DUBLIN ZOO HAS enjoyed the pitter-patter of tiny (and not so tiny) feet throughout 2012 with the arrival of creatures great and small.
Early additions to the Zoo’s enclosures included the birth of a 10-strong litter of (very energetic) Tamworth piglets, while later in the year the Zoo welcomed two female Asian lion cubs, two meerkats and a 17-year-old bull elephant.
Here, in pictures, are the highlights of Dublin Zoo’s arrivals of 2012: