1 00:00:03,370 --> 00:00:06,006 And now for an animal joke. 2 00:00:06,006 --> 00:00:09,009 What do frogs do with a piece of paper? 3 00:00:09,442 --> 00:00:12,846 I repeat, what do frogs do with a piece of paper? 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,683 The answer is. 5 00:00:17,517 --> 00:00:20,220 Going to be revealed at the end of the episode. 6 00:00:20,220 --> 00:00:25,825 But first, get your ears ready because it’s the Happiest Animal 7 00:00:25,825 --> 00:00:29,529 Show on Planet Earth. 8 00:00:29,763 --> 00:00:31,164 The Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. 9 00:00:31,164 --> 00:00:33,933 You want to be sad? No! Do you want to be glad? No. Wait. Yes. 10 00:00:33,933 --> 00:00:41,474 Well, it’s the Happiest Animal Show on Planet Earth. . 11 00:00:41,474 --> 00:00:46,513 Hello and welcome to the Happiest Animal 12 00:00:46,513 --> 00:00:51,317 Show on Planet Earth, the podcast that asks the very important question. 13 00:00:51,584 --> 00:00:53,353 What animal is making you happy today? 14 00:00:53,353 --> 00:00:55,789 Not yesterday, not even last night, but today. I'm Rob and I’m Laura. 15 00:00:55,789 --> 00:01:00,260 And we are a sister brother pair of zoologists, filmmakers and songwriters. 16 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,529 We are here to explore the wonderful world 17 00:01:02,529 --> 00:01:06,032 of wildlife and discover why animals make us happy. 18 00:01:06,332 --> 00:01:11,071 Today we are celebrating spring with some of our favorite springtime animals. 19 00:01:11,237 --> 00:01:14,441 We will hear a song from a lounge singing Tree Frog. 20 00:01:14,607 --> 00:01:18,578 Oh, and apologies to international soccer superstar Lionel Messi, 21 00:01:18,711 --> 00:01:22,415 who was supposed to be our guest, but we've had to bump him because we were able 22 00:01:22,415 --> 00:01:25,985 to book ten year old Levi from Portland, Oregon. 23 00:01:26,019 --> 00:01:27,020 Here we go. 24 00:01:27,020 --> 00:01:31,691 What animal is making you happy today? 25 00:01:31,958 --> 00:01:36,362 I want to know for this episode of The Happiest Animal Show. 26 00:01:36,362 --> 00:01:39,499 We gave ourselves the topic of springtime animals. 27 00:01:40,033 --> 00:01:44,237 So, Laura, what springtime animal is making you happy today? 28 00:01:44,370 --> 00:01:46,806 There's so many good springtime animals. 29 00:01:46,806 --> 00:01:49,776 This animal is a baby animal. 30 00:01:49,776 --> 00:01:52,612 I'm just going with a baby version of an animal. 31 00:01:52,612 --> 00:01:53,012 Okay? 32 00:01:53,012 --> 00:01:56,716 And it is yellow 33 00:01:56,716 --> 00:01:59,719 and it's fluffy. 34 00:01:59,953 --> 00:02:02,422 And it. 35 00:02:02,422 --> 00:02:04,791 Is it a bird? 36 00:02:04,791 --> 00:02:07,393 It is a bird. Okay. 37 00:02:07,393 --> 00:02:10,396 Is it a bird that grows up with a long neck? 38 00:02:10,430 --> 00:02:13,500 Yes. Is it a Canada goose? 39 00:02:13,867 --> 00:02:15,301 It's a baby goose. 40 00:02:17,103 --> 00:02:20,907 It is a great choice. 41 00:02:21,174 --> 00:02:22,976 Yeah. Why? 42 00:02:22,976 --> 00:02:25,979 Why is a goose making you happy today? 43 00:02:26,579 --> 00:02:29,349 I love seeing little baby geese. 44 00:02:29,349 --> 00:02:30,750 They're so cute. 45 00:02:30,750 --> 00:02:34,687 And there's only a finite amount of time when they're that cute. 46 00:02:34,687 --> 00:02:40,059 That tiny and yellow fluff ball feather goose cute before they start to grow up. 47 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,162 Yeah, they get awkward really fast. 48 00:02:42,162 --> 00:02:43,596 Yeah, I like that. 49 00:02:43,596 --> 00:02:46,733 You can see baby geese in lots of different places. 50 00:02:46,766 --> 00:02:49,369 You don't have to trek to the middle of nowhere to see them. 51 00:02:49,369 --> 00:02:54,908 I was reading about goose nests, and it says that 52 00:02:54,908 --> 00:02:59,412 a mama goose picks the spot for her nest that is somewhere near water. 53 00:02:59,412 --> 00:03:04,017 Usually it's alone, so it's not near a bunch of other things, 54 00:03:04,017 --> 00:03:06,920 and it's a little bit higher than anything else around it. 55 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:10,924 And usually I see goose nests on the ground, but it reminded me 56 00:03:10,924 --> 00:03:16,262 of the pizza goose from the time that a goose made a nest on a pizza oven. 57 00:03:16,596 --> 00:03:19,032 Yeah. That was weird. That was really weird. 