♪ ♪
ERIN: Hello.
MAN: Hey, there he is.
WOMAN: Good morning.
WOMAN 2: He's so handsome.
ERIN: The keepers spend so much time with these guys,
continually building our relationships.
They're intelligent animals, so they know what's happening.
We're very proud of him, and all the elephants.
(elephant farts)
Oh.
KEEPER: Ew. What do you think of that?
(gurgling)
ERIN: It's part of the job, like...
(laughter)
Oh, I'm gonna move.
WOMAN: Good boy.
ERIN: Don't tell him good boy!
(laughter)
(snorts)
(theme music playing)
(snorts)
NARRATOR: At Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park,
an expanding crash of southern white rhinos
lives on the savanna of the Kilimanjaro Safaris attraction.
26-year-old dad, Dugan, has his work cut out for him.
KATIE (off-screen): He was able to have a little one with Kendi.
They had a little boy named Ranger.
Jao and Dugan also had a little boy named Mylo.
(squeals)
NARRATOR: And Dugan's newest bundle of joy...
KATIE: Logan, come here, babe.
NARRATOR: Logan.
KATIE: You're so cute!
(laughs)
We have had so much success having little baby rhinos here,
it's something we're very, very proud of.
It's so exciting.
A huge win for us and for the rhino species as a whole.
NARRATOR: At four months old, Logan is almost ready
to join her rhino family on the savanna.
ROBYN: There are several gaps on the way to savanna,
so we want to make sure that she is too big to get out,
and that she can hold her own against her big brothers.
ROBYN (off-screen): So, today we are going to check Logan's size.
16 inches.
All right.
If you want to go ahead and let Lola and Logan in.
Logan.
NARRATOR: As soon as Logan grows too big
to squeeze through the spaces between the columns,
she's ready.
ROBYN: Logan.
(click)
KATIE: Stay still.
NARRATOR: Still some growing to do.
ROBYN: Savanna rhino.
ROBYN (off-screen):
Logan is almost big enough to be on savanna.
Are you ready to go out on savanna, little one?
But not quite ready yet.
Logie-Lou.
KATIE (off-screen): So, we're holding Logan back in the barn
for a little bit longer,
we just want her to put on a little more weight
and then she'll all ready to go out on savanna.
(growling)
(roars)
(squeaks)
NARRATOR: Over at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge...
CASSIE: Ostrich, they're just silly and ridiculous.
CASSIE (off-screen): Carefree...
And funny.
They're one of my favorite out here,
'cause ostrich are super easy to talk to.
'Cause they don't talk back.
(chirps)
Camilla is 25 years old.
She is one of the first animals
here to stay at Animal Kingdom Lodge,
and she has been here since 2001.
She will follow us around on savanna just for no reason.
She's very, very flirty.
If you've never seen an ostrich flirt,
just does a little wing.
Very graceful butterfly wings with them.
Usually their head's kind of down, they're pecking.
Yeah.
(laughs)
NARRATOR: Ostrich necks contain 17 vertebrae,
ten more than a giraffe, making them highly flexible
for foraging roots, fruit and flowers.
But Camilla's natural curiosity may have caused a problem.
CASSIE: Her right eye has been swollen.
CASSIE (off-screen): We're not sure what happened.
We're thinking she scratched it on something
during all of her flirting and pecking,
and she needs her eyes to be healthy.
WHITNEY: Ostrich's eyes are one of the largest eyes
of any land animal on the planet;
five times the size of a human eye.
And it's very important to them,
it helps them with predator detection,
food and everything.
So, we need to make sure that Camilla's are okay.
CASSIE: Hi, can you just drop?
Are you gonna come in?
Hi. Are you gonna drop?
WHITNEY (off-screen): Ostriches can be a little sassy, so,
we want to be aware of her behavior and our surroundings
so that we can be as safe as possible.
CASSIE: There you go, there you go.
Get down. Yeah.
WOMAN: Good! Very good. WHITNEY: Nice. Good job!
