Real Life in the Zoo

Episode 5 (8x5)

: 18, 2025

The Edwards’s pheasant is extinct in the wild, so it’s wonderful news when the choosy female Linh accepts her new mate Khai and love begins to bloom. There’s cause for celebration as well, for the first time in over 15 years, a baby hippo is born. The oldest male baboon in the Netherlands, Gerard, lives in Emmen and celebrates his 25th birthday. But how does Gerard manage to hold his own in such a dynamic community, where only the strongest survive and fights are a daily occurrence? Meanwhile, raccoon Poes is new to the enclosure and finds it difficult to adjust to being surrounded by so many other raccoons.