Need a dopamine boost? These cute baby animals might do the trick

Gentoo penguins Peach and Riki with their chick. — Photos: Mandai Wildlife Group

If you love adorable animals and you’re travelling to Singapore soon, you’d want to check out its wildlife parks. 

Last year alone, the parks collectively welcomed around 1,000 animal babies. 

That means throughout 2025, Mandai Wildlife Reserve’s Singapore Zoo, Night Safari, River Wonders, Bird Paradise and Rainforest Wild Asia were great places to go and gush over cute animal offsprings.

Sure, these babies may be older now, but with the hundreds of species (the parks have around 1,000 species actually) that they have, you can surely see more cute baby animals when you visit this year.

Hailing 2025 as “a remarkable year for Mandai Wildlife Group”, the group’s deputy CEO and chief life sciences officer Dr Cheng Wen-Haur says in a press statement that “each new arrival is a proud moment for the teams who care for them and reflects our commitment to raising healthy, thriving wildlife in our zoological institutions”.

Let’s take a look at a few of the babies born last year, so you might have an idea of what to expect when you go visit them.

Baby L'hoest's monkey clinging on to mum Koumi.

There’s Singapore Zoo’s first L’hoest’s monkey infant that was born in June. The same month also saw the zoo welcoming its first serval kittens in 12 years. The male and female pair was born to Lyla, who arrived from Rotterdam Zoo two years prior.

Meanwhile, Night Safari welcomed its first red dhole litter in almost 10 years. There were also new fawns from threatened deer species, which included four barasinghas, two thamins and a hog deer.

Bird Paradise saw the birth of a baby penguin that can melt even the iciest of hearts. See the cutie for yourself at Ocean Network Express Penguin Cove.