Go behind the scenes at Dublin's Phoenix Park zoo and get closer to the animals and its zookeepers. Set in 70 acres, The Zoo welcomes nearly a million visitors a year and is home to more than 600 exotic animals,
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Episode 1
Jenny the Giraffe has some painful abnormal growth in her hooves and the zoo staff needs to operate urgently. At the start of the zoo welcomed its two newest arrivals into the world, a pair of Sumatran Tiger cubs.
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Episode 2
On his morning rounds Zookeeper James Creigthon notices that Mayani the gorilla seems to be in a lot of pain and on closer inspection it turns out she's got a major problem with her teeth.
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Episode 3
It's a big day in the African Plains. Last summer, the birth of a white rhino calf at the Zoo was the first event of its kind in fourteen years. Team leader, Helen Clarke Bennett has been hoping for a repeat performance
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Episode 4
Dublin Zoo's large troop of Sulawesi Crested Macaques has been a single sex colony for quite some time, and the females are getting restless. But the Zoo thinks it may have found the perfect male to join their troop.
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Episode 5
The zoo checks in on it's white rhinos to see if they have breeding potential, meanwhile, the Sumatran tiger continues to receive care.
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Episode 6
Plans are in place to move the Gorillas from their old habitat to a new one on the other side of the Zoo, but for now, the old place is going to get one last radical overhaul.
Tom Dunne
Shane Brennan
Brian Walsh
John Higgins
