Happy Mother's Day to These Wild Moms
These moms of nature know a thing or two about protecting and nurturing their young.
Updated May 5, 2022
Caring lynx mother cleaning her lynx cub in the grass.
Sea Otter with her cub in coastal Alaska.
Grey mother cat nursing her kittens.
Newborn calf with his mother.
Lion cubs aged 9-12 months trying to play with their mother at Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
Mother polar bear and her cub in the snow.
A newborn hippo calf snuggling up to its sleeping mother.
Giraffe showing affection to her calf.
One-month-old Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) with his mother.
Sumatran Orangutan mother with baby on her neck.
A female red kangaroo is reflected as she drinks from a water hole at dusk with her joey in Stony Desert, Australia
Mom and calf humpback whales make their way toward the surface in Tonga.
A mother duck with chicks in the water.
Photo taken in Kuhmo, Finland of mama bear and her cubs.
Wolf with her cubs at den site in Montana.