03x23 - Lemur Legs

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MARTIN:
Hey-hey,
off the African continent,

we're here on a big island.

CHRIS:
The legendary island
of Madagascar.

And we're hiking through the dry
forest of a very special place.

A place that is home
to many unique animals.

It's us,
the Kratt brothers.

I'm Martin.

I'm Chris, and we're looking
for an animal

that lives here
and nowhere else.

BOTH:
Lemurs!

Look, a furry ping-pong ball
bouncing through the trees.

Of course,
it's not a ping-pong ball.

It's a sifaka lemur.

What a cool creature!

CHRIS:
And she's not bouncing.

She's vertical clinging
and leaping.

Whoa.
One, two, three, four.

CHRIS:
Vertical clinging and leaping

is a special kind of jumping
that sifaka lemurs do.

We'll let this family of sifakas
show us exactly how they do it.

First, a sifaka sits
on a vertical tree trunk.

See how her long legs
are tucked up under her?

It looks like
she's just sitting there,

but she's already
in jump position.

Whenever she wants to,
she just takes those long legs

and pushes off and leaps away.

Oh, that was
a seriously long leap!

Let's measure.

Okay.

Whoa, buddy,
you know how far you leaped?

Seventeen feet!

Relative to their body size,

sifakas are one of
the top long-leapers

in the creature world.

Imagine if we could leap
like that.

With that vertical clinging
and leaping technique.

Wow, that would be
a plus for climbing.

Imagine if we had
the leaping powers

of the sifaka lemur.

BOTH:
What if?

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JIMMY:
Okay, we're crossing over
the African continent.

So, where is it?

Just look for the fourth-largest
island in the world.

Madagascar is the fourth-largest
island in the world?

CHRIS:
Yep, and there it is.

ALL:
Madagascar!

Oh, and all the animals here
are so cool.

It's creature-crazy.

Let's see what we've got.
Whoa!

MARTIN:
And more special animals
live here

than anywhere else in the world.

Oh, yeah.

Madagascar has
so many endemic species.

Endemic?

Yeah, endemic.
It means "unique to a place."

So, these animals
only live here.

Lemurs only live in Madagascar.

Almost half of
the world's chameleons

live in Madagascar.

A unique family of birds,
the vangas,

mostly only exist here.

And a family of insectivores,
the tenrecs,

are endemic to Madagascar.

Endemic!

JIMMY:
It looks like we're landing
in some kind of desert.

Not just some kind of desert.

This is the spiny desert.

Wow!

AVIVA:
This is an amazing place.

And these spiny plants
aren't cactus.

They're Didiereaceae, a plant
family endemic to Madagascar.

Hmm.

Ow!

(Chuckling)

I'm finding it hard to imagine
any climber

being able to climb out here.

KOKI:
Yeah.

No way.

AVIVA:
Impossible.

But one lemur can.

The Verreaux's sifaka.
Check it out.

These sifaka are incredible.

Look at this, see?

This species of sifaka
can climb on the spiny plants.

Uh, we can see that,
bro.

Yeah, the evidence is right
there in front of us.

It's kind of hard to miss it.

(Screeching)

Gah!

(Laughing)

Ooh?

(Laughing)
Now that's a Verreaux's sifaka.

The funny head-bob
is a uniquely lemur way

of expressing curiosity.
Hmm.

So, I think
I'll have to name you Bob.

Bob?

Yeah!

Are you serious?

Yeah.
Bob.

Is that head-bob endemic
to sifaka lemurs?

Yeah, but now--

CHRIS:
Whoa!

Wild Kratts too.

Hey, there's more.

CHRIS:
We've got a dad.

That's Bob.

A teenager-- I got to think of
a name for you.

A mom,
and a new baby.

In lemurs, the mom is always
the boss of the group.

You mean females
are always the leaders

in lemur society?

Ooh, I really like
lemur society.

Yeah, me too.

Whoa.

Well, I'll definitely call you
Mrs. President.

That's easy.

And your baby?
Let's see.

Let's nickname you Fuzztop.

