking experience walking amongst the wild black bears in a meadow in Minnesota.
   
These cubs are actually triplets, but only two would pose at a time:)
  
We came upon this den early in the day and waited for some action all day long. Finally, after giving up hope, we began to pack up. We must have been noisey because by the time most of the photographers were packed up and in the vans, this little guy popped out of the den to see what was going on.
     
  
These baby orphan elephants are enjoying a little play time after they each downed four litres of milk for lunch.
   
This is a 15 month old brown bear cub and mommy. This is my favourite picture from my Alaskan adventure.
   
     
  
This mother and daughter were the last of 50 or so elephants on their way to a swamp for a drink.
  
This young brown bear cub gave us one last look back before he left to join his siblings and mommy on their way to the beach.
   
We were looking down at this little guy from the jeep. He was too lazy to lift his head as he had just woken up, so he looked up at us and I was lucky enough to capture this image of his big eyes.
     
  
This cute little ellie was just minding his own business enjoying some grass as we were watching him.
   
This little guy was briefly distracted by me as he gave me a quick glance before running to catch up to his mommy and siblings.
   
The polar bear family stops for a short nurse, a nap, a short play, then will continue on their journey to the Hudson Bay.
     
  
Sities is an orphan elephant who wandered on to a farm when she was one and a half months old. The farmers were nervous that her mother may show up so they were scared to go near her at first. Unfortunately, her mother had likely been poached and she was in desperate need of hydration and company. She is so precious that we had to adopt her while we were there. Since 2010, there have been many documentaries on her. One of which was aired by CBC called 'For the Love of Elephants.
   
We came upon this pride in the early evening. They were just waking up. This baby cub is enjoying a yawn and a stretch. A few minutes later they were up and traveling. The next morning we found them again on a buffalo kill. This time they were all full and fat. They would eat until they were full, rest, then get up and eat some more. This went on for a couple days.
   
This is a wildlife model living in Montana. Racoons are very active little critters and are always moving, so they are difficult to photograph and quite entertaining to watch.
     
  
Sities is an orpaned elephant living at the Daphne Sheldrick Elephant sanctuary.
   
This baby and mom slept most of the afteroon while the snow drifted over them. Finally, after waiting several hours they woke up briefly just long enough for baby and mom to share a little kiss, then they went back to sleep.
   
Zebras are skittish in South Africa, so this little one was difficult to photograph as it wouldn't come out of the bush.
     
  
This sleepy mom and baby napped for hours. Although we would have liked to see a little more activity out of them, I do enjoy the images of them lazing around.
   
This polar bear mom needs a bath or a scratch or a little of both, so she slides a bit on her tummy before continuing her journey on to Hudson Bay.
  
These triplets were active little characters. Although I actually spent a lot of hours with them, I only managed to get a few pictures of them all together in the same picture.
     
  
I thought the baby was waking up, but nope. He just wanted to find a more comfortable place to cuddle up on his mommy.
   
When the brown bear cubs are this tiny, they need to stand up to see over the grass when they hear something foreign. It's tough to catch a good shot of them standing up, but pretty cute when they do.
   
     
  
These twins were only about 4-6 weeks old at the time this picture was taken.
   
One of my clients told me about this fox den near Ponoka, so I drove down every Sunday for a month and waited and watched them. Sometimes they would show themselves and sometimes they wouldn't. In this photograph, they had both come out of different holes in the ground, one ran toward the other and they had a warm sibling greeting.
   
This cub is part of the famous Marsh Pride in the Masai Mara. This picture shows him letting out a baby roar.
     
  
This dominant brown bear cub uses his sibling as a pillow.