Big Week at the Zoo - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
Helen Skelton and Nick Baker meet 'Carnivore Kim', who works with big cats and polar bears. In the longest heatwave since the 70s, JB Gill heads to Chessington Zoo to find out how they keep the animals cool, while Jersey zookeeper Gordon explains the dangers to his Sumatran orangutans.
Episode 2
Yorkshire Vet star Peter Wright does the rounds with Jersey vet Andrew Routh, including a procedure on the most critically endangered tortoise in the world, the Ploughshare Tortoise. Helen Skelton makes a trip to Edinburgh Zoo to prepare food for the pandas.
Episode 3
Carnivore Kims pull together a team to treat Alyss, one of her Romanian lions. Steve Leonard heads to Flamingo Land to follow their vet Gemma as she makes her rounds of the 140+ species on site.
Episode 4
At Colchester Zoo, two female rhinos are waiting for the return of prospective paramour Otto. At Chessington, JB Gill gets introduced to Olga, Tsar, Kalinka and Kyra - the tigers he will be taking care of today. Back in Yorkshire, it's pedicure time for the zebra.
Episode 5
Steve Leonard meets Jordan, keeper of African-native 'Painted Dogs', a successful hunting species whose conservation he has been very involved in. Meanwhile in Hull, Miranda Krestovnikoff visits The Deep aquarium, where she helps to massage a turtle that was injured by a boat propeller.
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