04x49 - Animal Partners

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welcome to the world of amazing animal

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partners

it's so cowboy what's for supper

same as usual cow polk

means again that's all we ever eat

that's

how the west was won

are you talking to yourself henry i have

to

there's nobody else to talk to out here

maybe you need a partner

it's like they say in that old country

song

a cowboy needs a partner like a spotter

needs a fly

but i ain't got nobody i'm so lonesome i

could cry

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now i know why you don't have a partner

did you hear that i think we're being

watched

maybe it's a bandito what's a bandito

kind of like an enchilada but no cheese

all right you

vermint i'm coming to get you

henry your bandits out here

well i'll be hey get out of there

wait a minute you're a cowboy henry and

you said you needed a partner

he is perfect oh i don't know

hey don't look a gift horse in the mouth

okay howdy horse

ah you know this could be the start of a

beautiful partnership

we both love beans after all oh there's

a lot more to animal partnerships than

beans henry

especially when the partnership benefits

both sides

now that's one way to pick your partners

some partners have their squabbles

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others are great at sharing maybe they

split the bill

you don't have to be a beauty to get a

partner you can

say that again

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but what about sparring partners they're

always there in a pinch

here's a partnership of little and large

talk about getting your ticks this

little fish feeds on the big ones scale

slime

how nice for both of them and finally

the decorator crab

which has a special partnership with the

sea anemone

looks like the anemone is an enemy to me

not at all here the anemone gets to

hitch a ride and troll for food

while the decorator crab gets decorated

candy disguise

way to go partner

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you know partner you're lucky winding up

with a real cowboy like me

i can spit

i like cows and i've got a yahoo hat

why a yahoo hat because when you're a

cowboy

you always go yeah

uh-oh looks like

one prickly customer

hey look at this it says wanted real

rootin tootin deputies needed to clean

up this town

byoh what's byoh

uh maybe bring your own horse well i'll

be

that's the job for me and my partner

now stand still a law lizard needs his

hat

almost

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it takes more than a minute to forge a

good partnership henry

some animals work at it their whole

lives you'll just have to

hang in there very funny

take a look at the albatross birds that

are completely monogamous their whole

lives oh i don't think they're that

boring no not monotonous

monogamous means that they have just one

partner like

batman and robin more like superman and

lois lane

albatrosses form the animal equivalent

of a married mom and dad

but they only see each other once every

two years when they come together to

breed

they must have a lot of catching up to

do

not exactly each albatross pair must

find each other in the midst of a

crowded breeding ground

with up to 20 000 birds all over the

same island

this can take time

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that's their courtship dance in which

they re-establish their commitment to

one another kind of like humans making

vows to each other at their weddings

it's so romantic the female lays just

one egg

once their chick is hatched and it's big

enough to look after itself

the parents will separate they won't see

each other for another two years

maybe that's the secret of a happy

marriage

in a large given marriage the partners

spend their whole lives together

both the mother here and the father with

a darker fur protect their home from

intruders

like this guy is he a gibbon too yes

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he has his eye on mama gibbon so daddy

gibbons singing to chase him off

i see he's giving it all he's got

mother and father seeing a duet to each

other announcing their close partnership

the rival male seems to get the message

the song is particular to each couple

with no given pair having exactly the

same song

i know what this one's called a family

that sings

together clings together oh brother

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oh

how are the horse riding lessons going

henry pretty good

i think he's starting to get the hang of

it i thought you were the one who was

supposed to be learning

learn i'm a natural i was saddle sore

before i could walk

let's go step on it vamos

i think the word is uh giddy up

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thanks what do you say for stop can you

stop

stop stop but i thought you were a

natural henry

i am a natural faller offer

what you need is practice okay

i'm practicing

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i think you'd better take a look at how

some real naturals hit your ride henry

hey come back

you could learn from the goby fish who's

popping out of his tunnel to have a look

around

his partner is a blind shrimp which

can't see a thing but is a fantastic

tunnel digger i can dig that

the partnership benefits both

the shrimp digs them a home however

shrimp sized

while the gobi acts as the shrimp's

guide dog with the shrimp keeping a

constant touch with its antennae

in the cave now boy

or should i say finn fit boy finn

hummingbirds move so quickly you

wouldn't think any animal could hit your

ride on them

but you'd be wrong can you see those

bugs

those are mites henry about the size of

a grain of sand

that's mighty small for a partner don't

you think

yep and these few seconds are the mites

only chance to descend on a new flower

full of nectar

and it looks like they'll make it i

thought they

might ah

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henry henry it's time for your report on

animal bloodsuckers

what now yes now

out of my way journal lizard coming

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through

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jellyfish plays vegas and

lizards visit mars i like it

but now our top story

the farm yard was flabbergasted by

reports of vampire cows

by day they made chew grass and moon but

late at night

these bovine beauties don capes

wear slick-back hairstyles and sprout

fangs often pretending to be bats

except with putters they fly through the

sky in search of prey

leaving a trail of scared rabbits in

their wake

the problem may be spreading with

unconfirmed sightings of werewolf lambs

and the attack of the 50-foot turkey

so shut the barn door where garlic

flavor pajamas

and beware of that saying

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because the vampire cows are moving in

