Jersey Zoo has welcomed a record-breaking 18 critically endangered Livingstone's fruit bat pups into the world.
It is estimated the island is home to around 7% of the world's total population of the species, with only a thousand left in the wild.
They are on the edge of extinction due to deforestation on the Anjouan and Mohéli islands of the Comoros in the Indian Ocean, the only place they are naturally found.
Each pup born in captivity here is crucial for the survival of the fruit bats.
The Zoo acts as a safety net population to prevent genetic diversity loss and first arrived at Durrell in 1992.
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