Small animals

All animals are born small and domestic animals - such as cats and wild animals - elephants are huge, and even the oldest predators - crocodiles. Today will talk about the little cubs of different animals.

Baby orangutan

The family of these monkeys have migrated from Africa 15 million years ago and ended up in South-East Asia much earlier than humans. orangutans kids live with their mother until about 6-8 years. Under natural conditions, their age reaches an average of 30 years:

Meerkats

Territory meerkat habitat, which are a family of mongoose in mostly - it is an area of the Kalahari Desert, located in South Africa. Newborn baby only weighs about 30 grams, and the eyes are open only on the 14th day. Meerkats accept human friendships, they can be easy to tame, and they live in captivity 10 years:

Polar bear

It would seem that such giants as the polar bear - the adults reach a length of 3 meters and weight up to 1 ton - should be produced and large bears. However, it is not so: newborn cubs polar bears are born weighing 450 to 750 grams and also completely helpless. The life span of the largest members of the order of carnivorous mammals that live on the earth - a maximum of 25-30 years:

emperor penguin chicks

In adulthood, these birds that can not fly, vyrostayut to 122 cm and weigh an average of 35-40 kg, and the weight of the chick, just born, is only 315 grams. Interesting fact: the emperor penguin breeding season begins in May - June, at a time when in their natural habitat temperature falls below -50 ° C, and the wind was blowing at a speed of up to 200 km / h. The age of these birds in the natural conditions of existence of up to 25 years:

Tiger

The largest land predator, the tiger - is one of four members of the genus panther. By its weight, he is second only to white and brown bear. Kids tigers are born mostly in March - April, blind, helpless, weighing 1.3-1.5 kg. Only at the age of about 18 months, the Tigers have become more confident and independent. However, near the young mother are 2-3 years, and sometimes up to 5 years. Tigers live up to 26 years:

A baby golden-headed lion tamarin.

These animals are distributed exclusively in the south-eastern Brazil. Life expectancy in the wild lion tamarin is up to 18 years:

Lemoore

At birth, small lemurchiki have a weight of 80 to 120 grams:

cat

Currently, there are about 600 million pet cats. For over 10,000 years, these animals live side by side with humans. Born kittens appear deaf and blind, but already in 5-10 hours, they can open the eyes. The average life expectancy of cats is 14 years old. Nevertheless, it is known about a record-breaker: in early 2011, was considered the oldest cat Lucy, who lived in the British family. Vozvrast it counted 39 years, and it is in terms of human age is about 172 years!

gray seal Baby

In the wild, gray seals live for about 40 years:

Jaguar

One of the representatives of the genus Panther - is a big cat - jaguar. In the photo, it is now quite small:

A baby monkey

Leo

This is representative of the cat family, it is the second largest after the tiger. Newborn cubs are born with a body weight - from 1.2 to 2.1 kg. They also helpless, and just beginning to crawl a day or two, and go, and that long - only after the third week of life. According to the sad statistics, in the wild, 80% of cubs die before the age of 2 years, the duration of the survivors - from 10 to 14 years:

Kangaroo

Birthplace of kangaroos - Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands. Of all the family of kangaroos biggest - is the gray kangaroo, they can reach a length of up to 3 meters. However, the newborn young in the largest kangaroo weighs at birth is less than 1 gram.

Mother-kangaroo protects your baby from the outside world, it is due to the muscles around the edge at the entrance of the bag, can control its unique bag. For example, during the voyage, she closes the bag so that it does not hit the water.

elephant seals

The name of the elephant seals got through hobotoobraznomu nose in males, which is completely absent in females and cubs. elephant lives 12 in a natural environment - 20 years:

Swan

About their young parents care for 1-2 years after birth. Adult swan may reach by weight 15 kg or more, and the scope of their wings reaches 2 m:

Panda

"Bear Cat" - is the Chinese name of the animal family bear. Adult giant panda in length vyrostaet to 1.2-1.5 m, it has a weight of from 30 to 160 kg. One of the distinguishing features of this bear from the other bears - it's quite a long tail. Newborn baby panda weighs between 90 and 130 grams, which is about 1/800 the weight of the mother. In China, this animal is very honored and for the killing of pandas death penalty is applied here:

Snow Leopard

Habitat of snow leopards, snow leopards, or - in the mountain ranges of Central Asia. The length of the small newborn leopard reaches 30 cm, and weighs about 500 grams. Like many animals, snow leopards are born blind and helpless, seeing them appear in about 6-8 days. It is known that in nature the maximum they reached 13 years of age:

Obezyana

Family of monkeys from Myanmar:

Elephant

The largest land animals that live on the earth - the elephants. It is known for, and even been "reported" that the biggest elephant weighed 12 tons. Young elephants are growing for a long time: the first 3 years five to eight centimeters per year. In order to become parents, they must have reached the age of 8-12 years. Elephants live in the wild 60-70 years:

Crocodile

Around 250 million years ago. .. That is, in the Triassic period, there were the most ancient animals planet - crocodiles. Progeny crocodiles emerge from the eggs, the number of small crocodiles variruetsya from 20 to 100 depending on rvelichiny females.

Interesting fact: crocodiles can live without food for 1 year to 1.5 years. They can be called longevity of the Earth, because they live to 80-100 years.

Squirrel

Among the most intelligent animals on Earth are considered proteins. Small Belchatow are born naked and blind. Over one and a half months, the kids are in the nest, but after 2-3 months they Prytkov jumping from branch to branch. Adults considered Belchatow, reached 10-12 months after their birth. The life expectancy of a protein of 14-16 years.