02x23 - Ants and Eaters

[bunniefuu]

♪While walkingin the woods one day,

♪Chris and Martinsaw something strange,

♪a little leaping lemurwho liked to bounce and play.

♪They followedtheir new bouncing friend,

♪Not knowing wherethis adventure would end.

♪The animals wereheaded just around the bend.

♪Where they going? I don't know!

♪How do we get there?C'mon let's go!

♪Me and you and Zoboomafoo,come along and see what's new,

♪we're doing thethings that animals do.

♪New animalfriends to see, AnimalJunction's the place to be!

♪elephants charging,baboons are leaping,

♪wild dogs runningand nobody's sleeping!

♪Me and you and Zoboomafoo,come along and see what's new,

♪we're doing thethings that animals do.

♪Me and you and Zoboomafoo,come along and see what's new,

♪at Animal Junctionwe're waiting for you!

Ready Chris?

-Let's do it Martin!

-Juuuummmmmp!

-Whooooooo!

Oh yeah!

-Zebras, six o'clock!

-Hey,they look as small as ants!

Striped ants!

And there's Animal Junction!

-Okay and these crosswindsshould put us right on target!

-Another perfect landingright in Animal Junction.

You okay Martin?

-Yeah, except thatI landed in an... ant hill!

Ahhh!

Oooh, they're all over me!

Oooh!

Ooh!

Ants are littlecreatures with a big bite!

Whoo-hoo!

Sorry guys, didn'tmean to sit on your home.

-An anthill is like a fortress,

bustling with thousandsof soldiers protecting it.

-When they bite you, it makesyou leap like you-know-who!

Zoboo!

-Hey Zoboo!

-There he is!

Come on in!

Hey Zoboo.

It looks like Zoboo'sgot ants in his pants too.

-Hey Zoboo, how you doing buddy?

How you doing, want a scratch?

Yeah!

It's great up here, isn't it?

-You shouldsee what's down here.

Look at these little guys.

A bunch of antsand termites built homes here.

-It's like a whole other worldin these mounds. It's amazing!

Have youever watched ants before Zoboo?

Zoboo?

Well you know Zoboo,

no chat until he's had a snack.

Apples!

Zoboo,I've got an apple for you.

Thereyou go buddy, have a piece,wait, not the whole apple!

Here I cut a piecefor you, this one!

There you go buddy.

That's the one.

-'Scuse me!

Zoboomafoooooooo!

Hi there.

Hello ants.

Wow, you guysare sure fun to watch.

Look at those little ants go.

Whaaa!

Ow, ow, ow, ow...

-They got him!

-Somebody bit mewhile I was watching those ants!

-Zoboo, it was the ants!

-Yeah, these littlecreatures pack a powerful bite.

-Look at those chompers.

-Mangatsika, that's abig mouth for a little creature.

I'm going to call you Jaws.

Hey, that makes my mindremember, on my way here,

I saw another creature, a bigcreature with a little mouth.

Who could it be?

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

♪Can you helpme guess this mystery?

Okay, he hadtwo big eyes and a long face.

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

His mouth was pretty small,but he had a really bushy tail.

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

♪Can you helpme guess this mystery?

-A long-faced, bushy-tailed,small-mouthed creature.

Do you know who he is?

All right,let's see, he had a long face...

...small mouth...

...bushy tail...

...big claws...

Wow, he's amazing!

-And he has a facethat's gianter than giant!

-Manga-ant-eater!Mystery Animal is here!

-Come on over here.

-Hey, he's slurping,he's slurping my face.

Hey, that tickles.

Hey, Slurpy, that's whatI'm going to call you Slurpy.

No, those are my feet!

-Great name Zoboo.

Slurpy the anteater.

-Check out that tongue.

It's pretty long, right,but that's just the tip of it,

because an anteater's tonguecan get up to two feet long.

The whole thing'slonger than a shoelaceor a water monitor's tongue.

-Hey guys,why is he called an anteater?

Hedoesn't really eat defenselesslittle ants, does he?

-Yeah, he really doesZoboo. He really is an anteater.

-In fact, anteaterswere built for eating ants.

Just take a look at that longnose and listen to it sniff.

Giant anteaters havea great sense of smell.

That's how they find ants.

Like this tamandua,who is an anteater too.

He sniffs along tree branches,searching for ants or termites.

He finds them by smelling them.

-Wow, he can smell ants?

I didn't evenknow ants were smelly!

-Yeah, and once he finds them,

he uses his long,hard claws to get to them.