58 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:22,502 You think it would be, a poor choice for a nest 59 00:03:22,502 --> 00:03:25,471 because it was, like, nine feet off the ground, this pizza oven. 60 00:03:25,705 --> 00:03:29,075 So there's an urban farm down the hill from my house, and they have a pizza 61 00:03:29,075 --> 00:03:32,412 oven outside on their property, and it's just like a brick oven 62 00:03:32,612 --> 00:03:36,316 with this canopy over the top on the roof of it. 63 00:03:36,349 --> 00:03:38,184 They turned it into a green roof, 64 00:03:38,184 --> 00:03:41,788 so it had plants growing up there like mosses and grasses and ferns. 65 00:03:42,121 --> 00:03:44,958 So it looked like a teeny tiny little natural area. 66 00:03:44,958 --> 00:03:49,429 And, this goose picked, that is the spot to lay her eggs. 67 00:03:49,862 --> 00:03:54,267 So every day we would go and check on it to see if the eggs attached. 68 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,037 It was like our own little soap opera because we didn't know what was going 69 00:03:58,037 --> 00:03:59,973 to happen when they hatched. 70 00:03:59,973 --> 00:04:01,241 Yeah, I remember, Rob 71 00:04:01,241 --> 00:04:05,011 excitedly told me one day there's a nest on top of a pizza oven. 72 00:04:05,378 --> 00:04:06,913 I've got to film it. 73 00:04:06,913 --> 00:04:09,882 And he would go with his camera and watch. 74 00:04:09,882 --> 00:04:12,885 And there were three eggs on the nest on top of the oven. 75 00:04:12,986 --> 00:04:15,521 The farm stopped using the pizza oven. 76 00:04:15,521 --> 00:04:16,256 So there was. 77 00:04:16,256 --> 00:04:18,891 We weren't going to hurt any of the geese. 78 00:04:18,891 --> 00:04:21,661 No pizza until the geese were born. Right. 79 00:04:21,661 --> 00:04:24,464 And then we waited. And then they the geese were born. 80 00:04:24,464 --> 00:04:27,166 But the big question was, what's going to happen? 81 00:04:27,166 --> 00:04:29,302 Can they get down? Can they get down safely? 82 00:04:29,302 --> 00:04:31,871 Are we going to have to help them? Are we going to have to build a ramp? 83 00:04:31,871 --> 00:04:35,375 What would happen when a baby goose falls 8 or 9ft to the ground? 84 00:04:35,375 --> 00:04:37,810 Or are they going to hurt themselves? We didn't know. 85 00:04:37,810 --> 00:04:41,180 And then one day, these little yellow fluff 86 00:04:41,180 --> 00:04:44,917 ball faces poked out from underneath their mother's wing. 87 00:04:45,018 --> 00:04:48,021 And they were the cutest things you've ever seen in your life. 88 00:04:48,521 --> 00:04:48,888 Yeah. 89 00:04:48,888 --> 00:04:50,556 And I mean geese baby geese 90 00:04:50,556 --> 00:04:54,460 apparently can swim almost right away but they can't fly yet. 91 00:04:54,727 --> 00:04:57,730 So I was nervous for them. Yeah. 92 00:04:58,131 --> 00:05:01,534 And so I figured they'd be stuck up there for a few days. 93 00:05:01,934 --> 00:05:03,136 And I remember watching them 94 00:05:03,136 --> 00:05:06,139 one morning for several hours, and then I had to leave. 95 00:05:06,272 --> 00:05:09,876 And I came back the next day expecting to find all these baby 96 00:05:09,876 --> 00:05:13,713 geese up there, you know, stuck trying to figure out how to get down. 97 00:05:14,147 --> 00:05:16,049 And they were gone. 98 00:05:16,049 --> 00:05:17,784 They had flown the coop. Yeah. 99 00:05:17,784 --> 00:05:20,887 And then they were happy in the little wetland on the farm. 100 00:05:20,887 --> 00:05:24,190 So obviously they were fine jumping 101 00:05:24,190 --> 00:05:27,193 nine feet off of the roof of a pizza oven, down to the ground. 102 00:05:27,393 --> 00:05:30,129 Yeah, but do not do this if you are listening at home. 103 00:05:30,129 --> 00:05:32,699 Unless you are a baby goose. Yeah they are. 104 00:05:32,699 --> 00:05:35,702 They just have, like, natural padding built in, you know. 105 00:05:35,768 --> 00:05:37,136 Like the softest little feathers. 106 00:05:37,136 --> 00:05:40,673 So I think they probably hit the ground with just a nice gentle thump. 107 00:05:40,707 --> 00:05:43,443 And then it didn't slow them down at all. 108 00:05:43,443 --> 00:05:44,310 Yeah. 109 00:05:44,310 --> 00:05:46,412 So that's the story of the pizza goose. 