Secret Life of the Safari Park

Froja, Knowsley's elderly elk, is on a special diet, but the park's fallow deer and bullying bison keep nicking her dinner. Keepers worry that baby Bobby the baboon may be partially blind. And Meru the white rhino might be pregnant.

In their home in the African Savannah, eland antelopes tend to have their calves during the warm dry season. However, Purple shows signs of having given birth just as the cold autumn Merseyside weather is starting to bite. The concern is that her new-born could be anywhere on the 30-acre Knowsley site. Vet Jen decides it's time for a full health check under a general anaesthetic for aged lion Ted, while Bactrian camels Marvin and Merlin cross the Pennines from Yorkshire looking for love.

Dominant male bison Baldr is acting up and causing chaos, but the reasons for his behaviour are not readily apparent. There's mutiny in the air in the baboon troop as dominant male Snout is injured in a challenge for his crown. It seems his rival is now making moves on Snout's queen, Gemini. The lowland tapir relies on its long snout to navigate, but Shaun seems to be struggling, and the keepers are worried about the impact on his two sons.

Rhino bull Shaka is lined up for a session of mating. However, as soon becomes apparent, rhino mating is a long, complex - and potentially dangerous - affair. An elderly female red river hog has lost her partner and her health has gone into decline, so it is hoped that a young new hog can help. Conflict continues among the baboons as the males jostle for ranking in the hierarchy. Elderly baboon Fang uses his wits and an ostrich egg to keep himself out of trouble.