NARRATOR: Fortunately, Camilla trusts her keeper, Cassie.
WHITNEY: I'll make this nice and quick.
Her conjunctive eye is quite swollen.
Good job, just a little bit of stain.
WHITNEY (off-screen): And if there's any type of an abrasion
on the eye surface itself,
it will pick up that stain and I can see that.
I am seeing a superficial abrasion on her eye.
It's minor.
A scratch like this should heal itself,
but we just want to make sure that there's no other signs
that would indicate there's an infection going on.
So, I'm gonna put in some antibiotic,
see how she is in a week.
CASSIE: Okay.
WHITNEY (off-screen):
She's calm, she's relaxed through this whole thing,
and that's because of the relationships
and amazing training that goes on.
CASSIE: You gonna stand up?
WOMAN: You guys can come around.
CASSIE: There you go, good girl.
CASSIE (off-screen): I would like to think there's a bond.
Does she think there's a bond?
I hope so, but, maybe.
See, all is well.
WHITNEY: All is well.
NARRATOR: Camilla's friendly behavior calls for a reward.
CASSIE: Soybeans are number one.
(laughs)
It's just the issue is it makes a mess.
So, soybeans everywhere.
She's just an easy, fun-loving ostrich...
Who eats forever.
♪ ♪
GEOFF (off-screen): I've been a vet at Disney's Animal Kingdom
for eight years now.
This was one of a number of stops on my gratitude walk,
where I walk around just looking at the animals that I've helped.
Amber's a cotton-top tamarin.
They have that very characteristic
tuft of white hair on the top.
These are monkeys that live in the forests of South America,
and their habitat is threatened every day by deforestation.
GEOFF (off-screen):
By connecting our guests with animals like Amber,
it allows us to support conservation work
beyond Animal Kingdom, and I'm really proud of that.
It's fun to watch 'em run around and exploring,
looking for the food that the keepers have hidden.
A few years ago, Amber broke her leg.
So I pinned that.
It healed up really well.
Sometimes being a vet can be a pretty tough job,
not everything goes perfectly,
and so it's great to see an animal like Amber doing so well,
years after I repaired that leg.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: The savannas at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge
have many special residents.
One of the most beloved is seven-month-old Juniper.
She is one of seven addax on the property,
a critically endangered antelope species
from Africa's Sahara Desert.
She had to be hand-raised after a sad twist of fate.
JENNIFER (off-screen): Juniper had a rough start.
She was born in August of 2021.
Unfortunately, Juniper's mother passed away
while giving birth to her,
and so she was brought to the hospital
for some pretty intensive care
during those first few weeks of her life.
It was difficult getting her onto the bottle.
It was a little touch and go there for a while.
NARRATOR: Not giving up,
Jennifer showered Juniper with love.
JENNIFER: Finally, she was able to figure it out.
She kept showing us signs that she wanted to survive.
She's a fighter.
She's our miracle baby.
NARRATOR: But recently, Juniper's health causes concern.
NATALIE: In the last few weeks
she hasn't been feeling very well.
Good girl.
Just wasn't eating well
and started losing a little bit of weight.
All right.
One morning, keepers found her not willing or able to stand up.
NARRATOR: It's crucial they figure out what's wrong.
To carry out a thorough exam, they sedate Juniper.
With just 100 or so adult addax left in the wild,
this species cannot afford any loss,
especially a young female.
NATALIE: You guys, you guys rock.
I could start shaving her and prepping her.
RYAN: Okay.
NATALIE: She's skinny. Something's not right with her.
She's gotten very thin.
(clippers buzzing)
MAN: Okay, guys, transfer her over.
JENNIFER: Sounds good, whenever you say.
All right, one, two, three.
LINDSAY: Awesome.
NATALIE (off-screen):
We're gonna go ahead and put her into our CT scanner.
Put one of those...
MAN: Got the stretcher? NATALIE: Yep, I've got her head.
NATALIE (off-screen): It'll help us with being able
to tell what we need to do next.
