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00:00Coming up on OWL TV, we visit Land Iguanas in the Galapagos Islands.
00:11Making sound and music with Dr. Zed.
00:13The Mighty Mites visit Weaver Ants.
00:15The Hoot Club kids create giant shadow puppets.
00:17New day, it's a brand new start New world, we have brand new hearts
00:40There's so much to see and do For being all my friends There's just no way to hold it back
00:48Let me tell you when that feeling comes Over me, like natural energy
00:57I can't sit still, so alive You and I gotta move
01:10Owl TV visits the Galapagos Islands with Carlos, our guide, Ryan and Eric to look at Land Iguanas
01:19Big
01:21Yeah
01:22And what do they eat?
01:23They feed on this cactus you see right there
01:25They can eat the pad, the fruit, the flower
01:28And also...
01:29With all the spines on it
01:31Usually when you see an iguana eating the cactus pad, he will try to clear the spines, you know
01:38Like to take off all the spines from the pad
01:40How?
01:41But by scratching it
01:42But at the end, he will just eat it with the spine
01:45They don't digest the spines of it
01:48They also eat this ortulaca you see here, this plant which is very succulent
01:54And they obtain a lot of fresh water from the cactus on this plant like this
01:59And how do they get the food? It's so high
02:02Well, normally they have to wait until a cactus pad or a fruit or a flower falls down on the ground
02:11When there is not much vegetation and a lot of competition for food
02:17I have seen cases of Land Iguanas doing so many things that it's a standing
02:22For example, one day I saw a Land Iguana standing on two legs
02:26Standing on two legs? What was he doing?
02:29Well, he was trying to reach one of the pads
02:32Acrobat
02:33Yeah, acrobat, right
02:34They rarely climb the cactus
02:37But, again, I have seen them doing it
02:40And they seem to like stuff their mouth
02:43Do they have teeth?
02:44They have a very fine line of teeth
02:47And they have a very fat tongue
02:50Which they use a lot
02:52They must have to swallow the fruit whole, almost
02:54They bite it
02:55They bite it
02:56And then they try to crush it
02:58And then swallow it
02:59Some of the small ones, the hatchlings
03:03Will feed on bugs
03:05Even grasshoppers
03:07Eventually
03:08Yeah
03:09How do the nest?
03:10They don't lay their eggs in the same place where they live
03:13They come out and they dig a different hole
03:16And that's where they lay their eggs
03:18The iguanas just simply put the egg on the ground
03:22And it's the ground that takes care of the incubation
03:25The heat of the ground
03:26Yeah
03:27Then they hatch and they come out
03:29Does anything eat the iguanas?
03:31Yeah, especially when they're small
03:33They have many predators
03:34Frigate bird, maybe?
03:35Well, frigate bird very rarely
03:38Hawks will do it more constantly
03:40And then also owls
03:43Can this land iguanas swim?
03:46No
03:47No, these are all terrestrial reptiles
03:52And you just find them here?
03:55There are several populations here on the archipelago
03:59How long do they live?
04:01They can live a fairly long life
04:03I mean 70, 80 years
04:04That's more or less what
04:05Wow
04:06Those guys are really big
04:07And they get to weight from 12 kilograms easily
04:11Do they find it hard to run along on the volcanic rocks?
04:15Oh no
04:16Many people think these animals must be kind of a slow motion animals
04:21But they can go just really fast
04:24Do the marine iguanas and the land iguanas live in the same houses?
04:30Well, no
04:31The marine iguanas always live exposed on the rocks very close to the water day and night
04:38The land iguanas though, they do come into holes in the ground during the night
04:44It could be dig out or be a natural made hole sometimes underneath a rock
04:50Are the iguanas very territorial?
04:52Well, yeah
04:53The land iguanas are territorialists all year round
04:56They have this aggressive display which they have by nodding their heads up and down like this
05:02In other words, when you see an iguana doing this to you, that means
05:05Get out of here
05:06Get out of here
05:07Yeah
05:26Rhinoceroses in Java have a special field where they go when they have to go, if you know what I mean
05:43It's only yours
05:46No one knows why, but the rhinos set aside this special place
05:50It's a big outdoor lavatory, about half the size of a tennis court
05:54Oh
05:57That's where the rhinos go to answer the call of nature
05:59Hmm
06:00What's that for goodness sake?