He scratches away bark or dirt,

and that ishow he finds his food.

His claws are soimportant for finding his food

that he has to keepthem sharp at all times.

That is why an anteater walkson his knuckles, like this.

Give it a try!

An anteater has what it takesto hunt, catch and eat ants!

-But ants are great!

Well, ants and anteatersshould be friends.

I'm going to dosomething about this.

I'm going tomake them best friends.

Slurpy, I was thinking...

hey, what are you smelling,

no, no,not the ants, no wait, stop!

Slurpy's going to eatJaws and all the other ants.

I'm going to stop him!

Slurpy, wait,

stop!

Ah, hey, Slurpy,

where you going, huh?

Oh, you're hungry?

Well, here,there's snacks right over here.

Come on!

To the snack machine.

Ah-ha!

Anteater!

Nothing coming.

Hello!

Huh, nothing there, oh well.

Ooph!

I meant to do that, yeah.

-An avocado.

-Well try it Slurpster,you'll like it.

Ah-ha!

Slurpy likes fruit!

-Actually, giantanteaters do eat some fruit,

but it has to bepretty mushy like an avocado,

because giant anteatersdon't have any teeth.

-No teeth?

-That's right, no teeth!

And creatures withno teeth, like a human baby,

have to eat really soft food.

-Whoo! But he hasa very flicky tongue.

Whoo! I'm almost getting dizzy.

-It's amazing.

It's like a worm!

-Yeah!

I told youhe'd be a good fruit eater.

-You're right Zob.

-When an anteater eatsfruit, he doesn't eat a lot,

becausean anteater mostly eats ants.

How many antsdoes an anteater eat?

An anteater eats thirtythousand ants in a single day.

That's a lot of ants.

-So fruits arepretty good, huh Slurpy?

Slurpy?

-Slurpy's lookingfor something else to eat!

-Oh, wait, not the ants!

I gotta stop him!

-I'll try to get his attention!

Hey Slurpy, let'srun around Animal Junction!

-Yeah!

-Come on.

Gallop like an anteater!

-Try galloping on your knuckles.

It's not that easy!But it's easy for Slurpy.

Come on buddy.

Alright, over here!

Whoo, through the legs!

Now let's tickle Slurpy.

Zoboo, I've got him,I've got him in the tickle hold!

-Tickle hold?

Good work Chris.

Slurpy'snot thinking about eating ants,

he's thinkingabout being tickled!

-He loves it!

Oh yeah, right there, oh yeah!

-Jaws, all you otherants, you're safe now!

-He really wants to wrestle.

Wrestling with an anteater!

Let's go, come on.

-Uh-oh, where's he going?

Hey, no, wait, stop, not again!

I know, my mind hasan idea, but I better move fast!

Oh, hey, Slurpster.

Want to see me do one ofthese crazy people things? Huh?

Yeah, come on over here.

Now this is the back of thebike, and I get on over here.

And then you,

you sit on itlike this, and then,

and then I think you just pedal.

I got it, oh yeah, this is easy.

Uh-oh!

Whoaa!

This can't be the right way!

This isn't very comfortable!

Whoaa!

-Zoboo, slow down!

-Whoaaa!

Uh-oh!

Whoa!

I meant to do that.

And besides, I kept Slurpy'smind from thinking about ants.

-You're right Zob. Jaws andthe other ants are still safe.

-Well that'sgood, but I'm stuck.

Eh, eh, eh,

Slurpy, I need help!

Oh hi, oh Slurpy,can you, can you get me out?

That's a nice foot.

Ha, ha,don't tickle my feet, ha, ha.

Stop, I give,I give, I give Slurpy!

All the mangoesyou can eat I'll give you!

Slurpy tickling me remindsme of one time in Zobooland.

I was leaping along,

leap, leap, leap, leap, leap,

and I landed next toSnow Lemur playing in the sand.

Hello Snow Lemur, I said.

-Oh, hi Zoboo.

You know,when I come down to Zobooland,

I like playing in the sand. Ya!

-Oh, I like the sand too.

It tickles my fingers.

-Yeah, oh, ya,it feels good on my hands, ya.

It tickles my sides too.

-Oh yeah,yeah, it tickles my sides too.

-That tickles, ya, that tickles.

Oh ya.

-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 I spent the rest

of the morningtogether playing in the sand.

The end.

-Great story Zoboo.

-Well, thanks.

-But you know, Slurpy reallywants to get at those ants.

I mean, anteaters eat ants.

That's justlife in the creature world.