Yeah, Fuzztop.

Uh, what kind
of lemur is that?

Hmm?

Hmm.

Do you think
it could really be?

That would be
the most exciting

scientific discovery
of the st century.

A once-extinct lemur species
suddenly rediscovered?

Ohh!
Ohh!

I have no idea
what they're talking about.

That could be
the lemur Megaladapis.

Yeah, a bear-sized lemur
that went extinct years ago.

Hunted out of existence
by humans, unless--

BOTH:
There is one left.

This could be the biggest find
of our creature lives.

The rediscovery of--

ALL:
Gourmand?

Aw, it's not Megaladapis,
only Gourmand.

What?

Must I remind you that I am the
internationally renowned chef,

six-time recipient of
the Sensational Sauces Citation?

(Mock applauding)

No offence, but we were kind of
hoping you were something else.

Well, seeing you is hardly
my idea of a picnic, either.

Why were you acting like
a Megaladapis?

A mega-who-da-what?

You were pretending to be

a giant bear-sized
Megaladapis lemur.

I most certainly was not.

Then what are you doing here?

I'm just here to, uh,
take a vacation.

Being a culinary visionary
is not as easy as it might seem.

Chef-ing around the world
has worn me out.

Rest and relaxation
is what I require,

and I supposed
I would not be harassed

in the middle of the forest

on a remote island.

Hmm.

Do I look like I'm doing
anything nefarious?

Do I have my quiver
of cooking utensils?

Am I carrying my dough blaster?

Am I wearing
my kitchen whites?

Humph!

(Chuckling)

I just feel so maligned
and misunderstood.

(Chuckling)

Showtime!

(Screaming)

Ho-ho!

You are one of the select few

who are invited to dine at
Gourmand's Madagascar Galleria.

Tonight's
endangered species special:

lemur legs amandine.

Oh, goody.
I'll be there.

Fine, but easy on
the Madagascar vanilla.

Oh!
Just don't be late.

Now to capture
the main ingredient.

But the Wild Kratts
will surely interfere.

I must think of a way
to get them out of the way.

What is their weakness?

Hmm, they do always like to help
the animals in trouble.

(Cackling)

Whew.

I'm glad Gourmand
didn't spot them.

We don't want to give him
any ideas.

Ooh, I've got an idea.
I'll name you Lounger.

Wow.

I've got to get a closer look
at those lemur legs in action.

I'm thinking there might be
a great Power Suit here.

Okay!

Bro, what are you doing?

Hold this.

You'll see.

Whoa!

Now that's what I call
vertical clinging and leaping.

Vertical clinging
and leaping?

What's that?

That.

Whoa!

The special way sifaka lemurs
leap through the trees.

See Bob over there?

A sifaka clings to
a vertical trunk of a tree.

He pushes off
with his powerful hind feet

then twists in the air,
reaching forward with his feet.

And lands on
another vertical trunk.

This is a really special
creature ability.

I've got to program
some Lemur Powers.

(Computer keys clacking)

MARTIN:
Hey, where are they going?

CHRIS:
They see something.

MARTIN:
Balloons and a cake.

Is that an endangered
radiated tortoise?

What's it doing sitting on
a birthday cake

flying through the forest
with party balloons?

How did a radiated tortoise
get way up there?

Must have come
from somebody's birthday party.

He's floating away!
We got to save him.

CHRIS:
Here, I've got this one, bro.

(Screaming)

Oof.

Ha!
Nice work, bro.

Thanks.

The question is, how did
a tortoise get way up there?

(Lemurs screeching)

And why are the lemurs
so freaked out down here?

(Martin speaking
with muffled voice)

Wait a second!
Bob is missing.

(Cackling)

(Chuckling)

Ooh!

My diversion worked
like a charm.

Putting an animal
in a dangerous situation

where the Wild Kratts
must rescue it from.

Now, what will I distract them
with this time?

(Sniffing)

Gotcha.

Now, what could I do with you?

Where could Bob have gone?

CHRIS:
I don't know.

Maybe sometimes a lemur goes
for a leap about on his own.

