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  • SECRETS OF THE ZOO: NORTH CAROLINA

  • Thursday 1 May 2025 at 2:00PM
  • National Geographic

DESCRIPTION

Secrets of the Zoo gives unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to one of the nation's largest and most popular zoos... The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. With 2,000 employees, 10,000 animals, 6,000 veterinary cases and more than 100 animal births each year, Secrets of the Zoo tells the dramatic, heartwarming and often hilarious stories of the wildlife... and wild people, that it takes to create a loving and healthy landscape for the animals and animal lovers alike.

EPISODE GUIDE

  • Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 1
    Zoo keepers prepare for a chimp birth, vets investigate a bear’s mystery illness and a dangerous antelope is darted on the zoo’s grasslands habitat.
    Next Showing:  
    Thursday 29 May 2025 at 7:00AM - National Geographic
    Repeats:  
    Thursday 29 May 2025 at 2:00PM - National Geographic

    Saturday 31 May 2025 at 7:00AM - National Geographic
  • Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 2
    At the North Carolina Zoo a gorilla has emergency dental surgery, vets examine a deadly rattlesnake and zoo keepers try to take blood from a lion’s tail.
  • Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 3
  • Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 4
    Zoo Keepers prepare for the birth of a white rhino, two young lions leave the pride and a pair of cannibalistic snakes go on some risky dates.
  • Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 5
    The zoo welcomes a timid, new giraffe to the herd, a pregnant bat prepares to pop and devoted keepers try to give an epileptic chimp a better life.
    Next Showing:  
    Thursday 1 May 2025 at 4:00AM - National Geographic
    Repeats:  
    Thursday 1 May 2025 at 2:00PM - National Geographic

  • Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 6
    The zoo vets are swamped! A big gator needs a blood draw, a fiery lioness needs her tooth extracted and puffin parents wait for their eggs to hatch.
    Next Showing:  
    Thursday 8 May 2025 at 4:00AM - National Geographic
    Repeats:  
    Thursday 8 May 2025 at 2:00PM - National Geographic

  • Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 7
    Zoo vets treat seven confiscated pythons, orphaned otter pups go to fish school and keepers rush to help arctic foxes with mysterious injuries.
    Next Showing:  
    Thursday 15 May 2025 at 4:00AM - National Geographic
    Repeats:  
    Thursday 15 May 2025 at 2:00PM - National Geographic

  • Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 8
    Keepers hope for a long-awaited sand cat kitten, a nervous puffin chick learns to swim and rescued black bear cubs prepare for life outside the zoo.
    Next Showing:  
    Wednesday 21 May 2025 at 4:00AM - National Geographic
    Repeats:  
    Wednesday 21 May 2025 at 2:00PM - National Geographic

  • Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 9
  • Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 10
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