Ode to a mother's love: heartwarming animal pictures with their cubs

• Ode to a mother's love: heartwarming animal pictures with their cubs

We offer you a selection of moving pictures, which again proves that the gentle maternal love is not unique to the world of people, but also to the world of animals.

The female opossum with her brood in a nature reserve in Minnesota, USA.

The cub of the orangutan kissing his mother on the island of Borneo.

panda and her cub are warmed during a snowfall in China.

The lioness with her cub.

Emperor penguin with its chick.

The alpine marmots in the Reserve of the Hohe Tauern in Carinthia, Austria.

moose cow with her calf in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

Baribaly in Yellowstone National Park in the United States.

White whale with her cub in the aquarium in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The female seal with her newborn cub in Alaska.

Gorilla hugging her cub in the reserve in Cameroon.

Tired Bear climbs on his mother's back in the National Park Wapusk National Park in Manitoba, Canada.

Rhinos in the Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Fox in the National Park Grand Teton in Wyoming, USA.

A female lemur with her cub in Madagascar.

bobcat with his kitten in a nature reserve Bob Marshall in Montana, USA.