03x30 - Rainforest Animals

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welcome to the world of amazing

rainforest animals this is bad this is

very bad

what's the matter Henry disaster how

about it chocolate wow what a

catastrophe I think you've probably had

enough already you can never have enough

chocolate there's gotta be more around

here somewhere

you won't find any in there although

they do come from the same place the

chocolate comes from where the factory

no chocolate comes from a plant in the

rainforest well what are we waiting for

Hey

suddenly everything went green we

realize you could be almost anywhere

Central America Southeast Asia West

Africa Australia rainforests grow

wherever the climate is always warm and

there is plenty of rain but this place

isn't wet cancel that rain forests are

very wet though I say in fact they have

at least 60 inches of rain a year that's

enough to bury a grown man up to his

neck in water that's way over my head

most things are Henry but all that water

doesn't fall at once it slowly drains

through the trees and into the rivers

enough water comes out of the Amazon

River alone for everyone in the world to

have a bath every hour

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rainforest animals must be very clean

and pretty wrinkly do at least those

parrots didn't have to line up for the

shower but that's true because there are

a lot of different animals here

rainforests have a greater variety of

animals than anywhere else in the world

no kidding

they must really love it here you know

even though it's wet it feels so healthy

that's because there are so many plants

here and plants actually make all the

oxygen we breathe the rainforests are

known as the lungs of the world well I'm

not gonna breathe easier until I found

me a chocolate plant no Henry Henry

where are you take me till your

chocolate that Python can't help you

Henry you're at the very top of the

trees the chocolate is way down below

you oh yeah whoa okay maybe I'll stay do

a while there may not be any chocolate

but there are a lot of other interesting

things in the rainforest canopy

hmm not really they're not interesting

don't be so sure the rain and the warmth

mean that there are more plants and

animals in the rainforest canopy

ever imagine over half the world's plant

and animal species live in the tropical

rainforest not species I hate getting

wet having so much rain is essential up

here in the canopies where there are no

lakes or rivers so they store it in

cloaks just take a look some plants have

evolved to collect water like this

bromelia animals use these to drink Shan

Shan even live in cool a swimming pool

on steps whoa it's an umbrella / looks

like he ate something that disagreed

with there sure are a lot of weird and

wonderful creatures up here noisy - it

is a bit yes

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I guess it's like the rain he just gets

used to it rain traffic noise we might

as well miss downtown Louisville

Micanopy why not go down to the ground

at least there's no danger of falling

off some canopy animals never visit the

ground they spend their entire lives up

here because they're so well adapted to

life in the trees many of them have

grasping hands and fruiting tails to

help them get around and instead of

roads they use branches to get from A to

B hey where's that banana nosed rat

going that's not a rat it's a 2-man juoh

a kind of anteater and that's a tree

porcupine both in a hurry hey someone

tell that guy this is a one-way branch

and someone else wants to go the other

way maybe it's a traffic jam hey Becky

guy no reversing down a one-way street

you can get a ticket for that

a long way down isn't it how are you

going to get to the forest or your more

than 10 stories up exactly what I do in

the building take the elevator

oh that isn't an elevator Henry who

cares place ship it's going down all

furnishings and lemur curiouser wonder

who lives out there okay going down on

the forest floor are you okay oh where

the chocolate is right right then I'm

okay Oh was I really all the way up

there

you sure were some of those trees are as

high as an office building no wonder

those canopy animals don't come down

it's like a different way down here it

really is with very different animals

and it's a lot darker yep the treetops

are really thick they block out nearly

99% of all the sunlight whoa spooky that

is anything grow with great difficulty

well it looks like those leaves are

moving out no they're being carried by

leaf cutter ants the ants take the

leaves back to their enormous

underground colonies then chew them up

into a compost on which they grow their

favorite food fungus you have to be on

the forest floor Henry

Oh yep the Jaguar the biggest predator

in the Amazon jungle he's not gonna

leave a little treat porcupine is he I

love that porcupine I don't think so

Oh No watch out Finn unless you want to

be porkchop

it's a peccary Henry but I get your

point

oh not those cute little guys kawauti is

Henry cloudy babies the two little to

become Jaguars smack phone whew that was

close so what is the Jaguar hunting wait

and see

Oh what he's going swimming

not quite Henry fishing but I got cats

hating water not this cat Jaguars will

eat most animals on the forest floor but

this time all he wants is a nice juicy

fish can I a fries and ketchup with that

please

and Henry Henry it's time for your news

report what now yes now and in my way

journalist earth coming through

identical designer had embarrassment at

most party and bubble gum chewing

competition giraffe wins by a neck

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but now our top story the strike among

