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113 Episodes 2014 - 2025
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This time, Anna wants to introduce a bird with a mighty big mouth - a pelican. More specifically, it's the brown pelican, the smallest of the eight pelican species. But what does "small" even mean? When it flies, it has a wingspan of two meters. Even a golden eagle can't reach any larger. And its mouth and throat pouch hold ten liters of fluid - let's see who can match that. Its favorite food is fish, and there's plenty of it off the coast of Florida. But that's precisely where the catch lies: where there are fish, fishermen aren't far away. And where fishermen cast their lines, fishhooks fly about. For seabirds like the pelican, these can quickly become life-threatening. In Florida, America's Sunshine State, Anna visits a seabird rescue center and meets two pelicans: the cheeky Sweet Pie and the blind Sweet Bay. While Sweet Pie gives Anna a good run for her money while she cleans her, Sweet Bay is delighted with the fish that Anna feeds by hand. During the vet visit, the animal reporter even puts her hand on a pelican and looks deep into its throat. The boat then takes her to Sarasota Bay. Here, Anna can observe brown pelicans in their natural habitat: hunting, relaxing on a sandbar, or preening their feathers in the mangroves. Suddenly, Anna spots a group of white pelicans. A rarity. They are among the largest seabirds in the world and have just flown from the north to the warmer coastal regions of Florida. What a wonderful coincidence. Back at the harbor, Anna and animal rights activist Beth notice another brown pelican. But something is wrong with it. The case quickly becomes clear: A fishing hook is stuck in the poor animal, and it is dragging the fishing line behind it. Now it's all about the animal's welfare. Can Anna and Beth save the pelican?
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Reindeer pull Santa's sleigh-or so the story goes-and live in the forests of the North. These special deer are perfectly adapted to life in the Arctic cold. They have long, thick fur and hooves that are up to 2 cm long.
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Animal reporter Anna has traveled to the Andean highlands. There she wants to observe camels up close: Camels? Yes. Llamas and alpacas, the smaller relatives of these "ships of the desert," live at dizzying altitudes in South America.
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While animal reporter Anna battles her way through the rainforest of Ecuador in South America, a woolly monkey performs acrobatics high in the treetops. It is Anna's first encounter with New World monkeys. The monkeys are so named because America, the "New World," was only discovered a good 500 years ago. At the ammaZOONnico rescue center, Anna meets even more New World monkeys with their characteristic, widely spaced nostrils. She is particularly fascinated by the squirrel monkeys. She devises a fun game for the intelligent monkeys, which even includes popcorn. Most of the center's monkeys are being released back into the wild. Anna accompanies the male woolly monkey, Hermann, on an exciting journey deep into the rainforest. There, he is to meet his new family: two females and a young one. Will they accept Hermann as their new leader? Only then is the group suitable for release into the wild. At a secret location, Anna finally witnesses how previously released woolly monkeys enjoy their lives in the wild.
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Mice are found all over the world. House mice, in particular, have always found barns and pantries to be a paradise. So Anna begins her search for the small rodents on a farm near Münster. Mouse droppings lead her and biologist Dirk to a nest full of young. Mice reproduce rapidly: a pair can produce over 100 in just a few weeks. Anna learns how to drive away the cheeky rodents without killing them from Jens, who researches mice at the Julius Kühn Institute in Münster. With him, she checks traps used to catch mice alive at the edge of fields. Using the field mice, biologist Annika demonstrates an experiment to the animal reporter in which she prepares feeding stations with various scents. She wants to find out which substances "smell" so bad to mice that they avoid them. Perhaps this could be a method to keep the rodents away from cornfields. At the Allwetterzoo in Münster, Dirk shows Anna the thumb-sized pygmy mice, which she can lure from their hiding places with food. The rare spiny mouse is also curious: It's actually prickly - like a small hedgehog.
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Anna had originally planned to drive. But the car's cables were badly damaged. The animal reporter had a hunch about who might have done it. And her suspicion was confirmed: Henry, the head of the Hankensbüttel Otter Center, recognized the damage.
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For animal reporter Anna, everything today revolves around snakes - more precisely, the six native snake species in Germany.
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Are ravens really that smart? And why are they considered harbingers of bad luck? To find out, Anna visits Marco, a film animal trainer who lives near Hamburg. Here, Anna meets Penny, a raven, and is immediately fascinated by the bright and curious Penny. It's not easy to keep such a clever and cheeky bird. Marco has to constantly invent new games for Penny to keep her from getting bored. Together with Anna, he presents the female raven with a box of food. Penny first has to figure out how to open the box before she can reach the treats. To Anna's surprise, Penny doesn't immediately pounce, but carefully circles the unfamiliar object first. She always stays on guard - so she can't be caught off guard by something completely unexpected. Pretty clever. Penny isn't the only corvid living with Marco. He also shows Anna "the others": They are three-week-old jackdaws. They greedily gobble up the pieces of meat Anna gives them. Refreshed, they simply hop off Anna's hand, and the reporter has to make sure she quickly catches the cheeky jackdaws again.
Episode 36
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Where can I find the ibex? It's all uphill. That's quite strenuous - but it's worth the effort. Since ibex were almost extinct 100 years ago, the Innsbruck Alpine Zoo regularly releases young ibex into the wild. And this time, Anna is there live.
