Gallery: Second Cutest Book Ever: ZooBorns Goes Exotic

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    Just when I thought I was getting a handle on my addiction, the evil geniuses behind ZooBorns.com have conspired to pull me back in. [![](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/11/zooborns_cover_200px.jpg "ZooBorns_nextgen")](http://www.amazon.com/ZooBorns-Next-Generation-Animals-Aquariums/dp/1451661614/ref=la_B003GOGXLC_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353287576&sr=1-1) The creators of [ZooBorns.com](http://www.zooborns.com/) promise newer, cuter and more exotic baby animals in their newest book, [*ZooBorns: The Next Generation*](http://www.amazon.com/ZooBorns-Next-Generation-Animals-Aquariums/dp/1451661614/ref=la_B003GOGXLC_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353287576&sr=1-1). Authors Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland deliver on that promise with newborn animals from zoos and aquariums around the world from familiar favorites like pandas and foxes to exotic species like aye-ayes and bongos. Two years ago, they further enabled my internet habit with a printed book of some of the most ridiculously painfully adorable baby animals ever born within range of a camera. The [gallery of images from that book](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/zooborns-gallery/) that we published on Wired was one of the most popular in the site's history with more than 2.3 million views of the baby ocelot, red pandas, gorilla, sea otter and other incredibly cute newborn animals. Surely that book spawned thousands of fellow addicts. Now, as if they knew that I had almost recovered, my cute-crack dealers Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland have sent me a free sample of their newest product, [*ZooBorns: The Next Generation*](http://www.amazon.com/ZooBorns-Next-Generation-Animals-Aquariums/dp/1451661614/ref=la_B003GOGXLC_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353287576&sr=1-1). This book is filled with the kind of cuteness that really should be a controlled substance. The new edition includes a cheetah cub, a manatee calf, maned wolf pups, a baby bonobo and many other darling creatures you've never even heard of before. Fossa? Vicuna? Numbat? All dangerously adorable. And many of them endangered. One of the goals of the [ZooBorns website](http://www.zooborns.com/) and books is to spread the word about the precarious situations many of these species are in and the efforts underway to save them. A portion of the proceeds from the book goes to support conservation work by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. So you can give the book as a gift and help the animals at the same time. And I have trouble imagining a person who would not like this book. Enjoy your free sample of cute in this gallery. But don't say I didn't warn you. __Above:__ ### Koala Name: Pound Home: Dreamworld, Australia Born: Nov. 3, 2010 Status: Least Concern *Photo Credit: Dreamworld / Koala Country Photographics*
  • Wombat
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    ### Common Wombat Name: Mirrhi Home: Taronga Zoo, Australia Born: 2010 Status: Least Concern *Photo credit: Lorinda Taylor / Taronga Zoo*
  • Cheetah
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    ### Cheetah Name: Kasi Home: Busch Gardens, Tampa Bay, Florida Born: Jan. 17, 2011 Status: Vulnerable *Photo credit: © 2011 SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. All rights reserved.*
  • Northern WhiteCheeked Gibbon
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    ### Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon Name: Nakai Home: Perth Zoo, Australia Born: April 17, 2011 Status: Critically Endangered *Photo credit: Perth Zoo*
  • Aardvark
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    ### Aardvark Name: Zawadi Home: Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Florida Born: April 10, 2011 Status: Least Concern *Photo credit: © 2011 SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. All rights reserved.*
  • Arctic Fox
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    ### Arctic Fox Names: Kenai and Miki Home: Aquarium of the Pacific, California Born: May 2011 Status: Least Concern *Photo credit: Robin Riggs / Aquarium of the Pacific*
  • Pygmy Hippopotamus
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    ### Pygmy Hippopotamus Name: Prince Harry Home: Cango Wildlife Ranch, South Africa Born: March 22, 2012 Status: Endangered *Photo credits: Tammy Moult / Cango Wildlife Ranch*
  • Numbat
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    ### Numbat Home: Perth Zoo, Australia Born: January 2010 Status: Endangered *Photo credit: Perth Zoo*
  • Lesser Mouse Deer
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    ### Lesser Mouse Deer Home: Paignton Zoo, U.K. Born: June 19, 2010 Status: Least Concern *Photo credit: Ray Wiltshire / Paignton Zoo*
  • Back Cover
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    ### Back Cover (clockwise from top left): __Pound the Koala:__ from Dreamworld, Australia, born Nov. 2, 2010, status: least concern (*Dreamworld / Koala Country Photographics*). __Kenai and Miki the Arctic Foxes:__ from Aquarium of the Pacific, California, born May 2011, status: least concern (*Robin Riggs / Aquarium of the Pacific*). __Nakai the Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon:__ from Perth Zoo, Australia, born April 17, 2011, status: critically endangered (*Perth Zoo*). __Giant Panda:__ from Chengdu Panda Base, China, born: September 2010, status: endangered (*Jeroen Jacobs, taken at CRBGPB*). __Gouda the Harbor Seal:__ from Alaska SeaLife Center, born May 7, 2011, status: least concern (*Alaska SeaLife Center Staff*). __South American Coati:__ from Melbourne Zoo, Australia, born Nov. 25, 2011, status: least concern (*Meagan Thomas, Melbourne Zoo*). __Capybara:__ from San Diego Zoo, California, born Nov. 28, 2011, status: least concern (*Zoological Society of San Diego*). __Kasi the Cheetah:__ from Busch Gardens, Tampa Bay, Florida, born Jan. 17, 2011, status: vulnerable (© *2011 SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. All rights reserved.*).
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