Where did the Spore designers get their inspiration?

The other day I came across a blog where photos of newborn animals are laid out , which are born in zoos around the world. Opened and ... I saw in fact one in one creation, which I had long raised in Spore :


aardvark

Under the cut pictures of a few more cubs. It's worth it!
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Gibbon Cub


Newborn Armodil (battleship)


monkey tamarin


fennec (fox such)


sifaka monkey