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This time, Anna is searching for Europe's largest gallinule: the capercaillie. Males grow up to one meter tall and weigh five kilograms. But despite their size, these birds are rarely seen in German forests. Because humans are encroaching on their habitats, the shy capercaillie no longer have peace. These beautiful birds are threatened with extinction. But that could change. In Lichterfelde, Brandenburg, the reporter is waiting for a plane full of capercaillie. Animal researcher Lars brings the gallinules from Sweden every year to resettle them in Lower Lusatia. Anna is right in the middle of it all, helping to unload and release the capercaillie into the wild. Finally, she encounters a capercaillie and hears its famous mating song.
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Anna sets off on a date with the largest deer in Europe, the moose. In Jörg's moose enclosure, she meets Norbert, a tame, nine-year-old bull moose. Anna can not only pet Norbert, she can even sit on him. And then Norbert even gives Anna a wet kiss on the cheek. Now Anna also knows what it feels like to be kissed by a moose. Norbert is so trusting because he came to Jörg as a three-month-old orphan from a breeding station in Sweden. Jörg raised him with a bottle and Norbert has become very tame. You couldn't get that close to a wild moose. Although moose are loners and can manage quite well on their own, Norbert has company. Jörg has brought three more young moose from Sweden: two females and the little bull Willfried. Anna can think of names for the two female moose.
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This time Anna is diving into the world of marine dinosaurs - giants that ruled the oceans millions of years ago. They were huge, had sharp teeth, scaly corneas and looked terrifying. Their closest relatives are still alive today, but who are they? Anna sets out to find them. With the dinosaur researcher Bernd, Anna builds a model of a Tylosaurus. It is twelve meters long. At the same time, she is looking for the modern-day relatives of these marine iguanas. The tail fin reminds Anna a lot of a shark. Is this predatory fish perhaps related to marine iguanas? But the four fins of the marine iguana look more like the flippers of a sea turtle. And with its shell, the sea turtle is pretty similar to a dinosaur anyway. Is it the animal we are looking for? But a look into its mouth - at its forked tongue - gives Anna another idea. The further Bernd and Anna build the model, the more the Tylosaurus takes shape. And Anna continues to research the relatives of the marine dinosaurs. In the end, she finds what she is looking for: the animal still looks similar to the Tylosaurus, but is much smaller.
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Anna wants to learn more about the red panda, so she traveled to China. Because there are only a few animals left in the wild, she visited a research station in Chengdu.
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Anna is visiting an extraordinary kindergarten today, located high up in the mountains. Anyone wanting to play here needs to have a good head for heights and be extremely sure-footed. That's why only extraordinary young animals attend this kindergarten: chamois kids. For these acrobatic mountain dwellers, the steep, rocky slopes are a wonderful adventure playground.
Episode 83
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Animal reporter Anna is stranded on the coast of southern Namibia. Here, she's keeping a close eye on a particularly amusing bird: the African penguin. Accompanying her is wildlife researcher Jessica, who has been monitoring the populations of the colonies for many years. Now Anna is helping her with her daily penguin tasks: feeding sick animals, counting molting penguins, weighing young chicks, and cleaning nesting boxes. Anna hadn't expected to find any penguins in Africa at all. But in the south of the continent, the sea is cold and teeming with schools of fish. Large colonies nest on the offshore islands. On land, the African penguins waddle around clumsily with their stubby wings sticking out, panting like dogs and snapping at each other. But in the water, they are transformed: there, they reveal themselves to be well-camouflaged, incredibly agile swimmers. They dive, hunt for fish, and dart out of the water - always on guard against their enemies, such as fur seals or sharks. Anna hadn't expected to find any penguins in Africa. But the African penguins are threatened. Due to overfishing, they are finding less and less food for their young. Oil spills have also drastically reduced their population in recent decades.
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Today Anna is meeting an animal she's never heard of before: the takin. It looks like a cross between a cow and a goat, or a wildebeest. Takins are indeed among the most unknown hoofed animals in the world, even in their native China. Anna is traveling there to see the animals in the wild. Beforehand, at Hellabrunn Zoo, zookeeper Niels tells her many fascinating things about the takin herd he cares for. No one is allowed into the enclosure with the animals, because takins are truly dangerous. But there is a training station where Niels lures the female takin, Franzi, to. This allows Anna to get a close look at the animal. And in the end, she also learns why takins smell so bad. In China, Anna goes with ranger Feda in Tang Jia He National Park to search for wild takins. Anna is already wondering if they'll ever see them again. But Feda knows a trick he can use to attract the animals. Will it work this time?
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Anna meets the world's third-largest ratite, the rhea. However, she doesn't encounter it in its native South America, but in the heart of Germany, in the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Frank, who has been studying these large ratites for many years, takes Anna on a rhea safari. At Schaalsee, however, Anna can only observe the wild rheas from a distance. So she visits Andreas, who breeds rheas.
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Anna sets off with mouse researcher David in search of the Bavarian short-eared vole. Few people have ever seen this small mammal, as the cute vole usually hides underground. Equipped with camera traps and live traps, however, the quest might just succeed. At the Alpine Zoo in Innsbruck, Anna then visits the reserve population of the Bavarian short-eared vole. A small breeding group there is intended to ensure the survival of the species.
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Thanks to the work of many dedicated researchers, the red kite is once again better protected in Germany. And because half of all red kites worldwide breed here, we in Germany bear a particularly heavy responsibility for the conservation of this magnificent bird of prey. Anna is following two nature conservation projects that use state-of-the-art technology to ensure that the red kite continues to thrive here.