(scanner whirring)
JENNIFER: Is that better? MAN: Yeah, that's better.
NARRATOR: The results are alarming.
NATALIE: This foreign body is blocking
her intestinal outflow, and that's making her sick.
NATALIE (off-screen): It's strange.
It's perfectly round in every plane.
Exactly the size of a ping-pong ball.
Maybe if this ended up near her and she thought,
"Oh, what is this unusual thing?"
And then put it in her mouth and swallowed it.
Juniper has been getting much worse.
We need to get it out now.
NARRATOR: In Juniper's weakened state,
surgery is a major risk.
But it's the only option.
NATALIE (off-screen): She's a baby that has
potential for a long life,
and you're the person that's in control of that.
JENNIFER (off-screen): I'm really nervous for Juniper,
because anything can happen at any moment
in a procedure like this.
NATALIE: They're a part of your family.
JENNIFER: She's got to get through this.
NATALIE: All right, let's go find it.
NATALIE: Are you ready for initial incision? Okay.
RYAN: Beautiful. Well-executed incision.
NATALIE (off-screen): Everybody today is on a higher level
of nervous energy.
Okay. You guys ready?
I'm going in.
NATALIE (off-screen): As an SSP animal,
so that means the Species Survival Plan,
she is critical.
And she's a female, so that makes her even more critical.
RYAN: So we're actually in the abdomen
at this point in time.
NATALIE: There's about a gallon and a half
of hay and fluid,
that foreign body's floating somewhere in there.
Ohh.
I'm trying to be so careful here.
♪ ♪
Oh, I think I've got it.
Got it.
What is this thing?
It really feels like it's some sort of squishy foam ball.
♪ ♪
LINDSAY: What is this?
I think this is hair.
This is hair.
NATALIE (off-screen):
I was convinced it was a small sponge ball,
but it was made full of her own fur.
NATALIE (off-screen): Juniper lost her mom when she was young,
and so she had to be assist-reared,
and sometimes calves like that over-groom;
that is a self-soothing behavior.
These guys have very complex stomachs.
This hairball can completely screw that up,
and it can make her very, very sick.
It was definitely the right decision
to take that out when we did.
NARRATOR: The blockage is gone.
NATALIE: That's a good thing.
NARRATOR: But Juniper still has a long road to recovery.
NATALIE: Hey, you.
Reversal's going in.
Woo-hoo.
LINDSAY: Hey.
Step one, right? Wake up from surgery.
NATALIE: Hey, baby.
Anytime that you go into an anesthesia,
let alone a surgery,
with an animal that's not feeling well,
that brings my level of concern much, much higher.
But Juniper's a rock star.
She's recovered so beautifully
within just a few minutes of reversing her.
LINDSAY: I'm so relieved.
She's already been through so much in,
in her short span of life,
but I think she's proven that she's a fighter.
NATALIE: All right, big girl, now it's up to you.
Here you go, Juniper.
♪ ♪
ERIN: Good morning, guys. CAITLIN: Guys, good morning.
ERIN: All right, Logan. CAITLIN: Ready, Lo?
NARRATOR: Backstage in the rhino barn,
just a short distance away...
ERIN: It's time to wake up.
CAITLIN: Yeah, you ready?
ERIN: She says, "Nope."
She says, "Is there food involved?"
NARRATOR: Before little Logan can join the rest of her family
on the savanna, she needs to pack on pounds.
KATIE: We are gonna get a milk sample from Lola, Logan's mom,
and it is helpful for our Animal Nutrition Center partners
to make sure Logan's getting everything she needs.
You ready?
CAITLIN: All right, are you ready?
(laughs)
She's like, "Absolutely not."
Come on, Lola!
(rhino grunts)
KATIE: Good girl, come on.
There you go.
Good job, kiddo.
Let's go in and see if we can get some milk from her today.
CAITLIN: Okay, cool.
So, this is their sweet spot,
and if we rub the sweet spot they'll kick that back leg out.
Sometimes.
There it is.
All right.
