It was a textbook birth but there was no expectant father pacing around — because he wasn’t there.

More than 1m people visited Dublin Zoo last year — an all-time high for the attraction.

Last year saw a record-breaking number of visitors to Dublin Zoo.

THE Royal Irish Academy’s journal Biology and Environment doesn’t carry detective stories but there’s a fascinating one in its current edition.

Dublin Zoo has today unveiled its first adult bull elephant in 100 years.

DUBLIN Zoo is celebrating a bumper year with a record one million visitors in 2011.

IT’S a sentiment which another Harry, the regal male gorilla at Dublin Zoo, would no doubt endorse.

AN interactive and interpretive farm is being developed in Dublin Zoo to highlight the work of the land and how it is the source of wholesome food.

THE only remaining sign of the Celtic Tiger these days can be found at Dublin Zoo, where two Sumatran cubs born on May 29 to mother Sigra were officially introduced by the zoo yesterday.

DUBLIN Zoo is famous for its lions.

DUBLIN ZOO is inviting the public to come up with a name for its newest attraction — a nine-day-old giraffe.

The pitter patter of tiny spotted feet was heard at Dublin Zoo today when a Brazilian Tapir calf made his first appearance.

Richard Collins looks at the role zoos play in saving the orang-utans.

Six tiny rare piglets are among the attractions set to pull in the crowds for Dublin Zoo's first-ever harvest festival this weekend.

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.

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.

AGRI Aware, the farming and food education body, yesterday donated a three-year-old pedigree Friesian milking cow to Dublin Zoo.

VISITOR numbers at Dublin Zoo surged 10% to a new record of more than 770,000 last year.

Dublin Zoo today revealed its newest arrivals: three female Sumatran tiger cubs, one of the world's most endangered species.

Dublin Zoo was so fed up by the mood swings of its female polar bear that it commissioned a study to find out what was wrong – and discovered that her male companion was stressing her out.

Two bears are being given treatment for psychological problems at Dublin Zoo.