A hungry pride of lions needs to make a kill, but their best hunter has gone missing. An endangered rhino gives birth, but the rangers fear the calf will be vulnerable to predators.

A zebra foal is threatened by a leopard that has stolen into the herd's enclosure, while a teenage rhino reluctant to leave his mother is encouraged by rangers to find a mate. A hyena cub who is the runt of his litter is used to coming last when food is divided up between his siblings - until he happens upon a dead antelope.