One of the greatest pleasures of visiting our wild places in the summer is seeing the great number of cute new baby mammals that made their recent entrance into the world, and our December visit to Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park certainly had no shortage of cute babies to photograph!
Blue wildebeest cousins
Baby elephant
Baby elephant friends
Impala lamb suckling
Impala lamb
Impala lambs
Nyala calf
Plains Zebra mare and foal (with a photo-bombing cattle egret)
Playful Vervet Monkey baby
Vervet baby suckling (photo by Joubert)
Warthog piglets suckling
White Rhino cow and calf
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Babies everywhere!! Love the leading photo. Great shot!
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sSeing the little ones playing around seemingly every corner was such a treat!
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Great collection of newborns! Thanks for sharing photos of wildlife that I will likely never see in person.
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We’re blessed that we are able to, John!
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Babies – they are cute in every species 🙂
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That’s very true! Thanks for stopping by!
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Beautiful images of these wonderful creatures! How fortunate you are to be in their midst.
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That is very true indeed, and we really do know how fortunate we are!
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I really enjoyed this gallery!
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Wonderful to know that you did, P J B!
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Just loved seeing all these different animal babies!
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Glad to know you enjoyed them as much as we did, Liz!
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Lovely babies! I can’t see little zebras without remembering our recent visit to Stainbank and the zebra foal getting out of sight of the herd and then noticing my daughter’s striped outfit and coming galloping up yelling ‘Mama!’
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That must have been quite something! Did his adoptive mom eventually relinquish him back to the herd?
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As soon as he got in sniffing range, the baby locked his brakes and did a quick about-turn!
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That must have caused a few chuckles.
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Hilarious ones!
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These images are simply wonderful, de Wets. Nature is marvelous.
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Thanks Jane, and totally agreed!
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They are totally charming – no wonder their mothers take such good care of their sweet offspring 🙂
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Difficult not to interpret the love between the mothers and their young in human terms when you see them interacting. They’re a lot more “human” than many want to believe!
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I think the mother-child bond is necessarily strong, and its hard not to concede that animals have emotions in their attachments, even if we cannot properly understand their emotions in their own terms. I agree that many humans don’t want to allow that animals have feelings, but we can surely recognise that they have feelings without fearing we are being sentimental or anthropomorphising??
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I don’t mind getting sentimental and anthropomorphic about our wildlife at all! 🙂
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🙂 🙂
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I love them, but they don’t compare to that cheeky vervet monkey.
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I have to agree with you, Tracy – he was one of a kind!
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Dis ‘n wonderlike tyd van die jaar met al die nuwe diertjies. Pragtige foto’s, Dries, veral die bokkie wat soog!
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Baie dankie, Dina. Rooibokkies is sulke pragtige diere, en die lammetjies nog soveel te meer!
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Aww ❤ ❤ ❤ I am in love with them ❤
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Who can resist such cuties!?
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😊 I love picking up little ones and am pretty sure I would have had a tough time keeping myself away from them. Thanks for sharing these pictures. You just made my day. Am feeling so happy and light. 💃😊
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Beautiful picture of the cute animals!😊
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Thanks John! They always make me smile.
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Warthog momma looks like she has her work cut out for her. Do you know how many are in a typical litter?
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Sows can have up to 8 piglets of their own, Jane, and then sometimes they even adopt / abduct those from other moms too!
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That’s a very strong parenting instinct, in deed!!!
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It must really be fun photographing the babies!
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It absolutely is – tricky sometimes to get them standing still!
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Ek besef nou ek het nog nooit ń klein renostertjie in die wildtuine gesien nie. Spesiale fotos, de Wet.
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Beslis rede om keer op keer terug te gaan en hulle te gaan soek, Una!
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I always enjoy that time of the year.
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We do too. Many people avoid the bush during summer due to the heat and mozzies, but to us scenes like these make it all worth it!
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Babies are always so cute!
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They just can’t help it! 😀
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The white rhino is so cute. And of course, the baby elephants…. 😀
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Knew you’d instantly love them, Lois!
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