The Zoo

“Greenstone TV’s’ multi-award-wining series The Zoo has been taking you behind the scenes at Auckland Zoo, bringing you great stories about the animals and their keepers. Over the last decade, The Zoo series has become an international hit, making New Zealand’s favourite animals world-famous.  Greenstone has been busy filming series twelve of this family favourite.

In series eleven we accompany Auckland Zoo Primates Team Leader, Amy Dixon, and Primates keeper Carly Day – to the Sumatran Orang-utan Conservation Programme (SOCP) in Indonesia. The triplet tiger cubs, are having a big birthday bash. Fearless Lion Keeper, Nat Sullivan, is crazy about sharks and shark conservation and wants to learn to dive. But, there’s a small stumbling block for Nat – she’s terrified of seals and sealions. The Zoo’s beloved matriarch – Kashin the elephant – falls ill and her keepers and the vet team are desperate to find out what is wrong with her. Auckland Zoo’s Senior Vet, Richard Jakob-Hoff, journeys to remote Codfish Island (west of Stewart island) to see New Zealand’s native parrot – the Kakapo. Two female baboons arrive at the Zoo, but one has an unexpected surprise in store for her keepers – and soon gives birth to a tiny baby. The Zoo’s beloved Orang-utans are splitting up, as three of the gang head off for a sunny retirement in Florida. Iwani the Siamang Gibbon and his parents are still not seeing eye-to-eye, and taking turns in the outdoor enclosure is not ideal. So Mum and Dad are packing up and heading to a new life at Hamilton Zoo.

 

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