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00:08That's me, Fred the house cat.
00:10When my family leaves for the day, I don't just sit inside watching the world go by.
00:15I become...
00:19Nature Cat! Backyard Explorer extraordinaire!
00:25Tally ho! Tally ho!
00:28We're climbing out the trees now.
00:30We're swinging through the breeze now.
00:32We're getting muddy knees now.
00:34Nature Cat! Nature Cat! Nature Cat! Nature Cat! Nature Cat! Nature Cat!
00:39So what are we waiting for?
00:41We're so excited to explore all that nature has in store.
00:45Nature Cat! Go! Go! Tally ho!
00:47Go! Go! Go! Tally ho!
00:49He's our favorite nature guide.
00:52We just can't wait to get outside!
00:54We're swimming through the trees now.
00:56We're jumping in the leaves now.
00:58We're getting muddy knees now.
01:00We're getting our touch!
01:01Tally ho!
01:03Tally ho!
01:04Tally ho!
01:26Tally ho!
01:43Tally ho!
01:54Tally ho!
01:57Oh, with these shrubs and tall grasses gone from the lawn, no balls will be able to disappear now.
02:05I give you Nature Cat Coliseum, the greatest lawn in the history of lawns.
02:13And here is the greatest lawn bowler who has ever lived.
02:19Babs Roof.
02:20This is the game where she famously called her shots.
02:24Wow.
02:24Amazing. Say, whatever happened to Babs Roof anyway?
02:29Nobody knows. It's a mystery.
02:32Ha! The only way you'll beat my team, the mighty Ronalds, is if Babs Roof herself shows up and plays
02:39on your team.
02:39But everyone knows that will never happen.
02:43Hello, Ronald.
02:45Oh, hello, Nature Cat. I'll see you later for the championship.
02:53I'll see you later for the championship.
03:18You know, now would be the time of the show where I would say, oh, a habitat? You mean one
03:22of those habitats? But one question about a habitat. What is it? You know, that thing where I don't know.
03:28But I do know what a habitat is. It's a place where you make your home.
03:31And now is the time I would say, hell, you're a genius.
03:36Yeah, you can still say it, you know.
03:37Hell, you're a genius.
03:40Oh, you don't say, Daisy. Thank you for saying that unprompted.
03:43A habitat at the end of my yard? Tis not possible. Say impossibly.
03:49Tis possible.
03:49Then what, pray tell, kind of habitat is it?
03:53An edge habitat.
03:56Edge habitat.
03:58Never heard of that.
04:00Mountain.
04:01Desert.
04:03Phew.
04:05Ocean.
04:06Meadow.
04:09Forest.
04:11Edge.
04:13No offense, Barbara. It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
04:16Maybe not, now that I'm hearing it. But the edge is very important for myself and so many other living
04:21things.
04:22Huh. Tell us more, Barbara. For us and also for our curious, nature-loving viewers at home.
04:29Hi, friends.
04:30Happy to.
04:33An edge habitat is an area where one kind of habitat changes into another.
04:38Here, it was the space between where your lawn ended and the woods started.
04:42It's called the edge, like you choose, guitarist, and it's its own habitat.
04:47Edge habitat.
04:49And it's a place with lots of different plants providing foods for lots of different kinds of animals.
04:54Like the goldfinches that love the thistle seeds in fall and migrating birds needing a place to refuel.
05:01And all the shrubs and grasses offered safe spots for birds, like cardinals, to build their nests.
05:06Interesting. What else can you teach us and our viewers about edge habitats? Wink wink.
05:11Well, now that you mention it, animals like me had great places to hide and find shelter, too.
05:16Where am I supposed to go now?
05:19Man, oh man. We are so sorry.
05:22Ah, it's okay. You didn't know.
05:25But the problem is that these kinds of habitats are disappearing everywhere. It all adds up, you know?
05:31Barbara, I and my lawn bowling buddies feel terrible.
05:35But fear not, for I, Nature Cat, promise that we shall restore the edge habitat for you and make it
05:41even better than before.
05:43Thank you. That would be swell.
05:48Hmm. So what do we do now?
05:50Hmm. Well, Barbara said that edge habitats are disappearing, so...
05:56The Great Haldini is here to make the edge habitat reappear.
06:03Ooh. I love the Great Haldini.
06:08Abera edge-iridium.
06:10Come back, young.
06:13Uh, Hal, you just made us disappear, bud.
06:18Now what?
06:19Methinks. That was a noble attempt.
06:22But methinks again.
06:23We must build back our edge habitat for the plants and animals that live and visit there.
06:28Methinks.
