Season 1

What happens when, at a zoo, bonobo babies are rejected by their mothers? Or wild baby seals are found starving on the UK coastline? Every day, countless newborn animals are orphaned or abandoned and left to fend for themselves. Meet the dedicated men and women who aid them in their fight for survival.

Humans step in to save a mother flying fox and her babies; an umbilical cord is removed from a baby zebra.

Birth of a baby giant panda; abandoned baby manatee; three big cat cubs who can never be released.

Baby animals on the brink of death are nursed back to health.

An older lowland gorilla attempts to get pregnant again.