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The Trevanion family decide to make a fresh start and emigrate to South Africa to set up an animal reserve.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Wild at Heart Season 2 Episode 9 - Episode Nine
    9.0/10(29 votes)

    #1 - Episode Nine

    S2:E9

    Du Plessis's birthday celebrations don't go according to plan. He's been told he has angina and doesn't feel like celebrating.

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  2. Wild at Heart Season 4 Episode 1 - Episode 1
    8.9/10(32 votes)

    #2 - Episode 1

    S4:E1

    Danny is unable to get custody of Evan. The gang try and save a baby elephant who has been abandoned. Danny finds himself pushed to the limit as a father and a vet.

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  3. Wild at Heart Season 2 Episode 10 - Episode Ten
    8.8/10(26 votes)

    #3 - Episode Ten

    S2:E10

    The residents at Leopard’s Den are reeling from the lion attack. Danny has been given the all-clear to go home but Du Plessis is still unconscious. Will he pull through?

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  4. Wild at Heart Season 1 Episode 6 - Episode Six
    8.7/10(43 votes)

    #4 - Episode Six

    S1:E6

    Danny is concerned that poachers may be in the area and when he finds one of his zebras has been killed, he and Du Plessis stake out the grazing area. They find more dead animals, but these were not killed by poachers. Tests reveal anthrax is the cause and Danny imposes a quarantine on Leopards Den. Sarah is upset by her friend Izzy and goes looking for a missing lion cub, but she collapses. The family must wait to see whether Sarah has anthrax or is just allergic to the vaccine.

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  5. Wild at Heart Season 2 Episode 1 - Episode One
    8.7/10(32 votes)

    #5 - Episode One

    S2:E1

    As Sarah agrees to plan a wedding reception to aid finance which is severely lacking, Tate has an accident whilst illegally hunting and this leads to his death despite Danny's best efforts. Nomsa's daughter, Thandi arrives and becomes Evan and Olivia's teacher.

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  6. Wild at Heart Season 3 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    8.7/10(28 votes)

    #6 - Episode 5

    S3:E5

    Danny berates a tourist for carelessly hitting a cow while driving through the township. He’s stunned to learn that the woman is Kriel’s wife, Amy (Jessie Wallace). Sarah is dismayed when she discovers that her mother has invited a journalist to review Leopard’s Den, but Caroline reassures her that the woman and her husband will have an unforgettable time. As Evan and Olivia are staying away for longer, Sarah wants to make the most of their temporary freedom, but Danny is called away by Kriel, who has found a rooikat trapped in a snare. While treating the wild cat, Danny despairs of his lack of equipment and wishes he had the facilities of an animal hospital. He’s taken aback when Kriel suggests they build one.

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  7. Wild at Heart Season 3 Episode 7 - Episode 7
    8.7/10(25 votes)

    #7 - Episode 7

    S3:E7

    Max's parents are from old South Africa and don't approve of the wedding and the omens are bad when Max sees the bride before the wedding. The drought continues and a fire threatens the marriage, the hospital and the house. Max is the hero and Kriel the coward while Max's father proves that a leopard can change it's spots.

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  8. Wild at Heart Season 3 Episode 8 - Episode 8
    8.7/10(29 votes)

    #8 - Episode 8

    S3:E8

    The hospital is lost in the fire, but the animals are now in danger of being trapped in the flames, so the Trevanions rush to help them. Disaster strikes and the family has to decide what it can do in the face of such tragedy. Africa has been their saviour and now could be their undoing.

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  9. Wild at Heart Season 4 Episode 4 - Episode 4
    8.7/10(26 votes)

    #9 - Episode 4

    S4:E4

    Max and Rosie are finally married but their future happiness is in jeopardy. Du Plessis is upset when he finds out that Caroline has decided not to return to Africa.

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  10. Wild at Heart Season 4 Episode 9 - Episode 9
    8.7/10(24 votes)

    #10 - Episode 9

    S4:E9

    Alice is forced to leave Danny and try and get help following the storm. After Alice makes it back to Mara a search party heads out to find him. Danny leaves the car when he needs water and finds himself in real danger.

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  11. Wild at Heart Season 1 Episode 5 - Episode Five
    8.6/10(39 votes)

    #11 - Episode Five

    S1:E5

    Sarah is forced to ask Tate for help when the first paying guests arrive early at a chaotic Leopard's Den, but a string of unfortunate misunderstandings at the rival reserve convinces Rosie her stepmother is having an affair. A rampaging group of rogue male elephants are damaging the land, so Danny introduces an older female animal to keep them in line.

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  12. Wild at Heart Season 2 Episode 4 - Episode Four
    8.6/10(30 votes)

    #12 - Episode Four

    S2:E4

    With the Leopard’s Den’s annual inspection fast approaching, Danny is feeling the pressure of Sarah’s absence.

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  13. Wild at Heart Season 2 Episode 5 - Episode Five
    8.6/10(27 votes)

    #13 - Episode Five

    S2:E5

    Everyone’s excited about the arrival of Danny’s old tutor and Rosie’s godfather, Bash but he appears to be suffering from memory loss.

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  14. Wild at Heart Season 4 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    8.6/10(26 votes)

    #14 - Episode 2

    S4:E2

    Whilst they are on the run Danny and Evan come across a sick hippo. They put themselves on the line to try and help her. Rosie meets the new owner of Mara. Rosie put her own and the animal hospital's future at risk to help save a sick lioness.

