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Following the vets and volunteers of South Africa who rescue extraordinary animals.
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.
Will and Rachael volunteer at the world's largest sanctuary for orphaned rhinos; Emily attempts a life-threatening giraffe relocation, while three warthogs run Emma ragged; Marine biologist Alison finds a new way of dealing with plastic pollution.
Emily has a close call with a lion; Harriet hunts for an elephant; a baby rhino doesn't seem to be putting on enough weight.
Emma is faced with an emergency patient; Emily has a hard decision to make when a cape buffalo is seriously injured; Anna hopes to help dehorn five white rhinos to make them less valuable to poachers.
Emma looks after Mars the aardvark who demands five-hour walks every night; Josie has her work cut out as an injured vervet monkey is rushed in after being run over; the time has come to dehorn five previously released white rhinos.
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.
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.
Emily anesthetizes a cheetah; Will bonds with rhino orphan Arthur; Emma has her hands full of a troop of mongooses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jenna and Sean lead forces in vital elephant research; they compare glucose levels in wild elephants with that of similar elephants kept in zoos.
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.