I don't really have a ton of experience milking animals.
(laughs)
KAITE: Logan's coming to show you how it's done.
CAITLIN: Okay.
NARRATOR: This job needs an expert.
CAITLIN: You're here to show me how to do it?
NARRATOR: During Logan's first six months,
her mom produces more than three gallons of milk every day.
KATIE: We're thrilled,
especially with Lola being a first-time mom
that she took so well to nursing,
and she caught on really quick,
and Logan caught on really quick.
NARRATOR: By learning from Lola and Logan,
the team can help other managed populations
of this near-threatened species to thrive.
KATIE: This is fantastic.
The more natural we can keep it for mom and baby,
the less stressful it is for them,
and more nutritionally dense it is for Logan.
CAITLIN: Okay, thanks, Logan, I get it now.
You kind of have to move back and forth.
Here we go.
Good girl.
Got some milk.
KATIE: Awesome.
KATIE (off-screen): Now that we have the sample,
we're gonna send it off to our Animal Nutrition Center,
they're gonna run some tests, and we're gonna make sure that
Logan is getting everything she needs
to get nice and big and strong.
You're beautiful.
CAITLIN: Good job. KATIE: You getting comfortable?
CAITLIN: Good girl. KATIE: Good girl.
(laughs)
NARRATOR: Her belly full of milk,
little Logan takes another step closer to the savanna.
All the more reason to catch up on those Zs.
(rhino groans)
♪ ♪
At The Seas with Nemo & Friends at Epcot,
new faces appear every day.
But old friends are never far away,
like guest favorite Lil Joe.
This guy was found alone in the wild as a baby,
but the team took him in
and gave him the chance to flourish.
JEN: I love Joe the manatee.
JEN (off-screen): He is one of my favorites.
Joe is very charismatic.
I think he's very handsome.
His face is adorable.
He's pretty easygoing.
What is not to love about Joe?
NARRATOR: But recently, there's been a problem.
Despite his name, Lil Joe shouldn't be so, "Lil."
JEN: Joe's weight is under where we would like it to be,
so that's concerning for me.
Yesterday he ate about 30 heads of lettuce,
and usually he would eat 90.
We want to be able to help him,
and we can't help him if we don't know what's wrong.
NARRATOR: If only manatees could communicate with humans.
Well, turns out this clever guy kind of can.
JEN: Lil Joe started taking both of his pectoral flippers
and putting them in his mouth and kind of chewing on them.
Sometimes what that behavior tells us is
he may be uncomfortable in his mouth.
(squeaks)
NARRATOR: Time for some manatee dentistry.
And at this dentist, head protection is a must.
Joe may be underweight,
but that huge tail still packs a punch.
JEN: First I'm gonna put these under his head.
NARRATOR: An x-ray may reveal anything unusual
with Joe's mouth.
JEN: Wow, what is that?
Look at that.
KAREN: Weird.
JEN: You see this?
KAREN: Yeah.
JEN: Something doesn't look right in there.
JEN: That looks fractured.
JEN (off-screen): I can see through the tooth,
I shouldn't be able to see through the tooth.
It should be pretty solid.
There might be an infection in there
eating away at the, um, base of the tooth,
and that tooth may need to come out.
We've been searching for the reason why he is not eating,
and that tooth certainly could be it.
You can't really force a 2,000-pound animal
to open his mouth if he doesn't want to.
So, we're gonna ask very nicely
and hope that he cooperates with us today.
Okay.
MAN: Okay, here we go.
JEN: Yeah, I wouldn't stick my hands
in just any manatee's mouth.
But I do trust Joe much more than any other manatee.
Hold that, yeah.
I can easily move this first molar
back and forth with my finger,
which means that it needs to come out.
KAREN: All of his treats.
JEN: Last time I felt this tooth,
it was not mobile like this, so this is different.
I'm trying.
KAREN: Slam the door.
JEN: Oh.
KAREN: Did you take it out?
You got it?
JEN: I think I got it.
WOMAN: I'd say high-five, but.
