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A family of baboons enjoy the sun in their enclosure at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg

A lion named Carbora nuzzles a lioness in their enclosure at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg

Beanie, the 15-month-old Koala, is ready to be released after spending time at the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast in Queensland

A new born bright orange Golden Lion Tamarin clings onto his mother's back at the Santa Barbara Zoo in California

The orangutans at Melbourne Zoo have become one big happy family once again after the newest arrival was introduced to her big brother....

...Dewi, which means Goddess or Princess in Indonesian, was born at the end of last year. She was allowed out into the enclosure at the zoo at the end of January, but until now hadn't been introduced to the wider family, including big brother Menyaru. Keeper Fleur B

A baby gorilla seems to be telling her parents "I wanna be like you hoo hoo", by beating her chest just like her dad. Alice the tiny gorilla baby stands on her hind legs mimicking her father, while being watched by proud parents JJ and Fredirika. The moment was caught on camera by Ron Magill at Zoo Miami.

A baby pygmy hippopotamus named Oliver stands next to his mother Krakunia after being born at Parken Zoo in Eskilstuna, Sweden

A six week old male Black Rhino calf, yet to be named, runs around his enclosure on his debut to the public at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Kent

Young panda Su Lin rolls in fake snow at San Diego Zoo. Su Lin enjoyed the annual spraying of fake snow over the panda habitat in the normally-warm Californian zoo, designed to give the pandas a taste of life in the wild back home in China...

..."Su Lin went wild for the snow," said Karl Drilling, a zoo visitor from Temecula, California. "She was sliding down slopes in her habitat, moving the snow around. She even stuck her tongue out like a toddler and looked like she was smiling at one point."

Giant pandas play in the snow at Jinbao Park in Weifang, Shandong province, China

A three-month-old polar bear cub presses his paw and nose against the glass as he encounters snow for the first time, at Aalborg Zoo in Denmark. A zoo spokesman said: ''The cub is having a grand old time enjoying the snow. At just three months old the cub spends a lot of time playing with mom and biting everything it finds interesting, particularly mom's paws."

A meerkat puts his arm around another in Makgadikadi Salt Pan, Botswana. The adult meerkat seems to be saying "One day, son, all this will be yours" as the pair scann the horizon together. The moment was caught on camera by caterer Thomas Retterath, 48, from, Nurburg, Germany.

Photographer Danny Green captured this cute dormouse hibernating in a nest box. He says: "I was working on a project which formed part of a dormouse re-introduction programme in Devon. I went round the nest boxes with the licensed handlers as they were weighing and checking the dormice hibernating inside them. We managed to find a couple in such a deep sleep they didn't even stir as they were picked up and examined." The tiny rodents can hibernate for six months out of the year - and even longer if the weather remains cool.