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  15. Wild at Heart Season 4 Episode 5 - Episode 5
    8.6/10(24 votes)

    #15 - Episode 5

    S4:E5

    Danny and Alice rescue an endangered wild dog and are shocked by the arrival of Alice's ex boyfriend who shows up to take a look at the animal. When Terry manages to persuade Alice to give them another go, Danny realises he has to be honest about how he feels about her.

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  16. Wild at Heart Season 4 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    8.6/10(24 votes)

    #16 - Episode 6

    S4:E6

    Du Pleiss shocks everyone when he says he is returning to the United Kingdom to live with Caroline and that he wont be coming back. Rosie is determined to stop some animals from being treated badly.

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  17. Wild at Heart Season 2 Episode 6 - Episode Six
    8.5/10(29 votes)

    #17 - Episode Six

    S2:E6

    The family are less than prepared when Caroline, Sarah's mother, arrives which drives Sarah into running into a buffalo.

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  18. Wild at Heart Season 2 Episode 8 - Episode Eight
    8.5/10(30 votes)

    #18 - Episode Eight

    S2:E8

    A plane crashes at Leopards Den bring with it an unwanted virus.

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  19. Wild at Heart Season 3 Episode 2 - Episode 2
    8.5/10(28 votes)

    #19 - Episode 2

    S3:E2

    On completing his annual animal census, Danny makes the alarming discovery that there are no male cheetah on the reserve. Meanwhile tension between Sarah and Caroline is at an all time high and in a fit of pique, Sarah fires her own mother. Vet students Glenn and Caitlin are at Leopard’s Den for a work placement, after which Danny will choose which one will be his vet assistant for a year. This annoys Rosie who has started to enjoy assisting her dad. And she doesn’t appreciate Caitlin flirting with her boyfriend, Max. When Danny bawls her out for being late for a game drive, Rosie quits. Sarah is astonished to discover Caroline is the new deputy manager of Mara. But Du Plessis is fed up with all the upheaval at Leopard’s Den and hatches a plan to get everything to go back to normal. Enlisting Caroline’s help, he “borrows” a cheetah from Mara and hints to Rosie that there still may be one male cheetah at Leopard’s Den. Rosie is delighted when she finds the animal. Episode one

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  20. Wild at Heart Season 3 Episode 6 - Episode 6
    8.5/10(28 votes)

    #20 - Episode 6

    S3:E6

    Danny is busier than ever due to a drought affecting the region. But he has to turn away some locals with sick animals to attend to an abandoned baby hippo. Frustrated by his relentless workload, Sarah decides to restart the animal hospital initiative. Without Kriel’s knowledge, Amy helps Sarah organise a fundraiser. They hope to persuade Jordan, a rich businessman staying at Mara, to invest in the hospital. Caroline’s sister, Judith, comes to visit the family. She immediately perceives the stalemate between Caroline and Du Plessis and resolves to make Caroline realise how much she cares for him. Meanwhile Max surprises Rosie with a huge diamond engagement ring. To him, it symbolises their future together, but when he outlines his idea of the future to Rosie, she begins to have doubts. At the fundraiser Du Plessis is being auctioned off. The two sisters engage in a bidding war but Judith is triumphant. And Max realises that Rosie hasn’t told Danny and Sarah about their engagement and leaves, upset.

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  21. Wild at Heart Season 4 Episode 8 - Episode 8
    8.5/10(29 votes)

    #21 - Episode 8

    S4:E8

    Danny and Alice fall out at an animal auction. Alice becomes upset when she thinks she has paushed Danny towards Vanessa. A storm hits the area and Alice is concerned that she might not get the chance to be honest with Danny about how she really feels.

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  22. Wild at Heart Season 5 Episode 2 - Series 5, Episode 2
    8.5/10(24 votes)

    #22 - Series 5, Episode 2

    S5:E2

    Danny starts to feel his age after hurting his back whilst building a new local school. When a new young vet arrives called Lewis he feels even older. After Caroline requests that Du Plessis organises their honeymoon, she ends up with much more than she bargained for.

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  23. Wild at Heart Season 7 Episode 10 - Episode 10
    8.5/10(31 votes)

    #23 - Episode 10

    S7:E10

    There are some odd things going on at Leopard’s Den after the family awake to discover frogs everywhere. The giraffe also refuses to move from the front gate and the cheetah is off its food. Fatani believes that the animals don’t want Danny to leave and Du Plessis has promised Caroline that he’ll hide his true feelings from his friend, so as not to make the situation any more tough than it already is. After a request for help comes from the National Park, Danny enjoys the chance for one last adventure. After an elephant found in the kitchen, the mystery of the animals’ odd behavior is solved after Fatani admits that he arranged all these stunts to stop Danny leaving, because he feared that Liv would go with him.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Wild at Heart Season 2 Episode 2 - Episode Two
    8.4/10(33 votes)

    #24 - Episode Two

    S2:E2

    It's the reopening of Mara and a British wildlife charity is releasing a Vulture into the wild. Danny has a love interest in an English woman who comes to watch the release but Sarah prevents it going any further.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Wild at Heart Season 2 Episode 7 - Episode Seven
    8.4/10(28 votes)

    #25 - Episode Seven

    S2:E7

    Simon, Sarah’s ex-husband arrives at Leopard’s Den and causes trouble between the family. Also, Sarah decides she doesn't want children with Danny.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Episode Nine" is the best rated episode of "Wild at Heart". It scored 9/10 based on 29 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/11/2007. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Episode 1".