02x17 - Animal Records

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welcome to the world of amazing animal

records

what are all those four they're the

trophies for all the amazing animals you

know biggest fastest tallest that sort

of thing I want one of those

but what record can I break how about

quietest lizard nice try hmm I was

pretty good at jumping at school let's

try that Henry Henry

nope but it's about the only thing you

didn't break funny very funny

never mind Henry I'm sure there must be

some amazing record you can break

trouble is animals don't actually break

records sure they do no what I mean is

they don't do it on purpose but everyone

wants to be the best no they just want

to survive

you see the Moose is the biggest deer so

he can fend off predators

now seahorses are the slowest fish so

they have one of the world's best

gripping tails so they can hold on

against the tide saltwater crocodiles

are the biggest reptiles so they can be

first in the food line well and he is a

record breaker yes but he doesn't know

that just like this fierce snake doesn't

know that it's probably the most

venomous snake okay so what's this the

ugliest snake no that's a worm lizard

and amphibian

right the world's record toughest thing

to say boy do you speak no fastest

wingbeat hummingbirds can flap their

wings over 90 times a second excuse me

but that's amazing hmm he must be the

net eating record holder no record

glider huh

gliding squirrel actually they're called

flying squirrels gliding saves them the

trouble of climbing they can glide for

over a thousand feet but when the trees

are only a few feet apart they don't

even need to try setting records where's

the fun in that can never get your

pictures in the newspaper

Shh

burr burr

and they're under starter's orders that

way and very quickly Henry rut

I gotta get into training I don't think

even that would help against those guys

Harris can run it up to 50 miles per

hour excuse me

that's amazing but it's better late for

anything that's not why these guys run

fast yeah so why do they do well most of

them rely on speed to get away from

predators

a doc I thought this was about fast

animals it is believe it or not Ducks

are the fastest fliers they can fly even

faster than a cheetah can run well if

they're the fastest then there's no way

this guy can catch them not in straight

flight no but the peregrine falcon has a

trick that can help it reach speeds up

to 124 miles an hour and make it the

fastest animal on earth Wow

it climbs high and then dives picking up

more and more speed all the time

Oh swell buh one o'clock he's coming out

of the Sun made a duck leader I can't

pull up

and the world's records for overacting

goes to sorry hey these guys aren't fast

no but leaf cutter ants are awesomely

strong those leaves weigh more than 20

times more than they do

wow these Hercules beetles are even

stronger when they aren't fighting over

food they can lift up to 850 times their

own body weight that's a lot of dead

weight to carry hey I know all about

carrying dead weight you do I work with

you Donna huh I walk right into them

Henry it's time for your report Henry

it's time for your special report what

now yes Henry now oh you are ready

aren't you oh of course I am what was it

about again you're supposed to be

telling us all about the slaw all right

here goes

sloths are probably the slowest mammal

in the world they move along the ground

even slower than some tortoises how am i

doing so far so far so good Henry kept

cool but what most people don't know is

that they're not really slow at all it's

just their job yeah you see sloths

actually work for the jungle police they

creep along so slowly because they're

looking for clues or watching a suspect

move a lot quicker if they have patrol

cars of course but sloths can't drive

and even if they could never get them up

into the trees but that doesn't matter

anyway

because when they're up in the trees

sloths Onslow anymore no in fact they

come old as fast as lightning well it

leaks as quick as a snail on

rollerblades especially when they're

chasing suspects or running away from

their sergeants when there are reports

to write and I know just how to feel

people say that the fungus grows on

their fur because they are so slow but

they're wrong they grow that fungus on

purpose it's for camouflage so they

don't get spoiled I suspect

that's also the reason why they only

take a bet once a week

those jungle criminals can smell shampoo

a mile away and slots don't want to blow

their cover after all at their pace that

can take them years to get home from the

mall let alone get undercover and that's

why sloths move so slowly and it's

straight from the lizard's mouth so do I

get an A or what definitely and or what

again Henry didn't I even get one big

right

maybe but for all the wrong reasons rats

actually Henry there's no particular

reason why sloths are slow they just are

slow sloths aren't just the slowest

mammals in the South American rainforest

they're the slowest mammals on earth

even if they're fastest upside-down in

the trees they can only do about 15 feet

