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Wild Bear Rescue

Black bear cubs are often orphaned when their mothers are struck by vehicles or killed by hunters. To the rescue, literally, comes Angelika and Peter Langen, the proprietors of Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter in British Columbia, the world's only licensed grizzly bear rehab facility.
201712 episodesTV-G
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  1. S1 E1 - A Cub With a Kick
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    Northern Lights Shelter is crawling with a record number of black bears when a seriously injured new cub comes in. Angelika works around the clock to try to save her. Volunteer Thomas is put in charge of raising a fawn who becomes an internet sensation after a farmer delivered her by roadside C-section.
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  2. S1 E2 - A Taste of Freedom
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    Angelika needs to start releasing the yearling black bears back to the wild, but tranquilizing the first two proves difficult. Volunteers Kim and Amy try to release two squirrels they've raised from infancy, but the job takes a funny and humiliating turn.
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  3. S1 E3 - Catch and Release
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    Angelika is about to release four more yearling bears back to the wild when she gets a more pressing call. A mother bear has been shot and three orphaned cubs need to be rescued. Tanja and Kim take over the release of two yearling bears and see how basic instincts instantly take over.
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  4. S1 E4 - Cub Trauma
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    Angelika is preparing to move the cubs into a bigger cage when two new traumatized black bears arrive. One is showing signs of extreme stress while the other just curls up in the corner of his pen. Angelika must figure out how to help them both.
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  5. S1 E5 - Bearly Ready
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    The last two yearling bears to be released seem to grow too attached to the volunteers. If Angelika can't teach them a healthy fear of humans, they could put the whole bear rehab program in jeopardy.
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  6. S1 E6 - Open Gate
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    The Northern Lights team prep for their biggest event of the year, the shelter's annual Open House. As hundreds arrive Angelika tries to rescue a fawn mauled by dogs, while Kim worries the crowd might spook one of the shyest bear cubs.
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  7. S1 E7 - Roadside Triage
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    Peter and Angelika are called out to rescue two black bear cubs whose mother was killed by a car, but a surprise call sends them on a second rescue mission midway. Volunteer Thomas makes an important decision about his career. Kim and Shawn rescue an injured fawn but it is unclear if it will survive.
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  8. S1 E8 - The Elusive Ones
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    Angelika is working 24/7 when she makes an uncharacteristic mistake, leaving a cage door unlocked. Two cubs escape and she must try to get them back. Meanwhile, Peter tries to capture a wily wolf named Odin.
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  9. S1 E9 - Mud and Guts
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    It's been the rainiest summer in years and the black bear enclosure has turned into a mudbath, making it a potential breeding ground for infection. One cub gets sick while another falls and rips open her belly. Angelika and Peter race to complete a bigger, safer enclosure for the bears.
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  10. S1 E10 - Hungry Bears
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    Fights break out in the bear cage as Angelika struggles to find enough food to fatten the cubs up for winter. A fawn goes missing. A rescue gets dangerous when a cub feels cornered.
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  11. S1 E11 - Grizzlies!
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    It's the first grizzly cub rescue of the season. Tanya and Peter head to the coast to search for an orphan grizzly that has been spotted wandering alone, but the cub proves elusive. Back at the shelter Angelika must tranquilize and move 40 black bears quickly to make room for the incoming grizzly.
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  12. S1 E12 - Lights Out
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    August 2, 2017
    22min
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    Winter is approaching and the shelter team is prepping 40 cubs to hibernate together when new volunteer Brooke notices two cubs have become deathly ill. Angelika and the local vet fight to save their lives.
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Directors
Brad Quenville
Studio
Indigenius
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