A newly born pygmy hippopotamus walks around its enclosure as the mother feeds at the Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam on September 30, 2009. (ED OUDENAARDEN/AFP/Getty Images) (via World Animal Day 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
Baby crocodiles swim at the “La Boca” crocodile farm in the Cienaga de Zapata national park, Cuba on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009. The crocodile nursery is a top attraction at the park, Cuba’s equivalent of the Florida Everglades, the Caribbean’s largest bioreserve with 1.5 million acres of mangrove-choked canals teeming with the wildest Cuban wildlife. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes) (via World Animal Day 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)