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Amazing Adaptations Part 3 How Animals Survive in the Wild
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00:00Go Wild Wild Wild Rats!
00:10Back up, Martin.
00:12Black rhinos are the most ready-to-charge rhinos in the world.
00:19Relax. If we don't move, she can hardly see us.
00:22Poor eyesight, remember?
00:26Shh! But the nose and ears are super sensitive.
00:30That rhino will charge if we sound or even smell like a threat.
00:34I took a shower. Did you?
00:36Shh! How about cleaning those ears?
00:39Oh! I mean the ox-peckers!
00:42Crawling right into the rhino's ears, picking ticks like flying Q-tips.
00:47The rhinos get their ears cleaned. The birds get a meal.
00:51Both get something out of the deal.
00:52It's an amazing symbiotic relationship.
00:55Oh, yeah?
00:56I think the coolest part is that the rhino can chill out and eat
01:00because the ox-pecker will sound the danger alarm.
01:03Dude, you got me on that one.
01:08Uh, did we just set off the rhino alarm?
01:12Yup, we set it off.
01:14Whoa!
01:20Whoa!
01:23Did you see that?
01:25See it?
01:26I felt it. Ouch!
01:29No, I mean the ox-peckers hung on even when the rhino charges.
01:33Now that's the coolest thing.
01:35I win!
01:36Okay, you got me.
01:38But what I don't get is who would want to mess with the third heaviest land mammal on the planet
01:42and take on that charge.
01:48So if that's who the rhino was going for, we were just in the way.
01:52They're after the calf.
02:08Amazing!
02:09That's a 1,300-kilogram mega-mammal with some fancy footwork.
02:16I've heard of Toss Salad, but Toss the Lions?
02:20Incoming!
02:23Ooh!
02:24That horn is a serious weapon.
02:27Rhino's defense is awesome!
02:28Uh-huh.
02:35Oh no!
02:37I just tuned it up.
02:38I like it.
02:39Gives her character.
02:41You know, that made no sense.
02:43Black rhinos are solitary.
02:45They'd never stampede in a huge herd.
02:47It's unnatural.
02:50I've got to see if my bass programming works.
02:53I thought, hey, what's better designed for swimming than a fish?
02:56I'm itching to see if I made some progress on the aqua dynamics.
03:00But how long does it take to find a fish?
03:02Depends if you're going for largemouth or smallmouth bass.
03:06I'm looking for largemouth.
03:08Smallmouth in a snap.
03:09Largemouth.
03:10Smallmouth.
03:12Either bass will do what's the diff.
03:15They're different species who live in different habitats.
03:18The smallmouth bass is smaller, and its jaw goes just under its eye.
03:23The largemouth bass is bigger.
03:24Jog goes behind its eye, giving it a larger mouth.
03:29Smallmouth bass live in groups.
03:31Largemouth bass go it alone.
03:33Smallmouth like rocky areas and love to eat crayfish.
03:38Largemouth lurk in weedy spots and munch sunfish.
03:41Smallmouth bass are scrappy and great jumpers.
03:45Largemouth get really, really big.
03:47Okay, whichever one you want.
03:49Just touch a bass, activate the creature power suit, and test the bass powers.
03:53Okay, I'm on it.
03:55I'm under it.
04:04Permission to go ashore, Captain.
04:07You have the list?
04:09Popcorn, candy corns, ice pops.
04:13Not the munchies list, Jimmy.
04:14The supply list.
04:15I've got it.
04:16Have a fun time in town.
04:22I'm hot.
04:30Yeah, sometimes even the world's most genius inventor needs a day off.
04:35No world-changing inventions today, and, uh, no wildcrats.
04:44Okay, I'm a big bass.
04:47Now where would I hang out?
04:49Hmm, I'd park it somewhere I could spot my prey.
04:53Yeah, where I could see them but not be seen.
04:56Maybe in here.
04:58Oh, nice largemouth bass.
05:01Oh, yeah.
05:03Let me just tickle you under the chin.
05:05Huh?
05:06A school of sunfish.
05:09Whoa!
05:10You are the largest largemouth bass I've ever seen.
05:13And hungry.
05:14The way you gulp down sunnies, I've got to call you Gulpa.
