The night before we headed to the San Diego Zoo, we used our dying laptop and the shaky internet connection in our villa to check out the live panda cam. What did we see? A mommy panda nursing her cub. Then the two of them fell asleep all snuggled up together. It was ridiculously adorable and got me even more excited for our trip to the zoo.
The next day, while touring the zoo, we happened upon a family of Red River Hogs having lunch. Well, the babies were having lunch--they were nursing. You can see in the picture below the underside of the mom's chin is on the right. She's laying on her side nursing the three babies.
About an hour later, while we were visiting the African elephants, we saw this:
It might be hard to see, but that momma elephant has a baby standing just behind her front left leg, nursing.
At the end of the day, as he headed out to the parking lot, Minh spied another exotic creature feeding its young.
This little guy must have gotten hungry watching all those other animals drink their milk. And none of those mothers even had the decency to cover up!
Just after Minh snapped it's photo, the baby wild animal popped up with a very satiated, "milk-drunk" look on it's face.
1 comment:
This is awesome! Before breastfeeding I wouldn't even have noticed the nursing.
Also, nothing like seeing another mammal nursing three or four babies at once to make you feel grateful...
T
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