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Season 1

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • May 18, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Following Brits working with animals in South Africa's national parks, with the first edition meeting two people volunteering at a sanctuary for orphaned rhinos. Cornish vet Emily attempts a life-threatening giraffe relocation, while marine biologist Alison finds a new way of dealing with plastic pollution on the Western Cape.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • May 19, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Vet Emily takes on a challenging lion relocation, and has a close call when the big cat unexpectedly wakes up. Croydon-born Harriet goes on the hunt for Charlize the elephant.

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • May 20, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Emma deals with a very sick emergency patient, and Birmingham-born Anna is hoping to help dehorn five white rhinos to make them less valuable to poachers.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • May 21, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Emma looks after an aardvark that requires daily five-hour walks, Jenna and Sean try to discover how good an elephant's hearing is and Josie treats a monkey that has been run over.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • May 22, 2020
    • Channel 4

    It's a big day for the vets and volunteers, as Harriet is called out to an emergency operation on an elephant whose leg has been wounded by a poacher's snare. Volunteer Debbie is put to the test as nine orphaned baby monkeys arrive at once, and Emma becomes surrogate mum to three-week-old baby hippo, Hector.

  • S01E06 Episode 6

    • May 25, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Vet Will transports a bull elephant to a new home, while marine biologist Alison prepares to release three critically endangered African penguins back into the ocean.

  • S01E07 Episode 7

    • May 26, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Jenna and Sean enlist the help of elephants and a meercat, using the animals remarkable sense of smell to determine if deadly puff adders have no odour.

  • S01E08 Episode 8

    • May 27, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Vet Emily as she carries out the risky procedure of anaesthetising a cheetah. Meanwhile, Emma has her hands full with a troop of mongooses.

  • S01E09 Episode 9

    • May 29, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Josie welcomes a new arrival at the Vervet Monkey Foundation, marine biologist Alison is on a mission to tag a great white shark and vets Emily and Annie are called in to help a white rhino with a nasty horn injury. Plus, an update on Hector the baby hippo.

  • S01E10 Episode 10

    • May 29, 2020
    • Channel 4

    It's vaccination day at the rhino sanctuary, and Rachel is worried about orphan Hawk who has an eye infection. On the Eastern Cape, vet Emily is called to help four young sable antelope who are being bullied by an older dominant male.

  • S01E11 Episode 11

    • June 1, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Vet Emily oversees a very tricky giraffe capture on the Eastern Cape, while Rachel is worried about orphan Lily's progress at the Care for Wild Africa rhino sanctuary.

  • S01E12 Episode 12

    • June 2, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Annie and Will move an infamous pride of lions that ate some poachers in 2018. Emma checks in on some genets and a bush baby. Josie introduces some blind monkeys to their new home.

  • S01E13 Epidode 13

    • June 3, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Harriet and the team at Elephants Alive are on a mission to save three naughty elephants, Debbie deals with six escapee baby monkeys, and Emma greets the new arrival of a very cute baby mongoose

  • S01E14 Episode 14

    • June 4, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Marine biologist Alison is busy preparing for the release of Nick, a critically endangered African penguin, on the Western Cape. Vet Emily has to anaesthetise a cheetah that needs to go to a new home.

  • S01E15 Episode 15

    • June 5, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Anna and the team from the Rhino Revolution dehorn two rare and very dangerous black rhinos, while Emma prepares Finya the black-backed jackal for release. Jenna and Sean, the leading forces in elephant research, tackle the growing problem of human and elephant conflict.

  • S01E16 Episode 16

    • June 8, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Harriet races against time to find a partially blind bull elephant that is seriously injured, while Emily and Annie try to track down a roan antelope that has bolted from its herd.

  • S01E17 Episode 17

    • June 9, 2020
    • Channel 4

    A vet has to dehorn a mother rhino and its calf as well as moving three males to a new home. Zoologists compare glucose levels between elephants in the wild and kept in zoos.

  • S01E18 Episode 18

    • June 10, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Marine biologist Alison is out at sea to check on a colony of seals on the Western Cape, and vet Annie has to relocate a female rhino.

  • S01E19 Episode 19

    • June 11, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Debbie at Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre calls on fellow Brit Emma to take in two baby jackals that have been found abandoned, while Emily and Will relocate two cheetahs.

  • S01E20 Episode 20

    • June 12, 2020
    • Channel 4

    Emma at Umoya Khulula Wildlife Center has a tiny bush baby that needs round-the-clock care. Jenna and Sean are forced to stop elephant research for the day as a bush fire comes perilously close to destroying their home. Meanwhile, on the Eastern Cape, vets Annie and Lisa undertake a vital rhino collaring procedure.