02x22 - Armor

[bunniefuu]

With the kratt brothers!

♪ While walkingin the woods one day ♪

♪ Chris and martinsaw something strange ♪

♪ A little leaping lemurwho liked to bounce and play ♪

♪ They followed their newbouncing friend ♪

♪ Not knowing where thisadventure would end ♪

♪ The animals were headedjust around the bend ♪

♪ Where are they going?i don't know ♪

♪ How do we get there?come on, let's go ♪

♪ Me and you and zoboomafoo ♪

♪ Come alongand see what's new ♪

♪ We're doing the thingsthat animals do ♪

♪ New animal friends to see ♪

♪ Animal junctionis the place to be ♪

♪ Elephants are charging,baboons are leapin' ♪

♪ Wild dogs runningand nobody's sleepin' ♪

♪ Me and you and zoboomafoo ♪

♪ Come alongand see what's new ♪

♪ We're doing the thingsthat animals do ♪

♪ Me and you and zoboomafoo ♪

♪ Come alongand see what's new ♪

♪ At animal junctionwe're waiting for you ♪

So chris, how manymiles do you think we logged?

-I don't know, itmust have been hundreds.

-Really? Whoa! A tortoise!

Whoaaaa!

-You see that?

Nice one chris.

-It's a good thingi had my helmet on,

It protects my head like armour.

-We both have armour.

Hey buddy!

If you don't stickyour head out of your shell,you're going to miss zoboo.

-Let's call him.

Zoboomafoo!

-Zoboo!

There he is!

Leap on in here buddy.

Whoa! A twenty-footer.

Hi zoboo!

How about a snack zoboo?

-He'snot talking, but I know justthe thing for a hungry lemur;

Walnuts!

They come with their own armour.

The shell protectsthe nut inside.

-Just like your helmet chris.

It protects the nut inside too.

-Yeah! Real funny martin.

Zoboo, I've got a nut for you.

You want some?

Here you go, atta boy.

-Excuse me.

Zobooomafoooo!

Oof!

I meant to do that!

Oh!

Hi tortoise!

I need a shelllike yours to protect me

Cause I keepbumping into things.

Brothers!

-Yeah zoboo!

-You know what?

I need a shelllike the tortoise to protectme when I bump into things.

-Yeah, shells are great armour.

-Armour?

-Armour's for protection.

-Woohoo! With armouri can leap anywhere.

I can leap high, I can leap low,

I can leap anywherei want to go.

-Whoaa!

-Watch out martin!

Whoaaa!

-I've got you zoboo.

Whoaaa!

-Zoboo?

Are you okay zoboo?

-I have a feeling thisis going to be a tough day.

-Why zob?

-Why? Becausei keep getting hurt,

Like when I saton that creature before,

Who could it be?

♪Who could it be?this animal who I did see.

♪Can you helpme guess this mystery.

Okay, he had two eyesand long whiskers on his nose.

♪Who could it be?this animal who I did see.

He had long pricklyspikes all over his body.

And then I found out I wassitting on his prickly friend.

♪Who could it be?this animal who I did see.

Can you helpme guess this mystery.

Two prickly,whiskered creatures.

Do you know who they are?

-Alright! Prickly all over huh?

-Sounds like quills.

-Yeah! It sounds like a creatureyou don't want to sit on.

-Manquillsika! Themystery animals are here.

-These guys areincredible looking.

Check it out.

Take a close lookat the porcupine's face.

He has really smalleyes and big nose and ears.

-You don't want to get onthe prickly side of these guys.

-But they're prickly all over.

Hey there, porcupine,welcome to animal junction.

-What amazing creatures huh?

-Yeah!

-These guys are called africancrested porcupines because

Of that amazing creston the top of their heads.

It's like a specialhaircut called a mohawk.

You remember those haircuts?

-Okay, you asked for it.

-Hey!

That's what I'llcall you, mo and hawk.

Now take it easywith those quills.