06:04It's music
06:05Music?
06:06I could call it sound, I think
06:21I'd like to show you how sounds get going
06:24First, we watch things vibrate
06:27That's right, that's what it is
06:29You can see the vibrations there very clearly, can't you?
06:32Now, if we move that down a bit, just watch what happens, just try again
06:35Dr. Zed says that all sounds come from vibrations
06:39Okay, try a little bit
06:42Every one of those is a vibration
06:46And have a look at this
06:47Okay, now, watch what happens when we get close to the water here and this vibrates
06:52Ready?
06:53Did you get splashed?
06:57It certainly does it
06:59Would you like to have a try?
07:00Okay
07:01Oh boy, does that ever give it a splash
07:03And those are caused by vibrations
07:06Take that one
07:09Now, we'll just get around here
07:11Ready?
07:13Now, you have to turn it with the points up like this in order to get the sound
07:19Just tap it and put it up like that
07:23There we have our sound again
07:27Did you notice anything about the smaller ones?
07:29You do it with the first higher pitch
07:31That's right, it goes higher
07:33There we are
07:34Wow
07:36Look at this pipe
07:37Oh
07:38Oh
07:39What a piece of pipe
07:43Now, we take our pipes and swing them around
07:48Swing them around
07:49Swing them around
07:50We can make air vibrate inside a plastic tube
07:55Whoa
07:56Now, try swinging it really fast
08:03Slower
08:08We wanted to see which way the air went, so we put confetti at one end
08:17Okay
08:18Okay
08:19Now, let's see what happens
08:20Ready?
08:21It sucked it up
08:22Like a vacuum cleaner
08:23And shot out the other end
08:25And it got in our hair
08:26You see what happens there?
08:28Yeah, there it comes
08:32Yeah, there it comes
08:35A good spin here
08:36Get a good spin
08:37All right
08:38Ready?
08:40Oh, look at that
08:42Looks like a wedding for goodness sake
08:44When you start turning it around really fast
08:47The air is sucked up through there
08:50You could see that with the confetti, couldn't you?
08:52And then when it goes over those little ribs
08:54Can you feel the ribs inside there?
08:56Just feel them
08:57When it goes over those
08:59That's what causes the air to
09:02Vibrate
09:03Vibrate
09:04That's it
09:05That's what makes it vibrate
09:06And make the sound that it does
09:09Wow
09:10Now, there it is
09:11There it is
09:13Whoa
09:14And there it is
09:16Yeah
09:17Now, we have to find the center of this
09:19If you don't hold the rod in the middle
09:21Just put your fingers like that
09:22It won't vibrate the way we want it to
09:23Just put your fingers like that
09:24One finger there
09:25One finger there
09:26Don't hold on to it
09:27Just balance it
09:28Balance it
09:29Now, bring your fingers together
09:30Bring your fingers together
09:32Yeah
09:33When they touch
09:34That's the center
09:36Right there
09:37Okay
09:38And this rosin
09:39Is what they use for violin bows
09:42And that sort of thing
09:43Okay, ready?
09:44And we just rub
09:45Oh
09:48Ready?
09:51Put your finger in the water
09:52And then off
09:53And then you just put your finger around the edge
09:54Okay, ready?
09:55Watch this
09:56Watch this
10:01Okay, put your finger in the water
10:03And then off
10:05And then you just put your finger around the edge
10:06Okay, ready?
10:07Watch this
10:08Okay, put your finger in
10:11Yeah
10:12Making it sing
10:13Yeah
10:14I'm making it talk
10:15Now, I'm going to put a little bit of water in here
10:17Now, I'm going to put a little bit of water in here.
10:21And a little bit more water in here.
10:22You can make a musical instrument by putting different amounts of water in each glass.
10:27The water changes the pitch.
10:29One more here.
10:31Now, would you try that again?
10:33Get your fingers wet.
10:34It's very important.
10:39Doesn't that change the pitch?
10:41Can we try it one at a time?
10:42Sure, try it one at a time.
