A red panda cub has finally met staff at a wildlife park two months after he was born.

Kush arrived at the start of June to two-year-old parents Kitty and Kevyn at Highland Wildlife Park near Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands.

When they are born, red panda cubs are very small and blind so rely on their mother for protection for around three months.

Staff at the park said mother Kitty was taking great care of Kush and they were only able to give him his first check-up this week.

Keepers were able to establish that he is male and said they are pleased with his progress.

Kush is the first red panda cub born at the park and the first to be born at a Royal Zoological Society of Scotland site in 13 years.

Kitty and Kevyn were brought to the park last year, with the female arriving in May from Berlin Tierpark and the male coming two months later from Aalborg Zoo, Denmark.

Douglas Richardson, head of living collections at Highland Wildlife Park said: "Kush's current preoccupation is eating and sleeping, mainly the latter, and he was fairly affronted when we interrupted his afternoon nap to give him his initial examination.

"There was a little bit of growling and barking and trying to appear big and dangerous when we were examining him but it was a little difficult to take something that cute and fluffy seriously."

A fully grown red panda is a bushy-tailed mammal the size of a dog, which scientists believe is related to raccoons and skunks, rather than the giant panda. They typically live in the forests of south-western China, the Himalayas and Nepal and are solitary in the wild, unless mating.

Keepers at the Highland park say the trio will remain out of the public eye for the next few weeks.