06:31These shrubs and grasses should be perfect for animals to hide in.
06:35Barbara will be so happy.
06:40Tiddy! Check it out, Barbara.
06:42The edge habitat we just built is so edgy and habitat-y and all at the same time-y.
06:49Well, what do you think? Pretty nice, huh?
06:51I'm afraid this won't work at all.
06:54Oh, no. How come, Barbara?
06:56The edge has to be wild and natural, just like nature, you know, with plants that are real.
07:03Hmm. Point taken there.
07:05Only when nature takes over will some wild animals feel safe coming back to the edge.
07:10I know exactly how to get wild plants and animals back to the edge habitat.
07:15Check it.
07:16Plants and shrubs grow wild and free.
07:20Go back to how you're used to be.
07:23Wild animals return to your edge habitat.
07:26Between the sacred walls and the lawn of nature cat.
07:29Oh, oh.
07:30Run up and eat your cat.
07:32Oh.
07:33Ow!
07:35Did it work?
07:36Um, that would be a no, Squeaks.
07:39Oh, rats.
07:40Well, how else can we try and get the edge habitat to grow back?
07:43Whoa, check it out.
07:45This has tips on building an edge habitat.
07:48The first thing we need to do is stop mowing this area so things can grow back.
07:53There are other tips here, too.
07:55What are we going to do?
07:56Well, we should draw a picture of what our edge will look like.
08:00Oh, wait, wait.
08:01I am a red D.
08:02What are we thinking?
08:03The area should be about this wide.
08:06Grasses, clover, and wildflowers will grow here.
08:09And that will give food and shelter for birds and other animals.
08:13Oh, wait, wait.
08:14The grass.
08:15Yes.
08:16Then we can add some native shrubs like blackberries and some small trees like crabapples and dogwoods.
08:23Those will provide food for animals and places to nest.
08:26Ah, the flowering plants, the blackberries, the crabapples.
08:31Oh, and let's add thick brush piles somewhere.
08:34Those are piles of sticks, branches, twigs, and leaves.
08:38Those will give cover for animals including rabbits like Barbara.
08:42Et voilà .
08:43I call her Living on the Edge by Squakes.
08:48Wow, great job.
08:50She's a masterpiece.
08:52Agreed.
08:53It's time to bring the edge habitat back.
08:56Tally-ho.
09:33Great going, gang.
09:35Oh, yeah.
09:35The Edge habitat's looking good.
09:37Can't wait to show Barbara.
09:38Look, here she comes.
09:41Well, Barbara, is the Edge habitat okay?
09:46No.
09:47Huh?
09:48What?
09:49It's fantastic.
09:50Ah!
09:51Woo-hoo!
09:52Yay!
09:53Yay!
09:53Ha-ha-ha!
10:01I had no idea my backyard was so important to so many animals.
10:07Oh, just you wait.
10:10You won't believe how busy this place will be once you stop going this area and it fills
10:14back in.
10:15Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Nature Cat's Coliseum for the Lawn Bowling Championship.
10:23Today's matchup is between the Mighty Ronalds and Team Nature Cat.
10:29Oh, no.
10:30We've been so busy with the Edge, we didn't have time to find a fifth bowler for our team.
10:35You can pick any one of these animals and you'll still can't beat the Mighty Ronalds.
10:41Do any of you know how to lawn bowl?
10:43Please.
10:44Come on, baby.
10:45Anyone?
10:47Bueller?
10:48Bueller?
11:02Bueller?
11:03Babs-Ruth?
11:04Babs-Ruth?
11:06Babs-Ruth?
11:07Babs-Ruth?
11:07The greatest lawn bowler of all time?
11:10That's me?
11:11All right!
11:12All right!
11:13All right!
11:13Let the good girls bowl!
11:15No!
11:15Shh!
11:19Jon!
11:20Shhh!ettu
11:24holloow! No!
11:38Oh!
11:48Introducing this year's Long Bowling Champions, Team Nature Cat!
11:56The award for MVP Most Valuable Puller goes to Math Root!
12:03Vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom!
12:07Long devastated Maine!
12:09Hooray!
12:12Wild World of Wild Play in the Wild!
12:19Yeah! Sweet shot, Hal! My turn!
12:35Woo-hoo-hoo!
12:36Here you go, Daisy!
12:38Yes, but now get ready for the greatest
12:40Pine-Cone-O-Ne-O player in all of nature!
12:44Pine-Cone-O-Ne-O-Ne-O!
12:54Way to use your head, Nature Cat!
12:57Thanks, Hal.
12:59Now it's Squeak's turn!
