Zafari premiered in July 2018 on FranceTV, NatGeoKids in Latin America, Rai Yoyo in Italy, Sony's TinyPOP network in the UK, in 2019 on Spacetoon in the Middle East, and is being distributed worldwide by NBCUniversal/DreamWorks.

[4][5] It is also airing on Amazon Prime Video worldwide and was a launch title on NBCUniversal's new streaming network Peacock.

In Zafari, one of them, a young African bush elephant named Zoomba who is magically born with zebra stripes, is shunned from his herd as they feel he's bad luck.

Set in a valley at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, the series follows the story of Zoomba, a young elephant with zebra stripes, and Quincy, a place intelligent tarsier who is often misclassified as a monkey, Pokey, a giraffe with peacock feathers, Babatua, a mandrill with penguin feathers, Antonio, a pink flamingo-colored lion, and dozens more.

Zafari stars the voices of Mark Camacho, Holly Gauthier-Frankel, Brian Froud.