Ultimate Zoo

TV-G2005•30m

DocumentaryReality

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.

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Production

Mike Mathis Productions

Language

Status

Ended

First Aired

January 7, 2005

Last Aired

April 29, 2005

Networks

Animal Planet

Created By

Mike Mathis

Where to Watch

Region US · Lang EN

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

Episode 1

Air date: 2005-01-07

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

Episode 2

Air date: 2005-01-14

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

Episode 3

Air date: 2005-02-04

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

Episode 4

Air date: 2005-02-11

Helping a barn owl; researching seahorses for preservation.

Episode 5

Air date: 2005-02-25

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

Episode 6

Air date: 2005-03-04

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

Episode 7

Air date: 2005-03-11

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

Air date: 2005-03-18

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

Episode 9

Air date: 2005-03-25

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

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Episode 10

Air date: 2005-04-01

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.

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Episode 11

Air date: 2005-04-08

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

E12

Episode 12

Air date: 2005-04-22

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

E13

Episode 13

Air date: 2005-04-29

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