Channel 4 documentary goes behind the scenes at Chester Zoo
A documentary about life at a zoo will return to television screens this month.
The Secret Life of the Zoo will return to Channel 4 on November 17, documenting day-to-day life at Chester Zoo.
New footage captured for the series takes viewers closer to the zoo's 20,000 animals than ever before.
At the start of 2016, more than four million viewers per episode tuned in to series one of the show.
Now the documentary series is back, putting more cameras in more places the public never gets to see at Britain's most popular zoo. From the difficult birth of a baby zebra, to elephant mating, moving a giant python, the series will tell the stories of extraordinary rites of passage in the lives of some of Chester's animals, many of which are rare and endangered.
The show uses a micro-rig to capture animal behaviour at eye level.
And Chester's keepers and animal care staff will reveal their close relationships with animals they have cared for over many years.
Many of the animals in the zoo are threatened with extinction.
Viewers will see how some of the rarest animals in the world, from Eastern black rhino to Sumatran tigers, are helped to breed.
And they will also see how babirusa give birth, sloths form pair bonds, Asiatic lions mate, and orangutans protect their territory.
