The Zoo (1999)

Genre

documentary television program

Country

New Zealand

How it feels

This documentary series follows the animals and zookeepers at Auckland Zoo. It shows their daily lives including births, illnesses, feeding, and mating rituals.

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What happens

The Zoo was a New Zealand observational documentary series, made by Greenstone TV, that followed the lives of Auckland Zoo's animals and zookeepers. The series explored the new arrivals and births of Auckland Zoo, to the fights, illnesses and mating rituals, how the animals are fed and how they live. The series' production crew were based full-time at the zoo, but the series also followed zookeepers overseas on zoo-related trips. The Zoo returned to New Zealand's TV One in 2013 for its 13th and final season. In the UK, it aired on Animal Planet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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