The Secret Life of the Zoo – C4

From a limping flamingo to a family of balding otters, Chester’s where the action is this week in The Secret Life of the Zoo on C4

In the short-clawed otter enclosure at Chester Zoo, keeper Hannah has noticed that the six youngest pups are missing patches of fur on their backs, and so is their big sister, Betsy, in this week’s The Secret Life of the Zoo on C4.

Is it an illness or infection causing the condition, or is the stress of being in a large family causing some strange behaviour?

Chester’s otters are going bald as we see in this week’s The Secret Life of the Zoo on C4

Since losing his best pals to an awful virus, young elephant Anjan is behaving badly and getting on everyone’s nerves.

The danger is the herd will ostracize him unless he changes his ways, but luckily help is on hand from an unlikely source.

While there’s a nervous new arrival in the enclosure dedicated to the dik-dik (a small antelope), the keepers are worried about flamingo Hazel, who has a nasty limp.

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TV Times rating: ****

Joanne Lowles has been writing about TV since 2002. After graduating from Cardiff University with a Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism, she worked for All About Soap magazine covering the ups and downs of life on the cobbles, the square and the Dales.

Next came nearly 10 years at TV Times magazine as a writer and then deputy features editor. Here she spent many happy days interviewing the biggest names in entertainment and visiting the sets of some of our most popular shows including Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife and Strictly Come Dancing.

With a love of nature and wildlife she’s also interviewed the leading experts in this area including David Attenborough, Chris Packham and Steve Backshall. She’s also travelled the world visiting Mongolia, Canada and South Africa to see how the best in the business make the most brilliant natural history documentaries.

Freelance since 2013, she is now is a digital writer and editor for What to Watch, previews the best on the box for TV Times mag each week and loves being constantly surprised, entertained and informed by the amazing TV that she is lucky enough to watch.