(cuts to Yves in his kitchen)
Yves: Bonjour, bonjour little animals out there! If any of you are either fish, shrimp, or cephalopods, change the channel and watch Dog City, instead. For today’s dish, we need 50 pounds of Greenland halibut, 50 pounds of Arctic cod, 50 pounds of shrimp, and 50 pounds of Gonatus squid. I placed an order earlier today, but Lawrence hasn’t shown up yet. (Lawrence the Orangutan walks over with 50 pounds of shrimp)
Lawrence: Here you go, Yves! 50 pounds of shrimp. Do you have the money?
Yves: Oui, I have a credit card with 1,000 dollars on it. Mommy gave it to me as a birthday present!
Lawrence: Okay, but you better get the barrels ready. Here come the fish! (fish and squid fall from the sky)
Yves: Who dropped those things? Vultures?
Lawrence: Actually, it was a flock of albatrosses. What are the fish for, anyway? Roaches don’t eat fish.
Yves: It’s for the guest, who happens to eat fish. Anyway, we take the seafood, put it in a pot, and serve it to the narwhal ice-cold!
Lawrence: (looks at the camera) Can we cut back to Stinky and Jake?
(cuts back to Stinky and Jake)
Jake: And now, all the way from the Arctic Circle…
Stinky: Circle.
Jake: Please welcome Bastilla the Narwhal!
(FanFair plays, but no one appears)
Stinky: Where’s Bastilla?
Bastilla: I’m in the back in this tank! (Stinky and Jake walk over to see Bastilla)
Jake, is that you?
Jake: Yes, Bastilla! It’s me!
Stinky: You’re a narwhal? But where’s your horn?
Bastillo: Number 1, they’re called tusks. And number 2, only female narwhals have tusks. By the way, where’s the food?
Yves: Here it is! (dumps the pot into the tank)
Bastilla: Thanks, I’m starving! (sucks up the food like a vacuum)
Stinky: That’s how narwhals eat their food? I thought they used their horns to skewer fish!
Bastilla: We don’t use our tusks to skewer fish! That’s just silly.
Stinky: Then what do you use it for?
Bastilla: Stunning fish, like here.
Jake: I’ve been around narwhals since I was a cub, and I’ve never seen you do that!
Bastilla: That’s because we keep it a secret.
Stinky: Tell us more about the tusks!
Bastilla: Of course! Narwhals also use their tusks to break ice and fight other males. However, a narwhal's tusk, which can measure up to 10 feet long, is also rather sensitive.
Stinky: Ten feet!? I’d hate to see the dental bill.
Jake: Do you suppose you could sing us a song, Bastilla?
Bastilla: Sorry, but that’s a no. I might break the glass.
Jake: That’s okay. Instead, here’s a clip of Endangered marine animals set to the song ‘Saying Goodbye.’
Disembodied voice: Saying goodbye, going away
Seems like goodbye’s such a hard thing to say
Touching a hand, wondering why
It’s time for saying goodbye
Saying goodbye, why is it sad?
Makes us remember the good times we’ve had
Much more to say, foolish to try
It’s time for saying goodbye
Don’t want to leave, but we all know
Sometimes it’s better to go
Somehow I know, we’ll meet again
Not sure quite where, and I’m not sure quite when
You’re in my heart, so until then
It’s time for saying goodbye
La la la la, la la la la
It’s time for saying goodbye. (cuts back to Stinky and Jake, with Stinky taking off his tusks so he can cry)
Jake: Stinky, why are you crying? There’s still hope!
Stinky: There’s hope?
Jake: Yes! As well as conservation, humans are also working on machines that will bring back extinct animals.
Stinky: I just hope they don’t use it on dinosaurs.
Bunnie: And now it’s time for the Animal Awards! Today, the animal with the strongest bite. Could it be… the saltwater crocodile?
Armstrong: The great white shark?
Bunnie: The hippo?
Armstrong: Or the jaguar?
Bunnie: And the winner is.. The saltwater crocodile, which has a bite force of 3,700 pounds per square inch!
Armstrong: Ouch! Good thing there are no saltwater crocs around here.
Bunnie: Back to you Stinky and Jake!
