A red squirrel at a conservation centre in Norfolk has stunned wardens by producing her 48th kitten in six years, despite having lost her first partner.
The seven-year-old, part of the East Anglian Red Squirrel Group (EARSG) at Pensthorpe, has given birth to three kittens in her first litter of 2014.
Wardens feared the squirrel, know as Tortoiseshell, would never breed again when her partner died two years ago.
Chrissie Kelley from EARSG said she is a "wonder-mum" doing a "fantastic job".
Tortoiseshell and her former partner Tweedledum were considered one of the most successful breeding pairs in the Pensthorpe Conservation Trust's history.
When he died in 2012 there was concern she might never breed again.
Her latest litter, which is beginning to venture from the drey, has two males and one female.
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