Muddy baby elephants, adorable tumbling penguins and otter cuddles: These cute baby animal videos will melt your heart

Whether it’s an elephant calf wrestling with mud or a sea otter lazing around being groomed by its mother, these videos capture the charm and chaos of early life in the animal kingdom.

Watch a tiny rhino chase its mother, an infant chimpanzee cuddle its relatives and a penguin chick make an clumsy descent down a snowy slope. These delightful glimpses into the early years of different animal species are sure to lift your mood.

Cutest baby animal videos

Baby elephant

We just had to include this one! It is pure joy

Baby seal (pup)

A young seal finds its way in Antarctica (credit: Getty)

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Baby meerkat (pup)

An adult meerkat and its pup lie on the ground (credit: Getty)

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These adorable meerkat photos capture the creature's playful personality – offering intimate insights into its captivating desert life

Baby wolves

Footage taken from the BBC documentary Snow Wolf Family And Me. Gordon Buchanan travels to the remote Canadian Arctic in search of wolves that have never seen people.

Baby giraffe (calf)

Newly born baby giraffe with its mother and older sister, Masai Mara National Park (credit: Getty)

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Baby emperor penguin (chick)

Emperor penguin chick tumbles down from a glacier slope (credit: Getty)

Baby elephant (calf)

African elephant its helps calf clamber out of waterhole, Kenya (credit: Getty)

Baby rhinoceros (calf)

A baby rhinoceros climbs up a dirt embankment as its mother waits (credit: Getty)

Baby sea otter (pup)

Sea otter pup suckling and being groomed by its mother (credit: Getty)

Want more cute animals?

BBC Earth has also put together a video of adorable baby animals, including penguins, twin tiger cubs, puppies, bears, lion cubs, polar bears and weasels.