05:20Hi, Finn.
05:22Thanks for the win.
05:25Activate creature power suits.
05:42Martin!
05:43You win some, you lose some.
05:45This is the only time to see fireflies.
05:48They only come out like this for two weeks of the year.
05:52And each lightning bug only flies and flashes for this one time in their whole lives.
05:57When they flash, they're talking to each other.
06:00The male fireflies fly around and flash to get the attention of the females.
06:05The females are on the ground watching the flying flashes.
06:09If she likes what she sees, she'll flash back.
06:12So the fireflies are flashing so they can pair up and lay eggs.
06:16They turn into glowworms.
06:17They turn into fireflies.
06:19But what are they saying to each other?
06:22It's like a code.
06:23A code that we don't know.
06:25We've got to figure out the lightning bug code.
06:29Bioluminescence.
06:30Light created by a living thing.
06:32Most light creates heat, but the fireflies glowing belly isn't hot.
06:36It creates cold light.
06:38How does it work?
06:39How do you do it?
06:40Blinker.
06:41His name's Blinker.
06:43How do you know it's Blinker?
06:44Oh, I'd recognize him anywhere.
06:47Okay, so at the Bug Olympics, how does a firefly start...
06:50What are you doing?
06:51I'm telling Blinker a joke in Firefly.
06:54At the Bug Olympics, how does a firefly start the race?
06:57How?
06:59On your mark, get set, glow!
07:05Look at the fireflies I caught.
07:07All right.
07:09Have a good look at them.
07:10Then let the fireflies go.
07:18Danita!
07:19She's sucking up all the lightning bugs!
07:23No!
07:27She's captured all the male lightning bugs from the meadow.
07:30Danita's jet is headed due east.
07:32She's heading to her Smoky Mountain mansion.
07:34Good job, Koki.
07:35Keep tracking her.
07:36We've got to go now and rescue them.
07:38The fireflies only have this time to flash, lay eggs, and hatch glowworms.
07:42If they don't, there will be no fireflies next year.
07:45Hold on.
07:46How are you going to rescue thousands of lightning bugs?
07:49We need a plan.
07:50We don't have time for any plans.
07:52You know Danita.
07:52She'll put them into suspended animation and try to make flashy jewelry or sweatpants out of them.
07:57If we're too slow, we're too late.
08:01Oh, Blinker.
08:02You're still with us.
08:03You're the only male firefly left.
08:06And he's the secret to the code.
08:08If we can crack the flashing code, we should be able to communicate with the lightning bugs and lead them
08:13to safety.
08:14I already know how to talk firefly.
08:16They call me the firefly whisperer.
08:19Firefly whisperer?
08:20Who does?
08:22Could you guys use a firefly disc for your creature power suits?
08:26Yeah!
08:27I just have to figure out how their bioluminescence works first.
08:31Okay, Jimmy.
08:32Take that luciferase in the green tube and pour it in the large beaker.
08:35Hmm?
08:40Hmm.
08:41That didn't work.
08:42And you should probably wash your hair.
08:45Okay.
08:46I think we're onto something in the weird-looking walrus mystery.
08:50Whoa!
08:51That's one way to use those weird-looking tusks.
08:54Like sled runners to slide across the mucky ocean floor.
08:59Then the walrus shoots water into the sediment to break it up.
09:03She's looking for something in the mud.
09:06Hey, so is Blobby.
09:08Whoa!
09:09Look at those whiskers go.
09:11Hey, Blobby.
09:12Have your whiskers grown in yet?
09:14Whiskers?
09:14They have 450 of them.
09:17Give or take a couple.
09:18Whoa!
09:19Their whiskers work like magic fingers in the mud.
09:22You can't find things with nose hairs.
09:27My controller!
09:28Chill, Jimmy.
09:29I made it waterproof.
09:31Pudding-proof, too.
09:33See?
09:34Just like fingers, each whisker has muscles to move it.
09:38So, now we know that walruses use tusks and whiskers to search for something in the muck.
09:43But what is it?
09:44I know.
09:45I'll make a creature attachment for the creature power suit.
09:48And maybe you guys can dig in and find out.
09:53Hey, waste not, want not.
10:00Looks like there's a whole pile of clams right under my yacht.
