Game capture is a part of everyday life for game reserves and a vital part of conservation. Yet the process is potentially life threatening, particularly for the world’s tallest land mammal, a 20 ft giraffe. Working with these highly skittish creatures requires constant monitoring and the minimization of as much stress as possible. To do so veterinarians rely on the revolutionary tranquilising drug M99, which can bring a 2 000 pound giraffe down with ease. However, convincing the animal to walk willingly into a steel recovery box is still a feat to marvel at.
Up Next in Season 1
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BAR03 - Hippo Translocation
Wildlife veterinarian, Brett Gardner, is called in to translocate two adolescent hippo bulls trapped in a shrinking dam with an overly aggressive dominant male. The move is fraught with danger as the animals consistently outwit their captors, chomping through lassos and submerging in the cover of...
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BAR04 - White Rhino Dehorning
South Africa’s rhino population is under siege. Over the past nine years nearly 7 000 of the countries rhinos have been poached and often brutally killed for their horns. In a final and desperate bid to deter rhino poachers, conservationists are now performing dehorning operations to remove the h...
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BAR05 - White Rhino Chipping
As the war against rhino poaching in Africa intensifies, conservationists are being forced to turn to ever more unique methods and innovative technologies in their bid to save the last of these endangered species. One approach is to insert a GPS microchip into a drilled hole in the horn. The chip...
