Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina

The zoo welcomes a timid, new giraffe to the herd as a pregnant bat prepares to give birth and devoted keepers care for an epileptic chimp

The zoo vets are swamped. A big gator needs blood drawn, a fiery lioness needs its tooth extracted, and puffin parents wait for their eggs to hatch

Zoo vets treat seven pythons, orphaned otter pups go to fish school, and keepers rush to help Arctic foxes with mysterious injuries

Keepers hope for a long-awaited sand cat kitten; a nervous puffin chick learns to swim, and rescued black bear cubs prepare for life outside the zoo