10:43Okay, ready?
10:44As soon as you can start.
10:45Sure.
10:47Okay, next one.
10:53It goes lower as there's more.
10:55Yes, isn't that interesting?
10:57Sounds like a violin.
10:57Now, that's music.
11:12Scientists think that temperature determines the sex of turtles.
11:22If the eggs are incubated above a certain temperature, the turtle will be a female.
11:28Below that temperature point, the turtle will be a male.
11:32Hot for girls, cool for boys.
11:38That's the way with turtles.
11:45The Hila Faber frog lives in Brazil and Argentina.
11:48These frogs guard their territories by building walls and circles, a little bigger than record albums.
12:00And up to 10 centimeters high.
12:03You get the feeling these Hila Faber frogs like their privacy.
12:06This is Sophie Mite reporting from the coast of Africa on the main event,
12:23Weaver Ants versus the LaFyra Brasolis caterpillar.
12:27Mark, Nicky, and I were on our way to play basketball with a soccer ball.
12:31All right.
12:32When suddenly we bounced into our next adventure.
12:35It was a perfectly good pass.
12:37Hey, guys, look at this.
12:39Weaver ants?
12:41Mark was right.
12:43We had stumbled upon a colony of weaver ants who weave houses for their larvae.
12:47The houses look like silk tents.
12:50Maybe this is their campground.
12:52Let's check out their basketball court.
12:54Come on, let's shrink.
12:57What's wrong?
12:58Don't you guys want to shrink?
12:59Not really.
13:00Every time we shrink, everything gets bigger.
13:02And higher.
13:03It would take two days to climb that.
13:05Wait a minute.
13:05All we have to do is jump, remember?
13:07Yes.
13:08I remember it being quite dangerous.
13:10Come on, be sports.
13:12Maybe they really do have a basketball court.
13:14Oh, okay.
13:15Okay.
13:16Let's go.
13:21What are we going to do, Mark?
13:38Uh, quick.
13:39Nicky, pass me the ball.
13:40Cat!
13:43Whew, that was close.
13:44Yeah, but what are we going to do about Nicky?
13:47Ah!
13:49Cat!
13:50Cat!
13:50Cat!
13:51It's time to hog the ball.
13:53Look where he landed.
13:56Nicky landed right in the middle of construction.
13:59The weaver ants build their nests by weaving leaves together.
14:03The workers pull the leaves until they almost touch.
14:06Then other ants carry in the larvae.
14:11What are they doing with the larvae?
14:13They're weaving the leaves together.
14:15The larvae produce silk, which sticks to the leaves.
14:17When it dries, it shrinks, fastening the leaves together.
14:20Well, that's how they built their nest.
14:22Whoops.
14:25Oh, no.
14:26Oh, oh, oh.
14:29Way to go.
14:31It was a perfectly good pass.
14:32How are we going to get the ball back?
14:34Hey, look.
14:35A caterpillar.
14:36Let's hitch a ride.
14:38Follow the ball, Nicky.
14:39We'll meet you inside.
14:40We got on the back of a Lafira caterpillar, which only eats ant larvae.
14:46The ants were fighting fiercely to protect their larvae.
14:53We're surrounded by desperate ants.
14:56Quick, let's look under.
14:58Lucky for us and for the Lafira.
15:01It has skin like a coat of armor.
15:03Those ants are vicious.
15:07Look, there's Nicky.
15:09And he's got the ball.
15:10Help!
15:17Nicky, Sophie, where's the ball, you guys?
15:23Mark!
15:25Mark, where are you?
15:27Mark!
15:30We're safe under here.
15:32I thought we were goners with all those ants.
15:35Where are we?
15:36We're under the lip of a caterpillar.
15:39Man, this thing loves to eat larva.
15:42Oh, it'll stop.
15:43Sooner or later.
15:44Good.
15:45Maybe then it'll escort us out of here.
15:49Isn't it going to take us back in?
15:52This caterpillar seems quite content to stay right where it is.
15:56Unfortunately, Mark was right.
15:58The caterpillar's defense against the ants was impenetrable.
16:02We're gonna have to try to sneak out when the ants aren't looking.
16:08So we waited.
