The public is being asked to name Dublin Zoo's baby rhino

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And you could win a family day pass to the zoo when it reopens.

Dublin Zoo is asking the public to name their latest addition, a baby rhino.

Viewers of last night's episode of "The Zoo" on RTÉ, saw Ashanti - a southern white rhinoceros - give birth to her seventh calf.

The southern white rhinoceros is the largest of the rhino species and the third largest land mammal species in the world after African and Asian elephants.

Southern white rhinos can weigh up to 2.3 tonnes and have a wide flat mouth, thick grey skin and two horns – one large horn to the front and a smaller horn further up their head.

The species has been classified as Near Threatened by the International Union for Conservation in Nature.

Dublin Zoo is part of the European breeding programme for the rhino's.

Suggestions for his name can be submitted through Dublin Zoo's website and the winner will receive a family day pass to visit the new resident when the zoo reopens.

You can enter the competition here.