A mum has celebrated each of her four pregnancies with a host of wacky stunts - including acrobatics, aerial contortion, pole-dancing and risque photo shoots. Sara Joel, 45, from Long Island in New York, began performing the stunts whilst pregnant with her first child - son Desmond, now nine. Since then, the professional dancer and former Cirque du Soleil performer has celebrated each of her pregnancies with a wacky performance.
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A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
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This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
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IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
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