World's Best Baby Beasts (65 images)

Baby burrowing owls are seen on August 18, 2009 at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington. UPI/Mehgan Murphy/National Zoo

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom's newest edition, a 145-lb., approximately 5-foot 10-inch inch tall male giraffe calf born on December 14, is pictured with his four-year-old mother Makali at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, California, on December 23, 2009. UPI/Ken James

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom's newest edition, a 145-lb., approximately 5-foot 10-inch inch tall male giraffe calf born on December 14, is pictured with his four-year-old mother Makali at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, California, on December 23, 2009. UPI/Ken James

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom's newest edition, a 145-lb., approximately 5-foot 10-inch inch tall male giraffe calf born on December 14, is pictured with his four-year-old mother Makali at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, California, on December 23, 2009. UPI/Ken James

A new infant Wolf's Guenon is seen at the Bronx Zoo in New York on December 2, 2009. UPI/Julie Larsen Maher/Bronx Zoo

A crested tinamous is seen at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington on November 3, 2009. It is expected to fledge around November 20. UPI/Mehgan Murphy/National Zoo