Animal Park
Animal Park is a TV show on BBC2. Cute critters and caring keepers. Kate Humble and Ben Fogle explore Longleat Safari Park, meeting a host of exotic, fascinating animals and the people who look after them. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 49 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2025.
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Animal Park
The hippos arrive after a 700-mile journey, but will they take their first steps into a state-of-the-art home?
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As the keepers head home for the evening, the cameras keep rolling. So, what really goes on after dark?
Could hand-reared cheetah Xena finally be pregnant? And we find out if you can escape a lion by climbing a tree.
Will emu dad Biscuit stay the course and incubate his eggs? Meanwhile, Klaus the majestic lion has a check-up on his paw.
A wallaby mum faces a devastating diagnosis as the keepers fight to save her.
A risky procedure for lion Klaus takes a worrying turn, and Kate is introduced to the park’s largest tarantulas.
The hand-reared fennec foxes must be weaned, but faced with their first meal, will they eat? Meanwhile, Hamza goes in search of Longleat’s finest whiskers.
Could love be in the air for the cheetahs? Elsewhere, major plans for the hippos are taking shape.
The keepers must work fast to keep a baby porcupine safe, and Kate catches up with elderly lioness Malaika
Much-loved lioness Malaika is diagnosed with heart disease, and Meroni the anteater turns 16.
The team face a tense tiger weigh-in, while the park’s tortoises wake from hibernation.
July 2025
The team fight to save a rare vulture chick, while the painted dogs face the ultimate feeding challenge.
The lions spark drama over an ostrich egg treat, and a lonely lorikeet searches for love.
The team race to get ready for the return of hippos, but putting different species together in the same space could prove deadly.
The keepers race to protect ageing lioness Malaika before the pride turns on her, and Ben attempts to outsmart the macaques before they destroy their new playground.
June 2025
It’s a race against time to unify a pride of lions before they turn on one of the females. Can old boys Klaus and Simba save the day? And Megan McCubbin encourages a native to return to the woods.
Keepers are forced to hand-rear a pair of precious fennec fox babies, but will the round-the-clock care be enough to keep them alive? And Kate Humble experiences being hunted by a pack of wolves.
May 2025
An exciting new species is on its way to the park, but are the keepers ready for these ferocious predators? And can Hamza Yassin uncover a lorikeet love match in the aviary?
Lemurs Maurice and Angelo are rushed to the vets for life-saving surgery on some shocking battle wounds. The keepers are on standby as a seahorse dad gives birth.
Staff race to stop one of the park’s most important breeding programmes falling apart. And could it be 'maybe baby' for one of the park’s most endangered species?