If our Animal Photos Of The Week makes your week, then this set of photos will make your year!
2010 brought a whole bundle of adorable baby animals into the world. From an injured baby dolphin to a baby monkey riding a baby boar, and countless newborn pandas, gorillas, tigers, lions and so much more -- we've brought you the most heartstring-yanking pictures.
Warning: These photos are highly addictive and enjoyable. Do not attempt to look at these photos until you are thoroughly ready to procrastinate and are prepared to melt over the adorableness of these animals.
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Cutest Animals Of 2010
Baby Dolphin(01 of49)
Richard Tesore, Director of the marine fauna reserve 'SOS Fauna Marina' holds a baby dolphin in a pool in Punta Colorada, department of Maldonado 100 km east of Montevideo on November 5, 2010. The little dolphin of about 10 days, was found by tourists, apparently showing marks of a fishing net. (MIGUEL ROJO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Bear Cub(02 of49)
A three-month-old bear cub plays at the zoo in Stavropol on April 21, 2010. (DANIL SEMYONOV/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Monkey/Boar(03 of49)
A baby monkey named Miwa (top) rides a young boar named Uribo in the Fukuchiyama City Zoo, Kyoto Prefecture on October 19, 2010. Both have been sheltered by the zoo since June after losing their mothers. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Panda Cub(04 of49)
One of the newly born twins panda cubs grimaces in their incubator at the Madrid Zoo on October 8, 2010 in Madrid. The two panda cubs, born on September 7, 2010, are the first giant panda twins to be conceived using the artificial insemination method outside of China. (DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Baby Gorilla(05 of49)
Aya, a 15-year-old gorilla, holds her new-born baby Bokito on December 6, 2010 in Rotterdam Zoo. (VALERIE KUYPERS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Otter Quadruplets(06 of49)
Asian small-clawed otter baby quadruplets huddle together at Osaka Kaiyukan Aquarium on May 7, 2010. The aquarium will hold an otter exhibition until May 31. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Cheetah Cub(07 of49)
This photo provided by the San Diego Zoo shows Kiburi, a 10-day-old cheetah cub, after he opened his eyes, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Animal Care Center. He took in the world, gobbled down a bottle, played for a little while, and then went back fast asleep in the window of the nursery. (AP Photo/San Diego Zoo) (credit:AP)
Mangabey Monkey Baby(08 of49)
This photo provided Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010 by the Bioparco Zoo of Rome shows a baby white-naped mangabey monkey (Cercocebus atys lunulatus), born on Nov. 7 held by its zoo keeper after it was refused by its mother, in Rome. White-naped mangabey monkeys, found in Ghana and Ivory Coast forests, are listed amongst the most endagered primates. The Bioparco Zoo is part of a group of European zoos involved in the breeding programs (European Endagered Species Programmes) of endagered species. (AP Photo/M. Di Giovanni, Courtesy of Bioparco Zoo, ho) (credit:AP)
Cougar Cub(09 of49)
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden head nursery keeper Dawn Strasser holds on to one of the zoo's two new eight-week-old cougar cubs, named Joseph and Tecumseh, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 at the zoo. (AP Photo/The Enquirer, Ernest Coleman) (credit:AP)
Guanaco(10 of49)
A baby Guanaco is nursed by her mother Hannah (R) in their enclosure at the zoo in Berlin, November 2, 2010. The South America native Lama female calf was born in the zoo October 17. (ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Tiger Cub(11 of49)
"Zetita", a 20-day old tiger cub, lies in his pen at the home of his owner Jose Juarez Gil, popularly known as Pepe Tigre, in Cancun, Mexico, Tuesday Nov. 9, 2010. Juarez Gil, who has led a decades long struggle to open a zoo in Cancun, is facing new troubles after one of his adult tigers, the father of "Zetita", injured a man on Monday. He claims there is a campaign to take away his animals and his land, while animal defense activists say he can't properly care for the tigers, some of which have died. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) (credit:AP)
Wombat(12 of49)
Pol Esparago of Spainand the Tuenti Racing Team poses with a wombat as he prepares for the Australian MotoGP, which is round 16 of the MotoGP World Championship, at the Maru Koala and Wildlife Park on October 14, 2010 in Phillip Island, Australia. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Rhesus Monkey(13 of49)
Rhesus monkeys relax in the shade at the zoo in Heidelberg, southwestern Germany, on July 19, 2010. Summer brought a warm and sunny day with temperatures up to 29 degrees Celsius to the region. (DANIEL ROLAND/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Possum(14 of49)
A cross-eyed opossum (didelphis) called Heidi sits in its interim enclosure, in the zoo in Leipzig, Germany, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. The animal came from a zoo in Denmark to Leipzig, where they found out that she is cross-eyed. (AP Photo/dapd, Sebastian Willnow) (credit:AP)
Lemurs(15 of49)
Female ring-tailed lemur 'Susen' (R) enjoys fresh food as she carries her twin babies on her back on April 13, 2010 at the zoo in Dresden, eastern Germany. The still nameless lemurs were born on March 17, 2010 at the zoo. Lemurs are endemic to the island of Madagascar. (NORBERT MILLAUER/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Frog/Cat(16 of49)
