Beag the marmoset – the tiniest triplet of a tiny litter born to the tiniest primate species at Dublin Zoo – gets a night feed from keeper Susan O’Brien.
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From tonight’s episode of The Zoo, RTE1, 7.00.
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Dublin Zoo team leader Helen Clarke Bennett and Kasi, the white-crowned mangabey she’s been hand-rearing for several weeks.
From tonight’s episode of The Zoo, 7pm RTÉ1
Kituba (and his Ma), yesterday.
He’s one tomorrow.
Get thee to Dublin Zoo.
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The Zoo returns to RTE tonight, featuring, among other things, the story of Kasi the baby mangabey monkey, hand reared by team leader Helen Clarke-Bennett.
Previously: The Zoo: Busier Than Holles Street In September
That’s where Adam Ant got the idea from.
From Dublin Zoo:
Dublin Zoo is celebrating the birth of a Bongo calf The female calf, born to parents Kimba and Sam, weighed 20kgs.
This is a particularly significant birth for Dublin Zoo as the young female provides an important boost to the international breeding programme for this highly endangered species. Only between 75 and 140 eastern bongos exist in the wild.
Team leader Helen Clarke-Bennett, said, “We are thrilled with the arrival of the bongo calf. There is so few of them left in the wild that successful breeding is essential to the survival of this beautiful species.
“The youngster is fit but still quite shy; she has big ears which look out of proportion on her small body but she will grow into them. She is already showing signs of liking spinach which also a favourite snack of both her mother and grandmother.”
At the zoo’s Family Farm. Rosie the pig gave birth to her second litter: 10 mind-alteringly cute piglets, including two “runts” (above).
Eddie O’Brien, team leader at Family Farm, a joint partnership between Dublin Zoo and Agri Aware said:
“The piglets are full of beans and can be seen running around chasing after each other in their pen. We are keeping a close eye on two little runts in the litter, just to make sure they are getting an equal share of the food.”
Meanwhile, over at the cow area, say hello to Bella’s as yet unnamed second calf. Ratcheting up the squee to 11:
(Patrick Bolger)
We shit you not.