JEN: I don't have a hand to spare.
WOMAN: That's awesome.
JEN: Sorry, buddy, let me have it, give it to me!
KAREN: Can I get some forceps?
Oh, my God, that'd be awesome.
JEN: Oh, my God, I got it. KAREN: You got it?
JEN: I got it, it's in my fingers.
I'm just trying not to drop it.
KAREN: Don't let go! JEN: Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
KAREN: Don't drop it when you take it out.
JEN: Aah! MAN: There you go.
KAREN: Oh, wow. JEN: Oh, my gosh.
KAREN: We just pulled that tooth out.
Do you want to pull my tooth out?
JEN: Wow.
So, I think it was just that one tooth that was giving trouble.
JEN (off-screen): They're made to lose their teeth frequently.
Usually they lose them on their own
and you don't need to go in and pull them out.
If this manatee starts eating, we are throwing a party.
Good job, Joe.
The next step is to get him back in the water
and see if he wants to eat.
Should be very exciting.
You can do it, big guy.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Out on the Kilimanjaro Safaris attraction
lives Animal Kingdom's wrecking crew.
♪ ♪
RAIN (off-screen): Warthogs are an intelligent species,
but also very destructive.
All of this used to be a nice grass.
(flies buzzing)
And then we put warthogs in it.
NARRATOR: Three warthogs call this place home.
Two sows, Charo and Regan.
RAIN: What good pigs.
NARRATOR: And 11-year-old boar Bodie.
RAIN (off-screen): Bodie is a really special warthog.
He is very handsome, in my opinion.
He's shy, but once he warms up to you, you'll have a friend.
He's a great pig.
You can't help but love him!
Common warthogs are grazers, so out on the savannas,
they spend most of their time walking along
digging up little tubers and roots.
NARRATOR: As well as digging for food,
warthogs open up abandoned aardvark burrows
for a cool spot out of the sun.
And big boy Bodie takes his destruction work
very seriously.
RAIN: Bodie has dug up everywhere.
Our horticulture partners do not care for this.
NARRATOR: But his urge to dig
affects more than just his habitat.
RAIN (off-screen): Somehow, in all of his digging,
we think that Bodie has damaged one of his feet.
Our veterinarians want to get that fixed.
NARRATOR: This little piggy needs a pedicure.
MAN: Hi, bud.
RAIN: Hi! How are you this morning?
It's good to see you.
NARRATOR: Bodie needs sedation
for the vet team to safely care for his feet.
RAIN: Ah, there you go.
I've been working with Bodie and getting him to a position
where he's going to lay down, um, on his belly.
Right here, hey, here you go, right there.
Oh, we're a little nervous, a little nervous.
RAIN (off-screen): So that a veterinary technician
then could do an injection in his rump.
Good boy.
Come, come on down.
Down.
All the way down.
What a good boy!
A little nervous.
It's different people.
All sorts of things going on here.
(snorting)
Oh, my goodness.
RAIN: Here, come on over.
Come here, bud. Oh, there you go.
See, we're okay. We're okay.
NARRATOR: The team at Disney focuses on animals
voluntarily participating in their own care.
RAIN: Down.
NARRATOR: And they wait for Bodie the warthog
to be completely comfortable before sedating him.
RAIN: Are you ready?
(whistle tweets)
Good boy, what a good pig, what a good pig!
All right, come on, Bodie, here we go, back.
You're gonna go in your room now.
NARRATOR: The sedative takes effect in minutes.
DAN: Let's go ahead and move him.
Keep our voices down.
RAIN: One, two, three.
DAN: Mercy.
NARRATOR: And while Bodie dreams about
whatever warthogs dream about...
DAN: We're good.
NARRATOR: The team transports him
to the veterinary treatment room for his pedicure.
RAIN: Still good. Yup.
We have an animal in the back.
Watch his tail.
Here, yeah, you want the usual spot?
I think I pulled his tail.
DAN: Heart rate is 60. That's good, settling in.
