“The parents are doing a fantastic job again, with Zinder proving to be a particularly attentive dad. We’ve seen him filling up his mouth with food and then racing back to deliver it to the kit,” said Deb.

One thing that makes the Fennec Fox stand out from the crowd is the animal’s huge ‘Dumbo-like’ ears.

“The Fennec Fox has enormous bat-like ears that appear to be on loan from a much larger relative,” the zoo said in a release.

“These ears can grow to more than 15 centimetres in length and help the foxes to dissipate heat and keep cool in the desert sun of northern Africa.”