110 00:05:46,412 --> 00:05:48,314 Yeah. Yeah. And great pick Laura. 111 00:05:48,314 --> 00:05:48,681 Thank you. 112 00:05:48,681 --> 00:05:51,951 Baby geese are a great springtime animal. Yes. 113 00:05:51,984 --> 00:05:53,886 Well you know what Laura chose. 114 00:05:53,886 --> 00:05:56,522 We'll find out what I picked right after this. 115 00:05:58,358 --> 00:06:01,627 It's time for everybody's favorite game show. 116 00:06:02,095 --> 00:06:05,098 Ray, that sound. 117 00:06:08,067 --> 00:06:11,070 What is making this sound? 118 00:06:22,014 --> 00:06:25,017 Is it a a cricket 119 00:06:25,518 --> 00:06:28,921 b an eastern American toad? 120 00:06:29,255 --> 00:06:33,192 Or c your uncle's cell phone ringing in his pocket 121 00:06:33,192 --> 00:06:36,195 while you're trying to watch The Princess Bride? 122 00:06:36,963 --> 00:06:41,100 The answer is B, it's a toad. 123 00:06:41,534 --> 00:06:42,301 It's a toad. 124 00:06:42,301 --> 00:06:42,835 Hold on. 125 00:06:42,835 --> 00:06:43,970 Let me check with the judges. 126 00:06:43,970 --> 00:06:46,973 I thought toads made a ribbon sound. 127 00:06:47,173 --> 00:06:48,541 Okay. It's confirmed. 128 00:06:48,541 --> 00:06:51,511 Eastern toads make a high trilling sound. 129 00:06:51,511 --> 00:06:53,279 You learn something every day. 130 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,416 Thanks for playing everybody's favorite game show. 131 00:06:56,549 --> 00:06:59,552 Name that sound. 132 00:06:59,819 --> 00:07:01,053 And we are back. 133 00:07:01,053 --> 00:07:04,323 Rob, what springtime animal is making you happy today? 134 00:07:04,624 --> 00:07:06,392 I think you're going to get it really fast. 135 00:07:06,392 --> 00:07:11,364 It's, It's a small animal that would fit in your hand. 136 00:07:11,664 --> 00:07:12,064 Okay. 137 00:07:12,064 --> 00:07:17,336 And you used to see it a lot when we lived in Michigan. Ooh. 138 00:07:17,937 --> 00:07:23,943 And this animal can be found in the water, and it can also be found on land. 139 00:07:24,043 --> 00:07:27,313 Ooh, this is an amphibian. 140 00:07:27,346 --> 00:07:30,349 Yeah. So it's an amphibian. Ooh. Yeah. 141 00:07:30,550 --> 00:07:34,487 So this animal here's just what's going to give it away. 142 00:07:35,087 --> 00:07:39,091 This animal spends the winter frozen under the leaf litter. 143 00:07:39,292 --> 00:07:41,694 You know for sure. Yeah. 144 00:07:42,728 --> 00:07:43,496 Yeah. 145 00:07:43,496 --> 00:07:46,232 And then do you hear it calling in the springtime. 146 00:07:46,232 --> 00:07:48,701 I do, yeah. Do you know what kind of animal it is. 147 00:07:48,701 --> 00:07:50,136 Is it a frog. 148 00:07:50,136 --> 00:07:50,603 Yeah. 149 00:07:50,603 --> 00:07:53,606 It is a wood frog. 150 00:07:53,906 --> 00:07:57,710 No frog and wood frogs 151 00:07:57,710 --> 00:08:02,582 are one of the first signs of spring, letting you know 152 00:08:02,815 --> 00:08:05,818 that winter is finally almost over. 153 00:08:06,452 --> 00:08:09,055 These frogs, they'll actually make their way 154 00:08:09,055 --> 00:08:12,959 out into the ponds even when there's still ice around the edges of the pond. 155 00:08:13,259 --> 00:08:16,128 They'll still go out there and they'll start calling. 156 00:08:16,128 --> 00:08:18,564 It is so cold. 157 00:08:18,564 --> 00:08:21,567 But they're out there making it happen. 158 00:08:22,401 --> 00:08:24,570 And what do they sound like? 159 00:08:24,570 --> 00:08:26,305 They kind of sound like they're laughing. 160 00:08:26,305 --> 00:08:28,608 They just got it really on air. 161 00:08:28,608 --> 00:08:31,611 I think you I think you do a better wood frog than me. 162 00:08:31,844 --> 00:08:34,714 I do when I put. 163 00:08:34,714 --> 00:08:35,748 Let me hear your wood frog. 164 00:08:37,216 --> 00:08:40,219 Sounds like this. Or. 165 00:08:40,286 --> 00:08:41,587 Over here. 166 00:08:41,587 --> 00:08:43,789 Yeah. There. 167 00:08:43,789 --> 00:08:45,224 That's it. 168 00:08:45,224 --> 00:08:46,893 Thank you. 169 00:08:46,893 --> 00:08:48,461 Yeah. Wood frogs. 170 00:08:48,461 --> 00:08:50,429 It's not a classic frog sound. 171 00:08:50,429 --> 00:08:52,798 It's, It's a weird frog sound. 172 00:08:52,798 --> 00:08:55,034 It does sound like a bunch of laughter. 