Shaldon Wildlife Trust is delighted to announce the births of the following animals in the last couple months:

Our Yellow breasted capuchin monkey’s, Kizzy and Borba, had their second youngster, their first baby, named Mini B, had just reached his first birthday when his sibling came along. These animals are critically endangered and are one of the top 25 most endangered primates in the world.

Our Brazilian Pied tamarin twins were born in July. Pied tamarins are the rarest primate in the Amazon and notoriously difficult to breed in captivity so we were especially thrilled with this second birth.

A golden-headed lion tamarin baby was born in June, this baby joins a juvenile sibling in the family group. These endangered tamarins have just 2% of their original habitat remaining in Brazil.

Twin emperor tamarin’s were born to Mao Mao and Tasha and these are proving to be very mischievous youngsters!

And as for the Meerkat’s well ........ triplets followed by quads followed by twins!

The Trust has a long history of successes with breeding endangered species and research has shown that Shaldon has the fourth most important collection of critically endangered primates of any zoo in the UK which shows just how unique the Trust is.

With all these youngsters we would welcome suggestions for names.

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