02x04 - Snake Bellies

[bunniefuu]

Zoboomafoo!

With the Kratt brothers!

While walkingin the woods one day

Chris and Martin sawsomething strange

A little leaping lemurwho liked to bounce and play

They followed theirnew bouncing friend

Not knowing wherethis adventure would end

The animals were headedjust around the bend

Where they going? I don't knowHow do we get there?

Come on, let's go!

Me and you and ZoboomafooCome along and see what's new

We're doing the thingsthat animals do

New animal friends to seeAnimal Junction's

the place to beElephants charging

Baboons are leapingWild dogs running

And nobody's sleepingMe and you and Zoboomafoo

Come along and see what's newwe're doing the things

that animals doMe and you and Zooboomafoo

Come along and see what's newAt Animal Junction we're waiting

for you! Zoboomafoo!

Snakebellies!

- This is an amazing wayto travel Chris!

- Yeah! You can move fast andnot even use your legs.

It's great sliding intoAnimal Junction. Whoooo!

- Yeah, but where is the endof the line? Whoooo!.

The pool. I didn't see that.

- But you've seen our favouriteleaping lemur buddy?

- Me neither. Let's call him.

Zoboomafoo!

- Zoboo!

- Hey, Zoboomafoo!

Whoooo! Hey Zoboo!

Zoboomafoo!

Hey there he is!

Come on! Hi!

Whoooo! All right, here'sa question for you Zoboo.

Is there a snake anywherein the world who is white and

furry like your tail? That'llget him talking. I guess not.

Well you know Zoboo, no yackinguntil he's done some snacking.

Ah! Garbanzo beans. Hey Zoboo,how about some garbanzo beans?

Yeah, you love these huh!

S'cuze me! Zoboomafoo!

I'm Vokey! Vokey! I knowI always say green is a yummy

colour but you know what?

So is yellow! Yeah!

It's yummy if it's yellow!

Yellow, yellow, yellowit's yummy if it's yellow!

I eat it in the winterI eat it in the summer

I eat all the time inall kinds of weather

Yellow things are my favouritethings cause yellow's

a yummy colour/Yellow, yellow, yellow!

It's yummy if it's yellow!

Yellow, yellow, yellow it'syummy if it's yellow!

Yeah! Yellow's a yummy color!

Thank you, thank you.

Don't throw roses, throwgarbanzo beans, yeah! What?

These aren't garbanzo beans!

Oh well, green is a yummy color!

- That was a great number Zoboo.

- Zoboo?

- Where did Zoboo go?

- I'm here under a mountainof green cause green

is a yummy colour too.

- Well start snacking Zoboo.

- I can't, I was eating littleyellow mangos in a tree and

I almost ate something yellowthat I don't eat. A little

yellow creature. Nice but notyummy, at least not for a lemur.

- Who?

- Well I don't know who. Can youhelp me? Who could it be?

Who could it be?

This animal who I did seeCan you help me

guess this mystery?

I was sitting in a tree eatingyellow things and

I almost bit him.

Who could it be?

This animal who I did see.

He had a long bodywithout any legs.

Who could it be?

This animal who I did see.

Can you help meguess this mystery?

A legless, long bodied creature.

Do you know who he is?

- Okay, let's see, I know whatkind of creature it is,

but what species?

- Yeah! There are so manydifferent kind of yellow snakes.

- Bothrops Schlegeli.

- Morelia virdis.

- Whoa! An amazon tree boa.

- Amazing!

- The mystery Animal's here.

Snakadelic!

- Brothers, I can't believemy mind!

- He's just a little guy.

Only eight weeks old but he'salready acting like a big tough

snake. If there's any movementthat gets too close to him,

he strikes. Pah! Pah! Pah!

See what I mean?

So always remember,give a snake his space.

Give them lots of space,lots of space!

Look at this. Believe it or not,this snake is the little

yellow guy's mom.

- No she's not, she's darker!

- Oh! Amazon tree boas comein all different colours Zoboo.

Red, orange, yellow,black and brown.

- Yup! This brown snake is theyellow's snake mother and the

little yellow guy will get justas big, but will

always stay yellow.

- Hey! He kinda lookslike my nose!

