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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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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.

Big, Tall, and Small

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 of a troop of mongooses.

All the Feels

Jenna and Sean push the boundaries with a bold new experiment designed to better understand how wild animals interact, communicate, and respond to their environment; Emma takes in a genet - a small and strikingly beautiful nocturnal carnivore.

Plans and Experiments

Vet Will tackles the challenge of relocating Harry, a feisty five-ton elephant.

New Homes

Harriet performs emergency surgery on an injured elephant fighting for its life.

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