• 2012
  • TV-G
  • 22m
Wild Animal Orphans

Summary Wild orphaned animals like cheetas, endangered wild dogs ,baboons and Meerkats and more are cared for and loved in Namibia while they recover and are returned to the wild by the Van Meuren Family. View more details

  • 2012
  • TV-G
  • 22m

Wild Animal Orphans

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Adrian Galley Marlice Van Vuuren Rudie van Vuuren Ian Baines

All cast & crew

8.7

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 5, 2012

Countries of origin : Netherlands South Africa

Language : English

Filming locations : Namibia

Production companies : Off the Fence Homebrew Films

Summary Wild orphaned animals like cheetas, endangered wild dogs ,baboons and Meerkats and more are cared for and loved in Namibia while they recover and are returned to the wild by the Van Meuren Family. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 5, 2012

Countries of origin : Netherlands South Africa

Language : English

Filming locations : Namibia

Production companies : Off the Fence Homebrew Films

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
Painted Pups
In this first episode, we meet Marlice's family - husband Rudie, and son Zacheo. A new orphaned baby baboon with a foot injury arrives at Naankuse and Marlice treats her in the clinic. Back at home the two five month old leopard cubs are causing havoc in the house.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Baby Baboons
At the entrance gate of Harnas some neighbors give a small orphaned baboon into the care of the orphanage.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Signs in the Sand
When they lose the UHF signal from a collared leopard they had released in the desert, Marlice and Kiewiet, Naankuse's expert tracker, must look for the animal on foot.
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
Cat Trouble
Marlice's day starts with the big and juvenile baboon troops, but a change in events take her to a neighboring farm to rescue a trapped leopard.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
The Big Relocate
Two male leopards and three lions have to swap enclosures - a dangerous exercise.
Episode 6 • Apr 16, 2012
Big Cats and Baby Baboons
Umbili and Shakira, the two leopard cubs, have been moved out of Marlice's house and into their own enclosure and it's time for the baby baboons to be introduced to the juvenile troop. Nature.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
New Born
A year has gone by since our last episode and a lot has changed at Naankuse. We meet Nicklai, Rudie and Marlice's five month old son. Zacheo now goes to school in Windhoek by bus. Umbili and Shakira have grown quite a bit and were moved to a bigger enclosure, Marlice still feeds them daily before checking up on the wild dogs. Nature.
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
New Beginnings and Sad Endings
After almost two days of tracking a suspected poacher is apprehended on a neighboring farm, but matters turn for the worst when a snared cheetah is found dead. Nature is unforgiving.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
Operation Wild Dog
A wild dog with a snakebite wound and a caracal with a broken leg need attention before Marlice checks in on two cheetahs that will soon be released back into the wild.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
Cheetah Rescue
Three of the baby baboons are castrated, as Marlice doesn't want them to breed in captivity; and the next day she leaves for the northern part of Namibia to fetch two semi-tame cheetahs whose owner can't look after them any longer.
Episode 11 • Dec 31, 1969
Tooth Trouble and Game Count
Marlice and Rudie take a cheetah with a serious tooth condition to the vet and after the good rains that they have had it is time to do an aerial game count.
Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1969
Preparing for the Big Release
For their biggest release operation yet, Marlice and Rudie, with the help of others dart, collar and load seven cheetahs and one leopard - all in one day.
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
The Big Release
In their biggest operation of this kind yet Rudie and Marlice release seven cheetahs and a leopard in two separate areas of Namibia, Africa.
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