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Episode 15

Animal Park Summer 2022
Episode 15 of 15

Have the park’s vultures laid their first successful egg in ten years?

Kate Humble and Ben Fogle return to Longleat Safari Park for another spectacular summer series following the fascinating stories of the exotic animals and the keepers who look after them.

The Longleat keepers have some extraordinary news. When doing her morning rounds, Amy spotted some nesting behaviour amongst the critically endangered African white-backed vultures, and on further inspection discovered that one of the birds was sitting on an egg. It’s been ten years since the park had a successfully reared chick, often due to the birds laying too late in the season - poor weather conditions can result in the parents not sitting on the egg. This year the timing is spot on, so everyone has everything crossed for success. Not wanting to disturb the parents, the keepers call in Animal Park’s very own wildlife cameraman, Hamza Yassin, to try to find out if they are still sitting on and caring for the egg.

Kate is astonished to hear that an anteater can eat 30,000 insects a day with their 60-centimetre-long tongue. She helps one of the keepers recreate a termite mound in the anteater enclosure.

Meanwhile, Megan McCubbin discovers that Koala Creek isn’t just home to Australia’s iconic marsupial but also to hundreds of stick insects. These masters of disguise start out life pretending to be an ant, then, when fully grown, they look exactly like a leaf.

43 minutes

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Fri 1 Mar 2024 10:45
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Music Played

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

  • 00:00

    Sugababes

    About You Now

  • 00:12

    Anne-Marie

    Breathing Fire (Explicit)

  • 00:22

    Iggy Pop

    Vulture

  • 00:40

    George Ezra

    Get Away

Credits

Presenter Kate Humble
Presenter Ben Fogle
Presenter Hamza Yassin
Presenter Megan McCubbin
Series Producer Alastair Bazeley-Bell
Executive Producer Joff Wilson
Production Company Remarkable TV

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