DUDLEY Zoo is celebrating a bundle of spring babies.
The latest additions to the 1,600-strong collection have all been born within the last 10 days.
The baby boom kicked off on St George’s Day when a yellow-breasted capuchin was born to mum Dinya and dad Willow (pictured below).
A tiny black lemur appeared in the Lemur Wood walkthrough exhibit the next day (April 24) and is still clinging tightly to mum Barbara’s tummy.
This is the second black lemur baby born at the zoo in the last 12 months as Barbara and dad Bryan had a little girl, Kimmy, on May 15 last year.
Visitor Kelly Daly saw a Barbary lamb being born on April 30, capturing the below picture shortly after the birth, adding that she felt "very lucky" to have been there at the time.
Finally, in the Castle Creatures exhibit two Seba’s short-tailed bat mums have each had a baby.
Curator Richard Brown said: “We’re delighted to announce all our recent arrivals and are very pleased to say mums and babies are all doing well.
“It’s a very exciting time and our dedicated keepers do a brilliant job of looking after some of the world’s rarest animals.”
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