Listo!
I think I've got the breakdown

on the sifaka lemur's
leaping power.

All right!

It's all in the lemur legs.

Ha.

AVIVA:
Those long, muscular legs give
them a powerful push-off

and absorb the landing.

(Giggling)
Hey, Lounger.

You'll hang out
just about anywhere.

And Lounger's showing us
something else.

I noticed that sifakas have
stretchy skin under their arms

that give them a little glide
to prolong their flight.

Oh, yeah.

Look at the underarm webbing
on Lounger.

Now, just to finish
the programming

on these sifaka Lemur Powers.

MARTIN:
Hold it, Aviva.

You don't want to miss this.

JIMMY:
Whoa!

That's so cool.
They're like lemur dancers.

Because their legs are
so specialized for tree leaping,

they can't even walk or run.

This is the only way
they can move on the ground.

And they don't like
to be down for long

because on the ground,

those amazing legs become
the sifaka's weakness.

Huh?
Huh?

A wheel of cheese?

With a pygmy hedgehog tenrec?

He's heading right for
the spiny plants

and is going to crash.

(Cackling)

Easy as cheesy.

MARTIN:
I got this one, bro.

Reverse cheese roll!

Whoa.

Ouch.

Hey, buddy.

Rolling around in a cheese wheel
is no place for you.

Pygmy hedgehog tenrecs belong
living free in the wild.

Hmm.

Emmental.
A European cheese.

Interesting.

Hey, it's Mrs. President
and Fuzztop.

How could she land
on all these spines?

She must have
super-tough hands and feet.

Wait, they're soft.

And not just soft;

super-duper
unbelievably soft.

Then how do you land
on all those spines?

Oh, I get it.

She positions her hands and feet

so they land on the few spaces
in between the spines.

MARTIN:
That is awesome.

Hey, where's Lounger?

(Gourmand humming and cackling)

Let me just pull--
Uh-huh.

A little bit there,
that there,

and there you go.

Hmm.
Yeah.

(Sniffing)

Huh?

(Sneezing)

I love choo-choos.

Have fun.

Finally!

I have finished
the sifaka programming

for the Lemur Power Suit.

All right.

Great.

(Train whistle sounding)

ALL:
Hmm?

A spiny chameleon?

What is it doing
on that strange train?

MARTIN:
That's heading for the river.

Stop that train!

Chameleons can't swim.

(Cackling)
Yeah!

Oof.

It's not stopping.

Uh-oh, we're going in.

Ah.

(Train whistle sounding)

BOTH:
Phew.

Hey, buddy,
let's get you back to the trees.

Wait a minute.

I can't put my finger on it,
but I'm sensing a theme here.

Hmm.

Did this come from
a kid's birthday party

or a bakery?

Not from a bakery
but it's still food,

and Emmental is European cheese.

And this might look like

a remote control train,
right?

But when you break it apart
you find--

ALL:
Gourmand!

Of course!

Gourmand's been distracting us
with these things.

He knows we'll save any creature
in trouble that needs a rescue.

When our backs
were turned,

he's been capturing the sifakas.

We've got to activate
Lemur Power and leap off.

Find Gourmand, and save our
sifaka lemur friends.

Oh, no.
They're gone.

Bob, Lounger?

Mrs. President,
Fuzztop?

All gone.

Double oh, no.
We can't activate Lemur Powers

because there are no lemurs
to touch.

And we just got here
to Madagascar.

We don't have
any other Creature Power Suits.

Let's get our Buzz Bikes
or some other vehicle

so we can search
for Gourmand.

Back to the Tortuga.
Let's go.

(Lemur purring)

Wait a second.

(Lemur purring)

I recognize that voice,
but where's it coming from?

I know how
to find it.

Engage Audio Locator.

(Locator beeping)

(Beeping continues)

(Lemur purring)

MARTIN:
Fuzztop!

Oh, she must've fallen off
Mrs. President's back

when Gourmand
captured her.

Okay, back
to original plan.

Activate Lemur Powers!

Now let's rescue
our lemur family.

