L'oasi degli animali

Scrolling through some TV shows on my TV and saw an elephant in labor then giving birth. That was it...I was totally hooked! While the animals are awesome, the other part that keeps me watching are the staff at the zoo. Their dedication. love and knowledge of all the animals is beyond imagination. Keep this show on the air for years to come so that everyone can love it and learn from it like I do!

My wife started watching this show while I was in the same room reading my book, and while I usually have no problems tuning her shows out, this one dragged me in over and over, until I finally just closed my book and fully invested.

Great people taking care of challenging and unique animals. The level of care that is given to each animal is wonderful to see, and a nice balm for the bad taste left in all our mouths the other recent "zoo" show left us.

This is animal care done right and done with love for the creatures we share it with.

You really get a new appreciation for what goes on at a zoo from watching this show. I almost feel like I'm right the with the animals.

Secrets of the Zoo series are all good, but in my opinion the Columbus / Wilds series is so much more personable, likeable, educational, etc. Love the others too, but I really felt like this series also exhibited the professionals in THEIR natural habitats. Each and every one of em doing what they were clearly born to do, and they seem to have quite a bit of freedom to enjoy and excel at it.

I watched this one day because there wasn't anything else on and I was bored. I couldn't get over how bonded one of the flamingoes was to one of the female staff. I always thought flamingoes were boring and didn't have much for personalities until then. My experience with them in person (on the rare occasion that I've been in a warm place that had them on display) was that they just mostly stand around on one leg shaking their feathers every once in a while. But this one on the program had imprinted on and went nuts over this woman and it was pretty funny to watch.

This program shows a lot of detail about how the handlers in the zoo and conservation park deal with the animals, the objectives of the animals being there, why they do things the way they do, etc. It's very informative and the people are fairly likeable. I hope there will be more episodes in the future.