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Three Sumatran Tiger cubs — two male and one female — were born at Taronga Zoo in the early hours of 20 August. They came into the world one hour apart, to mother Jumilah and father, Satu, as zoo keepers monitored the labour from nearby. These babies are a valuable boost to this critically endangered species, seeing as there are as few as 400 left in the wild — via ZooBorns

For the past few weeks aquarists at the Tennessee Aquarium have been monitoring an egg mass which was laid by a cuttlefish pair born and reared at the Aquarium. Shortly after the eggs were removed from the exhibit and placed into a holding tank, tiny cuttlefish began hatching. Carol Haley, the Aquarium’s assistant curator of fishes, said, The first day about 42 hatchlings appeared. Another 40 or so appeared the following day.

The hatchlings, called cuttlets, are tiny replicas of their parents. Each individual is small enough to fit inside a quarter teaspoon. Once they emerge from the egg sac, they begin hunting. They have a pretty big appetite and are ready to use their tentacles to snare the live mysid shrimp we feed them, said Haley — via ZooBorns

Something wonderful happened at France’s Zoo Parc de Beauval in the middle of the night on Sunday, 16 October… a White Rhino was born. The baby, a male, weighed about 176 pounds (80 kg) and the report is that he and Satara, his mother, are doing well — so well in fact that he is already on view through a huge window in the Rhino house — via ZooBorns