While Amanda races to save an elephant calf tangled in a poacher's wire snare, Alma at the rescue centre tries to get the newest and cutest arrival, a baby baboon nicknamed Doodle Bob, to bond with a foster baboon mother.

Amanda puts a radio collar on one of the first cheetah cubs born in Malawi in 20 years, the team struggles to give a four-metre python a physical, and a group of tourists deliver a rambunctious baby monkey they rescued from the pet trade.

The team prepares to release two servals. But things go awry when one vanishes into Malawi's dangerous capital. Plus, a monkey arrives in a critical condition.

Amanda goes on a white knuckle bush-whacking adventure to rescue a waterbuck caught by a poacher's snare. Meanwhile, the centre's resident hyena is treated for fly-bitten ears, and Alma gets a mysterious late-night monkey delivery.

Amanda and visiting vet Sophie pull out all the stops to give a vervet monkey with a broken leg a chance at returning to the wild, while Alma receives a special orphan, a cat-like genet.

Amanda and Mandy try every trick in the book to help a snared hyena, a lion threatens a village, and the team's plan to release a troop of 13 monkeys is thwarted by last-minute surgery and some crafty escape artists.