13:00Squeaks, where are you?
13:03Squeaks!
13:07I want to play what she's playing.
13:09What do you call this game?
13:10Diggy Iggy Wiggy Woo?
13:11What would the chances be if that was the name of this game?
13:14Please tell me it's called Diggy Iggy Wiggy Woo.
13:17It's not, is it?
13:18Hal, I'm not playing a game at all.
13:19I'm digging for food.
13:21Ah, when you're finished digging, then will you play with us?
13:24I have more important things to do, okay?
13:28Eureka! An acorn!
13:29Better put it in my pocket.
13:30Alright, I'm a wild animal. I don't wear pants.
13:33I'll store it in my cheek for now.
13:36Wait! Squeaks!
13:46Squeaks!
13:46Squeaks, why don't you want to play anymore?
13:48It's time to face facts. I'm a wild animal.
13:51There's one thing I know about us wild animals is that we do not play.
13:57Excuse me, wild friend of mine, but why don't wild animals play?
14:01Because everything we do in the wild is for survival.
14:03Survival, I tell you. We gotta survive.
14:06Plant takes up energy that could be used for finding food.
14:10Went out on the hunt, we'd be too tired and that's no good.
14:14To survive! Wild animals survive! Hey, hey!
14:19Excuse me, I don't exactly saw sweet things.
14:23Huh. Anybody have any idea what she just said?
14:25I believe she was speaking in an ancient language, perhaps Sanskrit.
14:30Ooh.
14:31I was saying I need to go store my food to survive, I tell ya.
14:35Cause that's what we wild animals do.
14:36We spend every bit of energy finding food and not becoming food.
14:40You get it? Survive!
14:42Huh. What are you doing now, Squeaks?
14:45I am looking for predators.
14:47You never know when one might show up and eat ya.
14:49That's the wild.
14:50Are you sure this is what wild animals even do?
14:55Of course I'm short days. I'm a wild animal. I know what I'm doing.
15:00Hey, maybe we could make a game out of it.
15:03Follow the leader, the leader, the leader.
15:08This is not a game, Hal. It's survival.
15:11Survival is fun!
15:13No, Hal, it's not fun because wild animals do not play games.
15:18Okay, everyone, you heard Squeaks. Wild animals do not play.
15:22Let's leave her alone to survive surviving with survival.
15:26Hey, wait a tick. What if wild animals do play? Then would you play with us?
15:31I guess so, but I don't think it'll happen because I'm pretty sure wild animals don't play.
15:35Well, I think it's time we investigate and see if wild animals play.
15:40You're wasting your time. Wild animals don't play.
15:44Where did Nature Cat go?
15:46Welcome to the wild world of wild play in the wild.
15:51Who wants to investigate and see if wild animals do actually play in the wild?
15:57Boo, me, pick me. I would like to investigate and see if wild animals play in the wild.
16:01Pick me!
16:02I'd like to investigate that too.
16:05Hal and Daisy are in. What about you, Squeaks?
16:08You know, I really should be working on my survival skills to survive.
16:12Cause I'm a survivor. I'm in the wild. I need to survive out here in the wild.
16:20Yeah, if you have time to sing a song and do fancy choreography, me thinks you have time to investigate
16:26to see if wild animals play.
16:28Okay, fine. But I'm sure we're going to discover that wild animals do not play.
16:33We'll see. Come on, let's find out if wild animals play in the wild.
16:40Uh, if this is going to work, you gotta follow me.
16:43Oh, sorry. Now I got it.
16:45Let's try that again.
16:46Let's find out if wild animals play in the wild.
16:53Welcome to the wild world of wild play in the woods.
16:57Oh, the woods? Are we camping? Oh, I've got marshmallows.
17:00We can make s'mores or we can just eat the marshmallows raw.
17:03I'll build a fire.
17:04Hal, we're not here for s'mores.
17:06We're here to find out if wild animals play in the wild.
17:09Oh, right, the plot.
17:12Oh, wait, we're on fire.
17:16Oh, hey, look at those squirrels.
17:20What about them?
17:22They're wild animals, aren't they?
17:24Yeah, your point.
17:25Well, then wild animals do play.
17:27Because clearly those two squirrels are playing together.
17:31I don't think they're playing, Nature Cat.
17:33They're trying to live.
17:34Of course they are.
17:36The one squirrel is calling the other one down to a fun game of squirrel tag.
17:42No, I think Squeaks may be right.
17:44Hey, that other squirrel just ran away.
17:47Doesn't look like a game to me.
17:51What?
17:51What's that?
17:52Oh, yeah.
17:53She says it's not a game.
