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.

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The baby boom continues at Dublin Zoo as a second Asian elephant to be born in the last six weeks arrived on Tuesday.

Giraffes, lions, monkeys, elephants - it's a baby boom!

He's a cutie.

DUBLIN Zoo yesterday announced major plans for a new Gorilla Rainforest, which is to be built at a cost of €2 million.

AN 11-year-old boy has come up with an exotic and apt name for Dublin Zoo’s two-month-old Asian elephant.

An 11-year-old boy has come up with an exotic and apt name for Dublin Zoo’s two-month-old Asian elephant.

A ZOO’S not-so-little latest arrival made his first public appearance yesterday.

THE extraordinary transformation of Dublin Zoo, which began in 1994, continues apace. Last year saw the completion of the new state-of-the-art Asian elephant facility. Now, a landmark building is being restored.

An Irish scientist who developed a 19th Century system of hanging criminals will lend his name to a new viewing balcony at Dublin Zoo.

There were jumbo celebrations in Dublin Zoo today as its first baby elephant was officially named.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today trumpeted a new rainforest home for Dublin Zoo’s elephants before packing his trunk for his 11-week Dáil holidays.

Elephants will today make their first appearance at Dublin Zoo for almost two years when a spectacular rainforest enclosure is opened.