This Aardvark Mother and Baby just brightened my day:
One of the newest additions to the Brookfield Zoo, a female aardvark named Paatsy, right, sticks close to her mother, Gracie, during mealtime Thursday, May 25, 2006, at the zoo in Brookfield, Ill. It will still be several more weeks before Paatsy, born March 30, makes her debut before zoo visitors. Zookeepers and researchers were able to accurately predict Paatsy’s date of birth by analyzing hormone levels in her mother’s fecal samples, giving them time to prepare the birthing area for her arrival.