You can always count on pet photos to deliver your dose of the warm and fuzzies. But if you add animal parents and their younglings to the equation, expect the adorable levels to be a few notches higher. 

Take a look at these photos to see what we mean. You’re about to see what pure love between cute critters looks like, whether it’s a mama dog nursing her newborn pups or a mother swan cuddling her babies. 

This list is one of our many pieces showing love for animals. Scroll through it and have a nice feel-good moment.

#1 A Happy Family

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#2 Kiwi And His Goth Wife Have Four Beautiful Half-Goth Babies

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#3 Koala Mom And Her Son After Being Rescued From The Fires In Australia

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Similar to humans, maternal instincts are strong among animals like sloth bears. According to the India-based non-profit organization Wildlife SOS, sloth bears carry their cubs all day until age two. 

Leopards are the same way. They are very protective of their younglings, who depend on their mothers for basic needs like food, protection, and shelter for the first couple of years of their lives.

#4 First Family Photo. Santa Barbara Zoo

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#5 Family Trip

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#6 My Pet Cow Had A Calf For The First Time Today, She Seems To Be A Pretty Good Mom

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Biparental care likewise exists in the animal kingdom, but the roles are sometimes reversed. For water birds like jacanas, the male does most of the work, which includes protecting their territory, looking for food, and teaching their younglings survival skills. 

The female, meanwhile, has several mates and is not at all involved in raising their offspring.

#7 Baby Lamb

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#8 Hi There, Little Guy

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#9 Cutie

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It’s almost a similar case with emperor penguins. The fathers usually gather food and teach their young to survive harsh weather conditions. The mothers leave the colony to allow their male counterparts to keep the eggs warm. 

The division of parental labor among barn owls is more similar to that of humans. The males are hunter-gatherers, while the females nurture and incubate the eggs.

#10 Dad Meeting His Kiddos

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#11 Proud Parents

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#12 Happy Mom With Her Puppies

Alloparenting also happens between animals. Female elephants, being matriarchal in nature, usually become foster parents to newcomers. 

Similarly, rhesus macaque monkeys form social bonds with each other and can quickly build familial relationships with orphaned babies.

#13 This Baby Hippo Has A Very Supportive Mom

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#14 The Joy On The Baby’s Face

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#15 Pups Learning Important Life Skills From Mama

We’d also like to hear from you, readers. Do you see similarities between human and animal parenting? How close or far apart are they? Let’s liven up the comments section!

#16 We Just Announced The Birth Of 4 New Asian Lion Cubs To Mother Gira And Father Shanto. These Adorable Four Were Born 8 Weeks Ago

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#17 Our Cat Ada Gave Birth 2 Days Ago

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#18 Fantastic Fox Family

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#19 The Strongest Bond

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#20 Mother And One Of Her Sons

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#21 These Three Tawny Frogmouth Birds

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#22 In Istanbul, A Stray Cat Mom Took Her Baby To The ER. Doctors And Paramedics Helped The Baby And Took Them To A Vet

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#23 One Very Proud Mom

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#24 3-Week-Old Sumatran Orangutan At The Philly Zoo, Looking Up At Mama

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#25 Today Our Cat Gave Birth To 4 Kittens, And Her Blissful, Exhausted Face While Hugging Her Baby Is One Of The Most Beautiful Things I’ve Seen

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#26 Fostering This Little Family Who Came With Thanksgiving Names. Mama Macaroni, And Her Kids Turkey And Sweet Potato

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#27 I Really Like This Picture I Took Of A Calf With Her Mom

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#28 Everyday Is A Parents’ Day

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#29 Mom And 13 Baby Ducks

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#30 Mom Is Taking Care Of The Little Boys, And Dad Is Checking On Mom

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#31 Good Job, Momma. We Weren’t Expecting 3

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#32 Adorable

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#33 So Cute

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#34 Baby Swan

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#35 Ends Up That She Wasn’t Fat After All

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#36 Babies Leaving Their Nest

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#37 Mom’s Love

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#38 Monkey Mama

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#39 “This Is How We Do It”

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#40 My Local Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals Had A Box Of Cats Dropped Off At Their Door, And These Babies Were Inside

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#41 Here’s A Mama And Her Twins About 20 Minutes After They Were Born

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#42 Proud Mama! Sarra With Her Triplets. She Gave Birth To Earlier Today

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#43 Smiling Dashi And Her Daughters Pippa And Bow Bow

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#44 Being A Mom Is Hard

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#45 We Sent Our Golden To Stay With My Mom For A Month While She Was In Heat So Our Male Couldn’t Get Her Pregnant. She Came Back A Little Chunky So We Thought Grandma Had Spoiled Her

The joke's on us… Our boy must have gotten her right before she left.

