A UK zoo has welcomed three baby primates including a pair of critically endangered twin monkeys.
Zookeepers at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire are celebrating the birth of a coppery titi monkey and two cotton-top tamarin monkeys.
The primates’ arrivals are part of conservation efforts by the 100-acre zoo to help save the animals from extinction.
In the adorable photographs, the infants can be seen clinging on tightly to their parents.
One picture shows a baby coppery titi monkey nestling in its mother’s thick fur as it sleeps.
The monkey’s mother, Sirena, was also born at Twycross Zoo in 2010 making the birth ‘exceptionally special’.
In another picture,
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