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WHAT ARE SOME of your favourite ways to cool down? A refreshing ice pop? Maybe a dip in the pool?
Or how about a frozen slab of horse meat?
These are just some of the methods the keepers at Dublin Zoo use to keep the residents there cool and content.
We popped in to meet Gerry Creighton, operations manager for animals and grounds, and see first-hand how the tigers, elephants, and orangutans stay cool.
Watch the full report above.
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I think if the animals are fit and healthy they should be in there own habitat instead of being locked up for committing no crime..I bet the Animals would love to splash around in a river and drink the water instead of some warder giving them water from a dirty hose.
@Kevin Dempsey: I think it might be dangerous to release them into the Phoenix Park though, tigers eating joggers, lions eating sunbathers, monkeys damaging cars etc.
@Tony Donoghue: that’s OK, it’s north side
@Tony Donoghue: or junkies asking giraffes for 50 cent
@Deaglan Macgiollaphadraig: maybe the Pope could take 2 of each in his Popemobile when he visits park
@Acedeuce: An article about the zoo and you bring up junkies? There’s always one.
@Acedeuce: Need courage to beg from a giraffe, would take some neck
@Kevin Dempsey: I’d rather be in Dublin and safe than in Kenya where I run the risk of being shot with a machine gun and having my tusks yanked out while still alive.
@Gary: Consider yourself lucky. We got this far without “WHAT ABOUT THE HOMELESS?” Comments.
@Kevin Dempsey: you are naive
@Deaglan Macgiollaphadraig: only a culchie would come out with thus sort of dopey comment
@sean o’dhubhghaill: you have tusks Sean. Wow!
@Kevin Dempsey: dirty hose.
@Kevin Dempsey: you have no idea what you’re talking about. IDIOT! ONE of the best zoo’s in the world. with a fantastic breeding programme Helping endangoured species around the world. All the animals in Dublin live in fantastic and large surroundings. So do your research before you comment
@Kevin Dempsey: you don’t know what you are talking about. The animals in Dublin live in fantastic surroundings. Dublin zoo has a fantastic breeding programme Helping endangered species around the world.
@Kevin Dempsey: you have no idea what you’re talking about. Dublin zoo has a fantastic breeding programme Helping endangered species around the world . All the animals in Dublin live in fantastic surroundings. So do you’re research before you comment. IDIOT!
@Mark Bennett: You are brainwashed
The zoo has changed dramatically over the last decade or so. As have most zoos around the world. Conservation, research and protection of animals is the aim now. Well done Dublin Zoo.
Animal cruelty. The journal now exploits the animals publishing this piece.
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