Ep. 8

City Wildlife Rescue

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The rescue team responds to a call about an opossum stuck in a fence, but what they find isn't the type of animal that plays dead. And a goose with a badly injured foot gets some physiotherapy before it returns to its family in the wild.

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Feb 25, 2019

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