Secrets of the Zoo: Down Under

For the first time in 10 years, Taronga vets get up close to a silverback gorilla.

The Taronga Zoo attempts to create history by successfully exporting two platypuses to America.

As the largest bushfires on record devastate the country, Taronga Zoo vets take the battle to save Australian native wildlife to the front line.

A pregnant ringtail lemur is badly injured in a fight and Taronga's vets have grave concerns for her unborn baby.

Keepers try and solve the mystery of why Leslie the Andean condor doesn't want to fly; anxious zoo staff wait patiently for the long overdue birth of a rare baby bongo.

Taronga's vets treat a python with chronic back pain, and staff throw a party for the zoo's oldest resident, Esmerelda, the 103-year-old giant Aldabra tortoise.