Inside the Zoo

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Behind the sceness at Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.

Documentary that goes behind the scenes with animals and keepers at Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.

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Inside the Zoo: Series 2: Episode 3

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There is tension in the bird section, and Gelada baboon Negus goes into surgery.

Keepers and vets work through the night with hopes for a giant panda pregnancy, and it’s an anxious time as a pair of cassowaries are introduced. Meanwhile, Gelada baboon Negus goes into surgery.

For the team, timing is everything when it comes to helping a giant panda get pregnant. With a short peak ovulation window of a few hours just once a year, efforts come to a head at 4.30am for female Tian Tian.

There is tension in the bird section as Sydney and Billy the six-foot southern cassowaries are introduced - will this be the year that senior keeper Sean finally has cassowary chicks under his care?

Meanwhile, gelada baboon and father of 22, Negus, undergoes a vasectomy under general anaesthetic. In Edinburgh Zoo’s Living Links research centre, there are some squirrel monkeys to catch in order to replace some damaged ID necklaces, and nobody wants a nip from the sharp teeth of one of these little guys.

At Highland Wildlife Park, training sessions with Amur tigers Dominika and Botzman see these magnificent cats learning and practising behaviours that will help the keepers with their everyday care.

Inside the Zoo: Series 2

A BBC TV channel for Scotland which will broadcast every evening and will show drama, factual, comedy and news programmes made in Scotland


Series taking a look behind the scenes at Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.

Series taking a look behind the scenes with animals and keepers at Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.

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