Valentine's Day At The Zoo

Highly social animals, California sea lions prefer to be close. While on shore, they often lay packed together in colonies. In the water, a group may rest together at the surface in a “raft.”Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS

A Valentine’s visit to the New York zoos proves that romance really is all around us. As Cole Porter put it, “It is nature, that is all, simply telling us to fall in love.”

Gibbon mom Christine, AKA “Kicks,” seems fond of her new mate Milton, first-time father to this little one. Visit the happy family in the Bronx Zoo's JungleWorld exhibit.Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS

After a period apart, chinstrap penguins greet their mates with both loud cackles and soft humming sounds, swaying and bowing their heads towards each other. Meet our colony at the Central Park Zoo.Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS

Trumpeter swans form pair bonds and often mate for life. Pairs, including this one at the Queens Zoo's marsh, stay together throughout the year.Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS

The fastest way to a cat's heart may be through its stomach. This wrapped gift, enrichment for the Queens Zoo's Canadian lynx, is packed with a meaty treat.Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS

Birds do it, bees do it, and so do tomato frogs. Males make mating calls to attract females, which lay clutches of eggs that can number in the thousands. These Madagascar natives reside at both the Bronx and Prospect Park Zoos.Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS

Grooming is an important ritual for Hamadryas baboons, in the wild and at the Prospect Park Zoo. These primates also offer reassuring touches and embraces to maintain group bonds.Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS

"Cheat, Play, Love" Premieres Tonight January 15th, 2013

Fans of the ABC Family series The Lying Game will be able to watch and enjoy an all new episode tonight at 9pm entitled "Cheat, Play, Love". In this all new episode, Emma is shocked by a Rybak family revelation and Sutton makes her feelings for Ethan known.

More about tonight's all new episode, Sutton steps up her plans to win back Ethan, and makes a point to let Emma know her intentions. Feeling left out of Emma and Thayer's growing closeness, Mads visits her father in prison and shocks Emma with a family revelation. Dan continues his investigation into Derek's murder, regardless of Alec's arrest, and Jordan starts at his new school and tries to get close to Laurel.

"The Lying Game" is produced by Alloy Entertainment in association with Warner Horizon Television, and is executive produced by Charles Pratt Jr., Leslie Morganstein, Gina Girolamo, and Fred Gerber. The series cast includes Alexandra Chando, Andy Buckley, Allie Gonino, Alice Greczyn, Blair Redford, Charisma Carpenter, and Helen Slater, with guest star Adrian Pasdar. Guest stars in "Cheat, Play, Love" include Christian Alexander, Tyler Christopher, Ryan Rottman, and Yara Martinez.

Photographs are credited to ABC Family.