DUTCH FILM WORKS BBC Earth: Wild School - Blu-ray

What if young animals lose their parents? Do they still have a chance to survive? They do if they get help from the heroes of Wild School: volunteers who prepare young animals for a life in the wild.

Funny, fascinating and moving, Wild School follows six animals left on their own at a young age, including an orangutan, a black bear and a lion. In various shelters, these babies and toddlers are prepared for life in the wild. The road to adulthood is hard enough, but what are your chances of survival when you are all alone in a hostile environment? They would be hopeless without the help of the volunteers, who teach the animals key survival tactics in a short period of time.

Each episode closely follows the process of raising them: the trial and error, the touching moments with their handlers, the triumphs and tragedies and, finally, the moment of truth. The moment when the animals return to the wild ...