Episodes

• Lion Mystery

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  US-born, African-raised Wildlife Cameraman Bob Poole begins his two-year filming assignment in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. After decades of war, an international team of scientists and conservationists is bringing this once-legendary African national park back to its former glory. Poole's first job is to help sedate a lion and put a GPS-tracking collar around its neck. Lion scientist Paola Bouley needs the GPS-data to solve a baffling mystery: why is Gorongosa's lion population not growing as fast as it should?

• Elephant Whisperer

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  Wildlife cameraman Bob Poole has been living in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique for a while now, and the park's beauty has cast a spell on him. Now, he is forced to confront his fears and his past to team up with his sister Joyce Poole, a world-renowned elephant expert. Together they face charging elephants to uncover brand new insights into their behavior.

• New Blood

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  Bob and the lion team find one of the female cubs with a life-threatening wound. With less than 40 lions in the park, they can't afford to lose one of them. But lions aren't the only ones who need help in Gorongosa. Relocating animals is extremely stressful and dangerous on the animals and the people, but when a park is facing the extinction of its animals, risks are necessary.

• Hidden Worlds

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  Thirty years of war shut off Gorongosa from science. And today massive sections of the park still remain completely unexplored. Bob teams up with scientists to uncover these hidden worlds. Flying over the north of the park Bob discovers remote rivers choked with enormous crocs. He brings in croc experts, Sven Bourquin and Vince Shacks to investigate.

• Battle Lines

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  A new male lion bursts onto the Gorongosa scene, and a cold war for lion dominance of the floodplain begins. Joyce Poole arrives back at the park with new questions about the mysterious behavior of Gorongosa's elephants. Bob joins the rangers on a night patrol of villages suffering from crop raiding bull elephants, and gets a taste of the danger crop raiding poses to people and elephants alike.

• Roaring Back

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  Wildlife Cameraman Bob Poole returns to a transformed Gorongosa National Park: the annual rains have flooded the plains and forests, turning what was a dustbowl into a water world. Bob mounts a boating expedition to explore the park at this special time of year and discovers a huge nesting colony of water birds that proves to be one of the greatest birding spectacles in Africa.