Stinky and Jake: Here on the Animal Show.
Here on the Animal Show.
Here on the Animal Show!
Bunnie Bear: From under the ocean, over the clouds, and around the world…
Armstrong the Chickenhawk: Here comes the wild side of wild life.
Bunnie: The Animal Show!
Armstrong: And now, let’s have a wild welcome for your furry friends-
Bunnie: Stinky and Jake!
Stinky and Jake: Now it’s The Animal Show!
Jake: Hello, all you animals out there!
Stinky: I’m Stinky.
Jake: And I’m Jake. And today, we are going to meet two very loud animals, the Tasmanian devil and the kookaburra.
Stinky: How loud?
Jake: Well, kookaburras can be heard from two miles away.
Stinky: With a noise that loud, my ear drums will pop! I need to put in earplugs. (runs off to get earplugs)
Jake: I swear, this happens every episode. Anyway, here are Bunnie and Armstrong with…
Bunnie: That’s amazing! Today, we look at the Tasmanian tiger.
Armstrong: A tiger in Tasmania?! What’s next? Kangaroos in Japan?
Bunnie: The Tasmanian tiger wasn’t really a tiger. It was a marsupial like kangaroos, koalas, and possums. This magnificent beast, also known as the Thylacine, roamed the Australian island of Tasmania for many years. However, due to overhunting, habitat loss, climate change, and competing with dingoes, the Tasmanian tiger went extinct in 1936.
Armstrong: Now, that’s something that will make you say…
Jake: That’s depressing. (Stinky comes back with earplugs)
Stinky: Hi, Jake! What did I miss?
Jake: We’ll talk about it after the show. And now, all the way from Australia…
Stinky: Austria.
Jake: Please welcome Katie the Kookaburra!
Katie: G’day, Jake. Why is Stinky wearing earplugs?
Jake: He doesn’t want his eardrums to pop.
Katie: Nonsense! We only sound like that when there’s a whole flock of us, like this.
Stinky: Even though my ears are plugged, it sounds like you’re laughing. Did someone tell you a good joke?
Katie: No, that’s just the sound we make to establish territory. Besides, I’m a laughing kookaburra, and there are five other kookaburra species.
Jake: Can we see them?
Katie: Sure. Here’s the shovel-billed kookaburra…
The spangled kookaburra…
The rufous-bellied kookaburra…
And the blue-winged kookaburra.
Jake: Look at those blue wings!
Stinky (pulling out his ear plugs): Why are you called the kookaburra? Is it some kind of cuckoo bird?
Katie: No, cuckoos are just as related to kookaburras as koalas are to bears. We kookaburras are a type of kingfisher, and yes. Some of us do eat fish.
But mainly, laughing kookaburras eat grasshoppers, lizards, and mice.
Stinky: That’s my kind of meal! Minus the mice.
Katie: I have to go now. I need to see my children hatch! (flies over to the Habitat Door)
Jake: And now, some more Australian animals with…
Jake and Stinky: Baby talk!
Human: Okay then, Mrs. Kangaroo. If you’ll just excuse my cold hands here. (feels through the pouch to reveal a joey) Now, I’m just going to look inside your pouch and what is this? Well, congratulations, it’s a baby boy.
Mrs. Kangaroo: Aw!
Human: A fine, bouncing, baby boy kangaroo. Well, if it’s a kangaroo, it’ll be bouncing soon, right?
Mrs. Kangaroo: (laughs) Oh, I shall call him Jasper.
(later, Mrs. Kangaroo and Jasper are out in the wild)
Alright, Jasper. Time for you to get out.
Jasper: It’s bright out here. Oh, I’m hungry. I’m going to eat some of this grass.
Mrs. Kangaroo: Isn’t it delicious?
Jasper: Mmm!
(later, Jasper is looking through Mrs. Kangaroo’s pouch)
Jasper: I’m just gonna take a look. I lost my train set in here somewhere.
Mrs. Kangaroo: Is this really necessary?
Jasper: Ma, I’m sure I left it in there somewhere.
Mrs. Kangaroo: Alright, alright. I wish you’d clean up your room sometime, especially since it’s in my pouch.
Stinky: Why did you play a clip of a kangaroo?
Jake: We couldn’t find footage of Tasmanian devil joeys. (Tizzy flies by)
Tizzy the Bee: Hi, everyone! Time for a quiz!
Why do howler monkeys howl? Give it a think. Back in a buzz!
(Cuts back to Stinky and Jake, who are trying to figure out the answer)
Stinky: What do you think the answer is, Jake?
Jake: I think it’s to communicate with other monkeys.
Tizzy: You’re right! Howler monkeys use their howls for territorial defense, mating attraction, and predator repulsion. Because of their specialized digestive characteristics, their synchronized howling is most active around dawn and dusk, maximizing their vegetarian lifestyle. Bee-lieve it, because it’s true!
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