173 00:08:55,034 --> 00:08:59,038 Yeah, because there will be, like, sometimes hundreds of them out in a pond, 174 00:08:59,238 --> 00:09:01,007 and you'll just get, like, 175 00:09:01,007 --> 00:09:04,710 a whole orchestra of these little giggling little frogs. 176 00:09:04,744 --> 00:09:06,612 Let's do it. At the same time. 177 00:09:06,612 --> 00:09:08,915 Area right out here. 178 00:09:08,915 --> 00:09:10,583 There are, there are. 179 00:09:10,583 --> 00:09:11,984 Oh, yeah. 180 00:09:11,984 --> 00:09:13,619 And you know, they're 181 00:09:13,619 --> 00:09:17,223 they're just this little brown frog that blend into the forest floor. 182 00:09:17,223 --> 00:09:21,561 You know, there's, there's nothing all that exciting about 183 00:09:21,561 --> 00:09:27,433 looking at a wood frog, except that it's one of the very first signs of spring. 184 00:09:27,433 --> 00:09:30,703 I get so excited when I hear them, because I know finally, 185 00:09:31,337 --> 00:09:35,875 a long, cold winter is finally almost over a wood frog. 186 00:09:36,008 --> 00:09:37,410 Great pick Rob. 187 00:09:37,410 --> 00:09:42,181 And now for a song, Rob and I wrote this song for one of our very first movies. 188 00:09:42,181 --> 00:09:44,183 It's called Lost in the Woods. 189 00:09:44,183 --> 00:09:47,320 It was based on the children's picture book Lost in the Woods 190 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,489 by Carl R Sams II, and Jean Stoick. 191 00:09:50,823 --> 00:09:51,757 In the movie. 192 00:09:51,757 --> 00:09:54,327 There is a lounge singing Tree Frog 193 00:09:54,327 --> 00:09:58,230 who sings about the signs of spring that he's seeing everywhere in the woods, 194 00:09:58,230 --> 00:10:02,501 along with his good friend Shirley, who is an old box turtle. 195 00:10:02,668 --> 00:10:06,339 And fun fact Rob is the voice of the lounge singing Tree Frog. 196 00:10:06,639 --> 00:10:08,107 Enjoy the 197 00:10:09,609 --> 00:10:11,410 evening. 198 00:10:11,410 --> 00:10:14,580 How do you know when spring has sprung? 199 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:19,285 I promise by the time my song is sung, you will see 200 00:10:20,987 --> 00:10:23,456 the signs of spring. 201 00:10:23,456 --> 00:10:25,725 You will. 202 00:10:25,725 --> 00:10:31,230 You know when you see the redwinged blackbirds are returning 203 00:10:31,230 --> 00:10:33,099 from their winter vacation. 204 00:10:33,099 --> 00:10:38,104 And you know when you hear the vocalization of the spring peepers 205 00:10:38,104 --> 00:10:39,872 peeping at night. 206 00:10:39,872 --> 00:10:43,209 Oh, and you will know when you see 207 00:10:43,476 --> 00:10:47,880 the hibernating creatures have awoken from their long winter slumber. 208 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:51,584 And you know when you hear the lightning and thunder. 209 00:10:51,584 --> 00:10:54,587 As the spring rains fall from the sky. 210 00:10:55,054 --> 00:10:57,790 Whoa, spring is here! The signs of spring. 211 00:10:57,790 --> 00:11:00,326 They’re all around you singing. Spring is here! 212 00:11:00,326 --> 00:11:01,527 The signs of spring. 213 00:11:01,527 --> 00:11:04,530 They’re shouting at you singing spring is here. 214 00:11:04,797 --> 00:11:06,365 Spring is all around you. 215 00:11:06,365 --> 00:11:10,336 If it only take the time to look around and listen. 216 00:11:14,106 --> 00:11:17,343 Flowers of every color 217 00:11:17,343 --> 00:11:20,346 are blooming all around. 218 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,551 Springing up from the ground to say hello. 219 00:11:28,587 --> 00:11:31,957 And love is in the air. 220 00:11:31,957 --> 00:11:35,294 Cause it's time to find your pair 221 00:11:35,695 --> 00:11:40,366 And watch your children grow. 222 00:11:41,267 --> 00:11:45,237 Oh, oh, spring is here. 223 00:11:45,237 --> 00:11:45,871 The signs of spring! 224 00:11:45,871 --> 00:11:49,742 They’re all around is singing spring is here! 225 00:11:49,742 --> 00:11:52,044 The signs of spring. They’re shouting out your singing spring is here! 226 00:11:52,044 --> 00:11:54,413 The signs of spring. They're all around you. 227 00:11:54,413 --> 00:11:57,450 If you only take the time to look around 228 00:11:57,450 --> 00:12:00,686 and listen. 229 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,723 So how do you know when spring has sprung? 