Offspring Collection (#18)

Adelie penguins C016 / 6174
Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), Cape Adare, Antarctica. Photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 (also known as the Terra Nova expedition)

Adelie penguins C016 / 6175
Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) parent and chick, Cape Adare, Antarctica. Photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 (also known as the Terra Nova expedition)

Adelie penguins feeding their young C016 / 6170
Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) feeding their young. Photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913 (also known as the Terra Nova expedition)

Mendelian inheritance, artwork
Mendelian inheritance. Computer artwork showing the possible genetic outcomes for the offspring of parents that are both heterozygous (have two different alleles, or forms)

White tiger mother and cub C017 / 8288
White tiger. A mother white tiger suckling its cub. White tigers are rare genetic variants of the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) in which the orange pigment, pheomelanin, is not produced

Calf Cow Brown and white Smaland region. Sweden, Europe

USA, Florida. Wood duck interacts with young offspring

Thistle, Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States

Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene c. carolina, Central Pennsylvania. A common turtle in the Eastern USA, but threatened by over-collecting for the European pet trade

High Casque Chameleon (Female) w / young, Chamaeleo honeli, Native to Eastern Africa
High Casque Chameleon (Female) w/ young, Chamaeleo honeli, Native to Eastern Africa

South Georgia Island, Salisbury Plain. King penguin (wild: Aptenodytes patagonicus). Young molting penguin chick

South Georgia Island, Godthul. Young Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) on tussac grass (Poa flabellata)

South America, South Georgia Island. Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua)

Mute swan cygnet, Cygnus olor, Stanley Park, British Columbia

Domestic Sheep, dead lamb, close-up of deformed head, was born alive, England, april

Young barn owls (Tyto alba) huddled in a nest

Hatching turtles. Green turtle (Chelonia mydas, right) and a hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata, left) hatchlings emerging from their eggs. These eggs are in a protected hatchery

Green turtle hatchlings (Chelonia mydas) heading for the sea. Turtles are wholly aquatic reptiles, the females only coming ashore to lay their eggs

Hatching green turtle
Hatching turtle. Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchling emerging from its egg. These eggs are in a protected hatchery. They are left to hatch naturally and then taken to the sea to be released

Swallow chicks. Two swallow (Hirundo rustica) chicks in their nest, calling for food. A breeding pair of swallows build a nest from mud and grass and line it with feathers

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