Work on the Wild Side

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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.

Bush Problems
S2 E10

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.

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 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.

Baby Animals
S1 E5

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.

New Homes
S1 E6

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

Plans and Experiments
S1 E7

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.

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.