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00:00Coming up on Owl TV, we visit a rhino mother and her baby.
00:10How to spin and weave wool.
00:12Bonaparte compares the telephone to the brain.
00:14The Hoot Club kids build giant gliders.
00:16New day, it's a brand new start.
00:34New world, we are brand new hearts.
00:42There's so much to see and do, but being all my friends,
00:46there's just no way to hold it back.
00:48Let me tell you when that feeling comes over me.
00:53My natural energy.
00:57I can't sit still, so alive.
01:01You and I got to move.
01:03Owl TV visits the San Diego Wildlife Park with Perry and David,
01:16which learn all about rhinos with Ron Stark.
01:20What kind of rhinos are they?
01:22These are southern white rhinos, and southern means they come from southern Africa.
01:27And they used to be on the endangered list, which is real nice as they've been taken off that endangered list.
01:32They've been doing so well in particular game areas of South Africa and also doing extremely well in zoos.
01:39We've had over 52, 53 born here that they've been able to take them off the endangered list.
01:47About how much do they weigh when they're born?
01:49About 100 pounds in weight when they're born.
01:51And the adults can get up to be as much as 6,000 pounds in weight.
01:56Well, what do they eat?
01:57Well, obviously at this age, they're going to be drinking the mom's milk for at least another year, year and a half.
02:04So it's a pretty long period of mom's care of the young before they're old enough to start eating on their own.
02:10Now, white rhinos are grazers.
02:13Grazers mean they mostly feed on the grasses.
02:15So these babies are going to be following mom around, and eventually they're going to learn from mom after they've been weaned to start feeding on the grasses.
02:21Look at their mouths.
02:23They're very flat and straight across, and that's a classic grazing type of mouth.
02:28How long do they live?
02:30Well, these animals can live probably about 40, maybe 45 years.
02:35And the two pairs that we see here, the mom and their babies, the larger one is probably around 4 months old,
02:40and the littler one is about maybe around 2 months.
02:42Do they have any enemies, natural enemies?
02:47Just about one.
02:48I think you can imagine what that one's going to be.
02:52That enemy is going to be man.
02:53There's not too many lions that are going to be dumb enough to try to take on a baby rhino with mom around.
02:59The thing that most people do not realize about these animals, they might weigh 6,000 pounds in weight, but they can turn almost instantly.
03:06They're very, very agile on their feet and can move remarkably fast.
03:11A lion you would think could come in and snatch a baby away, but not so.
03:17The mom is just too quick for that.
03:18The horn is probably the greatest problem that the rhino has right now.
03:22In the case of white rhinos, they have two horns, black rhinos have two horns, but the Indian rhino is known as the one-horned rhino.
03:30Now, these horns are very much like a mat of compressed hair.
03:36The closest thing you have on your body is your fingernails to what a rhino's horn is.
03:40It's made up of a substance called keratin.
03:41These animals are killed solely for that horn.
03:46It's believed, especially in the Far East, that rhino horns serves as an aphrodisiac.
03:51It helps make you a better lover.
03:54Do we see well?
03:55Well, these animals actually have very poor eyesight.
03:58What these animals rely on is their real good hearing and their excellent sense of smell.
04:04As a matter of fact, if you watch them and you see noises going on around them, you'll see their ears almost rotating around like radar.
04:10And that's in order to pick up sounds in the direction that they're coming from, to kind of keep them aware of what's going on in their surroundings.
04:18How tall are they when they're born?
04:20How tall are they?
04:22Oh, I'd say probably maybe two feet tall, three feet at the most.
04:27And again, about a hundred pounds in weight.
04:31Big to us, but not so big to a rhino.
04:34But they are cute.
04:40A dolphin's tail is incredibly powerful.
04:54That's what propels this beautiful, smart creature through the water.
04:58Dolphins can really move.
05:00Everybody ready?
05:01Watch this.
05:02And they're off.
05:05Wow!
05:06Where'd they go?
05:07Oh, there's one now.
05:11Amazing!
05:12Look at that!
05:14Incredible!
05:15Wow!
05:16Now that's power!
05:18Ooh!
05:25The hooded look is very fashionable this year, but the design is not original.
05:33Meet the hooded seal.
05:35Nature gave the design for the hood to the hooded seal first.
05:43When the seal feels threatened or excited, its hood begins to expand.
05:48It's a very impressive way to scare an enemy.
05:50Owl TV visits Taos, New Mexico with Cayenne to learn about spinning, weaving, and tapestry making with Christina and Louisa.
