I love you mum! Mother's Day in the animal kingdom for super-cute baby prairie pups, tigers and polar bears




These are the heart-warming pictures which prove a mother's love really is unconditional - no matter what species you are.



With Mother's Day just around the corner, these adorable snaps show a whole host of patient mothers bonding with their boisterous babies.



And whether you're furry or scaly and have two legs or four, the cute snaps prove that mother knows best.

The touching pictures, taken by various photographers from across the globe, feature everything from a Borneo orangutan giving her little one a piggyback ride to a polar bear playing with her cubs in a snowy Canada.

A Lowland gorilla is also pictured cradling her baby in Cameroon while a Northern Sea Otter carries her cub through rough waters in Alaska.

And with animals from penguins to pandas showing love for their offspring, it won't just be humans getting spoiled this Sunday.

Mother's love: These are the heartwarming pictures which prove a mothers' love really is unconditional - no matter what species you are

A Baby Beluga Wale with its mother as they swim through the ocean together

And whether you're furry or scaly and have two legs or four, the cute snaps prove that mother knows best

Mute Swan - with young

A Lowland gorilla is also pictured cradling her baby in Cameroon

A emperor penguin nuzzles her tiny baby while a Garden Snail gives it offspring a ride



European Brown Bear devoting her attention to her three mini bears

An Olive Baboon holds out her young on disaply

A Northern Sea Otter carries her cub through rough waters in Alaska

A Borneo orangutan, right, giving her little one a piggyback ride, and left, a polar bear playing with her cubs in a snowy Canada

A European Wild Pig and her offspring play in the snow

A cheetah and her tiny baby look turn around in unison

A Giant Panda hugs her little cub in the same loving manner as a Black-tailed Prairie Dog

A lion plays with her little cubs on the grass





