- Amazon tree boas hang out inthe trees of the Amazon rain

forest, and that takes amazingmuscle control. Look how she can

stretch from a tree to another.

Check this out. This isthe classic way the Amazon tree

boa rests on a branch. Shebalances half of her body on one

side of the branch, and halfher body on the other side.

- Whoo!

- What does his tonguefeel like Zoboo?

- Soft, kinda flicky like. Whereis his belly. My belly's right

here, you can see it especiallywhen I'm vokey. I don't even

think a snake has a belly.

- Yeah Zoboo, a snake has abelly, it's just a very long

thin belly. See it right there?

It's all belly.

- Super Snakebellies! That'samazing! Super Snakebellies!

Hey, I like that. That's whatI'm going to say when I see

something that's long andamazing. Super Snakebellies!

- Super Snakebellies! And theregoes the Super Snakebelly.

- Super Snakebellies!

A snakeskin. Check it out Zoboo!

- A snakeskin,but where's the snake?

- Oh! The snake's not in hereanymore Zoboo. He or she shed.

- Shed it? Why?

- Well, a snake sheds becauseher skin doesn't grow with her.

So in order to grow bigger,she has to shed her old skin,

it peels right off, and herfresh new skin is

right there underneath.

- Super Snakebellies!

He took his old skin off so nowyou can see his new skin!

Hey! Why don't you guys do that!

Why don't you shed like a snake?

Shed! Shed! Shed! Shed!

- What are you doing?

- Oh! Shed! Shed! Whoo! Shed!

Shed! Shed! Shed! Shed! Shed!

- Zoboo, these are our clothes.

We can't shed them here.

- What about lemurs?

- Well, I guess so.

- Okay then... the only questionis, what to wear? I'm going

to the closet to getsome clothes to wear.

Shedding!

My new skin is itchy!

It's, it's too small!

I gotta shed it! Shed it all!

Hey, you can join me! You canshed too. Everybody, shed! Shed!

Ah! My new skin feels nice.

- But the question is,whose skin is this?

- That's a tough question.

- Yeah, there are so manysnakes in the world!

- Yeah, about two thousandand nighty!

- That's about right.

There's snakes with amazingcamouflage patterns so they can

hide, like this boa constrictor.

Look at how his pattern blendsinto the forest's floor.

But then there are snakeswithout much of a pattern at

all! Like this yellow rat snake.

And don't forget about the coralsnake, his brightly coloured

rings say, stay away from meI'm venomous. And the desert

horn viper has sand colouredskin and little horns

over his eyes.

- I see, I see. And you sort ofhave a dog face. But the

snakeskin is different. So theskin doesn't belong to you,

does it? But whose skin is it?

- That's what we've to find out.

Let's split up and find thesnake who fits this skin!

- All right, now if you want tofind a snake, you have to think

like a snake, so if you werea snake, where would you be?

How about a snake's favouritespot? Way up in the trees

sunbathing. Snakes arecold-blooded creatures so they

need to get heat from the sunbefore they can go on and do

all their snake business.

And there is always...

- Water! The perfect placeto find amazing snakes. Like the

heaviest snake in the world...

the anaconda. But this pond isa little too small. Let's look

somewhere else. In the rightwater habitat, you can find

amazing snakes like the cottonmouth; one of the few snakes who

floats on top of the water whenshe swims. So that's where we

are going to look, around water.

Tell me if you seea snake in here?

You found her!

An anaconda. She looks abouteight feet long. Anacondas are

a type of water boa, and see howher nostrils are on the top of

her head? That's so she can stayalmost completely under water

but still breathand see above water.

- How long can she stayunder water?

- About ten minutes before shehas to take another breath.

- Wow! You're amazing Anaconda!

- But I don't thinkshe belongs to the skin.

- You're right Zoboo! Look,the skin and the snake don't

match. First of all, the skinis way too short for this long

snake. And then, look at herspots. See, she has spots on her

skin, but this snakeskin doesn'thave any spots on it. So she's

an amazing snake, but she's notthe snake we're looking for.

- All right, it's time for me

to find who fits the skin.

- You? Chris, I'm gonna findthe snake that fits the skin!