06:09Louisa, why do you spin?
06:10Well, the twist holds the fiber together, which would otherwise just fall apart.
06:16And we think that people started to spin, just going like that, rolling down your leg.
06:22Just like that.
06:25Of course, if you let go, it will all untwist, but now we have a string.
06:28But then, after a while, where are you going to hold all this fiber?
06:33So then we imagine that they thought of a little stick with a whorl, which is the drop spindle.
06:39You can just attach it with a simple knot, wind up, a little half hitch, and you're ready to spin.
06:53So you just sort of twist it on to the end.
07:03Just kind of twist it.
07:04And once you get some bulk on the bottom, the drop spindle works easier.
07:09You can walk all around the planet.
07:11So this is nice if you're just traveling around, but if you're sitting down and you have a place to really spin, I much prefer the wheel these days.
07:19And it was really easy, with this kind of wheel, to translate, because it's off a spike and it has a wall.
07:30But instead of flicking with your fingers, your foot is doing the treadle.
07:34Louisa, will you show me the process of spinning on your spinning wheel?
07:37Sure.
07:38I'm going to start, I'm going to make a leader.
07:40Some people like to attach to an already made leader, but I like to make my leader each time.
07:47Same old thing, just attach it and push it down.
07:53Now you're going to have to stand out of the way.
07:58The fibers like to stick together, so you can just lay one bit of fluff on another and it'll just stick by itself.
08:05What did you do there?
08:06I whipped, that's called the whip, so that you don't have to stop spinning, you can just keep going.
08:12How do you know when to do that?
08:14When it's as long as you are, or when I can't go any further.
08:17Well, you treadle.
08:27Okay.
08:27You just treadle.
08:29And watch what I do from up close.
08:31It's almost like elastic.
08:34So now I can go forever, this is great.
08:36So just pull it back as the twist travels.
08:46There you go, there you go.
08:48Great.
08:48Keep pulling this hand back.
08:56This one just is the break in case you need it.
08:59Keep drawing back, drawing back as far as you can.
09:02And then when you get as far as you can, then it's time to put it on the spin ball.
09:07Like right now.
09:08All right.
09:10All the way in.
09:11What happened there?
09:14Wind all the way in until your hands are really close.
09:17All right, now you're ready to go again.
09:20Start drawing out.
09:21When it catches up and twists, then you have yarn.
09:32Tell me about your loom and what you're doing here.
09:35Okay, this is a blanket, and this is a wonderful old loom.
09:39It's probably close to 100 years old.
09:41And it's made out of big old beams.
09:44And the brake system is made out of old tractor parts.
09:48And it's a stand-up loom, which is most people sit down.
09:52But here in northern New Mexico, the Spanish people have been weaving for hundreds of years,
09:56and they do it standing up.
10:03What's this called?
10:04It's standing right here.
10:04This thing is a stretcher to keep the width of the weaving stretched out.
10:07Otherwise, the weaving tends to pull in.
10:11So that just keeps it full width.
10:14This process goes pretty quickly.
10:16Yeah, it goes pretty quick.
10:17I'm using very heavy yarn here.
10:18This yarn is all hand-spun, hand-dyed.
10:24And it has a lot more character than most yarns.
10:29Where do you get your yarn?
10:31People here in the house spin it.
10:34Usually local wool.
10:36There's local sheep around here.
10:38Do you have a favorite color wool that you like to use?
10:44Yeah, I'm probably using it right now.
10:45I find color is very stimulating.
10:48It's physically exciting.
10:49And I think people that look at something with good color get a lift from it.
10:53How many strings do you have going across here?
10:56Well, in this case, they're 8 to the inch, which means something like 350, probably.
11:01This is called the warp.
11:02You hear in literature, the warp and the weft.
11:04Well, this is the warp.
11:06And what I'm putting in is the weft.
11:08And they weave together and hold everything together.
11:15How do you get your ideas for the patterns you use?
11:18Well, in this case, I'm just doing stripes.
11:20I usually just invent them as I go.
11:22If it's tapestries, it depends how complicated the tapestry.
11:25Christina, your tapestries are also lovely.
11:28Do they have names?
11:29Yeah.
11:30This one's called the manipulator or the puppeteer.
11:33And he's manipulating people.
11:36He's manipulating these two guys.
11:38What made you decide to do this particular tapestry?
11:40Well, this man I met that was doing this to people.
11:43And it just struck me.
11:44And one night I woke up in the middle of the night and I, oh, my gosh.
11:47I'm going to weave a tapestry about him.