A cat shows interest in a frog sitting on a rock in the eastern German town of Sieversdorf on July 27, 2010. (PATRICK PLEUL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Koala(17 of49)
Koala Thalera climbs in his enclosure in the Duisburg Zoo Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Male Koala Thalera was born on Nov. 7 last year. (AP Photo/dapd/Juergen Schwarz) (credit:AP)
Gray Owl(18 of49)
A great gray owl screws his head at the zoo in Muenster, Germany, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. Winter has arrived in Germany with ice and snow all over the country. Weather forecast predicts changing temperatures with freezing rain and dangerous icing. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) (credit:AP)
Baby Elephant(19 of49)
A 2-week old male baby elephant is dwarfed next to his 25-year old mother, Nandong, at the Singapore Zoo's Night Safari on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 in Singapore. This baby is the first baby to be born in the enclosure after 9 years and had a birth weight of 151-kilograms. The Singapore Zoo and Night Safari ensures that its animals in captivity have habitats as close to that of the wild as part of its wildlife conservation efforts. Elephants are listed as endangered on International Union for Conservation of Nature. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) (credit:AP)
Border Collie Puppy(20 of49)
Seven-week old Border Collie puppy rests after a play with its siblings in their garden as outdoors temperatures dropped below minus 10 degrees celsius in the village of Bodice on December 16, 2010. According to the pupps owner, Olga Rossova, if she had 20 pupps they could be all sold two weeks ago when a border collie dog Dream advanced to the final of the popular Slovakia's TV show 'Slovakia Has Talent'. Two weeks later her six puppies are facing uncertain future since there is no one interested in buying them. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Prairie Dog(21 of49)
A prairie dog eats a piece of carrot in the Zoo of Salzburg, Austria on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. The weather fore cast predicts cold and rainy weather for the next days. (AP Photo/ Kerstin Joensson) (credit:AP)
Orangutan Baby(22 of49)
Hanging on a grid and watched by its mother, a Sumatra Orangutan baby, plays with a tree trunk in their place of Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden, in Budapest on November 12, 2010. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Giraffe Calf(23 of49)
A one week-old female Rothschild giraffe calf, looks nat keeper Belinda Porter, in her pen at Chester Zoo in Chester, north-west England, on November 8, 2010. The calf is the first pure Rothschild giraffe to have been born at the zoo, and will be named in an internet competition. (PAUL ELLIS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Golden Lion Tamarin(24 of49)
A small monkey called the Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) is seen in a cage at the Hamamatsu Zoo in Shizuoka Prefecture on November 1, 2010. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Squirrel(25 of49)
A squirrel eats a nut in a Moscow park on October 31, 2010. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Baby Flamingo(26 of49)
A baby Chilean flamingo drinks water, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. The chick was born on Oct. 3, 2010, and is one of two chicks born so far this fall at the zoo from several eggs that are currently being incubated. Baby flamingos can take up to two or three years to fully develop the pink feathers of mature adults. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (credit:AP)
Bearcat Babies(27 of49)
The two bearcat babies 'Morotai' und 'Patani' snuggle up in their box during a photocall on September 24, 2010 at the animal park in Berlin. The bearcat youngsters, also called binturong, were born on July 17, 2010 at the zoo. (MARCEL METTELSIEFEN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Zebra(28 of49)
An unnamed week-old male Grant's zebra, left, grazes with its 12-year-old mother "Cheyanne," right, at the Franklin Park Zoo, in Boston, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. The baby zebra, which weighs between 60 and 75 pounds, was born on the evening on Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) (credit:AP)
Baboon(29 of49)
A baboon peers out of rocks in her enclosure in Berlin's Tiergarten zoo on October 12, 2010 in Berlin. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Lion Cubs(30 of49)
Four lion cubs Kuwam, Kalika, Keladi and Kanya play during their official presentation on September 15, 2010 at the Zurich zoo. Indian lioness Joy gave birth to four cubs on July 14, 2010. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Panda Baby(31 of49)
This picture taken on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, and released on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, shows a person feeding one of the two giant panda cubs born at Madrid's Zoo on Sept. 7, 2010. An artificially inseminated female giant panda named Hua Zui Ba gave birth to the two panda cubs. (AP Photo/Spanish National Research Council) (credit:AP)
Wallaby(32 of49)
A little Red-necked Wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) peers out of its mother Bertha's pouch on September 1, 2010 at the zoo in Hanover, central Germany. In the wildlife, the marsupials are native in eastern Australia and Tasmania. (JOCHEN LUEBKE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
White Tiger(33 of49)
