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Twycross Zoo is giving free admission to people with red hair tomorrow to celebrate World Orangutan Day.

Ginger-haired visitors will be able to enter the Leicestershire zoo for free as part of a global celebration of the ginger primate.

Admissions staff will be issued with a colour chart to judge whether people's hair is indeed the right colour to qualify.

It's the third year that the zoo has given free entry to ginger-haired people.

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Tomorrow's event aims to raise awareness of the plight of the creatures in the wild as their natural habit is lost to palm plantations.

Twycross Zoo has five Bornean orangutans and is one of only two zoos in the world to have welcomed two orangutan babies in the past year. The oldest of the group, 40-year-old Kibriah, gave birth to the youngest group member, Kayan, in June 2017. The older baby, Basuki, was born in March.

In a statement, the zoo said: "IT’S BACK!!

"In honour of our red-haired ape friends and to coincide with World Orangutan Day, we are letting everyone who has red hair into Twycross Zoo for FREE on Saturday August 19.

"'RED HEADS' = this is head on the top of your head: natural red hair, died red hair or red wigs. NOT red beards or other red facial hair."

Staff at the ticket booths will be issued with a special Twycross Zoo red-headed colour scale to check visitors are not trying to pull a fast one.

Twycross Zoo recently welcomed snow leopard twins , who made their first public appearance on July 12 at the zoo's Himalaya Centre.

Visitors are asked to leave extra time to get to Twycross Zoo tomorrow. The zoo opens from 10am.