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A year of cuteness - 2017 at Chester Zoo in pictures
See the best of this year's animals at the world famous zoo
Playful capybaras enjoy water fight doing the sunny weather (Image: Chester Zoo)1 of 15 
Black jaguar Goshi enjoying her pumpkin ahead of Halloween (Image: PA)2 of 15 
Kitani with her new calf which was one of two rare rhinos born within days of each other at the zoo (Image: PA)3 of 15 ![]()
One-week-old Rothschild's giraffe calf named Narus with her mum (Image: PA)4 of 15 ![]()
Mummy orangutan Sarikei holds onto her new baby (Image: PA)5 of 15 ![]()
Baby Sulawesi crested macaque, named Amidala, born to mum Lisa and dad Mamassa at the attraction (Image: PA)6 of 15 ![]()
Cameroon two-horned mountain chameleons with lead herpetology keeper Adam Bland (Image: PA)7 of 15 ![]()
Thanos, a tiny orphaned antelope which is being hand-reared by keepers at the zoo (Image: PA)8 of 15 ![]()
A male elephant calf that was born at the attraction (Image: PA)9 of 15 ![]()
Twin baby pygmy marmosets, the world's smallest species of monkey, perching on their dad Gumi's back in their enclosure at Chester Zoo (Image: PA)10 of 15 ![]()
The late Pedro the giant anteater who stared on C4's The Secret Life of the Zoo. Sadly Pedro died following an operation to remove cowpox from his tongue which had rendered him unable to eat. (Image: Chester Zoo)11 of 15 ![]()
Rare miniature wallabies Kai and Aru (Image: PA)12 of 15 ![]()
A Lowland Streaked Tenrec, which are striped like a bee and have spines like a hedgehog (Image: PA)13 of 15 ![]()
The first Andean bear cub to be born in Britain (Image: PA)14 of 15 ![]()
One of four rare ploughshare tortoises who were rescued from smugglers (Image: PA)15 of 15
