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Dr Chris and Dr Xand van Tulleken meet the top experts on the planet

Dr Chris and Dr Xand van Tulleken meet the top experts on the planet to demonstrate things that will blow your mind

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Blow Your Mind: Big Animal Emergencies

Xand van Tulleken

Christopher van Tulleken

Jane Baxter

Valerie Mellon

Clare Balding

Steve Leonard

Blow Your Mind: Big Animal Emergencies: Episode 8: Alligator and Tortoise

Alligator and Tortoise

Episode 8

Episode 8: Alligator and Tortoise

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Clare Balding heads to London Zoo to meet Priscilla the tortoise.

Dr Chris and Dr Xand meet animal experts around the world. They find out all about big reptiles, and animal expert Steve Leonard meets Martha the alligator.

Doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken bring you the top animal experts on the planet to show you things that will truly blow your mind! In this episode they find out all about big reptiles. Animal expert Steve Leonard meets Martha the alligator, who has eaten something unusual that is seriously blocking her guts. Clare Balding heads to London Zoo to meet Priscilla the tortoise, who needs an operation on her liver, but vets find operating on a tortoise with a super-hard shell, isn't easy.

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Dr Chris and Dr Xand van Tulleken travel around the world to meet animal experts.

Dr Chris and Dr Xand van Tulleken travel around the world to meet animal experts and see how they help animals in their care.

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