16:10And waited.
16:13And waited.
16:15We waited so long that the caterpillar turned into a butterfly.
16:19Hang on!
16:19It's gonna make its getaway!
16:22The butterfly was in danger.
16:24Its soft body and delicate wings were vulnerable.
16:27We were gonna try to hang on as it left, but it was impossible.
16:30Give it up, Nicky.
16:32It's slippery.
16:33I can't hang on!
16:35Ah!
16:37The butterfly's wings and legs are covered in loose scales, which are so slippery the ants
16:42can't get a firm hold.
16:43Its body is covered in matted hairs, which clog the ants' jaws.
16:47Yuck.
16:48While the ants were following the butterfly, we ducked out.
16:52Jump for it!
16:53That was close.
16:59Talk about teamwork.
17:00We just took on a whole ant colony.
17:02Yeah.
17:02Come on, let's get big.
17:04Don't toss me the ball, Nicky.
17:13I thought you had it.
17:15Oh, no.
17:15The weaver ants must still have it.
17:17Well, at least it's protected.
17:19Yeah.
17:19But what if a caterpillar decides to eat it?
17:22Let's go back and get it.
17:24No way!
17:25This is Sophie Might, signing off.
17:27Over and out.
17:27Contestants will attempt to lift objects which weigh 50 times their own weight.
17:37The first contestant is the leafcutter ant.
17:40Quiet, please.
17:43It's done it!
17:44No problem!
17:45The leafcutter ant can lift 50 times its own weight.
17:50Quiet, please.
17:51Ladies and gentlemen, an official protest has been lodged.
18:02The judges agree.
18:03Only an ant can lift 50 times its own weight.
18:10Greetings.
18:11I'm Geraldine Giraffe.
18:13I don't usually give interviews, but for LTV, I'll make an exception.
18:17Uh, thanks, Miss Geraldine.
18:18Oh, call me Jerry.
18:19Uh, yeah, right, Jerry.
18:20What's it like being so tall?
18:22It's just too terrific.
18:24We can reach all the tenderest acacia leaves.
18:27While we eat, we lion watch at the same time.
18:29Lion watch?
18:30Are lions a problem?
18:31Oh, dear, yes.
18:33They have this perfectly dreadful habit of sneaking up on our babies.
18:36But a good kick sends a lion flying.
18:39Giraffes in general have very good legs.
18:41And I personally have sensational legs.
18:44I can see that.
18:45But, uh, you don't have any toes.
18:47No, we have hooves.
18:48Like horses, sort of.
18:49I noticed, and, uh, can you run fast?
18:52Oh, maybe 25 miles per hour.
18:5435 with a lion behind me.
18:56You have knees, but you don't bend them.
18:58Balance is the answer.
18:59We're wonderfully balanced when we bend over to drink, if we keep our legs straight.
19:03You make your own triangle with the ground?
19:05Right.
19:05It's also easy to see what's happening behind me.
19:08I noticed that zebras travel with you.
19:11Yes, zebras and antelopes.
19:12They feel safer with us, because we can see so far.
19:16We're sort of a traveling lookout.
19:18How do you feel about ostriches?
19:20Oh, ridiculous birds.
19:22They get a bit frantic, dashing back and forth.
19:24What with zebras and antelopes, ostriches and a bunch of birds, it gets pretty busy on the plains.
19:30Just what's a reticulated giraffe?
19:33Reticulated?
19:33That's a way of describing my fur pattern.
19:36Chic, don't you think?
19:37Three-form squares are very in this year.
19:39Mm-hmm.
19:42What is your tongue black?
19:44Have you been eating licorice?
19:45Oh, no.
19:46That's so it won't get sunburnt.
19:48How does that long tongue fit in your mouth?
19:51Oh, it sort of curls up.
19:52It's like one of those things you blow at parties.
19:54Only I don't make rude noises.
19:56My tongue is very strong and very useful at tugging leaves and twigs.
20:03I really like the way you walk, Jerry.
20:06It's so neat.
20:07So smooth.
20:08Well, thank you.
20:09When you're as tall as I am, you have to get it together.
20:11It's a long way down if I trip.
20:14Sorry, I have to move now.