17:55She's protecting her home by chasing and making that noise.
17:58Two, three, four.
17:59Higher, we got the survival.
18:03Higher, we got the survival.
18:07Well, we're not finished yet.
18:09We need to investigate some more.
18:11Onward and downward.
18:16Onward and upward.
18:18Be on the lookout for wild animals at play.
18:22You're wasting your time.
18:23Wild animals dumped.
18:25Look, what are those bears doing?
18:27Well, they're obviously fighting each other.
18:29I don't think so.
18:30If they were really fighting, I think it would be more noisy.
18:33And look at how relaxed their ears are.
18:35They look so calm.
18:36If they were fighting, I think their ears would be laid back like this.
18:40And they would say...
18:42Oh, it looks like those bears may be playing with each other.
18:46Oh, I thought everything wild animals did was for survival.
18:50Not so fast.
18:52Sometimes when my bear cubs play like that, they're practicing so they know what to do when they're grown-up
18:57bears.
18:57I see.
18:58So they're doing that to help them... survive?
19:01I guess you could say that their play does help them practice to survive in the wild.
19:06See, Nature Cat?
19:07It's all about survival.
19:09Survival, I tells ya.
19:11Swords up, surviving.
19:14Keep playing all that surviving.
19:17Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
19:20Sorry, I don't have an amp.
19:23Now can we play?
19:24Yes, but only if it helps with my survival skills.
19:27Let's bear wrestle.
19:29No!
19:31Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
19:33Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
19:34Strip, stab, and tickle!
19:36Ha, ha, ha!
19:38Oh, oh, no, no, no, no, no!
19:40Wait, look at the bears now.
19:42They're climbing the tree and riding it down as it bends.
19:46And they're doing it again!
19:48And again!
19:51Aw, it looks like they're having such fun!
19:53I want to ride a tree, too.
19:55Who wouldn't?
20:03Why, thank you.
20:06Guess those wild bears are playing.
20:09Ultimately, they must be doing that so they can learn how to survive.
20:12Right, Mama Bear? Help me out here.
20:13I have doubled down on this time and again.
20:16You'd have to ask my cubs, but I'm pretty sure they're doing that over and over again because it's fun.
20:20Oh, seems what I thought I knew about being a wild animal might be wrong after all.
20:26Let's find out! This way!
20:30Welcome to the wild world of Wild Play at the shore.
20:34Let's see if any wild animals play here.
20:37Oh, oh, look!
20:39That gull just dropped something. Is it playing?
20:42No, gulls drop clams from high up to break their shells so they can eat what's inside.
20:46It's how they survive!
20:49But look!
20:52Did you see that? That gull caught the clam!
20:56So it's not trying to break the shell?
20:59Actually, that's not a clam shell at all.
21:01It's a stone.
21:03A stone?
21:04Oh, hey! It's dropping it again!
21:08And catching it again!
21:10And then catching it again and again and again!
21:15That looks like fun!
21:17Whoop! I got it!
21:19Whoop! I got it!
21:20Oh, I don't get it!
21:24Ow!
21:26Oh, man. I don't think catching a rock would do anything to help a gull survive, really.
21:31Me neither!
21:33I mean, why would you do something over and over again if it wasn't fun?
21:38Seems that way!
21:39Nature Cat, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think that gull is playing!
21:45I think that too!
21:48Come on! Let's see if more animals play! Onward and downward!
21:53Hey! That's my line!
21:56And they're gone. Okay.
22:01Whoa! Where are we?
22:03Welcome to the wild world and wild play on the African Plains!
22:07African Plains!
22:08The African Plains!
22:09They wild!
22:11Let's be on the lookout for wild animals that fly!
22:18Oh, boy! Look! It's an elephant!
22:21Hi, elephant! It's me, Dog!
22:23But you can call me Hal.
22:27What's it doing?
22:28Why do you think the elephant slid down the hill like that?
22:31Maybe it slipped in the mud!
22:33I don't think so, because it's doing it again!
22:37Would sliding down a muddy hill help a wild animal survive?
22:42Maybe. Maybe not.
22:44But it does look like fun, even if we don't know exactly why they're doing it.
22:48I've seen enough!
22:49I hereby proclaim that sometimes wild animals do play.
22:53And they play a lot like us.
22:56Oh, yeah!
22:57Oh, yeah!
22:58Now, are you ready to play some fine Go-Ne-O-Ne-O?
23:02Yes!
23:03But first, I want to play something else.
23:05What's that?
23:06Elephant mudslide!
23:08Woo-hoo!
23:09All right!
23:10Woo-hoo!
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