Documentary
Penguins on a Plane: Great Animal Moves follows the expert handlers entrusted with transporting some of the world's most precious and challenging cargo safely to their destinations.


A flock of gentoo penguins are transported from New Zealand to Birmingham on a plane. Pinky the two-tonne hippo is transported from a West Midlands safari park to Southern France. Murray McGregor transports millions of bee's from Italy to the UK.

Shaun Foggett takes a delivery of three salt-water crocodiles to Brize Norton. These crocodiles are one of the most dangerous breeds and are being sent from a zoo in Normandy after overpopulation. A six-foot, seven-stone bow-mouth ray-shark named Boris is being transported to Blackpool. Matt Ford has to lure two timid Arctic wolves into transport crates.
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