Animated comedy in which an odd assortment of animals from the New York Zoo discover what a jungle the city can be when one of their own is mistakenly shipped to the wild. When an adolescent lion (Greg Cipes) is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa, his zoo pals, including Samson the lion (voice of Kiefer Sutherland), Benny the squirrel (Jim Belushi), Bridget the giraffe (Janeane Garofalo), Larry the Anaconda (Richard Kind), Kazar the wildebeest (William Shatner) and Nigel the koala bear (Eddie Izzard) must put aside their differences to help bring him back.