The Zoo

Greenstone TV’s multi-award-wining series and New Zealand’s family viewing favourite The Zoo, is back for a landmark 12^th series.  See below for promo – what’s happening at The Zoo.  But this time, it’s all-new on The Zoo. Shot in HD with refreshed elements including mesmerizing slo-mo phantom camera sequences and keeper portraits, where they share what they love about working with the animals. We’ve also installed special cameras to capture exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, from the birth of a baby giraffe to porcupines nesting at night.

Over the last decade, The Zoo series has become an international hit, making Auckland Zoo’s animals, keepers and vets world-famous.  Our crew is based full-time at Auckland Zoo, giving us the opportunity to bring you stories from the very beginning, with exclusive access.  As well as catching-up with the animals and their day-to-day routines, the keepers take us into the field as they release endangered birds onto islands in the Hauraki Gulf and assist with the Rena Oil Disaster Rescue Operation.

Enrichment for the big animals is all go too. We’re there as the tigers rip into a fresh deer hide piñata, Burma the elephant swims in a fresh lagoon and some pungent kune kune pigs enter the lion’s den – literally. Young giraffe Jelani heads-off over the ditch on his big OE and mum Rukiya gives birth to his 1.8 m leggy sister Nakuru.

 

 

Promotional Trailer

The Zoo from Greenstone TV on Vimeo.

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