On Saturday, the Sequoia Park Zoo held the grand opening of its newest exhibit, Watershed Heroes. As the result of a $2.3 million grant, river otters returned in a snazzy new habitat. Eventually, there will be three kinds of native salmon and a bald eagle aviary.

The St. Louis Zoo's Centene Grizzly Ridge opens to the public this week, marking another milestone in the history of the zoo's well-known bear pits.

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We all know those baby animals are so cute they make us squeal and babble when we see them, but what exactly makes an animal adorable? Well, it might be the fact that they are usually perfectly round and extra fluffy and humans associate these traits with the animals being friendly and harmless. Yes, it may sound weird, but to us, humans, round objects evoke exactly those feelings. It also might be that cute baby animals are helpless, thus making us want to take care of them. Also, combine that with their dewy-eyes and silly demeanor, and voila, cuteness overload, erasing our capabilities of reasoning, happens. And while losing your senses might not be the best idea, everyone should allow themselves to go a bit bonkers for these adorable animals. That's why we have compiled a list of the cutest baby animals, that will make your heart and brains melt in the best way possible.

Kasbeth, a tree kangaroo and new mother, eats an afternoon snack with her 7-month-old baby Bexley inside the St. Louis Zoo's Emerson Children's Zoo on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. Bexley,

The San Diego Zoo is welcoming a new resident this month, after okapi mom Mbaya gave birth to her first calf—adding one more individual to a population that is in steady decline worldwide. Only a few zoos in the United States house the endangered okapi, and 3-week-old... #babyanimals #okapi #Okapis

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A group of contractors have found themselves being 'terrorised' on a daily basis - by a 28-stone, 12-year-old gorilla named N'Dowe at Paignton Zoo in Devon.

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These confident animals from around the world are not afraid of striking a pose and showing off their good looks (pictured: a winking tiger at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, India).

In all the time we humans have been discovering and describing the world around us, we've only just scratched the surface. In fact, scientists have estimated that there are about 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence, however, only around 1.2 million of them have been identified and described so far (most of which are insects). This means that millions of other organisms remain a complete mystery.

Say hello to Shabani. Girls in Japan are flocking to the zoo to see this handsome fella:

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Spanish scientists sequenced the genome of Snowflake, who lived for 40 years at Barcelona Zoo, and found he was likely a product of a relationship between close relatives such as an uncle and niece.

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Apes Kiondo and Kivu, both 15, and N'Dowe, 14, tore out water pipes and ripped up electrical wiring after breaking out of their enclosure at Paignton Zoo in Devon.

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Ueno Zoo, Tokyo, Japan （上野動物園のハシビロコウ「サーナ」♀）

Otters are terrible pets, but they're still cute as heck, so big props to the wildlife rehabilitation facilities, sanctuaries, and zoos who make this list possible!

Spanish scientists sequenced the genome of Snowflake, who lived for 40 years at Barcelona Zoo, and found he was likely a product of a relationship between close relatives such as an uncle and niece.

The Somali Wild Ass (Equus africanus somaliensis) is a mid-sized African ungulate featured in the Arid Animal Pack DLC for Planet Zoo. Population In Wild: 20-200 As a subspecies of the African wild ass, the Somali wild ass (or Equus africanus somaliensis) is an equid that lives in the deserts and semi-deserts of Somalia, Djibouti, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. It has a grey coat with a pale underside and white legs, which are covered in thin black stripes. It has a rigid black-tipped mane, black

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Apes Kiondo and Kivu, both 15, and N'Dowe, 14, tore out water pipes and ripped up electrical wiring after breaking out of their enclosure at Paignton Zoo in Devon.

Ueno Zoo, Tokyo, Japan （上野動物園のハシビロコウ「サーナ」♀）

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Otters are terrible pets, but they're still cute as heck, so big props to the wildlife rehabilitation facilities, sanctuaries, and zoos who make this list possible!

The Oklahoma City Zoo announced the arrival of two Indian rhinos to its "sanctuary Asia" habitat on social media Feb. 25.

Today, April 7th is International Beaver Day. Although not endangered, this small animal plays an important role in maintaining local ecosystems. Sometimes referred to as nature's engineers, the benefits of having local beavers are many: their ponds "increase stream flows in seasonally dry streams by storing run-off in the rainy season," the cute beaver workers help waterfowl "by creating increased areas of water," and they even help to restore streams! In fact, 600 beavers put to work by the US government in the 1930s to stop soil erosion by streams in Oregon were so effective, that it was estimated each of the adorable animals completed work worth $300!

These guys like tropical and subtropical climates. They get bigger than most other eagles. This particular one, a male, weighs about 10 pounds. He's a growing boy, and already dwarfs your typical American bald eagle national icon thing. He swallows rats whole at feeding time. That's the keeper's forearm he's sitting on with those BIG ASS talons. These guys were practically extinct but they've been bred and released into the wild, and now they're making a comeback. L.A. Zoo.

One of the most iconic images of Hurricane Andrew is a photograph of flamingos, huddling on their toothpick legs in a tiled bathroom. Ron Magill, now…

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A fossa pup is on the lookout at the San Diego Zoo