This little creature is the latest addition to a huge menagerie of animals collected by Stephen Rowlands and his helpers at Tropical Inc.
The Oldbury not-for-profit organisation specialises in caring for and re-homing unusual creatures abandoned or unwanted in the West Midlands.
It also hosts interactive talks for children, grown-ups and educational groups.
Stephen, aged 26, has been studying animals all his academic life and trained as a specialist in reptiles.
The group has just taken on a baby albino wallaby, Millie, which Stephen has to keep with him 24 hours a day.
“The wallaby is lovely and follows you around like a dog. We keep him in a sack a lot of the time because he would normally still be in his mother’s pouch.
“I take him shopping with me to Tesco, and when he pops his head out of the bag, because he’s white, people think he’s a big rabbit.”
He said Baby the bush baby was also a new addition after he was given to Tropical Inc by a London couple who split up and could no longer look after him.
Tropical Inc is currently looking after about 50 animals including parrots, skunks, meerkats, snakes and lizards, many of which appear in the educational shows.
“We do things all over the country for parties as well as schools and colleges,” Stephen said.
“I’ve even taken the animals to demonstrate to young offenders. We show animals behaving in a natural way as they do in the wild, which makes for some fun.”
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