10:05I couldn't be smarter.
10:08Ah!
10:09Ah!
10:09Ah!
10:10Ah!
10:10Or in more pain!
10:12I cut my finger in half!
10:16Zack Bart!
10:18Zack needs ointment!
10:26I don't mind giving Donita the Arctic Pearl to show her I mean business.
10:32Big business!
10:39Kim!
10:40What?
10:40Oh no!
10:41Oh!
10:42Hello, Donita!
10:43Zack, I'm on my way to collect my fabulous pearl.
10:47So you'd better have it ready for me.
10:49Uh-huh.
10:50Well, take your time.
10:50Uh, gotta go!
10:54Zack Bart!
10:56Zack Bart!
10:57Find.
10:57That.
10:58Pearl!
11:08What was that?
11:09Brace yourself, Martin!
11:11It's a walrus stampede!
11:14Whoa!
11:16Whoa!
11:16Whoa!
11:17Whoa!
11:17Whoa!
11:18Whoa!
11:18Whoa!
11:20Whoa!
11:21Whoa!
11:21Something sure spooked those walruses.
11:23But now they're back on track.
11:25Look!
11:26Those whiskers have found something!
11:29A clam!
11:30That's what they're looking for down here!
11:33Clams!
11:34Walruses eat clams too, but how do they get past the shell to the yummy part inside?
11:41Oh, I say she'll crush the shell, then eat it.
11:45She'll just swallow the thing whole.
11:47She'll use her tusk as a can opener.
11:53That's it! Walruses suck clams out of their shells with one giant slurp.
11:59I'm thinking the little T-Devils climb so they can get higher up to get a better sniff on the
12:04carcasses.
12:06Over there, let's go!
12:18We're getting close to the guy's location.
12:22What's up, Koki? Aren't you supposed to be keeping track of the tagged T-Devils?
12:25I can't get any work done because rotten meat and carcasses gross me out.
12:30I hear ya, but as part of the Wild Kratz crew, we're gonna meet all types of animals.
12:35Live ones and ones that have died of natural causes.
12:38Yeah, but animals that eat rotten stuff, yuck!
12:41Hey, somebody's gotta eat maggoty meat. At least it's the T-Devils and not us.
12:48Nothing left but bones, and the T-Devils are still munching.
12:53Look at all that good stuff inside! Bone marrow!
12:57That's nutritious food, if you can get to it.
12:59Yeah, not every animal has the tooth and jaw strength to bust open the bone and get to the marrow.
13:05But T-Devils do!
13:11Hey, stop breathing on my neck!
13:15Your teeth are huge! And they're growing!
13:20T-Devil teeth never stop growing. Why? That's why!
13:24Chewing on hard bones wears them down. They need teeth that keep growing so they can crunch bones!
13:30Hmm, the great thing about being a scavenger is you can eat things that other creatures can't.
13:36Nothing goes to waste when a T-Devil's around.
13:39Want a bone, T-Bone?
13:42Hey, he was just with me a minute ago.
13:44Hmm, I'm not getting any signal on the T-Devils.
13:47You've lost your T-Devil mind, and now T-Bone is lost, too!
13:51What do you mean, lost?
13:52He's off the radar.
13:54Koki, come in!
13:56Koki?
13:57Oops.
13:58I'll be right there, Martin.
14:01Oh, no!
14:02What's wrong, Koki?
14:04Ten T-Devils are quickly moving west together.
14:06That's unnatural.
14:07And then the tracking lights go out, and they're gone!
14:11Is tag number nine, that's T-Bone, one of the disappearing T-Devils?
14:16Yeah.
14:17And number eight, his mom.
14:20Oh, no.
14:25Hover back, Zackbots.
14:27Introducing the T-Devil Butt 2000.
14:30Hehehehe.
14:37Now that's what I call kid-proofing.
14:42Hey, it looks like we have a giant Pacific octopus coming our way.
14:47Oh, yeah.
14:48I see him, too.
14:49Hey, I think it's seven.
14:57Four, five, six, seven.
14:59Eight.
15:00Not seven.
15:01But talk about a creature with amazing creature powers.
15:05Giant Pacifics are like a team of superheroes all rolled into one.
15:09They have escape tactics.