-And don't forget, ants haveways of protecting themselves.

Remember those chompers?

-Oh yeah!

-When an anteaterattacks an anthill,

the ants bite so much,that the anteater can only

spendabout a minute eating beforehe has to get out of there.

-And there are a lotmore ants than anteaters.

Usually abouta million ants to one anteater.

See these driver ants?

The workers areheading out in search of food.

But see the line of ants on eachside with the extra big jaws?

Those are soldiers and theyprotect the workers from danger.

-And thenthere's the acacia ants.

The thorns of the acacia treemake sugary food for the ants

in exchange for protection.

These tough ants protectthe tree against grasshoppersand other predators.

-Wow, ants are pretty tough!

I've got it.I need to talk to the ants.

Wellmaybe I can convince them tobe friends with the anteaters.

Brothers!

-Yeah Zob?

-I need to do this face to face.

Build me a shrinking machineso I can be as small as an ant.

-A shrinking machine?

-Yeah!

-Like this one?

Come on in,the shrinking machine!

-Huh?

Mangatsika,

I'm ready to go,

to the ants!

-Chris, you know, oneof us should really go with him.

-You're right.

Good luck.I'll stay here with Slurpy.

-Zob, it lookslike I'm coming with you.

-Oh thanks Martin,that's big of you.

Get it? Big?

-All right Zoboo, you all set?

-All set, ready to go.

-Set to ant-size.

All systems go!

-Whooaaa!

I'm shrinking!

-Me too! I'm getting smaller!

We're ant-size!

-It worked!

-Look who's coming.

-Uh-oh!

-To the anthill.

-Run Martin!

-I'll distract him.

So Slurpy...

-Alright, are you ready Zoboo?

-Yup, I'm ready.

-Okay, one...

two, three, leap!

Duck your head.

-Yeah, it's tight in here.

-Hey, it's Jaws!

-How do you know that's Jaws?

-Oh,I'd know that face anywhere.

Hey Jaws,

I need to talk to all the ants.Could you take us to them?

-Hey, wait for us!-Hey, wait for us!

-How are youguys doing down there?

You know an anteaterhas a really sticky tongue.

That's how he comesup with a mouthful of ants.

So watch out for that tongue!

Yeah!

-Here we are Zoboo.The nesting chamber.

This is where the ants takecare of their eggs and babies.

Pretty cool, huh?

-Yeah!

This is my big chance.

I'm going to talk to them.

Hear ye, hear ye!

Hello ants,

you know this little w*r you'vebeen having with the anteaters?

Well, ah, I thinkyou guys should be buddies!

Hello,

hello?

Anybody hear me?

-Zoboo, the ants are busy.They're doing what ants do.

In an ant colony,there's strength in numbers,

so more ants arebeing made all the time.

Ants start out as eggsand then they become larvae.

See those whiteworm-like things?

Thoseare the larvae and the workersfeed them and take care of them.

Everybody's justdoing what ants do.

-Doing what ants do.

Then I guessanteaters do what anteaters do.

-Exactly Zoboo,and anteaters eat ants.

-Yeah, and a lemuris made to be lemur-sized.

-Back to the machine!-Back to the machine!

-Whoa, that was great!

-Yeah.

-Thanks a lot buddy,the itch is right there,

yeah, right there. Thanks!

Hey, they're back!

-Time to hit the big time!

Whoa!

-How'd it go guys?

-Well,I decided that ants are ants and

anteatersare anteaters and anteatersneed to eat ants to survive,

but ants have pretty goodways of protecting themselves.

-So, it all kind ofworks out in the end, right?

-And all kindsof eaters are good eaters.

Hey, know what?

-What?

-I'm feeling anteater-ish!

♪I feel different - Not the same

♪This kindafeeling I can't explain

♪There's onlyone thing that I can do

♪I feel anteater-ish.How bout you?

♪Anteater-ish

♪I feel anteater-ish

♪Anteater-ish

♪I'm a long-faced slurperwith a super long tongue

♪Anteater-ish!

I'm going back for more.

I love this machine.

Being small is mangatsika!

Now I'm feeling ant-ish again!

-Duck!

-Duck!

-Incoming!

-Hi Moonface!

It's not a duck, it'sa giant Moonface, the barn owl.

Well, giant to a mini Zoboo.

Whoa! I've never seenyour talons so close before.

They're like, giantteeth to a little creature.

-And Moonfacebrought a message...

...from the Animal Helpers!

-Hi guys, hi Zoboo, Amy here!