(cut back to Stinky and Jake)
Jake: And now, it’s time for a story. This is about an animal with tusks- a walrus. “Once upon a time, there was a walrus named Kalt. Kalt lived in the tundras of Greenland, and he was sick of doing what other walruses do: Swim into the cold ocean to eat clams. One day, Kalt noticed that the sun was shining, so he decided to lie on his stomach and sunbathe. The other walruses called him strange, since it was unusual for a walrus to sunbathe in cold weather. ‘You’re absurd for sunbathing!’ Said one of the walruses. ‘That’s something landbubbers do in the South!’ ‘I was just trying to do something different for once.’ Replied Kalt. ‘Besides, we eat up to 800 clams a day! We could go on a diet once in a while.’ And so, the other walruses decided to join Kalt in sunbathing, and they actually liked it! ‘I could get used to this.’ Said another walrus. The end.”
Stinky: Is that how walruses started sunbathing?
Jake: Not really, but that’s something a human would speculate about.
(cut to Armstrong and Bunnie in front of the habitat door)
Bunnie: Okay, Armstrong. It’s Habitat Time, and today, we’re going to Australia!
Armstrong: What are you talking about? There are no tusked animals in Australia!
Bunnie: You’ll be surprised, Armstrong. (opens the door) Come on, let’s go!
Many people call Australia the land down under because it’s found underneath the Equator!
Armstrong: What’s a pig doing here? He’s supposed to be on the farm!
Bunnie: Wild boar were among many animals that were brought to Australia by accident. These also include foxes, camels, rabbits, and cats.
Armstrong: I found a bird!
Bunnie: This is a galah, one of the most widespread birds in Australia.
And here, we have a frilled lizard.
Armstrong: He doesn’t look thrilled to me.
Bunnie: No, not thrilled. Frilled! It’s named after the frill around their neck. When threatened by a predator, this lizard opens its frill like an umbrella to scare them off.
Armstrong: Kind of reminds me of peacocks.
Bunnie: And we can’t have a visit to Australia without kangaroos!
Armstrong: Talk about hopping mad.
Bunnie: Many male kangaroos, like these red kangaroos, fight each other to win the rights of a female.
Armstrong: Why do I feel like I heard this before?
And what is that, a mouse?
Bunnie: That’s not a mouse! That’s a bilby, though it’s also named the rabbit-eared bandicoot. You can guess why it’s called that.
Armstrong: Its habit of eating carrots?
Bunnie: No, because it has long ears like a rabbit!
Armstrong: Can we go home now? We’ve seen our five animals for the day.
Bunnie: You’re no fun.
(Bunnie and Armstrong leave Australia and head back to the Animal Show studio)
Bunnie: For Habitat Time, it’s Bunnie Bear-
Armstrong: And Armstrong the chickenhawk.
Bunnie: Just back from the Outback.
(Tizzy flies around Stinky and Jake again)
Tizzy: Quiz time!
Jake: And what’s the quiz this time?
Tizzy: Well, here it is! (cuts to the screen below)
What's an eerie nickname for the narwhal? Give it a think. Back in a buzz!
(cuts back to Stinky and Jake, who are having a trouble finding the answer)
Jake: Eerie nickname for the narwhal, huh? How about ghost whale?
Stinky: Not crazy enough. How about zombie whale? Or corpse whale?
Tizzy: You’re actually right! An eerie nickname for the narwhal is ‘Corpse Whale’! Bee-lieve it, because it’s true!
Jake: Thanks for the quiz, Tizzy! That’s all the time we have for today, and remember to keep… (Stinky runs over with a box)
Stinky: Look, Jake! I found a box of extra tusks, and it’s just your size! Want to try them on?
Jake: Stinky, you know how silly it is for a polar bear to wear tusks?
Stinky: I’m wearing tusks, and look at me!
Jake: Okay, I’ll try them on. (puts on tusks six-inch tusks) Well, what do you know? These tusks fit me like a glove!
Author's Notes: Stinky trying on tusks is inspired by this scene from the Animal Show episode 'Walrus & Warthog', which had Yves St. La Roche demonstrate how tusks work while wearing them.
Lawrence the Orangutan was an ape who was helped out on two episodes of The Animal Show: 'Pika & Chamois' and 'Rattlesnake'.
'Saying Goodbye' was a song from The Muppets Take Manhattan. After the dogs, frogs, bears, chickens, and whatevers fail to find a financer for Manhattan Melodies, they decide to split up and go their own ways. Here's a link to the song below.
Saying Goodbye - The Muppets Take Manhattan - YouTube
Yes, mankind has found a way to bring extinct animals back to life: The dire wolf, which lived during the Ice Age, was brought back from the 10,000-year grave by using ancient DNA and gene-editing technology, creating hybrid pups with 99.9% gray wolf DNA.
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