Secrets of the Zoo gives unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to one of the nation's largest and most popular zoos... The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. With 2,000 employees, 10,000 animals, 6,000 veterinary cases and more than 100 animal births each year, Secrets of the Zoo tells the dramatic, heartwarming and often hilarious stories of the wildlife... and wild people, that it takes to create a loving and healthy landscape for the animals and animal lovers alike.
EPISODE GUIDE
Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 1
Zoo keepers prepare for a chimp birth, vets investigate a bear’s mystery illness and a dangerous antelope is darted on the zoo’s grasslands habitat.
Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 2
At the North Carolina Zoo a gorilla has emergency dental surgery, vets examine a deadly rattlesnake and zoo keepers try to take blood from a lion’s tail.
Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 3
The zoo hopes their polar bears finally make a baby, two endangered red wolves go on a blind date and a young elephant gets some unusual treatment.
Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 4
Zoo Keepers prepare for the birth of a white rhino, two young lions leave the pride and a pair of cannibalistic snakes go on some risky dates.
Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 5
The zoo welcomes a timid, new giraffe to the herd, a pregnant bat prepares to pop and devoted keepers try to give an epileptic chimp a better life.
Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 6
The zoo vets are swamped! A big gator needs a blood draw, a fiery lioness needs her tooth extracted and puffin parents wait for their eggs to hatch.
Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 7
Zoo vets treat seven confiscated pythons, orphaned otter pups go to fish school and keepers rush to help arctic foxes with mysterious injuries.
Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina: Episode 8
Keepers hope for a long-awaited sand cat kitten, a nervous puffin chick learns to swim and rescued black bear cubs prepare for life outside the zoo.