Jake: And now, let’s see what’s cooking in the kitchen with Yves St. La Roche.
(cuts to Yves in his kitchen)
Yves: Bonjour, bonjour little animals out there! Today, in honor of our feathered friends, we will make birdseed cookies. First, we open a can of instant cookie dough. (opens a can of Pillsbury-esque cookie dough) Now, we get the birdseed. (goes to the cupboard to get birdseed) Now, we place the bird seeds inside the cookie dough. (places the seeds inside the cookie dough) Now, we place the cookies in the oven for them to bake. We’ll take them out at the end of the episode!
(cuts back to Armstrong and Jake)
Jake: And now, all the way from India, please welcome Tavi the Peacock!
Tavi: Hi, Jake. Where’s Stinky?
Jake: He’s with my cousin Bunnie for this episode.
Armstrong: What’s with the fancy tail feathers?
Tavi: Just look!
We use our tails to get the attention of peahens. That’s what female peacocks are called.
Armstrong: Do you eat fish, too?
Tavi: Yuck! We wouldn’t be caught dead near fish. We mainly eat grains, berries, insects, and small reptiles and mammals.
Jake: You’re pretty small for a bird. Aren’t you afraid that you might get eaten by tigers, jackals, and civets?
Tavi: We fend off predators the same way we court peahens- Fanning out our tails!
Armstrong: You don’t look that scary.
Tavi: Well, it makes us look bigger. Not to mention that it looks like we have more eyes than we already have. We also have sharp claws on our toes.
Jake: That’s cool, Tavi! Do you suppose you could sing us a song?
Tavi: I’d love to.
Jake: And now, here’s Tavi and Armstrong singing ‘What a Bird’.
Armstrong: What a bird!
Tavi: What a bird!
Armstrong: What a bird!
Tavi: What a bird!
What an absolutely super-duper bird!
Armstrong: I can most most anything, fly the oceans while I sing
Taki: Sing the world my special way
Armstrong: Turn it upside down today!
What a bird!
Tavi: What a bird!
Armstrong: What a bird!
Tavi: What a bird!
Both: Do we really have to add another word?
Tavi: If a friend gets in a scrape
Armstrong: Or gets bent or out of shape
Tavi: We hold out our helping wings
Armstrong: All gets bright with everything
What a bird!
Tavi: What a bird!
Armstrong: What a bird!
Tavi: What a bird!
When you suddenly cannot simply observe?
Armstrong: I can travel anywhere
Tavi: And he does with real flare
Sing at the end of day
Armstrong: Oh, it’s just my way
Tavi: If I want to, I can sing that’s tweet, tweet, tweet!
Both: What a bird, what a bird, what a bird!
(cuts to Bunnie and Stinky)
Bunnie: And now it’s time for the Animal Awards! Today, the award for the fastest flying bird. Could it be… the Peregrine falcon?
Stinky: The golden eagle?
Bunnie: The gray-headed albatross?
Stinky: Or the common swift?
Bunnie: And the winner is… The Peregrine falcon, which can fly up to 242 miles per hour!
Stinky: Sorry that you didn’t win, Armstrong.
Armstrong: That’s okay. Besides, I don’t think I’d win in a race, anyway.
Jake: You’re in luck today, Armstrong! It’s an old favorite with ‘The Cuckoo and the Warbler’. “Once upon a time, there was a cuckoo who found the nest of another bird, a little warbler. Well, the cuckoo took one of the warbler’s eggs out of the nest and put one of her eggs in its place. Now, when the baby cuckoo hatched, it pushed all the other warbler eggs out of the nest. Well, when that mama warbler got back, she was very upset. ‘All my eggs are missing.’ She said. ‘But look, here’s a baby.’ And the momma warbler took care of that baby cuckoo and fed it every day, and the baby cuckoo grew and grew and grew. Now, by the time that young cuckoo grew up, it was much larger than the warbler. ‘Wow!’ Said the momma warbler. ‘This is one big baby’. When the cuckoo got big enough, he flew away to Africa. But it always came back to visit it’s dear loving mother, Momma Warbler. The end.”
Armstrong: That was horrible! Poor warbler chicks. They could’ve died before being hatched!
Jake: Sorry, but that’s what cuckoos do. They lay their eggs in other bird’s nests.
Armstrong: What moochers!
(cut to Stinky and Bunnie in front of the habitat door)
Bunnie: Okay, Stinky. It’s Habitat Time! Today, we’re going to India, and we’re sure to see some amazing birds there.
Stinky: Do you think we’ll find another peacock?
Bunnie: I’m sure we will! Peacocks are very common birds. (opens the door) Let’s go!
This is India, a country so big that it’s sometimes called a subcontinent!
Stinky: Looks like a jungle to me.
Bunnie: That’s because India has quite a few jungles.
Stinky: That looks like Bradley from the climate change episode.
Bunnie: You are so close, Stinky, but that is in fact an Indian stick mantis. It disguises itself as a stick to sneak on other insects!
Bunnie: Ooh, that is a slender loris! That mantis better be careful. Slender lorises love to eat bugs, regardless of their toxicity!
Stinky: You mean it can eat poisonous animals without getting poisoned himself?
Bunnie: Correct!
Bunnie: There’s a cousin of mine- the sloth bear!
Stinky: Is it a sloth or a bear?
Bunnie: A bear. They call it a sloth bear because of its thick claws and unusual teeth. If it makes you feel any better, they’re also called Indian bears.
Stinky: I recognise that bird from last season- That’s a hornbill!
Bunnie: Correct, Stinky! This is a Malabar pied hornbill, and they have homes in India.
Stinky: I didn’t know peacocks can fly!
Bunnie: Yes, Stinky. Peacocks actually can fly, but they prefer to walk.
Stinky: Speaking of flying, I miss Armstrong. Can we go home now?
(Bunnie and Stinky leave India and head back to the Animal Show studio)
Bunnie: For Habitat Time, it’s Bunnie Bear-
Stinky: And Stinky the Skunk.
Bunnie: Just back from India.
(Tizzy flies around Armstrong and Jake again)
Tizzy: Tizzy here! Time for a quiz! (cuts to the screen below)
How does a male riflebird impress a female? Give it a think. Back in a buzz!
(cuts back to Armstrong and Jake, with Armstrong being confident about the question)
Armstrong: I know what it does: A mating dance!
Tizzy: Sorry, but that’s wrong. (flies back to the previous screen) How does a riflebird impress a female? Well, like a peacock, it fans out its feathers, but it ends up almost looking nothing like a bird.
Bee-lieve it, because it’s true!
Jake: Thanks for the quiz, Tizzy! Once again, that’s all the time we have today, and remember to…
Yves St. La Roche: Cookies are done! (hands out birdseed cookies to Jake and Armstrong)
Jake: Thank you, Yves, but I don’t eat seed.
Armstrong: I’d like one. (grabs a cookie with his beak) Hey, not bad. Hey Stinky! Want a cookie!
Stinky: What flavor is it? Chocolate chip? Oatmeal raisin? Nutmeg?
Yves: Seeds. Birdseed.
Stinky: Birdseed? Yuck!
Yves: What? Why, you little stinker! (chases Stinky around the studio)
Jake: Anyway, remember to continue seeing the world through the eyes of animals. Bye!
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