Two rare bonobo babies are both rejected by their mothers. Keepers step in to hand-raise the babies and begin the potentially dangerous process of re-introducing them to the other bonobos in a zoo. Two baby seals are rescued off the UK coastline. In France, we witness the birth of four cheetah cubs. A lemur mother struggles to keep an eye on her newborn twins as they learn to climb.

This episode follows a unique project in Africa that uses surrogate monkey mothers to care for orphaned vervet babies. In the UK, two Siberian tiger cubs face hostile reception from their own dad. In North America, a newborn peccary with deformed front legs is taught to walk. In France, a vet performs a cesarean section on a pregnant spider monkey to save both mother and baby.