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Updated: 9.30 am
DUBLIN ZOO’S YOUNGEST rhino, Jabari, will meet his father, Chaka, for the first time on RTÉ’s The Zoo this evening.
Helen Clarke-Benett, team leader from the African Plains in Dublin Zoo, said the introduction between Jabari and Chaka “couldn’t have gone better”.
Jabari tried to mock fight with his father, but Chaka was unfazed by this and was very placid and relaxed with the youngster.
Jabari met his father when he was just four weeks old.
He is almost one year old now and has “settled nicely into the herd and likes to play and mock spar with the other rhinos”.
A spokesperson for Dublin Zoo said it’s customary for rhino calves to be kept away from their fathers for a few weeks so they can “build up strength and get used to the surroundings with their mothers”.
The above footage was filmed last year and shows Jabari with his mother.
Source: YouTube/zootvseries
Source: YouTube/zootvseries
The meeting with his dad will be shown in full on The Zoo on RTÉ 1 at 7 pm this evening.
Originally published: 7.30 am
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Good news for Limerick. A good range of jobs too. This is what the government are busy doing getting businesses to invest in Ireland while the media only want to report ‘scandals’. Good news never makes the headlines unfortunately.
140 new jobs over the next three years!! I won’t pop the champagne just yet.
Sound like good jobs and if every big business added 140 jobs it’d add up pretty fast…. probably not as good as your “work from home” jobs though…
Are these “New” jobs or are they contractors being made permanent?
Red thumb as much as you like but it’s a pertinent question. I’ve heard of a big announcement recently in Limerick for 90 new jobs but the reality was the jobs were already filled by existing contractors
I agree, it’s a valid question to ask. It doesn’t necessarily mean that 140 unemployed people will be filling new positions over 3 years.
That’s very true Shane there really wasn’t any ” new” jobs at all .
Those jobs should really be moved to Dublin
Why
Because he is a troll and there always right
Here, there, everywhere.
Troll.
The cost of locating them in Dublin is too high.
It’s a good news and not a bad news story.
Nice stock image of the place too from the Clare hills.
There is a big movement against IW going on in this country that the media does not wish to report on, Instead they make satire articles of the issue.
People should not return any phising packs to IW, don’t engage with them, don’t hand any info over to them. There is very little they can do to force you to pay. They will be swamped in so much paper it will keep them busy till next xmas
Irish water will find it very easy to make people pay. It may take till next Christmas but you’ll still pay.
You can oppose Irish water but don’t let some poor eejits get in to a mountain of debt by doing so.
How many of these are allocated for job bridge?
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