230 00:12:03,789 --> 00:12:08,160 I promised by the time my song was sung, you would see 231 00:12:09,895 --> 00:12:13,132 the signs of spring. And. 232 00:12:16,702 --> 00:12:18,104 Before we get on with the show, 233 00:12:18,104 --> 00:12:21,107 here's a quick message for the grown ups. 234 00:12:21,140 --> 00:12:24,143 And we are back. 235 00:12:24,176 --> 00:12:27,813 It's that time in the show for the happiest animal, 236 00:12:27,980 --> 00:12:33,152 where a fan like you gives us clues for what animals are making them happy. 237 00:12:33,619 --> 00:12:37,490 Today's submission is from eight year old Ellie from Portland, Oregon. 238 00:12:37,590 --> 00:12:40,192 Clue number one. This animal is a bird. 239 00:12:41,227 --> 00:12:42,361 Clue number two. 240 00:12:42,361 --> 00:12:44,597 It's bright pink. 241 00:12:44,597 --> 00:12:46,398 Clue number three. 242 00:12:46,398 --> 00:12:49,802 It often stands on one leg. 243 00:12:50,569 --> 00:12:53,572 Oh, this is getting exciting. 244 00:12:53,672 --> 00:12:56,642 Clue number four. It eats shrimp. 245 00:12:57,009 --> 00:13:00,646 The answer is a flamingo. 246 00:13:00,913 --> 00:13:05,351 Flamingos make Ellie happy because their bright feathers make her feel joyful. 247 00:13:05,484 --> 00:13:07,953 Thanks for your submission, Ellie and Grown-Ups. 248 00:13:07,953 --> 00:13:10,956 If you or your family would like to submit a happiest animal, visit 249 00:13:10,956 --> 00:13:13,959 our website at Happiestanimalshow.com. 250 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:16,462 Now it's time for our special guests. 251 00:13:16,462 --> 00:13:19,298 Ten year old Levi from Portland, Oregon. 252 00:13:19,298 --> 00:13:23,636 Levi, thank you for joining us on the Happiest Animal Show. 253 00:13:23,669 --> 00:13:26,672 We're so excited to have you. Hi. 254 00:13:26,672 --> 00:13:27,740 Thank you for having me. 255 00:13:27,740 --> 00:13:30,276 Yeah. Levi, what are your hobbies? 256 00:13:30,276 --> 00:13:31,210 What do you like to do? 257 00:13:31,210 --> 00:13:36,515 I like playing video games, reading and playing with my friends and eating food. 258 00:13:36,782 --> 00:13:38,517 Yeah. Eating food? Yeah. 259 00:13:38,517 --> 00:13:39,218 What's your favorite? 260 00:13:39,218 --> 00:13:40,085 What are your favorite foods? 261 00:13:40,085 --> 00:13:42,254 Mango, watermelon. 262 00:13:42,254 --> 00:13:45,257 And my mom's fried rice. 263 00:13:45,391 --> 00:13:48,360 Oh, nice. It's a good trio. 264 00:13:48,460 --> 00:13:51,764 Okay, Levi, here's the important question we have for you. 265 00:13:52,198 --> 00:13:54,900 What animal is making you happy today? 266 00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:57,736 Do you have clues for us? Yes. Okay. 267 00:13:57,736 --> 00:14:00,739 The first clue is this animal has three eyelids. 268 00:14:00,773 --> 00:14:02,107 What? 269 00:14:02,107 --> 00:14:04,343 Okay. All right, I'm a curveball. 270 00:14:04,343 --> 00:14:05,477 I'm already loving this. 271 00:14:05,477 --> 00:14:07,213 An animal with three eyelids, I love it. 272 00:14:08,314 --> 00:14:09,014 Second hand. 273 00:14:09,014 --> 00:14:10,983 Is this animal. 274 00:14:10,983 --> 00:14:13,619 It cannot get wet. 275 00:14:13,619 --> 00:14:16,121 It doesn't get wet. Okay. It stays dry. 276 00:14:16,121 --> 00:14:17,289 Yeah, it stays dry. 277 00:14:17,289 --> 00:14:19,124 It sometimes can get wet. 278 00:14:19,124 --> 00:14:21,026 Okay. Very rarely. Right. 279 00:14:21,026 --> 00:14:23,195 But it can keep itself dry a lot of the time. 280 00:14:23,195 --> 00:14:24,830 Yeah. Okay. 281 00:14:24,830 --> 00:14:27,967 And it has eyeballs with three eyelids. 282 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,903 I have some questions, but I want one more clue first. 283 00:14:30,903 --> 00:14:31,570 Okay. 284 00:14:31,570 --> 00:14:37,476 The last clue is it has a lot of species. 285 00:14:37,476 --> 00:14:41,580 The most common one that I'm thinking of is green. 286 00:14:42,314 --> 00:14:44,516 Oh, green. 287 00:14:44,516 --> 00:14:45,718 Okay, I'm going to say that 288 00:14:45,718 --> 00:14:48,721 pretty much rules out mammals because I can't think of a green mammal. 289 00:14:48,721 --> 00:14:54,059 So green things might be like a reptile or a bug or a bird. 290 00:14:54,126 --> 00:14:55,895 Yeah. Is it a bird? 291 00:14:55,895 --> 00:14:58,364 Yes, it's a bird. 292 00:14:58,364 --> 00:15:00,099 Nice. Okay. 293 00:15:00,099 --> 00:15:01,567 Green birds. 294 00:15:01,567 --> 00:15:04,203 There are parrots that are green. 