Secrets of the Zoo
With nearly 6,000 veterinary cases and well over 100 births each year, the team at the Columbus Zoo has no shortage of incredible drama.
Genre: Reality-TV
Cast:Mocean Melvin
S2.E1 ∙ Penguin's New 'Do
Dr. Priya calls in a human heart specialist to help with Lady, a Bonobo chimpanzee with a life- threatening heart condition. Barry, a penguin stuck in molt for almost a year, has hopefully seen the last of his bad hair days, and the zoo also welcomes their newest veterinarian, Dr. Katie Seeley. Out at The Wilds, Dr. Jan and her team anxiously await the birth of resident cheetah Wangari's cubs.
S2.E2 ∙ Love is a Cheetah Cub
Three cheetah cubs arrive at the zoo; an arctic fox faces an unknown nasal issue.
S2.E3 ∙ Welcome to the Family
The staff at the Columbus Zoo can hardly contain themselves as they prepare to make a home for an orphaned baby gorilla. A longtime resident at the zoo named Annyeung has lost his voice and out at The Wilds, a pregnant giraffe named Lulu keeps the keepers on the edge of their seats as they anxiously await the birth of their newest member.
S2.E4 ∙ Baby Watch
Everyone at the zoo is waiting for the birth of Zuri's baby, which will be the first giraffe birth at the Columbus Zoo in more than twenty years. But Zuri isn't the only resident in need of the zoo's attention, there are horses that need pedicures and a bunch of penguins who need to get their annual exams, if the keepers can catch them!
S2.E6 ∙ Polar Bear Palooza
The staff throws a polar bear "bon voyage" party celebrating their polar bears Neva and Amelia Gray before they head off to the Maryland Zoo. Priya gets to work with her husband on a shark exam. Brie the kangaroo visits the dentist, and an unlikely friendship is formed at the Wilds between Albert the baby takin and Elmur Fudd the baby camel.
S2.E7 ∙ Febreze, Please
A Muntjac deer name Chowlie suffers from mysterious seizures, but the keepers will need to catch him first before they find out why. An adorable tiny Loris named Colby has an abscess dangerously close to the brain and goes in for a CT scan. Jessie the cougar needs to see the dentist, and Febreze the Skunk sees a heart specialist.
S2.E9 ∙ A Serval Star is Born
A silverback Gorilla named Oliver gets his annual exam, and baby pronghorns meet their adult roommates for the first time. Keepers try to figure out why Gobi the Bactrian Camel has been mysteriously gaining weight, and a Serval cat named Kenya gets stage fright when she performs in Jungle Jack Hanna's anniversary show.
S2.E10 ∙ Baa-Baa-Bad Teeth
A mandrill named Tatu has keepers working around the clock in a life-or-death struggle to save her life. Cedric the Anaconda hasn't eaten in three months, but no one knows the reason; a blue-eyed goat named Talula has a date with the dentist but only if her keepers can catch her.
S2.E11 ∙ Baby Elephant Watch
The entire zoo is on baby watch as Phoebe the Elephant goes into labor. It could be three days or 30 days before the big event, but Phoebe's keepers aren't going anywhere until she delivers. A dentist makes a house call to perform a root canal on Aurora the Polar Bear, and a family of flying foxes, better known as bats, gets its annual exam.
S2.E12 ∙ Polar Bear Express
An orphaned 600-pound manatee named Agua has been at the Columbus Zoo for years, but now it's time for her to join her cousins in the wild off the coast of Florida. A polar bear named Lee becomes the zoo's newest resident, and an Oryx Antelope named Ruth needs an emergency mani-pedi.
