Secrets Of The Zoo: North Carolina

Synopsis

Join the largest zoo in the world, covering more than 2,500 acres. With over 300 staff, zookeepers, and vets taking care of more the 1,800 animals, this is much more than a typical zoo.

Episodes

Chimp Off the Old Block

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.

Dr. Zoo-Little

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.

Polar Bear Opposites

The zoo hopes for a polar-bear pregnancy; two endangered red wolves go on a blind date; and a young elephant gets some unusual treatment.

Hiss and Hers

Zookeepers 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.

Giraffic Park

The zoo welcomes a timid, new giraffe to the herd; a pregnant bat prepares to give birth; and devoted keepers give an epileptic chimp a better life.

Much Ado About Puffin

The zoo vets are swamped! A big gator needs blood drawn; a fiery lioness needs its tooth extracted; and puffin parents wait for their eggs to hatch.

Running Otter Time

Zoo vets treat seven pythons; orphaned otter pups go to fish school; and keepers rush to help Arctic foxes with mysterious injuries.

Puffin but Trouble

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.

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