- Ah, no way! Not before me!

- I have to hurry, if I'm goingto b*at Chris. Let's check that

sunny spot over by the window,come on!

Ah! An easterndiamondback rattlesnake! Wow!

look at that tail rattle!

Special scales in the tailmake the sound.

- Let me see!

- Don't get too close Zoboo,because the snake I found is

venomous. He's a diamondbackrattlesnake. The largest

rattlesnake in the world.

- But he sure is mangatsika!

And look what he can dowith his tail!

- Yeah! A rattlesnake is famousfor that tail which rattles

saying "Don't get too closeor I'll bite and poison you."

- Well I'm veryhappy right here.

- Okay... And you know what elseis really amazing is the way a

rattlesnake can see in the dark.

You want to see like arattlesnake, Zob,

put the eye spies on...

- Okay!

- ...because there is a solareclipse coming in.

- Solar Eclipse?

- Yeah! A solar eclipse is whenthe moon goes in front of the

sun, it blocks it outand makes everything dark.

- Hey! It is dark!

- I know, here now, set this torattlesnake and now you can see

the world the waya rattlesnake sees it.

- Whoo! I can't believe my mind.

You guys look weird.

- What you're seeing Zoboois the heat of our bodies.

That's what a rattlesnakesenses. It's almost like

he's seeing heat.

So, even in the darkestof night, he can sense the body

heat of other creatures.

Hey! Eclipse is over! What greattiming! And now is the time to

see if this is the snakewe are looking for.

- Aha! This snakeskin doesn'tbelong to the rattler.

They don't match.

- You're right Zoboo.

The rattler has diamond shapesand this skin doesn't.

We have to keepsearching for the snake

who fits this skin.

- Keep searching for the snakewho fits this skin.

- Yeah! I wonder if Chrisis having any luck?

- Whoa! A Burmese Python.

And a huge one.

- Oh! Python looks even biggerthan an anaconda. Whoo!

- A one hundred pound!

- Fourteen foot long!

- Super Snakebelly!

- Most snake species areoviparous. Oviparous means they

lay eggs. But the Burmese Pythonis one of the few snakes that

stays with the eggs, protectsthem and keeps them warm until

the baby snakes hatch.

- That's one long snakebelly.

I've got a couple of feet on meand it's too heavy. I'm being

squished by a super hugesnake belly!

- Zoboo, let me give you a hand.

- How about giving me two?

- Gosh! I'm trying.

Can you get out?

- Yeah! Thanks Chris.

- He's saying hello!

- Hi! Nice to meet you too.

You're very heavy.

- Unbelievable! Hey! Thesnakeskin, do you think it fits?

- Uh?

- Let me get it.

Just one minute!

- I think it will be too small,look at him!

- Okay Zoboo, here's thesnakeskin, do you think it fits?

- I don't think so.

- I don't either. This snakelooks about ten times as thick

and as long as the snakewho fits this skin.

- Yeah, I think you're right!

- Burmese Pythons are the fourthlargest snake in the world and

she must be aboutfourteen feet long.

- Mangatsika! Hey Chris!

She's so big and long,how can she move with no legs?

- She moves by using her bellymuscles Zoboo, take a look.

- Super Snakebellies!

- You know, we'd better keeplooking for the snake

that fits this skin.

- Okay!

- Over here! A sand boa!

It doesn't match the skin but doyou want to see why she's called

a sand boa? Watch this! Watchwhat she does as soon as she

hits the sand. Her wedge-shapedface starts burrowing under and

the rest of her body follows.

That's why she's calleda sand boa. Before long

she's hidden beneath the sand.

- Oh! Brothers! Brothers!

Brothers! I think I found thesnake who fits the snakeskin.

- A Trans-Pecos Rat snake!

- Let's see if the skin fits.

- Hey! We have racing stripesthat match the snake

and the skin.

- Yeah! Hoo! Ha!

- And take a look at this!

See how this snakehas really bulgy eyes?

- Oh yeah! That tickles.

He tickled my nose.

- Now, look atthe snakeskin's eyes.

- Oh yeah!

- They're bulgy too!

And you know what else?

What else?

The same exact length.

I think you've done it Zoboo.