Here.
Why don't you guys

take Fuzztop back
to the Tortuga.

Keep her safe there
while we deal with Gourmand.

Okay.

Whoa.
She won't let go.

She slipped off her Mom once.
She's not going to let go again.

Ooh!

Okay, change in plans.
Why doesn't Fuzztop come with us

and you guys go back
to the Tortuga,

get some vehicles so you can
help us search for Gourmand?

I'm on it.

To the Creature Rescue!

Vertical clinging and leaping.

The coolest way
to creature rescue.

Hah.

Hold it, bro.
Look.

MARTIN:
Uh-oh.

Gourmand must be planning
a secret dinner tonight.

And raising a flag

so his customers know
where to find him.

I've got a bad feeling
that sifakas

are the endangered species
on the menu.

We've got to save
our lemur family and fast.

(Grunting)

(Cackling)
I've been one step ahead

of Les Frères Kratt
the whole time today.

Indeed, I do love setting traps.

There they are.

Our sifaka friends.

Mrs. President--

Lounger--

And Bob.

Gourmand must be out
collecting more sifakas.

Let's go.

Wait.
It could be a trap.

Fuzztop, come back!

Huh.
Seems okay, bro.

The patient hunter waits.

Easy, Fuzztop.

We're going to get them all
out of there right now.

(Gasping)
Now!

Huh?

CHRIS:
It's a trap!

Leap away, leap away!

Leap away, leap away!
For his utter
devotion to me, and--

For his utter
devotion to me, and--

(Yelping)

Whoa.
(Yelping)

Woo-hoo!
(Yelping)

Woo-hoo!
(Gasping)
Dabio!
Don't just stand there.

Woo.
(Gasping)
Dabio!
Don't just stand there.

Woo.
Get them!

Woo.

(Electricity crackling)

CHRIS:
It overheated.

CHRIS:
It overheated.
Uh-oh.

All right!
We did it, bro.
Uh-oh.

All right!
We did it, bro.
Hey bro, wait up.

All right!
We did it, bro.
(Grunting)

Yeah.
Lemur legs rule.
(Grunting)

Yeah.
Lemur legs rule.
Hey, Chris,
what are you doing?

(Cackling)
All going according to plan.
Hey, Chris,
what are you doing?

(Cackling)
All going according to plan.
Just keep running!

(Cackling)
All going according to plan.
I'll be right there!

Blueberry and Green Grape
aren't the only ones
I'll be right there!

who understand animal behavior.
I'll be right there!

who understand animal behavior.
Ow! That pinches!

who understand animal behavior.
Sorry.

If I can lure them
onto the ground,
Sorry.

If I can lure them
onto the ground,
You know Chameleon Powers:
vice-like grip.

their Lemur Powers
will be useless.
You know Chameleon Powers:
vice-like grip.

You know Chameleon Powers:
vice-like grip.

Ooh...

Aah...

These lemur legs sure work weird
on the ground, though.
Aah...

These lemur legs sure work weird
on the ground, though.
Yikes! We almost
forgot Koki and Jimmy!

Not only is it weird,
Yikes! We almost
forgot Koki and Jimmy!

Not only is it weird,

but you've become
easy targets.

Uh-oh.

Uh-oh.
Huh?
What?

Leap out of here.
Huh?
What?

Leap out of here.
You almost forgot us?

Get to the trees.
You almost forgot us?

Whoa!
You almost forgot us?

Whoa!
Well, thanks
for remembering.

Oh, no,
our lemur leg powers!
Well, thanks
for remembering.

Oh, no,
our lemur leg powers!
Hang on!

We can't leap
anymore.
Hang on!

We can't leap
anymore.
AVIVA:
We're in position!

Your Creature Powers are no
match for Gourmand Power.
AVIVA:
We're in position!

Your Creature Powers are no
match for Gourmand Power.
Do you have Gold Puff?

Your Creature Powers are no
match for Gourmand Power.
Right here!

Your Creature Powers are no
match for Gourmand Power.
Yay!
I love you, Gold Puff.