NARRATOR: They have limited time
before the sedative wears off, so Doctor Dan moves fast.
DAN: Ah, the washing of the feet.
Why is he so stinky?
He has like cheesy smell today.
When you're inches from a pig's foot,
you just have to ignore the odor.
(file whirring)
There's some liquid coming out.
It's black goo, black, smelly goo.
Explains some of the odor we've been identifying,
he has an abscess in there.
It's concerning because he could
end up in significant discomfort.
Because we found this new development in his feet,
this one needs to be protected.
NARRATOR: To help Bodie's little piggies heal,
Dan molds some custom acrylic caps.
DAN: Little bit of chemistry lab here.
This is basically a powder that mixes with a solvent.
And then over the course of a few minutes, it will harden,
so you have to work pretty quickly.
It is extremely messy.
Sort of like icing a cake, I guess?
Uh, I do not, I don't frost a lot of cakes,
which you could probably tell.
So, I'm just trying to make sure it's smooth
and that there's no gaps where stuff can get caught.
RAIN: This is looking great, we got the new caps on,
and his feet are looking fantastic, we're,
we're on the road to recovery here.
NARRATOR: Bodie will be up
on his newly treated toes any minute.
♪ ♪
RAIN: All right. Here's a good spot.
Okay.
What a good pig.
He's the best pig ever.
NARRATOR: With the care team's love and attention...
RAIN: Oh, what a good pig.
Look at that. Atta boy.
NARRATOR: And his brand new sneakers,
Bodie will be back to digging in no time.
RAIN: All right, there's a good pig right there.
Look at that.
(growls)
(elephant trumpets)
JENNIFER: Okay. Juniper!
Hi, boo-boo. Let's go.
Good girl. Scale.
Today we have our recheck exam on Juniper, checking her weight,
make sure that everything is all right.
NARRATOR: Since her hairball was removed,
Juniper's appetite has improved.
JENNIFER (off-screen): The Animal Nutrition team,
they come over and they check on her,
they even, like, write special labels on her food
that they deliver her each day.
When I get little hearts on her labels,
so I only wish that Juniper could read,
because she would know how loved and cared for she is.
Good.
Oh, wow.
She was 39.85 yesterday.
JEN: That's awesome.
JENNIFER: Can you believe it?
Seeing that weight gain, it's pretty incredible.
I'm sure if she could talk,
that she would also be overjoyed, um,
in her progress.
She looks so good.
Have some treats.
Isn't it funny that she,
she already knows which one she likes?
She's like, "Don't give me the lettuce,
I want the good stuff."
Good girl.
It's a big deal, because we're finally getting ready
to let her back with her herd and, um,
see her out onto the savanna.
NARRATOR: Back on the savanna,
Bodie puts his best foot forward...
So he can dig it.
RAIN: There he is.
The handsomest warthog ever.
NARRATOR: To see if Bodie's fancy new toe caps
are up to the task,
Disney teams have created a special treat for him;
an indestructible tree root packed with treats.
♪ ♪
RAIN: He's gonna have to roll that log and flip it around
and do some digging under it
to actually get the treats out of there.
Yeah, it's a new log for ya.
Extra yums for ya!
Oh-ho, good boy!
NARRATOR: Bodie's super sensitive nose
tells him there's something good inside.
RAIN (off-screen):
That log takes two of us to get up and into position,
because it's really heavy.
He makes it look so easy!
He's digging, he's doing all those wonderful warthog things
that before, when his feet weren't really feeling
quite their best, it really kind of limited him.
NARRATOR: Bodie is back.
RAIN: Good job, Bodie.
You're the best pig ever!
NARRATOR: Over at the Land Pavilion at Epcot,
cast members tend to crops.
More than 27,000 heads of lettuce
are produced here every year.
And today, a whole boxful makes its way
to The Seas and Lil Joe.
Doctor Jen returns to see if the painful tooth
was the root cause behind his loss of appetite.
JEN: Joe, look at this, buddy!
Look at this!
This looks like freshly cut.
Only restaurant quality for our manatee.
