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About the show:

An entertaining, long-running wildlife series following the engaging characters, both animal and human, at two of Britains largest zoos.

With incredible behind the scenes access at Chester and Colchester Zoos, the series features a variety of storylines and strong personalities providing a mix of excitement, jeopardy and fun.

This series ranges from close encounters with the scariest reptiles and the cutest baby monkeys, to the everyday lives of the zoos keepers.

Birma, an eighteen year old female elephant, who, having spent most of her life on her own, meets bull elephant Upali for the first time.

Is it a match made in heaven?

A giraffe with an allergic reaction is too big for the hospital so has to be treated on site, in a new state-of-the-art animal hospital.

Plus, there are close encounters with a wide range of species including Komodo Dragons and critically endangered Amur Leopards.

As well as playing host to nearly two million visitors a year between them, both zoos are heavily committed to conservation and training.

Chester Zoo the biggest zoo in Britain is building an intensive conservation programme aimed at ensuring the survival of global animal species, while Colchester is the first ever and currently only UK zoo to have set up its own nature reserve in Africa, protecting endangered creatures in their natural habitat.

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