IT’S believed the lion that roars at the start of Metro Goldwyn Meyer films was born in Dublin Zoo.

RODENT lovers are over the moon – beavers are breeding again in Scotland.

IN An Enemy of the People, a village doctor discovers that the waters of the health spa are contaminated.

THE headline in the Dublin People declared “Locals Battle A Plague Of Rats”.

CUCKOOS, the first of the migrant birds to leave our shores in the Autumn, are packing their bags.

I WROTE last week about the battle of the sexes among phalaropes, little wading birds which used to breed in Ireland.

ACCORDING to ornithologist Eric Dempsey, three red-necked phalaropes visited a site in the midlands this summer.

BEE numbers are falling; honey producers, fruit-growers and farmers, all over the world, are worried.

THE corncrake, as everyone knows, is in trouble. Once common, this noisy little relative of the water-hen kept people awake at night with its rhythmic rasping.

STUDENTS sitting this year’s Leaving Certificate biology exam were asked: “Herbivores in an eco-system normally live longer lives – true or false?”.