Work on the Wild Side

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. Meanwhile, 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, while over at the Vervet Monkey Foundation, Josie introduces some blind and compromised monkeys to their new home.

Harriet's on a mission to save three naughty elephants and Debbie deals with six escapee baby monkeys. Emma greets the new arrival of a very cute baby mongoose called Benedict.

Alison prepares to release an endangered penguin. Emily anesthetizes a cheetah that needs to go to a new home. Will and Rachel at Care for the Wild introduce orphaned baby rhinos Ribbon and Lazuli, whose mums were killed for their horns.

Anna and the team from the Rhino Revolution dehorn two rare and very dangerous black rhinos. Emma has spent months rehabilitating Finya the black-backed jackal for release, but getting her ready to move proves difficult.

Partially blind bull elephant Matambu is seriously injured; Harriet and the team are in 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.

Jenna and Sean compare glucose levels in wild elephants with those of similar elephants kept in zoos. Over on the Eastern Cape, it's rhino day for vet Emily as she needs to dehorn a mother and her calf, as well as move three male rhinos to a new home

Harriet tackles the problem of human and elephant conflict with an unusual experiment using African honeybees. Alison checks on a colony of Cape fur seals, and Annie faces a tough challenge when she relocates a female rhino.

Debbie calls on Emma to take in two baby jackals that have been found abandoned. Josie at the Vervet Monkey Foundation introduces orphan Theo to his new foster mom. Vets Emily and Will need to relocate two cheetahs to spread bloodlines.

Emma at Umoya Khulula Wildlife Center has a tiny bush baby that needs round-the-clock care. Jenna and Sean are forced to stop elephant research for the day as a bush fire comes perilously close to destroying their home.