(Cackling)
Huh?
Yay!
I love you, Gold Puff.

Aw, and you brought me
a nice tender young one, too.
Yay!
I love you, Gold Puff.

Aw, and you brought me
a nice tender young one, too.
AVIVA:
All right, let's
get back to the Tortuga,

Aw, and you brought me
a nice tender young one, too.
secure the monkeys,
and then take Gold Puff home!

Hey, get away from me!
secure the monkeys,
and then take Gold Puff home!

Hey, get away from me!
DONITA:
Dabio, let's get out of here!

Good job, Jimmy.
Keep him busy.
DONITA:
Dabio, let's get out of here!

Good job, Jimmy.
Keep him busy.
DABIO:
Okey-dokey, Donita.

Will do.
DABIO:
Okey-dokey, Donita.

Oh, oh!
DABIO:
Okey-dokey, Donita.

Oh, oh!
DONITA:
Ugh, Wild Kratts!

Batter up.
DONITA:
Ugh, Wild Kratts!

Batter up.
Now I have nothing to wear

Batter up.
to the Golden
Fashion Forward Awards.

(Gourmand chuckling)
to the Golden
Fashion Forward Awards.

Aw, game over.
to the Golden
Fashion Forward Awards.

Aw, game over.
♪

Get the bros out of here.
I'll handle Gourmand.
♪

♪

(Chirping)

Aww!

Mom's so happy she's
licking Gold Puff all over.

Not licking, tooth combing.

GIRLS:
Tooth combing?

Tooth combing!
Check it out.

The six lower front teeth,
the incisors and canines,

are shaped and
spaced like a comb

used by lemurs
to groom each other.

And not just
golden bamboo lemurs,

most kinds of lemurs
have and use tooth combs.

Incredible!

There's always something
new to learn about animals!

I can't believe
we almost left Madagascar

without checking out
the tooth comb of the lemur.

Hey Aviva, want me to activate
Lemur Powers and comb your hair?

Ew!
(Laughing)

Now that's one Creature Power
I'm not going to program.

(Laughing)

(Martin laughing)

MARTIN:
Everything's back to
normal in the lemur world.

CHRIS:
Yeah, lemurs are a
special kind of creature

and Madagascar
is their only home.

And Madagascar's a place
that needs special protection

for lemurs and all
its other unique wildlife.

And I will
always watch over them.

MARTIN:
Great!

But somebody
else has got to go.

Okay, monkeys, let's get
you back to where you came from.

Spider monkeys to South America,

and Proboscis monkeys
to Indonesia.

All creatures should
be living free and in the wild,

where they belong.

CHRIS:
Lemurs belong in Madagascar...
forever.

PATRICIA:
Bye, Wild Kratts!

Bamboo is a giant grass,

and is an important part of the
habitat of this Cloud Forest.

Bamboo are
vital for the survival

of the rare and endangered
golden bamboo lemur.

But it takes a special technique
to eat this tough grass.

See how he does it?

He bites it off
with his sharp teeth.

That's step number one.

Step number two:
he breaks the bamboo.

He goes along
the branch with his teeth,

chewing,

and then strips off
that hard outer layer,

exposing that
tender stuff inside.

And then, he just munches
on the tender stuff

like a piece of celery.

The bamboo that these
guys eat is full of cyanide,

which is a type of poison.

But the golden bamboo lemur
has a digestive system

that can deal with the poison,

and that's one of
their Creature Powers.

MARTIN:
And that is so amazing,

because the amount of cyanide

a golden bamboo lemur
eats in a single day

is enough to k*ll animals
of the same size.

But the golden bamboo
lemur survives.

Now, bamboo doesn't
look very tasty to me,

but it's such a
good food for lemurs.

So good, that there are two
other species of bamboo lemurs

in this forest who depend
on bamboo to survive.

The gentle bamboo lemur,
the smallest,

about the size
of a large squirrel.

He eats thin, vine-y bamboo.

And the greater bamboo lemur.

This bamboo-eating species
was once thought to be extinct,

but then was rediscovered.

It's the biggest bamboo lemur,