Jake: And now, let’s see what Yves St La Roche has to make for us today without his kitchen!
(cuts to a different section of the woods with Yves and some supplies)
Yves: Bonjour, little animals out there! Today, we will make a woodland salad. First, you’ll need the fixins- wood violets, stinging nettles, ramps, and my favorite, strawberries! (goes behind a log and puts out the plants) Next, you need a bowl, which I will get right now. (Yves goes to find a bowl, but the violets get eaten by a deer). Oh dear. Well, we still have the other ingredients. Next is a spoon! (goes to find a spoon, but the ramp and strawberries gets eaten by a groundhog) Oh no. That only leaves stinging nettles. Good thing only caterpillars eat this plant! (looks in the bowl, only to see four little caterpillars)
Caterpillar 1: Can we have that plant, please?
Caterpillar 2: We need the energy to become butterflies.
Caterpillar 3: Otherwise, we might get eaten by birds!
Yves: Alright. Besides, we had lunch earlier. (gives the stinging nettle to the caterpillars) You see, sometimes it’s better to give than to receive.
(cuts back to Stinky and Jake)
Jake: And now, all the way from Indonesia, here’s Matilda the Orangutan!
Matilda: Hi, Stinky. Hi, Jake. Why are out in the woods?
Jake: Yves had a problem while making an ant dish, so we’re filming the show outside.
Matilda: Sorry to hear that. Ready to see some orangutan clips?
Stinky: Yes, please!
Wow, you sure have long arms!
Matilda: Of course, we do. That’s how we move through the treetops- brachiation!
Stinky: Brake-a-what?
Jake: That’s how monkeys and apes swing from tree to tree.
Stinky: I always thought it was just called swinging.
Matilda: While chimpanzees and gorillas live in troops, we orangutans prefer to live alone, aside from kids. There just wouldn’t be enough food to go around.
Jake: That’s a cute baby.
Matilda: Thank you. Like chimps and gorillas, we only have one baby at a time.
Jake: You’re smarter than the cat’s pajamas!
Matilda: I don’t know if cats wear human clothes, but yes. Orangutans are very smart. We even make our own tools! We make gloves out of leaves to grab durians, branches to make nests, and bigger leaves as umbrellas. Some orangutans can even use tools made by humans!
Stinky: Wow! And I can’t even ride my bike without training wheels.
Matilda: I’m in a singing mood. Can I sing a song from my cousin Lenny?
Jake: Sure! And now, here’s Matilda the Orangutan singing an old favorite with ‘The Ape Song’.
Matilda: Two three. Oh, who’s that fella way up in the tree?
He looks like a gibbon to me
The mountain gorilla looks like me
‘Cause we’re all members of one family!
He may be big or he may be small
He may be short or he may be tall
Great apes are what we are called
All for one and one for all!
Orangutans and chimpanzees
Look like you and they look like me
A family tree spreads far and wide
But please leave trees where we can hide!
Who’s that fella way up in the tree?
He looks like a siamang to me
I’m an orangutan, and he looks like me
‘Cause we’re all members of one family!
Oh yeah!
Armstrong: And now, it’s time for the Animal Awards!
Bunnie: Today’s award, the money with the longest tail! Could it be… the spider monkey?
Armstrong: The proboscis monkey?
Bunnie: The Angolan colobus monkey?
Armstrong: Or the howler monkey?
Bunnie: And the winner is… the Angolan colobus monkey, which has a tail that can reach up to 2 feet long!
Armstrong: Wow, that’s long!
Bunnie: I know. Did we ever have an episode centered around tails?
Armstrong: I’ll tell you about it during the next transition.
(cut back to Stinky and Jake)
Jake: And now, it’s time for a story. This one is about a primate that lives in trees.
Stinky: Like a monkey?
Jake: Close. It’s a primate, but not a monkey. Let me begin. “Once upon a time, there was a slow loris named Sally. She lived in the treetops of Bangladesh and was often made fun of by the other animals for being slow. ‘You’re so slow!’ Said a frog. ‘You’ll get eaten for sure!’ ‘When a predator comes by,’ A langur added. ‘You’ll be leopard food in no time!’ Sally didn’t listen to the other animals, since she knew what to do when danger arose. One night, she noticed a palm civet climb the tree she was one. ‘I don’t know what you are,’ Said the civet. ‘But I bet you taste delicious!’ Luckily, Sally knew what to do- Spray a strong odor like a skunk. Sally sprayed the civet with a bad smell, and she leapt away. The next day, the other animals that ridiculed him were now congratulating him. ‘You may be slow,’ Said the frog. ‘But you’re also poisonous, like some cousins of mine!’ And the more of the story is, just because an animal is slow doesn’t mean it won’t survive. The end.”
Stinky: That was a good story, Jake.
(cuts to Bunnie and Armstrong at their stand)
Armstrong: Well, since the habitat door is back at the studio, and the studio is being fumigated, I guess that means we won’t have Habitat Time today.
Bunnie: No! We’re still going to have Habitat Time! Just look around you, Armstrong. When you’re in the woods, there are animals almost everywhere you look! I’ll show you. (grabs Armstrong as they exit through the right side of the screen)
When you’re in the woods, you have to look up to the trees. Many of the animals here are arboreal.
Bunnie: What?
Bunnie: That means the animals live in trees.
Armstrong: Hey look, turkeys!
Bunnie: You’re right, Armstrong. Turkeys are very common throughout North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted this bird to be America’s national bird.
Armstrong: Good thing they changed it to the bald eagle!
And that fella is a squirrel!
Bunnie: Correct, Armstrong. Even though humans may find them annoying, squirrels actually help the environment by burying extra acorns. Those acorns will eventually become saplings.
Armstrong: How about that.
Bunnie: This is a grey catbird.
Armstrong: I get the grey part and the bird part, but how did it get ‘cat’ in its name?
Bunnie: It’s called a catbird because it meows like a cat.
Armstrong: A meowing cat? What’s next? A barking turtle?
What’s an owl doing during the day? I thought they hated the sun!
Bunnie: That’s a common misconception, Armstrong. Owls don’t mind the sunlight; They’re nocturnal because they want to avoid competition with other birds.
Armstrong: Good thing I order out.
Bunnie: We could stay all day if we could, but we need to head back. But this will have to be our last animal.
Armstrong: A lizard?
Bunnie: No, it’s a spotted salamander! They may not look like it, but these guys are poisonous!
Armstrong: Poisonous? We better get going, then. (Bunnie and Armstrong head back to the campsite)
Bunnie: For Habitat Time, this is Bunnie Bear.
Armstrong: And Armstrong the Chicken Hawk.
Bunnie: Just back from the forest.
Tizzy: Tizzy here! Time for a quiz!
Which of these animals is not an ape? The mandrill, the gibbon, the chimpanzee, or the orangutan? Give it a think. Back in a buzz!
(Cuts back to Stinky and Jake, who are trying to figure out the answer)
Stinky: What’s the difference between a monkey and an ape again?
Jake: Apes don’t have tails, but monkeys do.
Stinky: If that’s the case, they’re all apes!
Tizzy: Close, but no honeycomb! Tee tee tee tee tee! The answer is the mandrill, which is a type of monkey. Bee-lieve it, because it’s true!
Jake: Thanks for the quiz, Tizzy. Well, that’s all the time we have for today, and until next time, continue seeing the world through the eyes of animals!
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| Jake with his skunk tail. |