My friends live ona farm and have three pet goats.

Goats are great pets becausethey love it when you pat them.

That tickles!

My friends don't evenhave to mow the lawn anymore

because the goatskeep the grass nice and short.

See what I mean?Goats will eat everything!

Even the flowers in your garden.

They're great eaters all right!

-Alright!

-There are all kinds ofincredible eaters in the world.

-Yeah andI like being ant-size, but I'mready to be lemur-sized again.

Flick on the machine brothers!

-Okay, here goes.

Something's wrong,it's not working.

-It's outof the special ingredient.

-Uh-oh!

-Don't worry, we'll get some.

-Sounds likea trip to mini Zoboo.

-To the closet!

♪They're going to the closet

♪They're going on a trip

♪They're going to the closet

-Uh-oh! You know what alwayshappens when we open the closet.

-Well,we gotta do what we gotta do.

Aaaaa!

♪They're goingon a cool adventure

♪And they don'tknow what's in store.

♪They're coming from the closet

-A containerfor the special ingredient!

Go long Chris!

-See you later Zoboo!

-Bye brothers!

-We're here in Africa, searchingfor the special ingredient

for the shrinkingmachine. Aardwolf spit!

-And how doyou find aardwolf spit?

Well, you could get itdirectly from an aardwolf,except that's not easy.

-Or you couldalso find it on a termite mound.

You see, aardwolvesare a special type of hyena

that eat termites,so it's only natural that

they'd leave a littlebit of spit on a termite mound.

-Let's finda termite mound, come on!

-Too bad we don't need elephantspit, they're everywhere!

Alright,our first termite mound.

Any aardwolf spit Martin?

-I don't know,but there are termites.

Talk about saliva!

Termites build these moundsby mixing their spit with dirt.

The mound bakes in the sunand becomes as hard as concrete.

-Yeah, lots of termites, butwhat about the aardwolf spit?

-Let me see,we'll take a sample withour aardwolf spit test kit.

Justscrape off a little dust hereand this machine will detect

if there is any spit left byan aardwolf lapping up termites.

Nothing.

-No aardwolves have beenhere, but birds definitely have.

Look! Bird poop!

Birdssometimes use termite moundsas perches and lookout points.

-Baboons like to lazearound on a termite mound too.

In fact, they playking of the termite mound.

Let's keep looking foraardwolf spit. Zoboo's waiting.

-All right, termitemound number two, except,

I don'tthink we're going to findany fresh aardwolf spit here.

-That's becausethis is an old termite mound,

and withno termites living here anymore,

why would an aardwolf come by?

-He wouldn't,but there's another creaturewho loves old termite mounds.

Mongoose!

-Oh yeah!

If you're a mongooseand need protection from the

hot African sun,and predators, like a jackal,

a termite moundis a great place to go.

A mongoose is smallenough to get into all of the

tunnels and the moundis so hard, it's almost

impossible forany predator to break into.

-Another termite mound,

test results,

oh, negative.

We're not having much luck.

-Yeah,and it's getting hot out here.

-Yeah!

Hey, let's usethe termite mound like a jackal.

-Yeah!

For shade!

She has hershady spot, and we have ours.

I'm feeling cooler.

-Yeah, me too.

-So, let's keepsearching for aardwolf spit!

-Alright!

There must be anaardwolf around here somewhere.

Eureka! We hit aardwolf spit!

-And there's the aardwolf!

-What an amazing creature!

An aardwolfonly eats a few termite species

and she onlyhunts them at night.

-She uses her long stickytongue to lick up the termites.

She can eat two hundredthousand termites in one night.

-Alright, well we'vegot the secret ingredientfor the shrinking machine.

-Let's getback to Animal Junctionwith this aardwolf spit.

Giraffe spit?

-We don't need any of that!

-Not today, at least!

-Hey Chris, look!

It's Animal Junction!

We did it!

Zoboo,we found the secret ingredient!

-Whoa!

Do you see what I see?

-Giant chihuahua?

-Mini anteater?

-Brothers, the machine'sreally going crazy now!

It's shrinkingand enlarging everybody!

-Incredible. Have youever seen a mini elephant?

-Or a giant chimpanzee?

-The whole worldof nature's out of whack.

Zoboo, good thingwe got back when we did.

-You can say that again.

-Hope this aardwolf spit works.

-Oh hi Brainiac.Yeah, I'm ready too.

Okay, we're readyto get back to normal.

-Let's do it!

All we have to dois put the secret ingredient

inside the machineand it's ready to go.