295 00:15:04,203 --> 00:15:04,570 Okay. 296 00:15:04,570 --> 00:15:07,139 Do you see this bird in the trees a lot? 297 00:15:07,139 --> 00:15:09,441 No. Oh. Good question. Thank you. 298 00:15:09,441 --> 00:15:11,877 But you mentioned it doesn't get wet, 299 00:15:11,877 --> 00:15:14,446 so I have a feeling it spends a lot of time in the water. 300 00:15:14,446 --> 00:15:17,349 Yes. Ooh, it's a water bird. 301 00:15:17,349 --> 00:15:18,951 And this is again, it has three eyelids. 302 00:15:18,951 --> 00:15:22,021 Three eyelids. Remember that. And eyelids. 303 00:15:22,021 --> 00:15:25,624 When you have multiple eyelids like that, usually it's to protect your eye. 304 00:15:25,958 --> 00:15:28,661 Especially when you you're dipping your head underwater 305 00:15:28,661 --> 00:15:31,163 so you can protect your eyes while they're underwater. 306 00:15:31,163 --> 00:15:34,833 My first guess is a type of duck. 307 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,203 Yes. Yeah. 308 00:15:38,537 --> 00:15:39,672 Nailed it. 309 00:15:39,672 --> 00:15:41,140 Duck. 310 00:15:41,140 --> 00:15:43,409 Ooh, what a great animal. Okay. 311 00:15:43,409 --> 00:15:45,911 Is it a specific kind of duck? Yes. 312 00:15:45,911 --> 00:15:48,380 That's why I told you it's green. Okay. You. 313 00:15:48,380 --> 00:15:49,181 You've. Wait. 314 00:15:49,181 --> 00:15:52,184 Is it a duck you can see around here in Portland, Oregon? Yes. 315 00:15:52,217 --> 00:15:55,354 Okay. Is it a mallard duck? Yes. 316 00:15:57,056 --> 00:15:59,024 Mallard Duck. 317 00:15:59,024 --> 00:16:00,159 What a great choice. 318 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:02,761 Mallard ducks are so pretty. 319 00:16:02,761 --> 00:16:06,365 I mean, if you really look at their feathers in the sun, it's pretty amazing 320 00:16:06,365 --> 00:16:07,599 how many colors are in there. 321 00:16:07,599 --> 00:16:11,470 Male mallard ducks have more colors than the female mallard ducks. 322 00:16:11,503 --> 00:16:14,506 Females have those beautiful patches on their wings that are like. 323 00:16:14,506 --> 00:16:15,541 Yeah, iridescent. 324 00:16:15,541 --> 00:16:18,077 And different colors. Like purple. Yeah. Yeah. 325 00:16:18,077 --> 00:16:20,779 So why are mallard ducks making you happy? Lives. 326 00:16:20,779 --> 00:16:23,782 Well, since I was born, I've always really love 327 00:16:23,882 --> 00:16:26,785 the color yellow and ducks. 328 00:16:26,785 --> 00:16:32,825 I started collecting ducks, and then by 2023, I read like 54 ducks. 329 00:16:32,825 --> 00:16:35,160 I think stuffed animals. 330 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,763 You have over 50 stuffed animal ducks. 331 00:16:37,763 --> 00:16:40,132 Yes. Wow. 332 00:16:40,132 --> 00:16:42,234 That's a that's a lot of ducks. 333 00:16:42,234 --> 00:16:43,168 That's so cool. 334 00:16:43,168 --> 00:16:45,671 It's a good amount of duck collecting you've had. Yes. 335 00:16:45,671 --> 00:16:47,072 Do you have any favorites? 336 00:16:47,072 --> 00:16:48,040 I do. 337 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,443 My first one, I named Bach, even though that's what 338 00:16:51,477 --> 00:16:54,480 chicken says, but sometimes ducks. 339 00:16:54,613 --> 00:16:58,217 And he is the same age as me because I, Right 340 00:16:58,217 --> 00:17:01,987 when I was born, I didn't play with him until 2017. 341 00:17:02,254 --> 00:17:04,857 Sure. And then he went into the wash. 342 00:17:04,857 --> 00:17:06,992 Well, what happened when he went through the washing machine? 343 00:17:06,992 --> 00:17:07,793 He got all gray. 344 00:17:08,827 --> 00:17:10,295 Oh, but I'm still happy with that. 345 00:17:10,295 --> 00:17:11,196 I still love him. 346 00:17:11,196 --> 00:17:13,766 You know, he's even cuter now. He's still back. 347 00:17:13,766 --> 00:17:16,201 He's your future back. Even though he's been washed. Yeah. 348 00:17:16,201 --> 00:17:18,670 What color was Bok when you first got bok? White? 349 00:17:18,670 --> 00:17:19,772 Bok was white. 350 00:17:19,772 --> 00:17:22,307 Bok went through the washing is now gray. 351 00:17:22,307 --> 00:17:25,644 I mean, he went through the wash like, a couple times to get gray, 352 00:17:26,278 --> 00:17:28,814 but, like, he feels rough now, 353 00:17:28,814 --> 00:17:32,451 but like, I sleep with him and he's like, feels like different. 