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do you think they bought it you couldn't

even give it away henry

let's

but you did make me think of one animal

bloodsucker which causes a lot of

trouble

the tiger take a closer look

i'm talking about the tick they're

parasites

bloodthirsty insects which offer nothing

to their partners but discomfort and

disease

see this one filling itself up with

blood and i thought the cows were the

vampires

ticks have three different stages of

growth and must feed on a different host

animal for each

here's a nymph stage tick on a deer

thank goodness for birds

uh little turtle left oh that's better

Egrets

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on the african savanna birds like these

egrets spell trouble for ticks

and i'll bet it spells relief for those

buffalo

you're right henry plus ticks aren't

just itchy

many diseases some of them deadly are

carried from animal to animal by these

deadly parasites

i see a pair right there and they're a

sight all right

get them egrets eat them all oh they'll

never get them all

but they do make the buffalo more

comfortable all he needs is a good

ticking off

Cowboy Town

oh this is town huh man am i

thirsty where's the snack bar this is

cowboy town henry

if you're thirsty better head for the

saloon i

hear the local watering hole can be

pretty rough

but that's okay cause i'm even rougher

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nice move tough guy are you calling me a

turkey

uh no offense two root beers one for me

and one for my partner

in a dirty glass

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got it

no i think it hit the rabbit careful

henry you don't want to annoy

anyone in here hey no problem everybody

just stay calm better sit down partner

we don't want any trouble

Big Mule

ah i didn't mean on a chair i hope you

can pay for that

well now you've done it you big mule

will get thrown out of here for sh

oh look out henry

now i know why they call them bouncers

from now on no more mr tough guy

maybe i'd be better off working alone

animals don't always get along these two

rock wallabies are sparring partners

but play fighting teaches them skills

they'll need later in life

wallabies are just lightweights here's

the main event

kangaroo kickboxing animals fight for a

number of reasons

to claim a territory to be head honcho

to protect their young or to win a mate

Kangaroo

these adders both want a mate with the

same female

to add her to their families eh

giraffes fight for control of a

territory

elks lock antlers

minks

and siamese fighting fish lock jaws with

just about anything

those ruffs play pretty rough

and beetles will take a beating when

it's time to win a mate

excuse me but that's amazing

Golden Gecko Awards

and now ladies and gentle lizards it's

time for henry's amazing golden gecko

awards

the winners of my all-time best amazing

animal partners

are

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in third place we're not being able to

keep their paws off each other

the red kangaroo

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in second place albatross is the name

kissy face is the game

but tonight's golden gecko award for the

The Honey Badger

most amazing animal partners

goes to africa's honey badger and his

very special friends

like the gus hawk the badgers cleanup

partner

who follows him for whatever food he

leaves behind

honey badgers have huge appetites are

afraid of nothing

and will eat almost anything from fruit

to reptiles

the goshawk has learned to follow the

honey badger for food

a snake tastes good but what honey

badgers really love to eat

is honey and they'll rate a bee's nest

whenever they can

and you're a bird called the honey guy

this is the badgers hive hunting partner

the goss hawk is happy to finish

whatever the badger leaves on his plate

but the honey guide has found something

much more interesting

because she can't break into the hive

herself the honey guy

calls for her honey hungry partner i'm

coming

he says stop badgering me this pair make

a great partnership

because they both thrive on the fruits

of the hive the birds find the hive

and the badger pulls out the honeycomb

you think that these things would be

unbearable but the honey badger can

barely feel them through his thick

loose-fitting skin

it's honey that he's after and he comes

back for more

when the honey badger has finally had

his fill the honey guide can move in

and get what she loves best the beeswax

and the young bee eggs so tonight we

salute this amazing freeway partnership

we call the honey bunch henry what are

Henry

you doing

the poster said cowboy tryouts at high

noon

this is as high as you can get in this

town and i'm the only cowboy up here

henry high noon means 12 o'clock

what time is it nearly

12 o'clock i

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noticed

hey you saved me way to go partner

i knew your partnership would get better

henry it's just a matter of

i scratch your back you scratch mine how

do you know she likes being scratched so

much

it's an expression henry it means both

animals are getting something out of a

partnership

it's a mutual arrangement enjoyed by

Baboon

animals as different as the impala

and its partner the baboon they stick

together for

safety's sake i wouldn't want a baboon

for a partner

they're always monkeying around but what

would you do if you spotted a leopard

oh i think they come spotted already

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the impala sees one but has no voice to

warn the others

so it's handy having a baboon around to

sound the alarm call

loud and clear

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he'd rather eat antelope than cantaloupe

oh those liberals they drive me right up

a tree

whoops the impala are safe for now

thanks to this unique partnership

leopards rely on a surprise attack for

hunting success

not much chance of that with old big

mouth there around

baboons live in troops of 40 or 50.

taking to the cliffs for safety the

males stay

back to warn away that leopard

he's really put his foot down he's done

enough to ruin this leopard's chance of

dinner

poor leopard all she wants is a dinner

partner

yeah who doesn't mind being the dinner

funny funny

Ants

another partnership which benefits both

sides can be found here

where tiny red tree hoppers spend their

day sucking sap from trees

all day suckers

and their partners ants which feed on a

sugary liquid they squeeze out of them

like milk

what's in it for the tree hoppers just

watch

oh good grief that ant just risked his

life to protect the tree hoppers

seems like a high price to pay for a

little bug juice

sheesh

oh

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a cowboy needs a partner like a treasure

Beanie

needs a chest

i've got the bestest partner in the

whole wild west

henry henry tell us did you get that

cowboy job or not

oh i got it all right now i know what

they meant by

cowboys wanted to clean up this town

come on beanie this load is ready for

the dump

ah at least you've settled on a name for

your partner

but why beanie because we love the same

food

cowboy fishies need a drink

we love to eat our beans all day and

that's why we both

and so henry the lizard fastest street

sweeper in the west

rode his trusty partner beanie off into

the sunset

proving that you'll never be a lonesome

cowboy as long as you've got an amazing

animal partner by your side

hey