Chester Zoo Zoo Days

The Asian Lion cub is featured on 22,23,24 and 26 October (4 days out of 5) and the following week (29 and 30 October and 2 November).

Channel 5 website lists the episode on 31st October as the last of the series, but there a two more that week, making 20.

Tejas is in 7 of the last 10. All the info is from the Channel 5 website.
 
Are there any plans for a second series??

Does anyone know the ratings so far??

There was a program about Chester Zoo in 2001/2 on Animal Planet. Does anyone remember it's name??
 
It was called Birthday Zoo. Here are the details

DISCOVERY ANIMAL PLANET
08/01/02 and 13/01/02
baby Sulawesi Crested Macaque
Karen Davies hand-rearing Humboldt's Penguin Atomic
baby Giraffe

22/01/02 and 27/01/02
preperations for Po-Chin's first birthday
Karen Davies walking baby Humboldt's Penguins to nursery pool
Sara Cocks feeding Macleay's Spectre Stick Insects and Spiny Stick Insects
Alan Littlehailes and Don Plant with baby Asian Elephants

29/01/02 and 03/02/02
Po-Chin's first birthday
feeding Asian Lions
Twilight Zone

05/02/02 and 10/02/02
Bornean Orang Utan Martha's 35th birthday
CCTV of hornbill nests
Egyptian tortoises placed in outside enclosure

12/02/02 and 17/02/02
birth and tagging of 0.1 baby Ring-tailed Lemur Titch
introducing male Bongo
wooden dummy Flamingo eggs

19/02/02 and 24/02/02
hand-rearing European Spoonbills
hand-rearing Bennett's Wallaby

26/02/02 and 03/03/02
Spirit of the Jaguar
artifical insemination of cranes

05/03/02 and 10/03/02
arrival of Jaguar from Poznan
baby Blackbuck

19/03/02 and 24/03/02
Buying fruit and vegetables
Mandy the Chimpanzee gives birth
Sara Cocks releses Sand Lizards

26/03/02 and 31/03/02
Keeper for a Day reptiles/monkeys
Darren Langford with Blue-winged Kookaburras, Condors and Schalow's Turaco
 
So yesterday's episode of Zoo Days featured hornbills. We got to see the rhinceros hornbills and wrinkled hornbills in the Tropical Realm taking a shower as their enclosures were watered. The rhinoceros hornbills apparently like to bathe by flying into the wet leaves of the plants in their enclosure and this behaviour was filmed.

It also featured pieces on training the elephant calf Raman, feeding the chimps through the roof of their enclosure, hand rearing the lion cub and a family who won an ebay auction to feed the ring-tailed lemurs on their island.
 
Anyone watch tonights episode, some good news regarding giraffee with two expecting! And the rhino introduction between emma and a Male (forgot his name) went well, but he started by trying to mate her from the side! :rolleyes:
 
I've seen them all, I shall miss the programme after it finishes tomorrow night.
 
I was told by someone who works at the zoo that they have filmed some more episodes with mammal trapping and such, Have they been on yet?

I saw it tonight!!!!!!!!!
 
I know they had continued filming but i thought it might just be because they had to re film some pieces,

I hope they do a second species but with some more of chester unusual species
 
Excellent series - I hope that it does return for more episodes, IMO you can't have too many zoo programmes on the box, it makes such a refreshing change from depressing soaps and reality TV drivel (apologies to any Big Brother fans out there)!

I thought they had an excellent selection of species on the show, highlights for me included the spectacled bears and bird of paradise. And Tejas, what a little cutey! I bet Chester Zoo's gift shop have seen sales of cuddly toy lion cubs go through the roof lately. :D
 
In the first two weeks of transmission, Zoo Days picked up a maximum audience of around 750,000. This might not sound a lot but it is comparable with other Channel 5 nature series such as Nick Baker's Weird Creatures, so I would say there's a decent chance of a second series being commissioned.
 
Today they were filming a tractor working in the Asian Plains exhibit. I don't know what the work is that was being done. Despite the gate being open wide to allow the tractor access from the road and into the paddock, visitors were still looking for the rhino.
 
The second series of Zoo Days begins on 3rd March. The Channel 5 website provides details of the first 9 episodes.

3rd Tejas has a leg problem
4th Tusk-trim for a babirusa, baby tapir, ring-tailed lemurs go to Moscow
5th Flamingos move into new house
6th operation for a mandrill, red panda cubs
7th Sheba has sleeping problems
10th Is Loja pregnant?
11th ring-tailed lemur mating season, female red bird of paradise is seriously ill
12th Tapir Zac has an abcess removed
13th Tejas goes outdoors, 150 bats need to be caught
 
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