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A baby black rhino takes her first steps at Chester Zoo, and seconds-from-disaster kittens are found in a Porsche 944. Nature’s Newborns brings you both moments up close.
We witness Emma the black rhino’s long-awaited birth, the calf’s first wobbly steps, and how keepers Chas and Tom prepared the pen for that blink-and-you’ll-miss-it labor. Zoo vet Gabby then checks the newborn using a thermal imaging camera, revealing what the team watches for as winter closes in. Beyond Chester, we meet white rhinos in South Lakes with David Gill and hear why a “piece of fingernail” is costing rhinos their future. Then to Exmoor, where foals appear from deep gorse after millennia on the moor, guided by families like Abby Westcott’s. Finally, a Birmingham scrapyard halts the crusher when tiny mews echo from a Porsche boot—what happens next surprises everyone.
From rare births to unlikely rescues, this episode shows the fragile first days that decide a species’ future. Watch to see what kept each newborn safe—and what almost didn’t.
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