11:50Did you enjoy it while you were doing it?
11:52Yes, I giggled all the way through it.
11:54See, with a tapestry, you start at the bottom.
11:56You start weaving here.
11:57You start weaving up.
11:59And you're going across, straight across, and straight across.
12:01And the higher I got, the more I got a kick out of it.
12:04And then when I finally got doing this outrageous hair, I was just having a ball.
12:09This one is called the olive branch.
12:12And the olive branch is a symbol of peace.
12:14How do you decide what colors you're going to use?
12:17A lot of it gets decided as I go along.
12:19For instance, this background, the combinations of yellow.
12:22You just kind of do it as you go.
12:24If you plan it totally on paper, then you're just being a technician.
12:29And it's not nearly as much fun as me.
12:30And again, start at the bottom, and you work up.
12:32So you can't change your mind.
12:34Once you're gone, once you're on the way, you can't change anything.
12:36If you've made a mistake, you've got to live with it.
12:38But it's exciting because until it's totally done and taken off the loom,
12:42you're never quite sure whether it's a success or not.
12:44There's something about her that, to me, is asking.
12:48Asking for peace in the world.
12:50She's beautiful.
12:51I'm the king of the castle, and you're the dirty rascal.
13:00One of these days, that bird is going to drive me crazy.
13:09Beavers do a lot of chewing on wood.
13:11Their teeth are sharp, but they get worn down with all that chewing.
13:14They chew a lot of wood, but even though their teeth wear down,
13:20they keep growing at the same time.
13:27It's a good thing beavers never stop eating for long.
13:30The results could be disastrous.
13:31Well, hi there, folks.
13:38Looking for a spot for your new home?
13:40You've come to the right place.
13:41Yes, sir.
13:42Take a look around.
13:43Here's a honey of a spot right here.
13:45Nice and flat.
13:46No lawn to cut.
13:48Well, what do you think?
13:49Whoops.
13:50Someone's living here already.
13:52Well, maybe they want to sell.
13:53Excuse me.
13:54Hello there.
13:55Would you be interested in selling this prime real estate?
13:59Maybe we shouldn't wake them.
14:00Well, maybe you can just look around yourself.
14:04I'll give you my business card.
14:05You give me a call when you see something you like, okay?
14:07But remember, everything's guaranteed,
14:10or my name isn't Teddy Bear.
14:12Bye-bye for now.
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14:37Bye-bye.
14:38Hi.
14:39Hi yourself.
14:40My dad said I might be getting my own phone this year,
14:43so I came down to see what you had.
14:45That's all right.
14:46That's what I live for.
14:47Look around.
14:48Enjoy.
14:49Matter of fact, wait, I've got something just right for you.
14:56Hi, kiddo.
14:57Hey, I think you're coming down faster these days.
15:00Terrific.
15:01Now, what are you doing there?
15:02Well, I don't know.
15:03It looked comfy in here.
15:04I, uh, think I might have squashed your lunch, though.
15:07Lovely.
15:10I mean, what are you doing here?
15:11Well, depends.
15:12Where are we?
15:13The telephone company.
15:14I thought I'd come and see what they had.
15:15Great idea.
15:16Where do we start?
15:17We don't start anywhere.
15:18Because if somebody sees you, we won't have a telephone anymore, or neighbors, or friends.
15:24Oh, don't be silly.
15:25Hi, I'm back.
15:26You dropped something?
15:27Uh, no.
15:28Good.
15:29Let's talk colors.
15:30You won't believe this, but hardly anybody's into black anymore.
15:31Hey, do that.
15:32It's like you're not even here.
15:33Uh-huh.
15:34Some people manage to see exactly what they want to see.
15:35Uh, it's a handy trick, really.
15:36Uh, try that again?
15:37Oh, never mind.
15:38One demonstration coming up.
15:39Oh, no.
15:40Oh, no.
15:41Gold in the right surroundings, the right setting, can be very, uh...
15:45See, the thing is, I'm having a color coordination problem of my own.
15:48Uh, got something in black and orange?
15:49Uh, got something in black and orange?
15:51Oh, no.
15:52Oh, no.
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16:07Oh, no.
16:09Uh...
16:12I don't know.
16:13Let's find out.
16:18Hmm.
16:19Seems like a friendly enough fellow.
16:20You like to take risks, don't you?
16:22Hey, maybe what I am today.
16:23Come on.
16:24Let's see what's in the back.
16:25Hey, you can't go back there.
16:28Oh, come on.
16:29It's a public utility, isn't it?