- The snake fits the snakeskin.

You're the super snakebellywe've been looking for. We did

it! I can't believe what my eyesare telling my mind and my mind

is telling me, what,I can't believe my mind.

You know what time it is?

It's time to shed.

I feel different not the sameThis kinda feeling I can't

explain, there is only one thingthat I can do, I feel snake-ish

How about you. Snake-ishI feel snake-ish. Snake-ish.

I'm a snake belly sliderwith a belly of a snake

Ssssssss...

Snake-ish!

Ta-da! Okay guys,it's your turn. Time to shed!

- Forget it Zoboo!

- I'm out of here.

- Come on don't... I got them!

They shed! Ha! Ha! Hoo! Ha!

Oops!

- Zoboo, why don't you tell astory from Zobooland while we

get into our new skins,I mean clothes.

- Oh! Okay, well think quickZoboo. Oh! It happened like

this one time, in Zobooland.

I was leaping along, leap, leap,leap, leap, and I landed next

to Snow Lemur playing in sand.

- "Hello Snow Lemur", I said.

- Oh, hi Zoboo. You know, whenI come down to Zobooland,

I like playing in the sand.

It's cool in the morning,and it reminds me of the snow

on top of Mount Zoboomafoo!

- Oh, I like the sand too!

It tickles my fingers!

- It tickles my sides too!

- Oh yeah, yeah, it ticklesmy sides too!

- Tickles tickles tickles- Wait a minute! Sand can't

tickle our sides!

- You're right Zoboo,it's not sand. It's me, Fibby!

- So Snow Lemur, Fibby and Ispent the rest of the morning

together playing in the sand.

The end.

- Great story Zoboo.

- Yeah! Thanks for buying ussome time.

- Sure, and you know what timeit is now? It's time to duck!

- Duck!

- You guys ducked, but I forgot.

And now I got a barn owl on myhead and a message in my mouth.

A message fromthe Animal Helpers.

- Where is everybody going?

Oh! It's just a snake. A lot ofpeople are afraid of snakes, but

no one should be afraid of thisharmless King Snake. That's

pretty silly if you ask me.

To get along with snakes, firstyou have to learn more about

them from books. Most snakesaren't poisonous. But you have

to give the poisonous ones theirspace, like the coral snakes,

rattlesnakes,

water moccasins

and copperheads.

And then you can getto know the rest.

Go live free and in the wild.

- Snakes are great,but I worry about them.

- Why Zob?

- Well, I think they're lonelybecause they're always alone.

- Well you don't have to worryabout snakes being lonely

because they just don'tthink like that.

- And the other thing is thatsnakes aren't always alone.

Sometimes they come togetherin a huge group called

a hibernaculum.

- A hibernaculum? I don't knowwhat that is, but it sounds

like a trip to me.

- To the closet?

- To the closet!

- They're going to the closetThey're going on a trip

They're going to the closetTo grab their stuff and split.

- Whooaaa!

- You can always count on thecloset to do what

the closet does best.

- They're going on a cooladventure, and they don't know

what's in store, they're comingfrom the closet

And they're headed out the door.

- See you later Zoboo.

- Bye brothers.

- We're looking fora hibernaculum.

- A hibernaculum is a placewhere thousands of snakes get

together to stay warm throughthe winter. Then in the spring

they all come out.

- It's an amazing thing and wedon't want to miss it because

it only lasts fora couple of weeks.

Hey I think we've gone too far!

- Let's backtrack!

Backtracking, that's it! That'show we can find a hibernaculum.

Of course, let's find a snakeand then follow her tracks back

to the hibernaculum. Now we justhave to find a snake.

- I think the snake found us.

- All right, I'm on her trailback to the hibernaculum.

When you're tracking snakes,you've got to get

down on your belly.

We follow the winding trailto this incredible gathering

of garter snakes.

- Look at them all!

The snakes are leaving the cavethey used has a hibernaculum.

Now once the garter snakescome out of the cave,

they mate. Then they gooff to spend the summer

on their own.

In the winter, they gather onceagain at the hibernaculum.

It's the only way they cansurvive the cold.

- Martin, what do you say wetrack back to Animal Junction?

