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manchestereveningnews.co.ukChester Zoo has welcomed a rare baby pig, just in time for Christmas. Keepers at the zoo are celebrating the arrival of a male Visayan warty piglet.
The baby, who is yet to be named, arrived to nine-year-old mum Gwen and 10-year-old dad Tre on November 16, who are both named after famous musicians due to their 'punk rock' hairstyles.
The Cheshire zoo now has a family of five of the special pigs, which the zoo says are some of the rarest wild pigs on the planet.
It is believed that only around 200 of them now remain in the wild. The forest-dwelling species is listed as critically endangered by the International Union of Conservation for Nature (IUCN) and has suffered a drastic population decline in the wild.
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