16:31You're gonna get us in trouble.
16:33I'm still not sure we're supposed to be in here.
16:34Hey, tell the world why don't you?
16:35Wow.
16:36What is all this stuff?
16:37Well, no idea.
16:38But I guess it's telephone connecting circuitry.
16:39Hey, wait for me.
16:40Hey, wait for me.
16:41Well, if we ever did have orange and black, must have been discontinued last November.
16:44Unless you'd like to...
16:45Boy, it really does go on forever.
16:46I bet you could handle the whole country from here.
16:47Well, maybe it's up.
16:48You're not too high.
16:49But we're supposed to be in the back.
16:50I am so happy to be in the back.
16:51Where are the people from?
16:52What are you doing here?
16:53Well, I know.
16:54It's not too high.
16:55Well, if we ever did have orange and black, must have been discontinued last November.
17:00Unless you'd like to...
17:01Boy, it really does go on forever.
17:11I bet you could handle the whole country from here.
17:15here maybe but it probably doesn't do much more than this neighborhood well yeah you know every
17:22phone circuit every number dial they're all connected in here somewhere one digit at a time
17:27say does this remind you of anything remind me remind me of what all it is is a bunch of connections
17:33exactly and what do you know of in nature that puts lots and lots of simple connections together
17:38to do some very complex stuff a computer well close but uh when i said nature i didn't really
17:43mean an apple nature's computer a brain and central nervous system trillions of individual nerve cells
17:50each performing their one simple job for a brain though this is mostly a huge waste of space
17:55how's that efficiency for that nothing tops nature your own brain's got enough gear in there to do
18:01the work of hundreds of rooms this size no really really and all stored up in something that looks
18:07a lot like three pounds of gray jello i wish you hadn't said that oh come on you love jello
18:12hey you kids you know you're not supposed to be in there
18:25now why would a person choose an orange and black phone in any case a nice beige i could see but orange
18:45and black boy i thought he'd never leave maybe we should too yeah i guess all the fun's gone now anyway
18:55no dr ned i'm telling you they're giving me the weirdest double vision
19:02no not the same image at all two very different images extremely different
19:12never mind doctor i don't think it's my eyes at all
19:15but i think maybe we should have a talk about greens mine yes a real good workup
19:24john dear didn't i tell you the salad here at shea pooh pooh's is simply divine you're right
19:30please it's so fresh and the dressing is so subtle and delicate frankly john
19:35dear i just can't imagine dining anywhere else see you here tomorrow ciao darling
19:40the colored lizard can change to the color of sand
19:54if the temperature becomes low
20:01or if the light gets bright
20:05or if it's getting hassled or scared
20:07some vacation agnes now fred this is a nice hotel the food is good agnes the weather is awful
20:28well the beds are clean and at least i don't have to cook and do dishes and it's good for baby to get
20:33away from home the travel agent said it would be paradise i'm freezing and i'm bored think about worms
20:38fred ah worms what's on tv now agnes we are fred we are oh
20:55one day in the hoop club we were flying paper airplanes when we decided to improve on our
21:09original design since our small glider planes were so successful we experimented with making
21:14giant gliders that we could fly outside
21:28so one day in the hoop club we're looking at upmost of the
21:50so the big mess is going to be able to fill out the top of the keg
21:56I want to see this high fly
22:26Wait now remember how we went in between this yeah you need like a few about five long sticks
22:52if you want to make it and you need some pretty strong material that won't rip easily and some
22:58tape and something to balance it and stuff to decorate it
23:06Okay and on the other side we just use this
23:22what I enjoyed most about making gliders was decorating them it was also fun make I'm coloring
23:34with marker and putting different designs and glitter my favorite part was like doing it
23:43giving putting decorations on it and giving it a name for it like I just don't want this is how we
23:50made her is okay you put the clear on the front because to wait it down so it flies
24:01evenly rather than like having the tail sort of dragging
24:04I thought it was two or two except the eights ready one two three
24:11yes watch out everybody
24:14that's good
24:22that's good
24:27that's good
24:34yeah
24:36yeah
24:41yeah
24:46yeah
24:52New day, it's a brand new start
25:01New world, we are brand new hearts
25:09There's so much to see and do for me and all my friends
25:15There's just no way to hold it back
25:17Cause let me tell you when that feeling comes
25:21Over me, my natural energy
25:26I can't sit still, so go, go, go
25:30Take my word for it, you will know
25:34When that feeling comes over you
25:38Right on time, that's your cue
25:42Lift your heart, move your feet
25:45There's that beat
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