Got it?

-All right, turn it on.

Okay, everybody, in the machine!

Toothbrush first!

It worked!

Alright!

Now the anteater.

Hurray for aardwolf spit!

-I'ma lemur again! And Toothbrushis a big elephant again.

-Pint-size chihuahua...

-...normal size penguins...

everybody's backto the size they should be.

-Bye Brainiac!

See you later Splish and Splash!

And everybody'sthe eaters they should be.

-That's right,and Toothbrush is an herbivore.

That means he eats plants.

-Me too.

I'm an herbivore too.

-Toothbrush canreally pack away the plants.

He can eatmore than this whole pile of hay

in just one day,and he's just a baby.

-Wow, he's asuper-duper, power plant eater!

-But Shark is adifferent kind of eater.

Chameleons are insectivores.

That means...

-...he's a bug eater,cause an insect is a bug,

and a vore is an eater. Soan insectivore is a bug eater!

-You got it Zob.

And Sharkreally likes mealworms.

Whoa!A chameleon has one fast tongue.

He spots his prey,takes aim and wham!

He has his dinner.

His tongue can belonger than his whole body.

-Wow!

-Hey Zob,you have a mealworm on you.

-Oh, that's okay.

Shark will helpme out, won't you Shark?

Oh thanks.

You know what Shark?

All these eaters remindme of one time in Zobooland.

I was leaping along,

leap, leap, leap, leap...

when I bumped into Sensit.

Hi Sensit!

-Hi Zoboo, I've beenlooking for you everywhere!

We're having a tastetest to find everybody'sfavourite food in Zobooland.

-I love to eat! Lead the way.

-Wiggy, she lovesslurping big root noodles.

My personalfavourite is mango fruit,

here try one Zoboo.

-Thanks Sensit. Yummy!

-Goobleberries, goobleberries,

I love goobleberries.

-And I knowyour favourite food Bugly.

Boconuts!

-Thanks Zoboo-de-dock!Boconuts rock!

-Zoboo, you know everybodyhas their favourite food,

but I know one everybody likes!

Bring it in Zoboo.

-Ice fruit cake!

I love cake!

-And we ate Zobooland ice fruitcake for the rest of the day.

The end.

-Great story leaf-eater!

-Oh thanks, spaghetti eater!

-What was your favouritepart of the day Zoboo?

-I liked being ant-sizedand going into the anthill.

-I liked when Zoboowas riding on that bikeand whizzing all around!

-I liked when Slurpyslurped up all the avocado.

-Ants and eaters are great.I love all kinds of eaters!

-Yeah!

♪This animal is a friend of mine

♪From the tipof his nose 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 fordropping by 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 makean animal friend today! Yeah!

Bye Slurpy!

-See you later buddy!

-See you later guys.I gotta go do lemur things.

-See you later Zoboo.

-Keep on leaping lemur.

-Hey Martin, want togo check out some dirt eaters?

-Oh yeah, I'm with you brother.

And remember,all eaters are good eaters.

-It's just survivalin the creature world.

See you next time!

To the earthworms!

Hi, I'm Alexander.This is my pet Sharla.

Hi, we're the Kratt brothers,

every creatureadventurer knows you have tobe careful around animals.

-Because sometimes an animalcan get a little scared of you

and then she might thinkshe has to defend herself.

-That's why you shouldonly go near an animal whenan adult says, "It's okay."

Right Zoboo?

NOW A JOKEFROM ZOBOOMAFOO...

DID YOU KNOW THATA HIPPO CAN OPEN HERMOUTH THREE FEET WIDE!

NOW THAT'S BIG!

AND A HIPPO CAN STAYUNDERWATER FOR FIVE MINUTES.

A HIPPO EVEN SLEEPS UNDER WATER.

WHEN IT'S TIME TO BREATHE,

SHE JUST COMESUP, TAKES A BIGBREATH OF AIR...

AND SINKS RIGHT BACK DOWN AGAIN.

- HEY, CHRIS?

- YEAH ZOB?

- UM, HOW DO YOU TELLTHE DIFFERENCE BETWEENA HIPPO AND AN ANT?

- I DON'T KNOW ZOB, HOW?

- ANTS ARE EASIERTO PICK UP!

RIGHT SLURPY?

- WHAT DO YOU THINKHE'S LOOKING FOR ZOBOO?

- ANTS...

AND MAYBE UNCLES!

THAT WAS A JOKE!- GOOD ONE ZOB!

- YOU KNOW,AUNTS AND UNCLES.