If he just eats one head of lettuce right now,
I will be thrilled.
Take two.
Oh.
MAN: Come on, Joe.
JEN: Get it, buddy, get it!
Oop, get it, there it is!
NARRATOR: They say that the third time...
JEN: He did it!
NARRATOR: Is the charm.
JEN: He is eating lettuce!
Good job, buddy, you did it.
You're feeling better, you're eating.
Keep eating all your lettuce.
NARRATOR: And why stop there?
How about some tasty alfalfa cubes
made especially at the Animal Nutrition Center?
JEN: Oh, you coming?
(laughs)
His little manatee whiskers,
I love them.
Oh, my gosh, that was so fun.
JEN (off-screen): I'm so happy
that he decided to come over and eat today,
not only because it shows that he's feeling better and healthy,
but also maybe that he, uh, he likes me okay.
We're gonna keep close eye on him,
make sure he keeps eating and doing well.
All good news, and he's doing great.
Bye, Joe-Joe!
(squeaks)
Love you, big guy.
(squeaks)
He's so cute.
♪ ♪
(boing)
NARRATOR: Back over at Disney's Animal Kingdom,
about a month after her first size test...
KATIE: Ooh, I love your silly little face.
NARRATOR: Logan waits to see if she finally measures up.
KATIE: That's perf, open it up just a little more.
Sorry.
That's good right there, perfect.
DOMINIQUE: Perfect.
KATIE: All right, so that's 16 inches.
See if she can squeeze through there.
KATIE (off-screen): So now that we got the milk results back,
we know that Logan is getting everything she needs from Lola,
which is really great news.
Hopefully she'll be able to make her big debut on the savanna.
All right, Dominique, go ahead and start opening door two.
Logan!
Good girls, come on down.
Come here, Logan.
DOMINIQUE: Rhino cookies.
KATIE: Miss Logan!
You're too big!
All right!
Look at you, you're all grown up.
She's too big!
DOMINIQUE: Too big!
KATIE: Good job!
KATIE (off-screen):
She is plenty big enough to go out on savanna.
She can't even get her shoulders through,
she can only barely get her head.
DOMINIQUE: I didn't realize she was this big already.
KATIE: I know, you're huge!
We know that she is definitely too big, um,
to squeeze into any little gaps out on savanna,
which is absolutely what we want.
Gonna be a big party for sure.
That was awesome, great job, everybody.
Yeah!
Woo!
JENNIFER: Hey, big girl.
Come on over.
NARRATOR: Now that Juniper is well,
she can finally return to her herd.
JENNIFER: Today's the day that all of us
have been kind of waiting for.
We've all been caring for her for so long.
I can't believe it.
WOMAN: We're making magic today, Jen.
JENNIFER: We're making magic.
For Juniper, it's like going back home for,
you know, the first time in a while.
JENNIFER (off-screen): We're all really excited
we're hoping that things will go well.
I think, um, try to get a weight on her.
All right, Lindsay's gonna open the door.
So, this should be her head.
LINDSAY: Yeah.
JENNIFER: And you should be good to go.
LINDSAY: You ready, little one?
Welcome back, Juniper!
JENNIFER: Good luck, Juniper!
Good job.
BETSY: Oh, I love the little jumps.
JENNIFER: That's adorable.
NATALIE: That's really cute.
JENNIFER: Said I wasn't gonna cry, but there I am.
LINDSAY: I know!
Wowie.
JENNIFER (off-screen):
And Juniper has such a huge fan club at this point,
everyone wants to say their goodbyes,
everyone wants to wish her well.
I'm getting emotional at this point, because, you know,
now it's our final goodbye, um, you know,
the next time I might see her is from a truck out on the savanna.
She's a happy girl.
She's been through a lot.
NARRATOR: It's been nine long weeks
since Juniper was removed from the savanna.
JENNIFER: Really, the biggest challenge is,
is just to introducing
her back to the herd; will they accept her?
Will she remember that she's an addax?
