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  • Good luck not falling in love with the adorable 10-day-old cheetah cub Kiburi, an orphaned white-naped mangabey monkey or the baby Olive Ridley turtle setting off toward the sea.

    PHOTOS: This Week's Best In Animals -- Cheetah Cub, Baby Monkey, Tiny Turtle & More Travis Walter Donovan 2010

  • The first chick is being raised by an experienced pair of white-naped cranes, and the second chick is being raised by first-time parents that include its biological mother.

    Zoo announces the birth of two cranes 2010

  • Good luck not falling in love with the adorable 10-day-old cheetah cub Kiburi, an orphaned white-naped mangabey monkey or the baby Olive Ridley turtle setting off toward the sea.

    Animal Photos Of The Week The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • National Zoo officials announced Wednesday that two rare white-naped crane chicks hatched at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal.

    Zoo announces the birth of two cranes 2010

  • These include the white-naped tit, a near-endemic species (Table 1) that prefers thorn scrub habitat, shared with the adjacent Northwestern Thorn Scrub Forests.

    Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests 2008

  • And “Checking in with Conchita,” a video featuring a tiny white-naped “mangabey” (tiny monkey) at the London Zoo.

    7 Simple Ideas Network TV Could (and Should) Grab from YouTube 2008

  • Other rare and endangered waterfowl that visit Poyang Lake include Oriental white stork (Ciconia boyciana), swan goose (Anser cygnoides), and white-naped crane (Grus vipio).

    Changjiang Plain evergreen forests 2007

  • Overhead flew ravens and rare white-naped cranes, which number just 5,000 worldwide.

    Bill Heavey Chases Mongolian Taimen (with Prairie Dogs as Bait) 2004

  • It came in the form of the cranes themselves — a pair of endangered white-naped cranes — elegant birds making their way above the forest with characteristic upward flicks of their expansive wings.

    Birds Out of Time Flannery, Tim 2002

  • A pair of white-naped ravens frequented the camp as well, corning for the softened bits of dog biscuits Mary set out for them.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

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