Yorkshire Wildlife Park has celebrated the birth of a cute monkey. Mum Feven and dad Obi welcomed their new baby on March 23 – a ground-breaking moment in the breeding of the Gelada species.

Yorkshire Wildlife Park celebrates birth of new baby gelada monkey
Staff at Yorkshire Wildlife Park are celebrating after a baby gelada monkey named Kobo was born this week - only the second of its breed to be born at the park.

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