354 00:17:32,451 --> 00:17:33,752 Feels like different. 355 00:17:33,752 --> 00:17:36,255 He's changed color and changed texture a little bit. 356 00:17:36,255 --> 00:17:39,258 But we all got like, Gandalf the Gray became Gandalf the White 357 00:17:39,491 --> 00:17:41,226 and Lord of the rings. But this is the opposite. 358 00:17:41,226 --> 00:17:42,828 This is the reverse of the white. 359 00:17:42,828 --> 00:17:44,563 Became Bok. The gray. Yeah. 360 00:17:44,563 --> 00:17:46,932 So then what else do you love about ducks? 361 00:17:46,932 --> 00:17:51,036 Well, I have, like, seen over 100 ducks. 362 00:17:51,570 --> 00:17:54,506 And, like, every time I throw a food until, like. 363 00:17:54,506 --> 00:17:55,974 And they just start eating it up. 364 00:17:55,974 --> 00:17:57,843 Oh, you are feeding ducks, you know. 365 00:17:57,843 --> 00:18:02,247 So Laura and I, we have a family cottage on the lake in Michigan. 366 00:18:02,247 --> 00:18:05,250 And we grew up as kids, going to that cottage in the summertime. 367 00:18:05,717 --> 00:18:08,053 And there are always ducks on the lake. 368 00:18:08,053 --> 00:18:11,356 One year we were throwing corn out on, 369 00:18:11,623 --> 00:18:14,460 on the shoreline to bring the ducks in, 370 00:18:14,460 --> 00:18:18,330 and this one duck showed up, a mallard showed up and we noticed 371 00:18:18,330 --> 00:18:22,201 something weird about its beak, and we all just stared at it. 372 00:18:22,201 --> 00:18:26,672 We're trying to understand what we were looking at it and we got close to it. 373 00:18:26,672 --> 00:18:28,740 Eventually it got used to us and it was. 374 00:18:28,740 --> 00:18:31,443 It wasn't scared of us anymore. And it got close to us. Yeah. 375 00:18:31,443 --> 00:18:34,446 And we realized it had an extra tongue 376 00:18:34,913 --> 00:18:39,084 and it was sticking out below its its chin and below its beak. 377 00:18:39,084 --> 00:18:40,652 So we called it the two tongue duck. 378 00:18:40,652 --> 00:18:42,454 Yeah, it had two tongues. 379 00:18:42,454 --> 00:18:44,490 Did you ever take a picture? 380 00:18:44,490 --> 00:18:45,757 Oh, I'm sure we did. 381 00:18:45,757 --> 00:18:46,892 But it was so long ago. 382 00:18:46,892 --> 00:18:48,894 I was just thinking about this, actually, 383 00:18:50,395 --> 00:18:51,296 about the two duck. 384 00:18:51,296 --> 00:18:52,498 Duck from our childhood. 385 00:18:52,498 --> 00:18:55,501 Yeah, but, yeah, one tongue was inside its beak 386 00:18:55,501 --> 00:18:58,403 and the other one was just hanging below its mouth. 387 00:18:58,403 --> 00:18:59,638 Kind of downturned. 388 00:18:59,638 --> 00:19:02,274 Yeah, it was real weird. Never seen anything like it. Yeah. 389 00:19:02,274 --> 00:19:03,308 So crazy. 390 00:19:03,308 --> 00:19:05,711 Did you ever try looking it up and see if it's normal? 391 00:19:05,711 --> 00:19:06,845 Do a quick Google search. 392 00:19:06,845 --> 00:19:08,013 I will do that. 393 00:19:08,013 --> 00:19:09,882 Quick tip about feeding ducks. 394 00:19:09,882 --> 00:19:13,218 Totally cool to feed ducks, but you're not supposed to feed ducks bread. 395 00:19:13,652 --> 00:19:15,320 It's not good for them, right? 396 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,623 So you can feed them corn. Dried corn. 397 00:19:17,623 --> 00:19:20,526 Or other grains for like beans. 398 00:19:20,526 --> 00:19:22,628 I don't know about beans but that's a good question. 399 00:19:22,628 --> 00:19:24,329 Want to look that up. Yeah. 400 00:19:24,329 --> 00:19:25,764 Hey how about this. What. 401 00:19:25,764 --> 00:19:28,033 You can feed ducks beans. Wow. 402 00:19:28,033 --> 00:19:28,867 I learned something today. 403 00:19:28,867 --> 00:19:34,506 According to to Google, it says you can feed ducks cooked or sprouted beans. 404 00:19:34,806 --> 00:19:38,944 By the way, I found one picture on Shutterstock of a duck with two tongues. 405 00:19:39,611 --> 00:19:40,646 Oh, good. 406 00:19:40,646 --> 00:19:42,181 So we're not the only ones. 407 00:19:42,181 --> 00:19:45,784 Yeah, but it was like, that was just kind of hung below its beak. 408 00:19:45,851 --> 00:19:47,186 What an interesting thing. 409 00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:50,088 I like to think of it as some sort of duck oracle. 410 00:19:50,088 --> 00:19:52,591 Some special duck with powers. 411 00:19:52,591 --> 00:19:55,861 Have you had any cool duck encounters? 