a minute I've got out plants that move

faster than that maybe not

sloths do seem to take everything much

easier than the other jungle animals but

then they're so well adapted for a life

in the trees and for them maybe

everything is easy they're not adapted

to life on the ground are they you're

right Henry

sloths can highly move on the ground at

all but that doesn't matter much since

they spend their whole lives in the

trees don't they ever come down

well sometimes yeah then I can speak to

the jungle informants right no Henry

it's just so they can get to another

tree lots would make great jungle cops

keeping an eye on all the other animals

when they're not just chilling out

I think chilling out is pretty much all

they do can you imagine a sloth and hot

pursuit of anything apart from maybe a

tasty leaf

oh so I guess sloths can't be sleuths

then I think they've got enough to keep

them busy just being sloths

so have you given up trying to set a

world record Henry no way I figure if I

can't do something the best maybe I

could make something the best instead

hmm so what are you going to make I'm

making it it's the world's biggest house

of cards it doesn't look very big to me

Henry

try moving back of it mm that's pretty

impressive yeah the world's first

skyscraper of cards and if I'm not

mistaken the world record animal made

baby I'm not so sure Henry you'll have

to do a lot better to beat those guys

down there guys them the world's

greatest animal builders they may but

now

you need to build things to last like

these Ospreys they build one of the

biggest birds nests huh doesn't look

that strong well actually the Ospreys

build their nests so well they can pass

them on to the next generation and the

generation after that and that gel yeah

right already I get the picture you can

learn a lot about construction from

termites why that ain't so big some of

the biggest termite mounds are higher

than a two-story building and when

you're less than half an inch long

that's the size of a mountain

termites are unstoppable builders you

mean they never Everest oh Henry sorry I

just can't help it

say these beavers wipe the floor with

those termites just look at that bridge

they built dam Henry language co it's

called a dam beavers build them to block

off the river looks like they made their

own private pool they have it gives them

protection from predators and from the

harsh winter weather most dams averaging

incredible 75 feet in length but one

amazing dam in Montana stretched over

2,000 feet that's a lot longer than the

world's tallest building is hi excuse me

but that's fun above favorable hahaha

Henry but even the biggest Beaver Dam is

tiny compared to the work of the

greatest builders on the planet

whoa I mean some animals built beaches

no no it's not the beaches it's what's

in the water the coral reefs coral reefs

wait a minute they're not they bite

animals oh yes they are Henry coral is a

massive collection of animals the reefs

are built up over many years from the

millions of homes each of the coral

animals build the reefs are so huge that

they're the only animal built structure

that can actually be seen from space

excuse me

now what record are you trying to break

Henry the record for eating the most

baked beans in a minute hmm

well alright then get set go

No Henry Henry what you can't use a

straw you're supposed to eat them one by

one with a toothpick to get the record

you kidding one at a time what's the

point

hey I don't know oh that's really lovely

Henry look I don't make up the rules I

don't even know why people want to have

eating records what animals have

record-breaking appetites don't they

animals only ever eat what they need to

survive when you weigh a hundred and

forty tons like this blue whale having a

2 ton a day appetite isn't that much

alright but elephants have gotten really

big appetites I happen to know that they

can spend up to 18 hours a day just

eating very good Henry like whales they

have to eat which seems like a huge

amount of food just to keep their weight

constant elephants don't come close to

being the greediest animals in the world

Oh No so what are rhinos crocodiles

nope caterpillars catepillars but those

little crawly things could that be

kidding nope those little things can eat

like you wouldn't believe

the Polyphemus moth caterpillar will be

56 thousand times its own body weight in

just two months

that's like you eating a pizza the size

of Manhattan

it's been known

but for sheer almost impossible gluttony

at just one meal here's a real contender

the Anaconda now these guys don't eat

very often but when they do or they do

it in style they're one of the largest

snakes in the world and there are folk

tales of them growing over a hundred

feet long in fact they only grow to a

maximum of 30 feet only that's enormous

at least they've only got small mouths

they won't be able to eat anything too

big don't you believe it their jaws

hinge right back so they can swallow

prey that's actually bigger than the

size of their head

like these Caymans you're not kidding

this is unbelievable you better believe

it

the Anaconda will crush the life out of

