Dudley Zoo are asking half term visitors to suggest bush dog pup names for their new arrivals.

Zoo Manager Matt Lewis, said: “The pups are getting more active and adventurous and are now starting to investigate their outside habitat and its outdoor burrows and tunnels, alongside mum Dora and dad Twenké.

“Both adults are doing really well as first-time parents and inside den cameras are showing them regularly curled up together with their babies snuggled in-between.”

Zoo bosses are now asking half term visitors to submit names for one of the yet unsexed pups, by filling in a suggestion slip in the Safari Shop, with keepers choosing their favourite after the school holidays.

Listed as Near Threatened on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List, bush dogs are threatened by habitat loss in their native South America.

A very social species, bush dogs can live in family groups of up to 12 members, with an alpha breeding pair heading the pack.

Other half term event taking place at the zoo include a display of tarantulas, a bat trail around the zoo site, an extended talks programme about some of the 40-acre site’s rarest and scariest animals, plus a ghost and history talk about the 11th century Dudley Castle, reported to be one of the most haunted venues in the country.