Wow! Look at his nose go.

He's sniffingaround the snack machine.i wonder if he's hungry?

-Hey martin!what do you guys smell?

A-ha!

Apples.

-Got it!

-Watch how fast a porcupinecan eat this apple.

Here you go buddy.

Look how fast thatjaw moves. Chew, chew, chew.

He's hypercharged.look at us go!

-What eaters!i can't believe my mind!

Hey! Look who else is here!

It's capybara andhe wants an apple too.

Wow! You've got aface almost like capybara,

Yeah, in fact youand capy look a lot alike,

Except for all the quills.

-Exactly zoboo, the capybaraand the porcupine look alike

Because they are both rodents.

The capybara isthe biggest rodent of all,

And he doesn't have any quillslike another cousin of his,

The north american porcupine,who eats bark from trees.

-People who livein north america are used

To thinking of porcupinesas tree creatures.

-But africancrested porcupines are mostcomfortable on the ground.

And also there is a differencebetween these quills

And the quills of thenorth american porcupine.

Each one of her thirtythousand hairs are hollow.

Hollow like this straw,

So they don't weigh so much.

-Well, the african crestedporcupine's quills are longer

And filled with stuff that'skind of like sponge toffee.

-Except, spongetoffee is a lot better toeat than porcupine quills.

-The spongy materialkeeps the quills stiff

But also keeps themlight at the same time.

And there is somethingelse amazing about these quills,

See those specials quillsin the center of his tail?

The ones thatare darker and hollow?

Those are the rattling quills.

When a porcupineshakes those quills

He's saying "don'tcome too close",

Kind of like a rattlesnakeshaking her tail.

Now let's imaginethat I'm a lion okay,

If I wanted to jumpon one of these porcupines,

You are now going tosee how they use their quills.

Okay so nowi'm a lion and I jump!

Whoa! Listen to that rattle.

He's a real racer whoa!

He's practicing like hewould against a real predator.

Come on back,

Whoa look at him go, whoa!

He's fast andquick, look at that.

He's always keepinghis quills towards me.

And it's those tailquills that do the rattling,

Right in there.

You see those quills,he spreads them out so that

Nobody will get nearhim or if they do, he backs up

And puts hisquills in your face.

-Huh!

That's got to hurt.

You are so lucky to havethat mangatsika armour mo.

Hey martin?

-Yeah zob?

-Do you know what?

I wish I wasmore like mo and hawk.

And I wish I had some of thearmour stuff to protect me too.

-But you do zoboo.

All creatures have coveringsthat protects their body.

Some have shells,like a rams-head snail.

She can go back intoher shell for protection.

And look at herbabies, when they hatch,

They already haveshells on their backs.

-And then, there'sthe crocodile.

Her skin is incredibly toughcause it's made up of scales,

Not to mentionher long sharp teeth.

She is one tough creatureand there aren't many

Creatures who wouldwant to mess with her.

-Don't forget about birds.

Feathers couldbe thought of as armour.

Like a duck's or a penguin's.

Their featherskeep them warm and dry.

Armour for cold water.

And some, like you, have fur.

Take a polar bear, herfur protects her from the cold

Just like our warmclothes in the winter.

-But I want somethingstronger and harder

So I don't hurt myself anymore.

-Like rollerblade gear?

-Yeah! Or like yoursuit of armour, remember that?

-Yeah!

Nothing can get me now.

Yum! Banana cream!

-Yeah!

That's it, that'sthe armour I want, yeah!

Huh?

Without the pie.

-We just have totake some measurements.

-Let's see howbig your head is there.

As big as a baseball.

-And now your arms.

Now let me see your belly there,

You're pretty voky zoboo.

Now, hold still,we've got your foot.

-Woo hoo! That tickles.

-Three inches martin.

-All right, wellwe have the measurements,let's get to the armour.

-To the armour. Wow!

-Alright zob.

-Wow look at me now!

Hey!

