Ultimate Zoo (2005)
Synopsis
There is a remarkable zoo in Nebraska that has enclosed its entire grounds and flipped night for day, allowing visitors to experience nocturnal animals in their natural habitat, when the animals are awake. In California, a zoo allows cheetahs to engage in free-roaming hunts. Another encourages rare, nearly extinct species to breed. This documentary is a close-up, behind-the-scenes look inside the world’s most fascinating and animal-friendly zoos.
Network
Animal Planet
Episodes
Episodes
Episode 1
Architects, zoo keepers and vets re-create animal habitats.
Episode 2
Hippos thrive in Missouri; a panda is born in Atlanta; an African savannah springs to life in Canada.
Episode 3
A Sumatran tiger may start a family; macaque sees a dentist.
Episode 4
Helping a barn owl; researching seahorses for preservation.
Episode 5
Tigers in an archeological exhibit, growing a live coral reef in an aquarium, and containing gators without many barriers.
Episode 6
Elephants get a revolutionary new exhibit, a massive desert within a dome, and an underwater cove for Steller's sea lions.
Episode 7
How an aquarium in the Mall of America made it possible for visitors to actually swim with sharks; steps Nashville zoo took with house gibbons.
Episode 8
Rebuilding an aviary after a hurricane; cheetah exhibit in which the cats can hunt their prey; containing a group of meerkats.
Episode 9
In-habitat birth of a rare Sumatran rhino; rain forests in an Ohio zoo; gorilla exhibit without barriers.
Episode 10
Learning about how highly intelligent chimpanzees are actually teaching the researchers at Chicago's Lincoln Park zoo; how penguins and puffins chill out at the zoo in St. Louis.
Episode 11
Ferocious lions; sun bears in California; vultures in France.
Episode 12
Three rhino species in one giant habitat; abandoned jaguar; endangered red pandas.
Episode 13
Spectacled bears in Zurich; the Congo comes alive at the Bronx Zoo; aquarium at the Mall of America breeds sharks.
Details
Original Title
Ultimate Zoo
Status
Ended
Seasons
1
Episodes
13
Production
Mike Mathis Productions
