Ellie the emu is quite determined that zookeeper Mark Walters is her father.

The month-old bird was rejected by her parents when she was an egg and when she finally hatched, the first thing she saw was Mr Walters - and that was it.

Daddy's girl: Ellie the baby emu has bonded so well with keeper Mark Walters she thinks he is her father

The odd father-daughter pairing began when Mr Walters found an egg laying abandoned in the emu pen at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm in Bristol.

He decided he would try to hatch it himself and took the egg home, where he kept it in an incubator for 53 days until Ellie was born on May 15.

How it all began: Mr Walters holds the egg from which Ellie was born. He took it home and incubated it because her parents rejected it

Family dinner: Mr Walters feeds Ellie at her home in Noah's Ark Zoo Farm near Bristol