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Your morning adorable: Waterbuck calf gets a nuzzle at Berlin Zoo

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A waterbuck calf born at the Berlin Zoo in late November is giving the zoo’s other resident animal babies -- like the guanaco calf and African lion cubs, for instance -- a run for their money in the unofficial Cutest Zoo Baby competition.

The calf recently joined the zoo’s waterbuck herd; young waterbucks don’t typically interact much with adults until they’ve reached a few weeks of age and are ready to be inducted into herd life.

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Once a young waterbuck becomes a full-fledged herd member, it sticks close to its mother by following a vivid marker: a bright white marker in the vicinity of her tail, rather like a target.

Waterbucks are native to parts of central and southern Africa, where they stick close to water -- hence the name -- but prefer not to swim in it unless they have to in order to escape a predator.

See more photos of the Berlin Zoo’s calf after the jump!

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-- Lindsay Barnett

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