The Zoo (AU) (2008)
The Zoo is the Australian version of a New Zealand documentary television series of the same name. Centred around the lives of a zoo team at Taronga Zoo, New South Wales. The program is narrated by Sunrise co-host Melissa Doyle. The first series of 6 episodes aired on Sunday nights from 3 February to 9 March 2008. The second series moved to Tuesday nights at 7:30 pm from 21 October 2008 and finished on 18 November 2008. The 3rd series airing back on the same time slot as series 2 on 12 May 2009. A fourth season began with a special one hour episode, Miracle At The Zoo on the birth of elephant Pathi Harn on 12 April 2010.
Seasons & Episode
In this episode see Happy the hippo’s visit to the dentist with some tusk trouble at Taronga Western Plains Zoo, while sister zoo Taronga waves a sad goodbye to Tizga the Fennec Fox who moves in with his new girlfriend at Adelaide Zoo. Staff at Sea World eagerly awaits the arrival of three Dolphin calves and a rare species of Wallaby is rescued from the brink of extinction.
Four Cheetah cubs have recently been born in Dubbo, and two of them are extra special. Plus, Taronga's chimp family moves house.
A tiger with a sore toe; a stallion steps in to save a rare breed of horse; a platypus moves house; and a peregrine falcon needs help to fly.
Vets struggle to remove fishing debris from an endangered Green Turtle while the decision between two lions for breeding has to be made. A giraffe is reunited with his brother after many years and there is a new addition to a capuchin monkey family. Animal Updates
Little penguins are breeding at Taronga Zoo in Sydney while an Orang-utan undergoes eye surgery at Perth Zoo. Keepers at Healesville Sanctuary have been called out to a house where there is a venomous snake on the loose and female elephant Dokkoon awaits the birth of her calf at Melbourne Zoo.
A Black Rhino calf is born at Taronga Western Plains Zoo as staff at Taronga’s Wildlife hospital work to save two orphaned Powerful Owl chicks. A seal undergoes cataract surgery at Sea World while Adelaide Zoo awaits the arrival of some very special Giant Pandas.
A team from Taronga Zoo travel to the Snowy Mountains to find Corroboree Frog eggs that they hope will help save the species, while back in Sydney staff await the arrival of a new Zebra and at the same time have to say goodbye to an old friend.
Keepers at Melbourne Zoo now have 4 Sumatran Tiger cubs and one of their Meerkats needs an urgent trip to the dentist, while at Healesville Sanctuary a Gannet undergoes anaesthesia to remove a fish hook while staff at Taronga Zoo emotionally farewell their hand-raised Pygmy Hippo Monifa as she moves to Melbourne Zoo.