15:13Amazing stretching abilities.
15:16And they're super smart.
15:18But does he have the power to find my suits?
15:21I'll ask him.
15:23Hey, Guy, what's up?
15:27Whoa!
15:28He's thinking, I'm out of here, using jet propulsion.
15:33Hey, he must be trying to escape from a predator.
15:37I'm a big fan of jet propulsion.
15:39How does an octopus use it?
15:41Okay.
15:41Water goes up into his head and then into a tube.
15:45The tube has muscles at the top of it, which quickly squeezes water out the hole in the back.
15:51And that shoots the octopus forward at about 40 kilometers per hour.
15:55It's like having a jet engine right in your head.
15:58Super cool.
16:00Chris, take over driving?
16:01I'm going to add jet propulsion into the octopod movement system.
16:04If I fasten this tubing into the intake valve over here,
16:07it'll run water into the autopop.
16:09That'll squeeze it through this tube.
16:10It just might work.
16:12If anyone can do it, you can, Aviva.
16:15You were right, Chris.
16:16He was escaping a predator.
16:18That great white shark!
16:24Whoa!
16:25The Octo just said, eat this, and shot a cloud of ink into the great white's face to mask his
16:31escape.
16:34He didn't only take off to escape.
16:36His ink has chemicals that are poisonous, even to him.
16:41Oh, it did a super job at irritating the shark's eyes, so the octopus could get away.
16:46Oh, add an ink defense to the octopod, Aviva?
16:49Oh, yeah!
16:50We need an ink defense!
16:52How's that going to help us find the suits?
16:54The octopus has it for a reason, so the octopod should, too.
16:59It worked great for him because the shark is gone.
17:03I spoke too soon!
17:06The shark must think we're an octopus.
17:08He's chewing on us!
17:10Oh, no!
17:10He might bite through the power line.
17:12Then we're going down with no way up.
17:14No better time to test my jet propulsion feature than now.
17:31It worked!
17:33Way to go, Aviva!
17:35Awesome!
17:35Thanks, guys!
17:37Ink defense is next, and I have just the thing to help me add it to the octopod.
17:42Ta-da!
17:43I brought a celery and seaweed shake, in case I wanted a snack.
17:46Ah!
17:47Seaweed ink defense!
17:49What a great idea!
17:50Healthy, not harmful.
17:52Exactly!
17:55A basilisk!
17:57He's so cool looking!
17:59Oh, in a dinosaur kind of way.
18:00Check out those feet!
18:02They're huge!
18:04And the claws!
18:05Whoa!
18:07Oh, look how fast he skitters!
18:10I'm going to call him Skitter!
18:13Any lizard could be called Skitter.
18:15And this guy does way more than Skitter.
18:17For one, he walks on water.
18:20Oh, you're right, Chris!
18:21I need to come up with something that's all about being a basilisk.
18:26They munch fruit,
18:28and gobble up bugs.
18:30So that means a basilisk is an omnivore, eating a lot of different things.
18:34But isn't it dangerous to hang out in the open on a branch with so many predators around?
18:41We're about to find out!
18:43Uh-oh.
18:44Eagle, two o'clock!
18:46It's a harpy eagle!
18:48A harpy?
18:49A harpy eagle has the longest talons of any bird of prey on the planet!
18:55Talons as long as a grizzly bear's claws!
18:57Aren't harpies known to pluck monkeys out of treetops?
19:01Sure are!
19:03Uh, Martin?
19:04You look kind of like a monkey holding the Jobo fruit!
19:07Oh, maybe!
19:09But this giant blue monkey is too big for even a harpy to snatch!
19:14But a basilisk lizard isn't!
19:17I didn't even name him yet!
19:19Oh, no!
19:21Yikes!
19:25Oh, that's why a basilisk can hang out like that!
19:28Because he has a quick escape!
19:31He's walking on water!
19:33Woo-hoo!
19:34Running up river!
19:35Whoa, check out those big claw food splashing away!
19:38Huh, that's what I'm gonna call them!
19:39Splash claw!
19:41Cool name!
19:42He ran over two meters per second on the water!
19:45That's fast!
19:46Yeah!
19:46Wait a second!
19:48That's the same as eight kilometers per hour!