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LINDSAY: All right, big day,
Juniper is finally back on savanna.
So I'm very excited.
Something we've all been looking forward to.
JENNIFER: Her reaction is great!
"This is where I belong, this is home,
real dirt, in the sunlight again."
NARRATOR: And accepted by her family.
JENNIFER (off-screen): It's great that we can continue
the conservation for them.
Hopefully one day she'll become a mama.
LINDSAY: This is better than we could have hoped for,
this has been one of the happiest days in my career.
It's very exciting that she's back.
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NARRATOR: Over at the rhino barn...
KATIE: Lola, Logan, come on, kids.
NARRATOR: It's little Logan's big day.
KATIE: You gonna get up?
You got to get excited, come on.
Yeah, let's go. Good girl.
NARRATOR: She plans to meet her family on the savanna
for the very first time.
CAITLIN: There she is.
Logan, come here, babe.
(laughs)
KATIE: Hi, kiddo.
What's up? You ready?
You're gonna be the star.
This her first time going on savanna,
she's gonna get to explore the new space
and meet a few of our other rhinos in the crash,
so it's gonna be very exciting.
All right, little one, we'll see you for your big day, all right?
CAITLIN: Bye, Lola.
RAIN: As you know, we are gonna be introducing Lola and Logan
to the savanna.
Logan's a little more shy than some of our past rhinos,
so she may be a little bit more tucked to mom.
I think Lola is gonna be fired up and so delighted.
It's very exciting.
KATIE: My job in the rover truck right now
is to maintain a visual on Lola and Logan.
KATIE (off-screen): It really does take a village
to make sure these little ones
are happy and healthy with our herd.
(radio chirps)
CAITLIN: You are clear to send rhinos.
DOMINIQUE: Shipping Lola and Logan on the show
for the first time.
Logan is a little nervous.
She stepped out a couple of steps
and she's making sure all of her surroundings are normal.
WOMAN: Logan, have a good day.
DOMINIQUE: Looks like they're heading out
straight to the savanna now.
So, perfect.
KATIE: There they are.
Lola's leading the way out
and Logan is sticking pretty close behind her,
which is good.
She's never been in a space this big before.
NARRATOR: And there are plenty of unfamiliar faces.
KATIE (off-screen): Logan does look a little nervous,
any little noise or movement
might spook her for a little bit,
until she gets the lay of the land herself.
It's a lot to take in.
Moving a little bit further away from mom now, which is good.
She's very curious about the truck we're in right now.
I think she's starting to become more comfortable in this space.
Slowly starting to gain her confidence,
starting to have some fun out here.
She's just running around like crazy.
This is so cute and so much fun.
It's going really, really well so far.
NARRATOR: But the day has only just begun.
Cue the rest of the crash.
KATIE: Kiama is coming join the party in the wallow area.
(rhino whines)
She's contact calling.
Looks like she's gonna approach Lola first.
NARRATOR: Seven-year-old Kiama is the first adult rhino
Logan has met outside the barn.
And at just over 4300 pounds,
she's more than six times bigger.
KATIE: Kiama's getting a little bold and started to chase Logan.
But Logan is quick to get out of the way.
NARRATOR: Mom to the rescue.
KATIE: She's saying, "This is my baby,
and you keep your distance."
This is exactly the kind of behavior we want to see
from a first-time mom.
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(snorting)
Logan's still staying confident.
So, that's good to see.
NARRATOR: As the family crashes in,
Logan's one-year-old half-brother Ranger
brings up the rear.
KATIE: Logan's a little unsure.
Ranger is really trying to get Logan moving and playing.
Ranger's just very excited
to have another little one out here.
NARRATOR: Looks like these siblings
will become fast friends.
KATIE: I'm really glad that they've settled in
so quickly together.
NARRATOR: Logan is one of the family now.
KATIE: My heart is so happy right now.
I am so proud of Logan.
I really hope that our guests see the babies
and see the adults interacting with them,
and just see how cool rhinos are.
Captioned by Cotter Media Group.