Episode One

This week:

After London Zoo’s silverback Western Lowland Gorilla dies unexpectedly, their three females are left without a leader. Dublin Zoo’s adolescent male Kesho seems the ideal candidate to replace him, but first he’ll have to pass a rigorous examination from some visiting zookeepers…

After 16 long months Suki the White Rhinoceros is finally ready to give birth. It’s been a long wait for Helen Clarke Bennett and her team and they’ve made all the preparations they can to help her, but at this stage it’s all up to Suki…

With their powerful tails and bone-crunching jaws, getting close enough to examine a Nile Crocodile can be tricky. When zookeeper and reptile expert Garth de Jong suspects one of Dublin Zoo’s crocodiles is nursing a hidden injury, there’s only one way for him to have a peek under those scales, and that’s by wrestling the crocodile into position…