19:51Huh!
19:52Humans run that fast!
19:53You're right!
19:54We can run that fast!
19:56So if we do, maybe we can cross the river too!
20:00Hmm.
20:01On your mark, get set, go!
20:12Well, that didn't work!
20:14Speed's important, but it's definitely not foot speed alone
20:17that makes the basilisk walk on water.
20:19Maybe it's the size of those wide back feet!
20:23They're way bigger than the rest of them!
20:26And it's those feet that he was water walking on!
20:29Oh-ho!
20:30I have another water walking trick up my sleeve!
20:33Actually, in my backpack!
20:38Snowcuse!
20:38In the rain forest!
20:40Hey, you might be more organized, but I'm better prepared!
20:45On your mark!
20:47Get set!
20:48Go!
20:52Well, at least we got a few more steps before we sunk!
20:56Hey, where'd the basilisk go?
20:58We can't learn the mystery of water walking without him!
21:03Ah, could this be Thornsley's herd?
21:06Not likely!
21:07This looks like a bachelor herd!
21:09Only guy elephants in these herds!
21:11Right!
21:12Male elephants are way bigger, and have giant tusks!
21:15Thornsley belongs to the other kind of herd, matriarchal!
21:18Just moms and their babies!
21:21Check out the way the elephants spray themselves with mud and sand!
21:24The sand keeps the bugs off them, and the mud keeps them cool on hot days like today!
21:30Ooh, sounds like a good idea to me!
21:33Ha!
21:35Are you cooler now?
21:36Yup!
21:37And muddier!
21:38You should try it!
21:39I think I will!
21:40Ha!
21:41Whoa!
21:42Ah!
21:44Woo-hoo!
21:45All right!
21:45Mud Cannonball, here I come!
21:48Whoa!
21:48What's going on?
21:50The elephant's trying to get some leaves to eat!
21:52Does it have to be this tree?
21:57Whoa!
22:02Whoa!
22:03Whoa!
22:05Elephants have the strength of a bulldozer!
22:08Yup, if they can't reach the branches they want to eat, they just knock down the whole tree!
22:13And look how strong their trunk is!
22:16That's a huge branch he just ripped off!
22:18Hey, who needs hands when you have a trunk?
22:20Yeah!
22:21Trunks can do way more things than hands can!
22:28It's getting late, Chris!
22:30We'll find Thornsley's herd first thing in the morning!
22:33Okay, I'll take a few branches back for Thornsley to eat!
22:40Oh-ho!
22:42Thornsley's bed looks great, guys!
22:44Okay, so elephants only sleep four hours a night!
22:48And not four hours in a row!
22:53And they need constant physical contact when they're away from their moms!
23:00Oh-ho-ho!
23:01He's sucking his trunk like a baby!
23:04He is so sweet!
23:05We'll take turns keeping an eye on him while you guys get some rest!
23:09What harm can he do, Martin?
23:12Well, he already fritzed out Koki's computer and squished Jimmy's sandwich!
23:16Baby elephants can be pretty playful!
23:18And that's why we love him!
23:21Goodnight, guys!
23:23Sleep well, Thornsley!
23:39Whoa!
23:44Whoa!
23:46Whoa!
23:50Whoa!
23:52Whoa!
23:52We found them!
23:53Red kangaroos!
23:55Yeah, the males are red, but check out the females.
23:58Female Ray Kangaroos are blue.
24:02Be out in a second.
24:03I'm setting up the digital measuring meter
24:05so I can get the distance of their leaps.
24:19So, Chris, how many roos does it take
24:22to hop over your head before you look up?
24:24Huh?
24:28Three!
24:29Whoa, got it!
24:31That last one just leaped 12 meters.
24:34That's about half a meter shy of the max jump distance
24:36of the red kangaroo,
24:38the greatest jumpers in the creature world.
24:41Incredible!
24:42I'm gonna add that leg power to your creature power suits.
24:45Cool!
24:46Jumping, over and out.
24:48Hey, you might be small,
24:50but I think that last hop was almost a meter high.
24:5440 centimeters to be exact.
24:56I'm gonna call you Hopster.
24:59So, you wanna take me on, huh?
25:03You're a tough little guy, aren't you?
25:05He's gotta practice.
