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Ultimate Zoo

Season 1 · 13 episodes · Jan 7, 2005

  1. Episode 1

    Episode 1

    Jan 7, 2005

    Architects, zoo keepers and vets re-create animal habitats.

  2. Episode 2

    Episode 2

    Jan 14, 2005

    Hippos thrive in Missouri; a panda is born in Atlanta; an African savannah springs to life in Canada.

  3. Episode 3

    Episode 3

    Feb 4, 2005

    A Sumatran tiger may start a family; macaque sees a dentist.

  4. Episode 4

    Episode 4

    Feb 11, 2005

    Helping a barn owl; researching seahorses for preservation.

  5. Episode 5

    Episode 5

    Feb 25, 2005

    Tigers in an archeological exhibit, growing a live coral reef in an aquarium, and containing gators without many barriers.

  6. Episode 6

    Episode 6

    Mar 4, 2005

    Elephants get a revolutionary new exhibit, a massive desert within a dome, and an underwater cove for Steller's sea lions.

  7. Episode 7

    Episode 7

    Mar 11, 2005

    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 8

    Episode 8

    Mar 18, 2005

    Rebuilding an aviary after a hurricane; cheetah exhibit in which the cats can hunt their prey; containing a group of meerkats.

  9. Episode 9

    Episode 9

    Mar 25, 2005

    In-habitat birth of a rare Sumatran rhino; rain forests in an Ohio zoo; gorilla exhibit without barriers.

  10. Episode 10

    Episode 10

    Apr 1, 2005

    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 11

    Episode 11

    Apr 8, 2005

    Ferocious lions; sun bears in California; vultures in France.

  12. Episode 12

    Episode 12

    Apr 22, 2005

    Three rhino species in one giant habitat; abandoned jaguar; endangered red pandas.

  13. Episode 13

    Episode 13

    Apr 29, 2005

    Spectacled bears in Zurich; the Congo comes alive at the Bronx Zoo; aquarium at the Mall of America breeds sharks.