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Work on the Wild Side
Work on the Wild Side

Work on the Wild Side

—Following the vets and volunteers of South Africa who rescue extraordinary animals.
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Season 113 of 20 Episodes

  • Emma is faced with an emergency patient; Emily has a hard decision to make when a cape buffalo is seriously injured; Anna hopes to help dehorn five white rhinos to make them less valuable to poachers.

  • Emma manages Mars the aardvark's demanding walks; Josie nurses an injured vervet monkey back to health.

  • Harriet performs emergency surgery on an injured elephant fighting for its life.

  • Vet Will tackles the challenge of relocating Harry, a feisty five-ton elephant.

  • Jenna and Sean push the boundaries with a bold new experiment designed to better understand how wild animals interact, communicate, and respond to their environment; Emma takes in a genet - a small and strikingly beautiful nocturnal carnivore.

  • Emily anesthetizes a cheetah; Will bonds with rhino orphan Arthur; Emma has her hands full of a troop of mongooses.

  • There's a new arrival for Josie at the Vervet Monkey Foundation, catching up with eight-week-old Hector the hippo; Alison is on a mission to tag a great white shark; Emily and Annie are called in to help a white rhino with a horn injury.

  • It's vaccination day at the rhino sanctuary, and Rachel is worried about the orphan hawk, who has an eye infection; on the Eastern Cape, vet Emily is called to help four young sable antelopes who are being bullied by an older dominant male.

  • Emily oversees a very tricky giraffe capture on the Eastern Cape; at the Care for Wild rhino sanctuary, Rachel's worried about orphan Lily's progress; it's a huge week for Emma, who's releasing six rehabilitated animals back into the wild.

  • Annie and Will move an infamous pride of lions at the Sibuya Game Reserve; Emma checks on some genets and a bush baby; over at the Vervet Monkey Foundation, Josie introduces some blind and compromised monkeys to their new home.

  • Anna and the team dehorn two rare and dangerous black rhinos; Emma spends months rehabilitating Finya the Black-Backed Jackal for release, but getting her ready to move proves difficult; Jenna and Sean tackle human and elephant conflict.

  • Partially blind bull elephant Matambu is seriously injured; Harriet and the team are on a race against time to find him; Emily and Annie work with a herd of skittish roan antelope when one bolts and needs to be tracked down.

  • Harriet and the team tackle the problem of human and elephant conflict with an unusual experiment using African honeybees; Alison checks on a colony of Cape fur seals.

Record to Watch Later

10 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Big, Tall, and Small
    Danger in South Africa
    Vets and Volunteers
    Naughty by Nature
    Hope and Heartbreak
    Land and Sea
    All the Feels
    Baby Animals
    Rare Rhinos
    Helping the Strong
  • Big, Tall, and Small

    Emily oversees a very tricky giraffe capture on the Eastern Cape; at the Care for Wild rhino sanctuary, Rachel's worried about orphan Lily's progress; it's a huge week for Emma, who's releasing six rehabilitated animals back into the wild.
    Upcoming
  • Danger in South Africa

    Annie and Will move an infamous pride of lions at the Sibuya Game Reserve; Emma checks on some genets and a bush baby; over at the Vervet Monkey Foundation, Josie introduces some blind and compromised monkeys to their new home.
    Upcoming
  • Vets and Volunteers

    Will and Rachael volunteer at the world's largest sanctuary for orphaned rhinos; Emily attempts a life-threatening giraffe relocation, while three warthogs run Emma ragged; Marine biologist Alison finds a new way of dealing with plastic pollution.
    Upcoming
  • Naughty by Nature

    Harriet and the team at Elephants Alive are on a mission to save three elephants who are breaking out of their reserve and destroying local crops.
    Upcoming
  • Hope and Heartbreak

    Alison prepares for the release of Nick, a critically endangered African penguin; Emily has to anaesthetise a cheetah that needs to go to a new home.
    Upcoming
  • Land and Sea

    There's a new arrival for Josie at the Vervet Monkey Foundation, catching up with eight-week-old Hector the hippo; Alison is on a mission to tag a great white shark; Emily and Annie are called in to help a white rhino with a horn injury.
    Upcoming
Work on the Wild Side

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Following the vets and volunteers of South Africa who rescue extraordinary animals.

Starring

Greg James

10 Free Episodes

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  • There's a new arrival for Josie at the Vervet Monkey Foundation, catching up with eight-week-old Hector the hippo; Alison is on a mission to tag a great white shark; Emily and Annie are called in to help a white rhino with a horn injury.

  • It's vaccination day at the rhino sanctuary, and Rachel is worried about the orphan hawk, who has an eye infection; on the Eastern Cape, vet Emily is called to help four young sable antelopes who are being bullied by an older dominant male.

  • Jenna and Sean push the boundaries with a bold new experiment designed to better understand how wild animals interact, communicate, and respond to their environment; Emma takes in a genet - a small and strikingly beautiful nocturnal carnivore.

  • Emily anesthetizes a cheetah; Will bonds with rhino orphan Arthur; Emma has her hands full of a troop of mongooses.

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