25:07For a kangaroo, kickboxing is as important
25:10as breathing and eating because...
25:12Ooh, nice one, Hopster!
25:13He got you good, Martin.
25:15Hey, Hopster, where are you going?
25:17We didn't even finish round one.
25:19Probably didn't wanna hurt ya.
25:25Now here's what kickboxing is all about.
25:28One male roo saying to the other,
25:30I'm tougher than you.
25:33So, for kangaroos, the best kickboxer
25:36gets to be the top roo of the mob.
25:38I wouldn't go near that boxing match.
25:40One kick from those powerful hind legs
25:43could cause a serious stomach ache.
25:46Oh!
25:47It's a good thing kangaroos have an extra thick layer
25:49of skin on their belly to absorb blows like that one.
25:52Good luck, Challenger.
25:54If you win, you'll take over as Rue Boss.
26:01Oh, and the Rue Boss wins
26:03and stays head of the mob.
26:05Hey, where'd Hopster go?
26:07I wanna play with him again.
26:09Yeah, he's definitely more your speed, Martin.
26:13Hey, Hopster!
26:15I'm over here!
26:23I knew you'd like me, buddy.
26:26Hey, you wanna play hopscotch?
26:29Whoa!
26:30Looks like he'd rather play keep-away
26:32with our keys!
26:33Two can play at this game.
26:35Hey!
26:35Get back here with those keys!
26:42Nice!
26:43The squirrel got it!
26:44Now he hops off,
26:48digs a hole,
26:50pushes the acorn in,
26:51covers it with dirt!
26:53Acorn hidden to eat later.
26:55Yes!
26:56That's squirrel power!
26:59So, that's not the only acorn in the forest.
27:02An oak tree could drop 23,000 acorns in the fall.
27:06And the Blue Jay's got one!
27:09She flies off,
27:14finds some soft soil,
27:17pushes the acorn into the ground!
27:21Blue Jays hide acorns!
27:25Well, squirrels can remember where they hid the nuts
27:28and dig them up in the winter.
27:31Memory!
27:32And hey, Blue Jays are bird brains!
27:34Ah!
27:35For a Blue Jay, that's a compliment!
27:37Because this bird brain is smarter than a squirrel!
27:40A Blue Jay is so smart,
27:42she can remember where she hid her acorns,
27:45through the winter,
27:46and into next spring,
27:48and come back to the exact spot to eat it!
27:52Oh-ho!
27:53Better memory!
27:55You couldn't do that!
27:56Hmm.
27:57Get this!
27:58Any acorn a squirrel forgets to eat stays safely in the ground.
28:02Then, when the snow melts and the sun shines in the spring,
28:05those uneaten acorns grow into oak trees!
28:08That's how the Gray Squirrel plants the trees that feed it!
28:12Well, any acorn a Blue Jay chooses not to eat stays safely in the ground.
28:16Then, when the snow melts and the sun shines in the spring,
28:19those uneaten acorns grow into oak trees!
28:23That's how the Blue Jay plants oak forests!
28:25Huh?
28:28Blue Jay's better!
28:31Gray squirrel's greater!
28:32Blue Jay!
28:33Gray squirrel!
28:34Blue!
28:35Gray!
28:36Blue!
28:37Gray!
28:38Hmm.
28:39Ah!
28:46Ha!
28:47Check this out!
28:48A Gray Squirrel digs a fake hole to fool acorn predators,
28:52like deer and wild turkey!
28:53Turkeys eat acorns too?
28:55Yeah!
28:56Look!
28:57The turkey is tricked!
28:59The squirrel buries the acorn safely over there!
29:03Ha!
29:03Now that's clever!
29:05And, we can bury 300 acorns in a single day!
29:09Please!
29:10Ha!
29:11Just one acorn at a time?
29:13Ha!
29:13Us Blue Jays!
29:14We can stuff one acorn into our expandable throat pouch!
29:20Then, two, three, four,
29:23in our throat pouch and an extra one in our mouth!
29:26Then, fly off with all five acorns at once!
29:35All the way over here!
29:39Ha!
29:39We Blue Jays can carry more acorns at a time,
29:42and carry them further,
29:44up to eight kilometers away,
29:47and plant them!