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Animal Moms and Their Little Ones Pose for Pics (Photos)

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An adorable baby giraffe was just born at a Chicago zoo, joining the ranks of too-cute-too-handle little animals.

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Nothing is more powerful than a mother’s love, and it doesn’t manifest itself in a cuter way than when a baby animal cuddles up to its mom. Here are some pictures that will up your  “awww” factor.

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An unnamed baby male giraffe sits beneath his mother, Jasiri, at the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago, IL. The calf was born on June 21 and is the 59th giraffe born at the zoo.

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Joy the lioness looks perfectly content as her 2-month-old cub nuzzles up at the Zurich Zoo.

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Bottlenose dolphin Delphi grins as her baby, Doerte, swims next to her. The 2-month-old dolphin was bred and born in captivity in Germany’s Duisburg Zoo, which is a relatively rare occurrence.

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This little polar bear looks like it’s asking for some attention. That’s the price of having to share mom with two siblings in the Moscow Zoo.

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A mandrill mom clutches her baby during their first public appearance at the Budapest Zoo. She has good reason to be protective—mandrills are an endangered species of West Africa.

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Xochitl and her two puma cubs shoot model-esque looks at the camera as they pose for this family photo at the National Zoo in Nicaragua.

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Who wants to trade places with that baby giant panda? Bai Xue holds her cub close in their enclosure in the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in China.

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This alabaster colobus baby doesn’t get its coloring until it’s a few months old. It’s unimaginable that anyone could hurt one of these adorable monkeys, but the colobus population in Africa is being threatened by the large-scale trade of bushmeat.

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Tatu, a Rothschild giraffe, leans down to give her newborn a kiss. This one is only 3 days old, but the average baby giraffe is already 5 or 6 feet tall at birth.

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A 3-month-old pied tamarin admires its mother’s mustache at a zoo in northern France. The unusual-looking monkey is only found in one part of the Brazilian Amazon rain forest.

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Sumatran tiger Jumilah doesn’t seem to mind her cubs trampling over her. The 3-month-old babies were born in Sydney, Australia.

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He may only be 2 years old, but Dodi already looks as wise as his mother, Daisy. The mother-son orangutan duo stays close for his second-birthday photo shoot.

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Looks like someone’s getting a scolding. A little zebu stands up to her mother, Franka, at Tierpark in Berlin.

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