A white tiger cub is carried by its mother Bianca on August 25, 2010 at the Serengeti animal park in Hodenhagen, central Germany. Four white baby tigers were born at the park on July 14, 2010. JOCHEN LUEBKE/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty)
Hippopotamus Calf(34 of49)
A female hippopotamus calf born in the Berlin zoo on August 9, 2010 swims in her enclosure in Berlin's zoological garden, August 24, 2010. ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images (credit:Getty)
Cat/Dog(35 of49)
A Giant Schnauzer and a cat check each other out in the eastern German city of Leipzig on August 18, 2010. Leipzig is hosting a pet trade fair on August 21 and 22, 2010. AFP PHOTO / PETER ENDIG GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read PETER ENDIG/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Seal(36 of49)
A harbor seal relaxes in the water at the Cleveland MetroParks Zoo, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) (credit:AP)
Panther(37 of49)
Zoo keeper Angelika Berkling (L) reigns in one of the two newly born Black Panther twins Baturgai and Ormilia as she gets to friendly with the photographers during their presentation to the press and public at east Berlin's zoological garden 'Tierpark' in Berlin, August 13, 2010. (ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Baby Rhino(38 of49)
A newly-born black rhinoceros baby named 'Kiwidi' lays next to its mother 'Nane' at the zoo in the western German city of Krefeld on August 6, 2010. The young rhino was born on July 30, 2010 at the zoo. (HORST OSSINGER/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Emperor Tamarin(39 of49)
Four-year-old Emperor Tamarin Fritz (L) carries his newborn twins in their enclosure in the zoo of Hanover, northern Germany, on October 28, 2010. The male Emperor Tamarin carries the offspring only when they are hungry and brings them to their mother Luise. (JOCHEN LUEBKE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Civet(40 of49)
A wild civet eats ripe Arabika coffee fruits at a coffee plantation producing the expensive Luwak coffee in Bangli district on Bali island on July 21, 2010. Luwak coffeee beans come from the ripest fruit eaten by the cat-like creature, digested and excreted in droppings. It is then washed, dried and ground. The mammal's digestion process gives the famed flavor of Luwak, the world's rarest and most expensive coffee. Indonesia's highest Islamic body on July 20, 2010 abandoned a proposal to ban Muslims from drinking Kopi Luwak. It had considered issuing a fatwa against the pricey brew, on the grounds it was unclean. A cup of Kopi Luwak go for 80,000 rupiah (8.83 USD) in plush Jakarta coffee shops while the beans cost up to 500 dollars per kilogramme. (SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Polar Bear(41 of49)
A polar bear dries off in the sun after coming out of the water in his enclosure at Berlin's zoological garden zoo on July 22, 2010. (ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Tawny Frogmouth(42 of49)
Tawny Frogmouth chicks from Adelaide Zoo. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/09/baby-tawny-frogmouth_n_794372.html
Papou Penguin(43 of49)
A baby papou penguin (C), born at the oceans discovery park Oceanopolis in the western French city of Brest, is protected by its mother on July 19, 2010. (FRED TANNEAU/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Bonobo Baby(44 of49)
One-year-old bonobo baby 'Likemba' plays with a piece of wood in her enclosure in her enclosure in Berlin's Tiergarten zoo on October 12, 2010 in Berlin. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Kitten(45 of49)
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - JULY 27: Milly, a 13-week-old kitten looks through the glass of her pen as she waits to be re-homed at The Society for Abandoned Animals Sanctuary in Sale, Manchester, which is facing an urgent cash crisis and possible closure on July 27, 2010 in Manchester, England. The Society for Abandoned Animals exists entirely on public support and unless it can raise GBP 50,000 in the next couple of months it will have to close down. The registered charity started in 1967 and in the last five years alone the charity has rescued and found homes for more than 1,000 cats, 290 rabbits and 262 dogs. The rescue centre is one of the many who are suffering a downfall in donations due to the economic recession. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Sea Lion(46 of49)
A Californian sea lion hugs her just born baby at the Amsterdam zoo Artis,on June 1st.The California sea lion is the playful, noisy, exuberant, quick learning,'trained seal' of the circus and zoo. (MARCEL ANTONISSE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Cockatoo Baby(47 of49)
A 23 day-old Black Palm Cockatoo is displayed to the media at the Jurong Bird park in Singapore on December 20, 2010. Black Palm Cockatoos are being bred as part of the parks ongoing birdlife conservation programme which has for the first time hatched three birds in consecutive months. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Baby Turtles(48 of49)
An Indian shopkeeper holds three baby red eared slider turtles in Ahmedabad on October 11, 2010. These exotic pets are native to the US. (SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
Mandrill(49 of49)
A young Mandrill leeches on to its mother on July 20, 2010 at the zoo in Berlin. The female primate was born on June 16, 2010 at the zoo. In the wild, mandrills live in tropical rainforests and woodlands of western Central Africa. AFP PHOTO STEPHANIE PILICK GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read STEPHANIE PILICK/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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