20:15I have to attend a high-level conference.
20:17Ta-ta.
20:19See you around, Jerry.
20:20It's really great having a giraffe for a friend.
20:33Mommy, which one are you?
20:39It's a kind of bird.
20:41Mommy, wiggle your hand if it's you.
20:43It's trees.
20:44Okay, I see you.
20:45Now it looks like, um...
20:47Perfect.
20:47Perfect.
20:52Um, let's see.
20:53Now it's a dog with long fangs.
20:57Um...
20:57Let's see what it looks like on your fingers.
21:05Don't unwind it.
21:06I want to see what it looks like.
21:07One day in the Hoot Club, we made our own shadow feeder
21:09with a sheet and an old overhead projector.
21:13If anyone maybe wanted to try this at home,
21:16they could use a flashlight and a mirror.
21:19If they set it up properly, it would work.
21:20I'm moving in the seats.
21:21Look at the shadow.
21:22Oh, wow.
21:23I like the eyes on it.
21:25I have nostrils or something.
21:26Something like a peacock.
21:28Why don't we try and make some shapes
21:30and then you guys can guess what they are.
21:31You have to make a pair of them.
21:32Yeah.
21:32Okay, Claudia.
21:33Okay, some of you go on that side.
21:35Okay, give me two, try one.
21:36Okay.
21:37What are we going to try?
21:38Make?
21:39All right, we're going to try some of them.
21:40Don't tell them.
21:41Don't tell them.
21:42Okay, we'll try.
21:43How about...
21:44We'll come back and watch.
21:46Come on, yeah.
21:46We'll come back and guess the center.
21:47All right, all right.
21:48Let's stay on this side.
21:49Let's see.
21:51Okay, okay.
21:53Okay.
21:54Let's try this.
21:56Okay, we're going to try this.
21:58Yikes.
22:00But it's going to fall down.
22:01And choking?
22:01Yeah.
22:02All right.
22:02Up, up, up.
22:03And age?
22:05Okay.
22:08Look how close...
22:09Really close.
22:09When it's all close, it looks so neat.
22:11You can see all those different little...
22:13Is it each little crease?
22:14The shadows make the creases.
22:16Yeah, each crease is perfectly done.
22:18Look how much smaller it looks than when you move it back.
22:21It looks better when you move it close up.
22:23I know, because it's all details.
22:24You can see all the details.
22:26And this?
22:27After making shadow shapes with our bodies,
22:30we tried projecting different backgrounds
22:31by using different materials.
22:33Look.
22:33We don't want to clutter it too much.
22:35All right.
22:35Let's check it.
22:36Let's do red on.
22:37Let's try and throw some around.
22:38Take it off and then move up.
22:39Let's throw some around.
22:41Look what the wheel looks like.
22:42Look what the wheel looks like.
22:44Then we decided to trace our own shadow puppets.
22:46We gave them movable joints
22:48and used colored gels for some of their features.
22:50Well, it's okay,
22:52because we can just make it out of something else.
22:55So after this, it's bigger.
22:58It's bigger than it should be.
23:01Can someone help us trace some...
23:04Is it just a split when we're busy?
23:08Yours.
23:11You can even do it.
23:12You can tell them it's a library.
23:13You better get the detail on it.
23:15I made an alien being from another planet.
23:20I put it together with special type of Bristol board
23:25and cellophane to make the colors come out.
23:29Okay, we'll make a bow on the head.
23:35Are those the next?
23:39Are you going to make joints in your knees?
23:47There we go.
23:52Well, a friend and I, we've created a dancer,
24:02and we gave her a net skirt, and we gave her joints in the arms and the wrists and the neck and the head.
24:24Today I learned that shadows can reflect also colors,
24:29because I didn't think they could before.
24:30I just thought the shadow, you know, was a dark reflection or something,
24:33but we've seen today that it can reflect color as well.
24:36Let's go.
25:06Let's go.
25:11Let's go.
25:13Let's go.
25:17Let's go.
25:23Let's go.
25:27Still got to go, go, go, say my word for it, you will know when the feeling comes over you, right on time, that's your cue, lift your heart, move your feet, dance that beat, get the move.
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