rainforest animals has ended after all

I'll talk for two weeks the snakes have

refused to bite anyone the bats have

suspended all tent making activities and

the crocodiles haven't eaten a single

tourist even the sloths have been

staging a slowdown though no one noticed

the animals were protesting their

flooded working conditions following

Juma trained in the rainforest

more from our reporter on the scene well

Henry conditions here are worsening by

the minute the water levels in the

forest continue to rise cutting off

traffic didn't they bought it

you couldn't even give it away Henry

what's

some parts of the Amazon rainforest do

fly yes see I was right about one thing

and one thing only him rain in the Andes

Mountains is so heavy that it floods

low-lying rainforests sometimes you can

only see the very tops of the trees

above water and the floods stay for up

to eight months of the year yeah and I

bet the animals hate it they adapt Henry

they don't go on strike it means that

land animals have to get around by

swimming take this tape here for example

it's a distant cousin of the horse and

not only has it learned to swim it often

hides from danger by staying underwater

for several minutes that's easy

if you've got a built-in snorkel for a

nose maybe but I don't see any

lifejacket helping this snake to stay

afloat rainforest animals cope very well

in the flooded conditions but they're

not the only animals living here the

flooded forests are a temporary home for

animals which normally live in the

rivers here there is more food to them

to eat hey that's no good and lunch will

be all soggy but it will make great fish

food excuse me

fish here in the forest

whoa what was that it's an era wanna

Henry it can leap up to two meters out

of the water to catch its prey don't

they live in the sea

these are bow toes or river dolphins

they've come to fish in the flooded

forest and now they're swimming through

the trees that's amazing

Mayan treasure hunter

dr. Henry I presume dr. Henry treasure

hunter if you find any treasure in this

temple it's probably Mayan not if I get

there first

not mine Henry Mayans ancient Central

American people called Mayans discovered

chocolate it was so valuable to them

they even used it as money smart people

very smart I'd be careful where you step

if I were you why

Oh

makes hate snakes whoa

it looks like solid gold

oh this isn't gold

yeah what is it Henry yeah a 2000 year

old Easter Egg the Mayan people lived in

Pierrot Indians

Central America until about a thousand

years ago when they mysteriously

abandoned their great cities maybe they

ran out of chocolate funnily enough

that's not one of the most common

theories and anyway it wasn't only

chocolate they discovered they lived

very well off the rainforests and even

prayed for forgiveness whenever they

damaged it hey I thought you said the

Mayans didn't live in the rainforest

anymore

these aren't Mayans these are the

pierrot Indians who still live in the

rain for us today as they've done for

generations like the Mayans they respect

their own you know the rain forest has

given us all kinds of things

hardwood spices nuts sugar even rubber

and chocolate don't forget chocolate as

if I could

but those guys like the rainforest these

aren't the Pierrot ah Henry

these people are clearing the rainforest

for profit the sad truth is that timber

makes money and so all over the world

rainforests are being felled for their

wood or to make space for people to grow

crops and graze animals but if they chop

all the trees down hold your threes and

when all the animals live I don't know

Henry rain forests are being destroyed

so quickly that soon the only place will

see animals like this orangutan will be

in zoos that's terrible but surely they

can't cut the trees down that quickly oh

yes they can an area of rainforest

bigger than 1,500 tennis courts is cut

down every minute of the day I can't

believe it believe it Henry

what's going to happen to that point

that rainforest tree now it will be

turned into timber to make floors or

boats or furniture or even sawdust

excuse me what a waste

okay so now they're not just cutting

down the rainforests they setting fire

to it it's the quickest way to clear

forests for farmland the ash will help

crops grow but only for a few years

after that very little will grow here

what a catastrophe

Chocolate Plant

I've got the treasure let me see

is it diamonds rubies gold no it's a

chocolate plant ah excuse me but what

happened to the rest of the plants and

the animals they've all gone

the forest is burned down Henry but

Rain Forest

don't lose hope we can still do

something about it

it may seem like all is lost for the

rainforests but it doesn't have to be

there are still vast areas left around

the world and they are regrowing even if

it isn't as quickly as we'd like so the

animals are safe it some of them yes in

fact it's hardly thanks to the animals

that the rainforest is regrowing how

come are they sowing new plants or

something in a way when the animals and

birds eat the nuts and fruit one way or

another they drop bits of them all over

the forest floor less and these grow

into new plants and trees this agouti

often berries nuts for later but then

can't remember where he buried them so

the nuts are left alone to grow cool so

be not forgetful messy eater is a good

thing in the rain forest yes Henry maybe

you should move there permanently any

more remarks like time will promise get

on with it okay Henry

hey these guys are taking all the next

hey stop it

we need more trees don't worry Henry

they're only taking what they need and

without doing any harm - so that next

year the trees will see it again you

mean they're making a living from the

rain forest without destroying it that's

cool yes Henry many people are doing

everything they can to protect rain

forests for the future there's still so

much we don't know about the rain

forests and still countless species of

animals and plants that we haven't even

discovered yet well at least there's so

hope then huh

yes Henry there is

Golden Gecko Awards

and now ladies and gentle is ERDs it's

time for Henry's amazing golden gecko

Awards the winners of my all-time best

amazing rainforest animal are in third

place is the Jaguar the biggest and

scariest predator in the rain forest

like a little animals cause this guy's

never easy to spot

second place is the tree porcupine he's

cute and spiky and in a traffic jam

he'll puncture your tires but the winner

of my golden cup award but if all-time

best amazing rainforest animal is the

Watson excuse me - gesundheit hey I do

the jokes the Hudson lives in small

trees near streams in South America it

has a strange smell and is also known as

the stink bird

stink bird yeah take a sniff whoa see a

Watsons have huge bellies where they

digest their food which means they don't

have much room for flying mussels and

are very clumsy they resemble a bird

like dinosaur called

IP optics excuse me eggy

no you're not giving me this time well

it was worth a try

the chicks hatch with claws on their

wings to help them crawl on the tree

branches the claws disappear after a few

weeks because they don't need them when

they can fly the chicks are able to get

around out of the nest almost as soon as

they're born although sometimes they

don't hold on too well

but it's okay because they can swim

which makes the hawazin my all-time best

amazing rainforest animal well goodbye

little plant

you're leaving it behind after all you

went through to find it yes I figured

the best place for rainforest animals

and plants is in the rainforest that's

very responsible of you Henry

it's for the best some things are more

important than stuffing your face you

know Henry you amaze me and you're doing

a great job saving the amazing

rainforest animals

you