Yeah! Let's go underground,garter snake-style.

- I wonder if Zoboofound any snakes?

What's that in the water? Aha!

More snakes! What kind of snakesare you? Coming in. Mangatsika!

That's not very snaky like.

What kind of snake are you?

- They're not snakes at all.

He's an octopus.

And those are his tentacles.

- Hello octopuses! They're likeeight snakes in one

who share the same head.

- Whoo! A young octopus!

- I can't believe my mind!

- He's grabbing my finger.

- Whoo! What an amazing paw, eh!

Foot, hand? Whatever it is.

- Tentacle Zob.

- Tentacle? That tentacle isreally sucking on to you.

Does it tickle?

- Yeah, it kinda does! Becauseon each tentacle there are

little suction cups that cangrab on and hold things.

Hey! That tentacle looksfamiliar, like another tentacle

I know in Zobooland.

- I was leaping along...

Leap, leap, leap, leap...and I thought

I'd leap over the pond...

when suddenly I was grabbedby a giant tentacle.

Fibby said "Hi Zoboo, bet youdidn't expect that." "No, I

didn't, I said, but since I'mhere, and it's pretty hot out,

why not go for a swim!" HeySlimantha, why don't you come

for a swim with Fibby and me?

- I don't think I can Zoboo,I'm af-f-f-raid of the water.

"But why?", I asked.

- Well, I don't knowwhat's in there.

- Hey Slimantha, don't beafraid... it's just Fibby.

She lives in the pond.

Hey, why don't you come andsee my underwater home?

- Yeah, it's really great!

- Well, okay then,since you asked...

So Slimantha did a spinning backtwist in a jelly roll tuck. And

I did a full twisting doubleback from the pike position.

- Yeah! This is fun!

And we played in Fibby'sunderwater home all day and

had lots of fun. The end.

Hey! Who did that?

- The octopus did it Zoboo.

See that little openingright next to his eye?

- Ah-huh!

- That takes water in so theoctopus can get oxygen out of

the water to breath. And it alsohelps him squirt water. And by

squirting, he can get awayreally fast if he wants to.

- I like your squirt.

Hey, that's what I'll call you.

Squirt the octopus!

This animal is a friend of mineFrom the tip of his nose to his

funny behind, All the friendsthat we met today, Are special

in their own way, We've all gotdifferent names, But we're

really all the same, Thanks fordropping by, We're glad you

came, These animals are friendsof mine, They jump and swim,

crawl, fly and climb,One more thing we have to say,

Go make an animal friend today!

Yeah!

Snakebellies are Superbellies!

Yeah! Guess I better leap home.

Well, we have to get goingbecause we have a lot more

adventures to get to today.

And I bet you do too.

See you next time!

- Hi! My name is Jacob andthis is my dog Haley.

- Hi, we're the Kratt brothers,and we never get too close

to an animal we don't know.

- Remember, always givean animal her space.

- And if you're a kid, never gettoo close to an animal

unless an adult says,"It's okay." Right Zoboo?

AND NOW A JOKEFROM ZOBOOMAFOO...

- DID YOU KNOW THATAN ELEPHANT'S TRUNK

IS THE LONGEST NOSEIN THE WORLD?

AND AN ELEPHANT CAN DOALOT WITH THAT TRUNK.

FIRST OF ALL, ANELEPHANT DRINKS

BY SUCKING WATERINTO HER TRUNK

AND THEN SQUIRTING ITUP INTO HER MOUTH.

AND WHEN SHEGOES SWIMMING,

AN ELEPHANT USES HERTRUNK TO BREATHE.

SHE STICKS IT OUT OF THEWATER JUST LIKE A SNORKEL.

AND OF COURSE, THERE'S NOTHINGBETTER ON A HOT SAVANNAH DAY

THAN A COOLING DUST BATH,

WITH DUST BLOWN OUTBY THAT TRUNK.

- HEY MARTIN.

- YEAH BUDDY.

- HOW ARE A TREE ANDAN ELEPHANT ALIKE?

- TELL ME ZOBOO.

- THEY BOTH HAVE A TRUNK.

WHOA!

- HEY ZOB! IT WASN'T THAT FUNNY!