Dublin Zoo's Wild Lights event has been cancelled tonight following a consultation from Met Eireann about the forecasted winds.

The Pope’s visit and extreme weather last year contributed to profits tumbling at the company that operates Dublin Zoo and Fota Wildlife Park.

Zoos may be required to provide inspectors with copies of inventories showing how many animals died in their care from next year, following a move by Tayto Park that kept the information out of the public domain.

The new arrival is the second baby gorilla born in the zoo this year.

There will be loads of activities taking place from 12-4pm this weekend, including arts and crafts, face painting and keeper talks.

Dublin Zoo has introduced contingency plans for animal escapes in adverse weather conditions after three monkeys broke out of their enclosure when a roof was damaged during Storm Ophelia.

Here's your morning bulletin.

Dublin Zoo has blamed Pope Francis for causing a drop of almost 100,000 in visitor numbers this year.

Dublin Zoo is celebrating the autumn months with a very special offer.

The heart-warming moment that a whole family of trumpeting elephants at Dublin Zoo help an expectant mother to give birth to her female calf has been captured on RTÉ’s hugely popular The Zoo series.

Gardaí are to seek money laundering and theft charges against four members of an organised crime gang involved in defrauding two organisations of more than €750,000.

Just a week after they celebrated the birth of a male Asian calf.

The new arrival is Anak’s second calf and the seventh elephant calf born at Dublin Zoo in less than four years.

Dublin Zoo has confirmed that a daring group of monkeys escaped from their enclosure as Storm Ophelia was battering the country last October.

Dublin Zoo has confirmed it has fallen victim to a cyber-scam that reportedly resulted in the theft of up to €500,000.

The newest member of the herd now joins Sam, Reni, Chaka, Zanta, Nyala, Ashanti and Zuko!

This little one is her third calf and the fifth elephant born at Dublin Zoo in less than three years.

A baby eastern bongo calf has been born at Dublin Zoo.

Experimental Fun

Dublin Zoo has launched an inquiry after a young boy was photographed inside a rhino enclosure.

This week’s online and in the shops.

On Wednesday Dublin Zoo will open a brand new orang-tan enclosure, a new €3m forest home that will replicate their natural habitat in Borneo. Still a construction site, Rowena Walsh wears her hard hat and goes behind the scenes to take a look.

Bye, Harry.

The lead gorilla at Dublin Zoo, Harry, has died.

THE current edition of Zoo Matters has an interesting item on ostriches. Dublin Zoo’s cock and six hens share a communal nest each year, as is the custom with these flightless birds. Ostriches are used to a warm climate. 

Life, is ‘poor nasty brutish and short’ said Thomas Hobbes. Certainly, it’s no bed of roses. Natural selection should have equipped us to deal with fear and anxiety, but has it?

The baby boom at Dublin Zoo last year contributed to increased profits arising from the record number of visitors paying to see the new animals.

Credit unions, the National Concert Hall, one of the German retail discounters, a savings bank, An Post, and Penneys are the among the companies and brands that score best in delivering satisfaction to Irish customers, a major survey has found.

HAINAN Island, which I visited a few years ago, is a crowded place, writes Richard Collins

The agriculture minister believes the State should provide financial support for ambitious expansion plans at Fota Wildlife Park in Cork.

A lumbering giant will today be unveiled as the newest attraction at Cork’s top tourist draw.

THE YEAR of the Goat began on Thursday.

€5,000 payment to charities after normally docile animal mauls toddler in supervised ‘close encounter’

The spend by Fota Island Wildlife Park and Dublin Zoo on meat, veg, and plants for their lions, gorillas, and other animals soared by 30% last year to €810,000.

A team of Irish medics at Temple Street Hospital have revealed the horrific injuries sustained by a two-and-a-half-year-old girl following a Brazilian tapir attack at Dublin Zoo.

Dublin Zoo has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations after a two-year-old girl was mauled by a "chilled-out" Brazilian tapir which suddenly went on the attack.

Dublin Zoo has agreed to donate €5,000 to charity in lieu of a conviction over a tapir attack on a toddler and her mother.

Dublin Zoo's new elephant calf has been caught on night camera by the zoo snuggling up to mammy to get a good night's sleep.

Dublin Zoo is facing criminal proceedings after a two-year-old girl and her mother were attacked and injured during a supervised “close encounter” with a Brazilian tapir.

It's a girl! Finally...

Ah sure, would ya look.

THERE’S good news on the wildlife front; BirdWatch Ireland has announced that terns nested very successfully on the east coast this summer. The numbers breeding ‘are at an all-time high’, says tern expert Dr Steve Newton.