Work on the Wild Side

2 seasons available

Following the vets and volunteers of South Africa who rescue extraordinary animals.
The Great Escape
S2 E3

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

Vets and Volunteers
S1 E1

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.

Wake Up Call
S1 E2

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.

Work on the Wild Side
S1 E3

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.

All Shapes and Sizes
S1 E4

Emma manages Mars the aardvark's demanding walks; Josie nurses an injured vervet monkey back to health.

Baby Animals
S1 E5

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

New Homes
S1 E6

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

Plans and Experiments
S1 E7

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.

All the Feels
S1 E8

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

Land and Sea
S1 E9

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.

Calling the Shots
S1 E10

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.

Big, Tall, and Small
S1 E11

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.

Danger in South Africa
S1 E12

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.

Rare Rhinos
S1 E15

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.

Helping the Strong
S1 E16

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.

Living Wild
S1 E17

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

Animal Colonies
S1 E18

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
S1 E19

Debbie calls on Emma to take in two baby jackals that have been abandoned; Josie introduces orphan Theo to his new foster mom.

Work on the Wild Side
S1 E20

Emma has a tiny bush baby that needs round-the-clock care; Jenna and Sean have to stop elephant research as a bush fire comes close to destroying their home.