the caiman then slowly swallow when

digested excuse me but that's horrible

no it's not it's just what anacondas do

but not often after a meal that big this

snake may not eat again for months well

I hope he gets indigestion Henry Henry

what what are you doing in the hospital

did you hurt yourself trying to break a

record no I've been waiting to see one

of the world's biggest baby let me say

I've been waiting and waiting yes which

record baby are you actually waiting for

baby elephant well no wonder didn't you

know that an elephant mom takes 23

months to have her baby well I do now

sheesh I've been here longer than some

of these magazines looks like there's

another family here too oh yeah looks

like those mice guys did the trick for

that elephant mom whoa what an amazingly

big baby yeah but as you now know big

babies take a long time to grow the

smaller the animal the more babies they

can have and more often the more babies

a mouse or any other rodent has the more

chance there is that they won't all get

eaten by predators imagine if an

elephant at a dozen babies every two

weeks like some rodents do ouch

exactly some road mom's can have babies

when they're just two weeks old and then

they can produce a new litter every 19

days real breeding machines if they have

so many babies why don't we overrun with

mice little things get eaten by bigger

things they've just enough babies to

keep their numbers steady well if that

size thing is right but this bug must be

a record breaker it is Athens are one of

the most fertile animals on earth they

can breed at eight days old and have as

many as 25 babies a day in one year a

single afect to produce babies weighing

more than three times the total weight

of the world's human population

ha pretty I guess so

but do you know what they are they're

bacteria there are so many of these tiny

bacteria around that you could never

count them even if you could see them

but these guys don't have babies they

reproduce by splitting in two and they

do it all the time well about every 15

minutes it's amazing

no wonder if I could do that oh maybe

not

whoa I know these guys they're k*ller

birds or wheeler Helias Henry nice try

though

qui Lea's are the most common birds in

the world one roost in the Sudan was

estimated to have around 32 million

birds in it that's more than the human

population of many countries and talking

of people what is it Christmas shopping

time already no but did you know that in

the last hundred years the human

population of the world has tripled

there are now more than 6,000 million

people living all over the world Wow

even crius can compete with that I

figure it's people against the bugs for

the world's record numbers sorry Henry

the bugs definitely win hands I mean

pencils down good a fooled me

it amazes any room left for animals at

all ladies and gentlemen it's done

googling Gekko rule the prizewinners for

the all-time best animal record holders

on the world

Milius animal huh well it never changes

its spots

oh Henry the world's cleanest animal

because it's always washing its hands

Henry those aren't real records now come

on tell us the most amazing animal

record oh all right

the winner of the golden candle award

for the most

the fastest animal on four legs

that's better the cheetah can run up to

62 miles an hour although only over very

short distances with its powerful legs

and amazing claws that grip just like

track shoes it can accelerate faster

than most cars now there is a real

record breaker I've told you before

Henry they don't break records for the

fun of it they run that fast so they can

catch food I know that the gazelles and

all the other animals that she does like

to keep run really fast so cheetahs have

to run fast too and because gazelles are

about two miles an hour slower than

cheetahs and cheetahs can always outrun

them these cheetahs are just the

greatest sure Henry but it doesn't quite

work like that even though it's faster

than all its food a cheetah can only

catch its prey about one in every 10

chases you see the cheetah can outrun a

gazelle on the street but gazelles can

turn quicker so they make sure that the

races aren't run in a straight line this

life-and-death chase is about who can

out think who and most of the time it's

a pretty even match if it wasn't and

cheetahs always won soon there'd be no

gazelles left to hunt and the cheetahs

wouldn't have any food it's just another

example of nature's amazing balancing

act Wow

but it doesn't alter the fact that the

cheetah is the fastest animal on land

right right and that's why they win the

award for the most amazing animal record

still trying to be the fastest how Henry

yeah and this time I'm gonna win

go for it Henry

pretty impressive but not against those

slow guys well I had to win somehow

Henry animal records are much more about

survival than they are about winning I'm

never gonna be able to break any animal

records but you already hold one record

I do sure you hold the record for being

the most amazing lizard in the world the

most amazing yeah the greatest the

greatest yup Henry you are and so are

all the other amazing animal record

holders