
Ultimate Zoo
2005 · 30m · Documentary · Reality
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.
Episodes
▶1. Episode 130m · Architects, zoo keepers and vets re-create animal habitats.▶2. Episode 230m · Hippos thrive in Missouri; a panda is born in Atlanta; an African savannah springs to life in Canada.▶3. Episode 330m · A Sumatran tiger may start a family; macaque sees a dentist.▶4. Episode 430m · Helping a barn owl; researching seahorses for preservation.▶5. Episode 530m · Tigers in an archeological exhibit, growing a live coral reef in an aquarium, and containing gators without many barriers.▶6. Episode 630m · Elephants get a revolutionary new exhibit, a massive desert within a dome, and an underwater cove for Steller's sea lions.▶7. Episode 730m · 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.▶8. Episode 830m · Rebuilding an aviary after a hurricane; cheetah exhibit in which the cats can hunt their prey; containing a group of meerkats.▶9. Episode 930m · In-habitat birth of a rare Sumatran rhino; rain forests in an Ohio zoo; gorilla exhibit without barriers.▶10. Episode 1030m · 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.▶11. Episode 1130m · Ferocious lions; sun bears in California; vultures in France.▶12. Episode 1230m · Three rhino species in one giant habitat; abandoned jaguar; endangered red pandas.▶13. Episode 1330m · Spectacled bears in Zurich; the Congo comes alive at the Bronx Zoo; aquarium at the Mall of America breeds sharks.










