Young boy crouched down to get a better look at a baby tiger cub at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park

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Mother cheetah laying in grass with cub

African cheetah

African elephant with ears extended

African elephant

Male African lion

Andean bear

Arctic fox laying on pine forest floor.

B

Babirusa with tusks.

bonobo looking right.

Grizzly Bear in front of pool of water

C

California sea lion looking right as it sits on a sandy beach

California sea lion

Baby capybara climbing on mother's back.

Cockerel's sifaka with mouth sightly agape

Coquerel's Sifaka

D

Dhole standing in front of a green shrub.

E

Australian echidna walking down a dirt path.

F

Adult fossa looking off to the left, standing in front of rocky wall.

G

A panda cub on a tree branch looks at us.

Baby giraffe standing in front of adult giraffes' haunches

H

Male hamadryas baboon looking off to the side.

Hamadryas baboon

Honey badger, or ratel

Honey badger (ratel)

J

Jaguar looking to the left as it climbs down a tree trunk

K

Klipspringer peaking out from in between large kopje boulders.

Koala mother holding baby

M

A meerkat stands on all fours on a dirt mound, looking at the camera

N

New guinea singing dog with mouth open in a howl

New Guinea singing dog

North American porcupine holding onto a piece of gnawed wood

North American porcupine

O

Okapi

Male orangutan face with cheek pads

P

Polar bear standing on snow

R

A pair of Southern White Rhinos

Ring-tailed lemur face

Ring-tailed lemur

Young hippo half peeking out of the water

S

Snow leopard sitting on a snow-covered rock cliff

Spotted hyena

T

Takin baby and mother nuzzling

Baird's tapir on a grass field

Tasmanian devil standing on tall green grass

Tasmanian devil

Three-banded armadillo walking across a grass field

Three-Banded armadillo

Sumatran tiger prowling

Matschie's Tree kangaroo

Two-toed sloth eating a red apple with one claw while hanging upside down.

W

Warthog with tusks

Western lowland gorilla silverback

Western lowland gorilla

Z

A pair of zebras with their muzzles close together

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