Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina

Zoo keepers tend to a pregnant chimp, who is expected to give birth any day. Meanwhile, on the zoo’s grasslands habitat, vets undergo a high stakes mission to anesthetise and move a dangerous antelope. Then a beloved, elderly black bear develops a mystery illness that has all the zoo keepers worried.

No day is the same at the North Carolina Zoo. C’sar, the oldest African bull elephant in North America keeps healthy practicing yoga. Silverback gorilla, Mosuba, is sent for emergency dental surgery. Head vet, Jb, conducts a quarantine exam on a deadly rattlesnake and zoo keepers desperately try to persuade their stubborn sand cats to mate.

After several years of trying, the zoo is hoping for a polar-bear pregnancy as mating season approaches. Meanwhile, two critically endangered red wolves go on a blind date, and a much-loved elderly porcupine needs radical dental work. Plus, a young elephant receives some unusual medical treatment.

All creatures great and small live their best life at the North Carolina Zoo. A timid, young giraffe is welcomed into its new home, but there is a long way to go before it’s ready to meet the herd. Meanwhile, a pregnant vampire bat prepares to give birth, and devoted keepers give an epileptic chimp a better life.