Critically endangered cotton-top tamarin arrives at Marwell Zoo
The zoo is asking for help to name him
Marwell Zoo is celebrating the birth of a critically endangered cotton-top tamarin.
The new addition, who has been confirmed as male, joins older siblings, Puglsey and Pubert, born in May last year, and mother and father Gurt and Mico.
To make the arrival even more special, keepers are inviting people to help choose his name via their Facebook page.
They have decided to continue using The Addams Family names so the options to vote for are Fester, Lurch and Gomez.
Whilst he waits for the perfect name, his family will take turns carrying the new arrival, who will cling to the fur on their backs and tummy areas before becoming fully independent at around five months old.
Big brother Pugsley has already been seen taking the new edition out to play and teaching him how to forage for food.
Amy Deny, animal team leader at Marwell Zoo, said: "Cotton-top tamarins are native to Columbia and are critically endangered, with only around 2000 individuals left in the wild.
"They are threatened in the wild by residential and agriculture development and the pet trade.
"This is a really exciting time for our troop at Marwell as this is the second time our pair have reproduced.
"Mico and Gurt play an important role in the EAZA ex-situ programme, ensuring a healthy population of tamarins exist in human care to conserve the species."
In the wild, cotton-headed tamarins live in humid forests where they are able to leap from tree trunk to tree trunk using their claw like nails to grip onto bark.
When resting or sleeping they coil their tails over one shoulder and along their back and they communicate with each other through contact calls.
Cotton-top tamarins are named because of the long tufts of white fur on the top of their heads. They eat fruit, flowers, nectar and small prey such as frogs, snails and insects.