Episode Four

This week:

Dublin Zoo recently reworked the habitat of its 14-strong colony of Humboldt Penguins to more closely resemble their native habitat, the sandy beaches of coastal Peru and Chile. Zookeeper and avian expert Peter Phillips joins them as they take their first steps into their new home....

The Little Tern nests on certain beaches along the Irish coast, leaving their chicks and their eggs vulnerable to a number of dangers, from walkers and their dogs to a number of natural predators. We join zookeeper and avian expert Peter Phillips on site with the Louth Nature Trust, one of the Zoos supported conservation projects, as they battle to conserve one of Ireland’s most endangered wild birds….

Ciaran MacMahon has been noticing Dublin Zoo’s Wolf pack have been acting a little strangely and on further investigation he unearths an incredible discovery; a network of mysterious tunnels leading deep under the ground, dangerously close to the perimeter fence…

Gerry Creighton notices a mysterious lump on the breast of one of Dublin Zoo’s Siamang Gibbons and is determined to find out if it poses a risk to her health. One quick sedation later and a tissue sample from the gibbon’s chest arrives at UCD veterinary hospital ready for analysis. But what will it show?...