Visitors to the West Midland Safari Park this summer will be able to feast their eyes on a little gem.
Pearl the Zebra is showing off the latest addition to her family - a four-week-old foal called Gem.
Gem joins the herd of 10 zebras at the park, near Bewdley, all of which have been born and bred there.
The new-born foals live outside on view to the public.
Meanwhile Bambi the Formosan Sika Deer had a shakier start in life. Abandoned by her mother, she is being hand-reared.
One of the keepers helping six-week-old Bambi is 23-year-old Becky Wardle, of Claines, Worcester.
Head warden at the park Bob Lawrence said another zebra was due to give birth any day now.
"The new-born animals are always a popular attraction," he said. "Anything soft and cuddly goes down well with the crowds. There are new additions being born most weeks, but zebras are particularly pretty when they are born."
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