I didn't get hurt.

Hey, excuse me,

Huh sorry,

Oh sorry,

Excuse me.

Mangatsika! I can bumpinto things and it won't hurt,

My armour is hard.

Whoa!

-Armour is great zoboo,but it can slow you down.

How slow would youwalk if you had a tortoiseshell on your back?

And a horseshoe crabhas great armour that hasn't

Changed in millions ofyears, and after all that time,

The crab isstill one slow mover.

-Mo! Hawk! Doyou like my armour?

-They're a littlenervous zoboo, they'renot sure what's going on.

They think your armouris kind of weird and noisy.

-Oh, but it's still me, zoboo

♪Hey-hoo hubba hubba,hey-hoo hubba hubba

♪I'm still zoboounder all of this armour

♪Hey-hoo hubba hubba,hey-hoo hubba hubba

♪I'm still zoboounder all of this armour

-Rain's coming! Yay!

-Uh-oh,

Imight have accidentally made myspecial madagascar rain dance.

Hey guys...

Something is happening.

What's this red stuff?

I

Can't

Move.

What's going on brothers?

-Zoboo's armourrusted in the rain.

He's immobilized.

-We've got to help him get out.

See zoboo, this is whathappens when iron oxidizes,

Water makes it happenfast and it's called rust.

We are almost there.

-Phew! That feelsbetter. Thanks guys.

Now can youmake me another armour thatwon't get rusty this time?

And it's needs to be more bendyand softer and not so noisy.

-Anything else?

-No that's it,that's everything.

-Well that's a tough one zob.

Let's think of what othertypes of armour creatures have.

-How about that?

That's great armouragainst cold water.

Sea lions havedouble layer protection.

Fat and fur.

-And a manatee haslots and lots of blubberyfat to keep him warm.

If it wasn't forfat, a beluga whale couldn'tsurvive in freezing water.

-I don't think I can swing fromtrees with blubbery aaarrrr!

-Uh-oh...

-Armourrrrrrrrr!

-Looks like abig sneeze coming on.

-Look out for the spray!

-Ah-choo!

-Mud can be armour too.

An elephant uses itand a rhino loves rollingaround in gooey mud.

It protectsher from insect bites.

Water buffalo have agreat time rolling in mud too.

And there's a big rodentwe all know who digs the

Feeling of mudon her fur, right cappy?

-Brothers, hawklost some quills.

-Well zob, sometimesporcupine quills fall off,just like hair falls off.

Because that's whatquills really are, speciallymodified porcupine hair.

-Mangatsika!

Brothers, lets make someprickly stick kind of armour.

Porcupine armour!

We're going toneed a lot of quills.

-You want to know a greatplace to find a lot of quills?

-Yeah!

-Over there.

-Where?-Over here zob, in the cave.

Thereare always lots of porcupinequills in a porcupine den.

-So this is the porcupine den?

-Yeah! Porcupine denscan be in rock crevasses, other

Creatures abandonedholes or a cave.

In a den you'll findlots of porcupine quills.

A porcupine losesquills to make room fornew ones that are growing,

So he loses quills,but he's always prickly.

-Whoa! Zoboo.

-I've got quillsall over me martin.

-Oh wow! You should whooo!

Talk about armour!

-Thanks mo!

Thanks hawk!

I'm feeling porcupine-ish!

♪I feel different not the same

♪This kind offeeling I can't explain

♪There is onlyone thing that I can do

♪I feelafrican-crested-porcupine-ish

♪How about you?

♪Porcupine-ish

♪I feel porcupine-ish

♪Porcupine-ish

♪I'm a pointy hairprickler shuffling all around

♪African

Crested

Porcupine-ish.

-Whoa!

Nothing can hurt me now.

That reminds meof a time in zobooland.

I was leaping along,

Leap, leap, leap, leap,

When I got hitby a snowball. Oof!

Sensit's littlesisters got gooble,

Then noggendrill

And cy.