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#46 Mum And Her Puppies. 2 Days Old

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#47 Sweet First-Time Mama Cat

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#48 A Mother Always Watches Her Baby

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#49 A Family Meowed On My Door And I Adopted Them

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#50 Wild Baby Elephant Sleeping Under Their Mommy

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#51 This Is What My Day Was For. The Chicks Are White, Fluffy, And So Cute

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#52 The Protective Shells Of Baby Pangolins Are Very Soft When They Are Young, So The Mothers Curl Around Their Bodies To Protect Them

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#53 This Mommy Sheep Snuggled Up With Her Babies

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#54 Peaceful Pitbull Pup Propped On Parent

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#55 When You’re Mad At Your Baby, But You Still Have To Show Them Love

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#56 Mom And Her Child In My Garage

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#57 Stopped To Take A Picture Of This Little Family, And This Daddy Goose Got All Angry And Protective

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#58 Mama Cat Desperately Protects Her Children During The Heavy Rain

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#59 Baby Donkey Kissing Mom Hours After Birth

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#60 Mom And Baby In My Backyard

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#61 A Boy’s Best Support Is His Mum

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#62 These Two Lovebugs Became Parents Of Six Puppies This Week

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#63 My Cat Is A Very Proud Mom

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#64 Mama And Her Baby

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#65 Proud Mum (Nova) And Her Precious Puppies

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#66 The Best Mum In The World

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#67 “Look Human, The Baby I Made”

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#68 Spotted In My Front Yard

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#69 Shot I Took Of A Pair Of Proud Parents

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#70 They’re Both Moms. Had Litters At The Same Time, And They Take Turns Feeding The Babies

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#71 Baby Scorpions Have Very Soft Exoskeletons. They Crawl Up Onto Their Mother’s Back And Ride There For 10 To 20 Days Until Their Exoskeleton Gets Strong Enough

A scorpion can have as many as 100 babies in a single brood. They are not hatched from eggs like insects.

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#72 A Sleepy Koala Napping With Her Joey

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#73 A Family Of Ducks Has Moved Into Our Pool

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#74 Fed Mama Cat One Time, And The Next Day She Brought Her Baby And Husband For Dinner

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#75 The Stray I’ve Been Feeding For Months Came To The House To Have Her Babies! First Family Photoshoot

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#76 Baby And Mommy Bird

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#77 “Mommy’s Gonna Clean You Up So You’re Presentable When The Parole Board Comes By, Ok Sweetie?”

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#78 “Don’t Talk To My Child Again”

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#79 Mommy And Her Little Kittens

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#80 Say Congrats To This Proud Mama And Hello To These Five Brand-New Kitties

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#81 Behold My Little Baby Kitten

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#82 And What Happened Next, Dad?

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#83 Started Volunteering At The Animal Shelter 2 Weeks Ago. Brought Home My First Foster Family Today. Momma And Six 3-Week-Old Babies

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#84 The Expression On My Cat’s Face When I Came Downstairs To Find She’d Given Birth To Three Strong Kittens

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#85 Maternity

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#86 Mama Swan With Newborn Babies

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#87 This Is Mama Stormy And Her 7 Babies

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#88 Dad (Potato) Is On Kitten Watch While Mom (Tot) Takes A Nap In The Background

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#89 My Brother’s Dog Looks So Proud After Giving Birth To 5 Puppies Last Night

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#90 Meet A New Mother Of 9 Baby Cows

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#91 Loving This Pair,enna & Dahlia

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#92 Mama Was In Labor For An Extra Hour With This One. She Knows It Was Worth It

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#93 My Baby Is Already A Mommy, I’m A Grandfather, Welcome Little Ones

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#94 Fresh Kittens With Their Mommy

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#95 My Dog Gave Birth To 4 Puppies

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#96 Parents Adopted A Stray A Few Months Ago. Turns Out She Was Pregnant

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#97 First Family Photo. Look At The Proud Parents

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#98 She’s The Best Mum

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#99 Momma Loves You But She Also Needs To Take A Little Nap

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#100 Happy Parents And Their Screaming Ball Of Feathers

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#101 Mother Protecting Her Children

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#102 Mother And Baby Deer Outside My Window

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#103 This Scene Of Mother And Daughter. She Is A Gir Cow, Mostly Found In Gujarat, India

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#104 Daughter And Mother, 19 And 20

It was a small litter, only 3 kittens, she wasn't even full-size yet. She came to the shelter pregnant and I kept one of her babies!

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