The Highland Wildlife Park is making room for some new arrivals from Edinburgh Zoo.

A family group of breeding Japanese serow, which is related to both the mountain goat and antelope, are to be established at the popular attraction by Kincraig.

These animals are found in the conifer forests in the highlands of Japan, where humans encroaching on their habitat and the popularity of hunting have made them an endangered species.

The Japanese Government intervened and has placed the serow on the international endangered animal register to protect them.

Doug Richardson, head of animal collections at Kincraig, told the Strathspey and Badenoch Herald: "We will be putting the serow in with the Macaque monkeys.

"It will be a very interesting combination, and one that is not foreign to them in the wild."

The average height of a Japanese serow is 40 inches, it is said to most closely resemble the Rocky Mountain Goat.

They have small curved horns which they use to dig out food from the forest floor in the winter but during the rest of the year they eat acorns, herbs, shoots and leaves.