-Who turned out the lights?

-So I said come on everybody,let's hide behind the rocks!

-I'm wet.

-I'm cold.

-They're getting us good zoboo.

What do we do now?

Anybody got any ideas huh?

-Then my mindgot a mangatsika idea.

Let's hide behindbaby zoboomafooasaurus.

His skin's so thick,snowballs won't bother him.

He'll protect us.

-Ha, ha, can't get me now.

-Can't hit me.

-So we were safebehind baby z. The end.

-What's wrong?

-Well, every time I try toleap, I get myself with a quill.

Oh brothers, we have a problem.

-Yeah! A leapinglemur who can't leap,

That is a problem.

-You know what guys?

-What zob?

-Could you?

-Sure.

-Ah thanks!

From now on,my armour is going to be myeyes, my ears, and my brain.

I'm going to use themto stay out of trouble.

-That's a greatway of putting it.

Sometimes, staying outof trouble is the best armour.

-Mo says it's time to go backto living free and in the wild.

Bye mo!

Bye hawk!

Two mangatsika africancrested porcupines.

-Incoming!

-Duck!

-It's not a duck,

It's sticky feet,the peregrine falcon.

-Hey sticky feet,

Hop on buddy, hop on.

This rapture handlingglove protects my arm fromthose sharp powerful talons.

-And it's those talonsthat brought the messagefrom the animal helpers.

-Hi kratt brothers! Hi zoboo!

Yesterday the animal helpersand I were playing frisbee

When the frisbee landed near atree with a robin's nest in it.

Baby birds start outin an egg and the egg shell

Keeps them safe untilthey are ready to hatch.

That's what I call great armour.

Not all birdslay their eggs in trees,

Some lay theirs in hiddenplaces right on the ground.

Like a quail, her eggsaren't blue like a robin's,

They're brown with speckles.

That makes it hardfor predators to see them.

So we always watchwhere we are walking

Because we wouldn'twant to step on a bird's nest.

-Amy is so, sogreat to all creatures!

-You know chris, I was thinking.

-I think you were thinkingwhat I was thinking.

-Sounds like trip to me.

-To the closet!

♪They're going to thecloset, they're going on a trip

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

-But all thestuff is going to fall on usand you know how that feels.

-Don't worry chris,

I've found the way.

Nothing!

♪They're goingon a cool adventure and theydon't know what's in store

♪They're coming from the closetand they're headed out the door.

-See you later zob.

Hey martin, are you coming?

A jackal and an elephantand we are in africa

And it's out here onthe african savanna that the

African crested porcupine useshis sharp quills as a defense.

-But you know, when you lookaround, you start to realize

That of allthe animals out here, veryfew have any armour at all.

-They might nothave armour that you cansee like porcupine quills

But they musthave something to help themsurvive in the wilderness.

So the question is: how dothese unarmoured animal survive?

The answer is the three f's.

-The threef's, I thought that was forstaying warm in the winter.

-No, that's the fourf's, this is the three f's.

-Fast feet.

Flight.

-Formidable size and strength.

Fast feet is whata lot of creatures depend on

To stay a stepahead of predators.

-Let's see how fastwe can get our feet moving.

Okay feet, don't let me down.

-To keep up withzebra feet, we've got toget going faster, faster.

-I'm kicking it into high gear.

-Yeah this is great,but we have to go faster even.

To be a fast creature,you have to run like the wind.

Whoa!

My fast feet aregetting ahead of me.

-I can't keepup with mine either.

-Whoa!

-Are you okay?

-I think so.

Well I guess we arenot one of them, but there are

A lot of creatures who knowhow to handle their fast feet.

-And there area lot of creatures who knowhow to handle their wings.

And that bringsus to the next f, flight.

-You know how birds flyto get away from danger right,

Well to do thatthey have to be light

And that's whythey don't have armour.

But they dohave flight distance.

Flight distance is howclose a bird lets a predator get

Before he says "hey, that'sclose enough, I'm out of here".

