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00:37deer is that a group of animals start fleeing because of climate change. And as they go
00:44from city to city along the journey, they will add more native species, more endemic
00:49species and the herd grows and grows and grows. The journey starts in Congo Basin and
00:56will end in the north of Norway. So it's a 20,000 kilometre journey and we're creating
01:02partnerships in cities along the route. Obviously, Little Amal has been a massive learning curve.
01:17We took a lot of lessons. We did a lot of mistakes. We hope we'll do different mistakes,
01:24not the same mistakes. We learned a lot. I think the main, main lesson is local knowledge,
01:32local knowledge, local knowledge, local knowledge is planted in real partnerships in local cities
01:38with local citizen groups, with local civic society is what gives this the engine, the
01:45honesty, the it's what propels it. We've managed to get a handle at the back here and
01:52one in the front. And then there's an elastic waist. So if I do that, the whole body opens
01:58up and kicks. All right. So you can create a leap and then you've got to just land nicely
02:04and you can get hops, which they do beautifully. So we build in Cape Town. We had to come up
02:11with some real solutions, technical solutions, because we're working in biodegradable materials
02:16only and mostly cardboard. This is there's a little bit of plywood in here and some metal.
02:22So we've got pins, little metal pins just to hold things in place, but there's no plastic.
02:25There's nothing here that will not return to the earth over a period of time. But cardboard
02:32obviously is something that we had to develop. We had to find ways to strengthen, to create
02:37structures that are strong and that will hold and not break down too quickly.
02:54It's been pretty challenging. This is the first time I've worked on a kind of puppet structure like this.
02:59And our job as students, we were kind of the first people to kind of pattern test this.
03:05So we were not just building it. We were also kind of problem solving and kind of giving
03:11suggestions to how it could work a bit better. So it was fun to build it. But we also had
03:16kind of a learning curve with some things because this is just the first draft of it essentially.
03:35Making them out of very available materials is really good. That means other people that once
03:44we've sent the instructions out, other people can make them. It's so easy for other places,
03:50other schools in any country. It's very easy, very accessible because it all is just cardboard.
03:57As I'm walking to uni and I'll see it on the street, I'll take them with me. I'll use that, that's good.
04:05Big, warm breath in. Last one out.
04:28You need to do something, make people believe you're animal. So we learn the sound as accurate as it is.
04:35So everything needs to be accurate. You don't exaggerate, but then make sure it's minimal,
04:41but then you're doing it exact, the movement. Lion, kudus, zebras, gazelles. So yeah, a lot of research.
05:06Thank you so much.
05:16And it is to create an emotional reaction. That's the core of this. We're theatre people.
05:20We want to tell a story that evokes an emotional reaction and we believe that if you do that,
05:26you will also create action.
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