Trumpeting welcome for Dublin Zoo’s baby elephant

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.

Cameras in the elephant enclosure show expectant mother Asha going through labour after a 22-month gestation surrounded by her herd.

CCTV captured the calf, Zinda, being born on the sand to her mother before an extraordinary welcome was given by the excited herd who circled around her.