Video: baby Masai giraffe, born late November, walking and galloping about and then peering at the camera with her purple tongue out.

Her mom, Sunshine, is so much taller that the baby's head only comes up to Sunshine's chest.

[via Phoenix Zoo]

Video: A black-footed ferret named Kix napping on the sandy floor of his enclosure.

He yawns very wide, does a BIG stretch, then ambles into a shallow wooden box for some more napping.

[via New Zoo Adventure Park, Jan 12 2024]

> Gemma and Meru have been slowly introduced to our other clouded leopard cubs, Joker and Quinn.

Video: a tangle of young clouded leopard cubs chasing, rolling, and pouncing on each other.

[Keeper Sloane | Nashville Zoo]

> Keeper Lydia spotted one of Audubon Aquarium's resident crawfish in the middle of a molt!

Video: brown crawfish wiggling out of its old carapace like they're shaking off a too-tight sleeping bag.

[via Audubon Zoo]

Video: Two sand cats sniff at a broad dish of snow in their indoor e closure area. One departs. The other digs a couple swipes and then squats its rear over it.

[via Ross Park Zoo]

Video: Golden lion tamarin hopping down to pluck a mealworm from a keeper's gloved hand. When no more treats are offered, the animal leaps away again.

[Keeper Chloe | Potawatomi Zoo]

Video: Juniper, a fluffy snow leopard cub, leaping and pouncing in fresh snow. Her favorite toy to bat and gnaw at is her mother, who joins in the silliness by rolling and sledding on her back.

[Zookeeper Amanda | John Ball Zoo]

Happy birthday to Tupi!

Video: montage of a baby capybara: getting trampled by a blackbird, slapping an adult capy, sitting in an adult capybara's salad bowl, startled by a squirrel, munching a leaf, slapping adult again, and getting tucked under mama's chin for a nap.

[Via San Antonio Zoo]

Video: Hugo the baby pygmy hippo snuffling around a snow-hippo with celery eyes and carrot-chip nostrils, munching on its bed of lettuce, apples, and carrots.

[Via John Ball Zoo]

> Melon Pandas are clocking in for work.

Video: three round tortoises slowly trudging out of a trench together into the morning sunlight.

[via Kihocho Sea Turtle Park]

> CRIKEY, that’s one big chomp!

Video: Saltwater crocodile lunging vertically out of the water to snap their huge jaws on a dangling meat chunk.

[Keeper Bronte | Perth Zoo]

Tulsa Zoo animals inspecting, extracting, and playing with their seasonal pumpkin treats:

Malayan tigers, fennec fox, hornbills, bobcat, some kind of squirrely marsupial, Chacoan peccary, naked mole rats, a racoon, a Komodo dragon, white-faced marmoset, and chimpanzees.

Video: Capybara and ringtail lemurs munching their way through a pile of kudzu vines.

[via NIFREL Interactive AquaZoo]

Video: Two Amur leopard cubs & mom feasting on bison ribs, chunk meat, and beef shanks. The cubs do a lot of pouncing and chasing each other between nibbles.

[via Brookfield Zoo]

Video: Penelope the prehensile-tailed porcupine crunching happily on corncob chunks and a whole pumpkin. Allegedly there are cute noises.

[Via Fort Worth Zoo]