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Harriet and the team tackle the problem of human and elephant conflict with an unusual experiment using African honeybees; Alison checks on a colony of Cape fur seals.

Work on the Wild Side

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Animal stories that resonate with humans.

Jenna and Sean lead forces in vital elephant research; they compare glucose levels in wild elephants with that of similar elephants kept in zoos.

Living Wild

Partially blind bull elephant Matambu is seriously injured; Harriet and the team are on a race against time to find him; Emily and Annie work with a herd of skittish roan antelope when one bolts and needs to be tracked down.

Helping the Strong

Anna and the team dehorn two rare and dangerous black rhinos; Emma spends months rehabilitating Finya the Black-Backed Jackal for release, but getting her ready to move proves difficult; Jenna and Sean tackle human and elephant conflict.

Rare Rhinos

Annie and Will move an infamous pride of lions at the Sibuya Game Reserve; Emma checks on some genets and a bush baby; over at the Vervet Monkey Foundation, Josie introduces some blind and compromised monkeys to their new home.

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Emily oversees a very tricky giraffe capture on the Eastern Cape; at the Care for Wild rhino sanctuary, Rachel's worried about orphan Lily's progress; it's a huge week for Emma, who's releasing six rehabilitated animals back into the wild.

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

Calling the Shots

There's a new arrival for Josie at the Vervet Monkey Foundation, catching up with eight-week-old Hector the hippo; Alison is on a mission to tag a great white shark; Emily and Annie are called in to help a white rhino with a horn injury.

Land and Sea

Emily anesthetizes a cheetah; Will bonds with rhino orphan Arthur; Emma has her hands full with a troop of mongooses.

All the Feels

Jenna and Sean are joined by resident elephants and a meerkat in an experiment -- using the animals' sense of smell to discover whether the African puff adder, one of the world's deadliest predators, is truly odorless.

Plans and Experiments

Following the vets and volunteers of South Africa who rescue extraordinary animals.

New Homes

Harriet is called out to an emergency operation on an elephant whose leg has been wounded; volunteer Debbie is put to the test as nine orphaned baby monkeys arrive at once, and Emma becomes surrogate mother to three-week-old baby hippo Hector.

Baby Animals

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