A man takes his goose chicks for a walk March 16 in Taiping, about 1,100 miles south of Beijing.

A mother duck looks on as one of her chicks falls over while trying to scale a curb Jan. 12 in Little Rock, Ark. The chick eventually made it over the curb and returned to the nest safely.

A newly born hippopotamus swims under the protection of its mother called "Seventh Daughter" at the Tianjin Zoo 75 miles southeast of Beijing, Sept. 19.