HALF-TERM visitors to Dudley Zoo and Castle are invited to suggest names for one of its new bush dog pups.

The attraction’s four newest arrivals, who are almost nine weeks old are now starting to make regular appearances outside, delighting visitors and staff with their playful antics.

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 set to choose their favourite after the school holiday.

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

The zoo is also hosting a display of tarantulas, a bat trail and an extended programme of talks about its rarest and scariest animals this half term, plus a ghost and history talk about the 11th century Dudley Castle - reputedly one of the most haunted venues in the country.