From Boston.com

Around the world, animals new to this earth experience life. In zoos and in nature, photographers captured a variety of species during these moments. –Leanne Burden Seidel

(We have picked 10 from the 31 photos total)

#1 Twin polar bear cubs Nela and Nobby play outside their enclosure at Tierpark Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, April 7. (Michael Dalder/Reuters)

#3 Nine-day-old giraffe Bine licks the nose of its giraffe aunt Andrea at Friedrichsfelde Zoo in Berlin,†Germany, May 9. The baby giraffe was born on 30 April during opening hours and numerous visitors were able to watch the birth. (STEPHANIE PILICK/EPA)

#4 Gray langur mother Sally holds her baby in its enclosure in Berlin’s Zoo in Berlin. Gray langurs live in a community in which a single male lives together with several females and their offsprings. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

#5 A young lowland tapir (R), who was born on April 30, is seen with its mother on the premises of the Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, May 21. (ENNIO LEANZA/EPA)

#6 A prairie dog cub plays with a blade of grass on May 22, at the Zoo Hannover. A total of 17 prairie dogs were born between late March and mid-April. (JOCHEN LÜBKE/AFP/Getty Images)

#10 A swallow feeds her babies in their nest under the ceiling of a residential house in Dongfeng township of Guiyang, Guizhou province, May 5. (Reuters)

#11 Two brown bear cubs play in their enclosure at Juraparc animal park near Vallorbe April 7. Ursina, an 18-year old female bear gave birth to two cubs, King and Zoe, the twelfth and thirteenth cubs of the park, on an unknown date in January 2014. The parent bears were separated before the birth to avoid conflict between the father and cubs. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)

#15 Two meerkat cubs cuddle between adult animals in their outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Erfurt, Germany, March 19. (Jens Meyer/Associated Press)

#16 Newborn baby seal Conchita (R) and her mother Celia at the Boudewijn Seapark in Brugges. The baby seal is most likely female and is named after Austria’s bearded transvestite and winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest Conchita Wurst. In the event it does turn out to be a male, it will be named Conchito. (Boudewijn Seapark Animal Park via AFP/Getty Images)

#18 A white Bengal female tiger frolics with her three cubs, who were born in captivity, at the Huachipa’s zoo in Lima on April 29. (ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP/Getty Images)

To see all the photographs go to: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2014/05/spring_babies_2014.html