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Dublin Zoo welcomes Aung Bo, its first bull elephant with tusks

Dublin Zoo has welcomed Aung Bo, its first bull elephant with tusks, from Chester Zoo in England. Aung Bo is 22 years old and weighs almost five tonnes and is three metres tall. Aung Bo joins an all-female herd at Dublin Zoo – Dina (40 years), Asha (17 years), Samiya (10 years), Zinda (8 years), […]

San Diego Zoo celebrates birth of endangered Baird’s tapir

June 25 (UPI) — The San Diego Zoo announced the birth of a female Baird’s tapir, an endangered animal native to Mexico and Central America. The zoo said the calf, born June 3 to mother Luna, is now on display alongside the facility’s capybaras in an enclosure located in the Elephant Odyssey section of the […]

Wolves attack and seriously injure woman at zoo

Police and prosecutors were investigating how a 37-year-old woman came to be attacked and seriously injured by three wolves in a zoo outside Paris Sunday. The woman was bitten “on the neck, the calf and the back” at the Thoiry zoo around 25 miles west of the French capital, a source close to the case […]

Maxi Zoo Ireland to open ninth store in Dublin

Maxi Zoo, Ireland’s largest speciality pet retailer, is to open its ninth store in Dublin. The premises at Nutgrove Shopping Centre will boast a vast array of products and brings to 33 the number of Maxi Zoo outlets in the country. A weekend of celebrations is planned at the new Dublin store from Friday, July […]