Let's see the flightdistance of the hornbills.

Hey they letyou get pretty close.

Closer,

Closer.

Up, that's enough for one

And two. Theyare both out of here.

Now it's on to the third f.

-Formidable size and strength

And nobodydoes that bigger or betterthan an herd of elephants.

Not many creatures wantto mess with an elephant.

In fact, the only creatureselephants worry about

Are people and sometimes lions.

Okay, so we don't have the sizeand strength of an elephant,

We can't fly like a birdand we're really not that fast,

So how do we protectourselves out here on theafrican savanna without armour?

-Piece of cake!

With our jeep ofcourse, good thinking bro!

-Plus, it's thefastest way for us humans tohead back to animal junction.

I wonder whatzoboo is up to now?

-Let's check it out!

-Do it again.

C'mon do it again.

Please do it again.

-Do what again zob?

-Roll up into a super ball.

Yeah, just like that.

-Whoa!

An armadillo rollsup into a ball for protection

From predators and lookat what a great armour this is.

-Mangatsika! Talk about hard.

-Yeah! You can'tget at her in there.

Especially because the tailpiece and the top of the head

Fit together like a puzzle,completing the ball of armour.

-And you know whatelse, an armadillo doesn't

Have fat on herbelly, it's on her back.

That helps her rollinto a really tight ball.

-You want to seewhat else she can do?

Armadillo on the move.

Skittle around on thetips of your fingers and toes!

-Oh yeah, I thinki'm getting the hang of it.

-With such longclaws you have to run

On the tips of your nails.

Even with all thisarmour weighing her down,she's still incredibly fast.

And despite the heavy armour,an armadillo can still swim.

This is how she does it.

She gulps in a lot of air,

This inflates her stomach,kinda like a balloon,to twice its normal size.

That helps her float and swim.

-Now the back of anarmadillo is made up of thesebony plates called scutes.

Buton her belly, you can see thatthe armadillo has some hair,

And look at thattwitchy little nose.

-My mind thinks thatlemurs weren't made for

Rolling up into a balllllll.

Lemurs were made for leaping.

Thinking of balls,

That reminds meof one time in zobooland.

-I was leaping along,

Leap, leap, leap,

And then I saw something thatmade me not believe my mind.

Baby zoboomafooasauruswas throwing somethingup and down with his mouth.

And that something was cy.

-I love playing ball.up and down, up and down.

-Stop throwing me, stop!

-Baby zoboomafooasaurus, that'snot a ball, that's cy, stop!

-Oh, what?

Oh my ball, myball's bouncing away!

-Someone help me stopbaby zoboomafooasaurus.

He thinks cy's aball and he might pop him!

Gooble, help stopbaby zoboomafooasaurus!

-Baby zoboomafooasaurus,i'm not a ball, I'm a cy!

-Sorry cy.

-The end.

Armoured creaturesare great creatures.

♪This animal is a friend of mine

♪From the tip of hisnose to his funny behind

♪Allthe friends that we met todayare special in their own way

♪We've all got different namesbut we're really all the same

♪Thanks for droppingby we're glad you came

♪These animalsare friends of mine

♪They jump and swim,crawl, fly and climb

♪One more thing we have to say,

♪Go make an animalfriend today! Yeah!

See you later.

Well I guessi'll be going home too.

Hey, my mind just got an idea.

I'll go homewearing my own armour.

-Armour? I thoughthe was done with armour.

-Yeah I thoughthe was going to use

His eyes, brains andears to stay out of trouble.

-Uh-oh! Zoboo forgotto use the door again.

-No I didn't. Sometimesi just like to wear armourand walk through walls.

See you later zoboo.

Hi! My name istom, and this is my dog raceand he loves to chase me.

Hi we're the kratt brothersand we never get too closeto an animal we don't know.

-Remember: alwaysgive an animal her space.

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

An adult says it's ok.

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!