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Episode 1

Animal Park Summer 2021
Episode 1 of 15

Ben and Kate return to Longleat, where a lion needs surgery to amputate part of his tail. Kate gets a surprise with the eland babies, and Ben has a brush with a gorilla.

Kate Humble and Ben Fogle return to Longleat Safari Park for another sun-drenched summer series following the extraordinary lives of the exotic animals and the keepers committed to help them.

Jumba the lion has a worrying infection in his tail, so the keepers and the vets must work together to find a solution fast. When the park first opened in 1966, very little was known about lions from a veterinary point of view, but since then the team have made an enormous contribution to the worldwide understanding of exotic species. When Rich the vet has to amputate Jumba’s tail, it’s not just a first for him, it’s the latest extraordinary procedure to support the welfare of animals at the park.

Kate marvels at the huge herd of eland but also finds out why there have been a few more babies this season than they were expecting. Ben gets the extraordinary opportunity to observe the troop of bachelor gorillas. In the wild, they spend much of their day foraging for food, so to try to recreate this behaviour, the keepers have a plan involving some chopped vegetables and broom heads. Jean Johansson helps cool down the South American tapirs, who would normally stay cool under a rainforest canopy, and finds out how parrots react to the heat of fiery chillies that they might find in the wild.

There’s also a new member of the Animal Park family: wildlife photographer Hamza Yassin is focusing his specialist zoom lenses on the behaviour of the park’s amazing animals. Today, he is with the macaque monkeys. Can he identify the dominant member of the group and help the keepers understand the latest hierarchy?

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Thu 18 Jul 2024 14:30
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:00

    John Newman

    Cheating

  • 00:00

    Years & Years

    Shine

  • 00:07

    Martin Jensen

    Solo Dance

  • 00:07

    Sigala

    Lullaby

  • 00:40

    Rudimental

    Not Giving In (feat. John Newman & Alex Clare)

Credits

Presenter Kate Humble
Presenter Ben Fogle
Presenter Jean Johansson
Presenter Hamza Yassin
Series Producer Alastair Bazeley-Bell
Executive Producer Joff Wilson
Director Mark Davenport
Production Company Remarkable TV

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