412 00:19:55,861 --> 00:20:01,233 There is this one time I was swimming, and I saw a family of mallards. 413 00:20:01,767 --> 00:20:04,937 Just like one mallard and a bunch of, like, baby ducks. 414 00:20:04,937 --> 00:20:06,371 And then. 415 00:20:06,371 --> 00:20:09,741 And they, like, approach me, and I, like, reach my hand out, 416 00:20:10,309 --> 00:20:12,678 and they just, like, circled around my hand, 417 00:20:12,678 --> 00:20:16,081 like all the chicks and then the mallard was, like, right in front of all of them. 418 00:20:16,448 --> 00:20:18,550 And then I just got up them. 419 00:20:18,550 --> 00:20:23,155 Fortunately, my sister and my dad were just getting out. 420 00:20:23,488 --> 00:20:25,757 Wait, so they didn't get to experience it? No. 421 00:20:25,757 --> 00:20:27,025 Did they believe you that it happened? 422 00:20:27,025 --> 00:20:28,694 Yes. They did. Okay. 423 00:20:28,694 --> 00:20:31,029 Wow, what a magical experience. 424 00:20:31,029 --> 00:20:34,233 One of my favorite thing about waterbirds. 425 00:20:34,233 --> 00:20:37,936 Like ducks is how it doesn't seem like their feet ever get cold. 426 00:20:38,971 --> 00:20:39,605 Oh, yeah. 427 00:20:39,605 --> 00:20:44,376 They have special nerves in their feet, so, like, they can walk on ice. 428 00:20:44,376 --> 00:20:46,478 They can swim really cool water. 429 00:20:46,478 --> 00:20:48,480 They know she's, like, immune to cold. 430 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,015 Yeah. It's only their feet. 431 00:20:50,015 --> 00:20:50,549 Yeah. 432 00:20:50,549 --> 00:20:53,619 I mean, I think about myself just walking barefoot 433 00:20:53,619 --> 00:20:57,289 around on an icy lake and my feet would fall off. 434 00:20:57,856 --> 00:20:58,624 And me. 435 00:20:58,624 --> 00:21:01,727 Yeah, but if they did that, they would just be perfectly fine. 436 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:03,829 Plus their feathers. Keep them warm. Yeah. 437 00:21:03,829 --> 00:21:05,163 How do their feathers keep them dry? 438 00:21:05,163 --> 00:21:07,566 You said that ducks stay mostly dry. 439 00:21:07,566 --> 00:21:12,204 Their feathers are, like, waterproof, so they're, like, all around. 440 00:21:12,237 --> 00:21:15,407 So, like, even if there's, like, a speck of water on the feather, 441 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:18,844 it would just slide right off, because it's all, facing 442 00:21:18,844 --> 00:21:21,847 horizontally down. Wow. 443 00:21:22,014 --> 00:21:25,083 So they've got special feathers, also the oil on their feathers 444 00:21:25,083 --> 00:21:29,388 that also keeps them dry just keeps the water from soaking in. 445 00:21:29,388 --> 00:21:33,392 They migrate, you know, they travel vast distances and then they come back. 446 00:21:33,692 --> 00:21:35,894 Throughout the different seasons. 447 00:21:35,894 --> 00:21:39,164 So they're traveling across the continent and then coming back. 448 00:21:39,765 --> 00:21:42,000 And that's an amazing animal that can do that. 449 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,102 They can float around on the water. 450 00:21:44,102 --> 00:21:46,605 They don't get wet. Their feet don't get cold, 451 00:21:48,173 --> 00:21:51,443 and they can fly across an entire continent 452 00:21:51,843 --> 00:21:54,613 and fly back and know where they're going the whole time. 453 00:21:54,613 --> 00:21:57,182 What a cool animal. Wait, so ducks have three eyelids. 454 00:21:57,182 --> 00:21:58,784 What's going on with that? Yeah. 455 00:21:58,784 --> 00:22:04,323 So with duck's eyelids, what I've read is they have an upper and lower eyelid, 456 00:22:04,456 --> 00:22:08,894 and then they have this third eyelid that is called a Nic teetering membrane. 457 00:22:08,894 --> 00:22:12,564 And that is what helps protect their eye, keeps 458 00:22:12,964 --> 00:22:16,735 debris out of their eyes and helps keeps their eyes safe underwater. 459 00:22:16,835 --> 00:22:18,070 And it's kind of transparent 460 00:22:18,070 --> 00:22:20,372 so they can see through it like a pair of swim goggles. Yeah. 461 00:22:20,372 --> 00:22:23,809 So it's not like they have three individual eyelids 462 00:22:24,042 --> 00:22:26,878 in three different places on their face, right? 463 00:22:26,878 --> 00:22:29,614 They only have two eyeballs, 464 00:22:29,614 --> 00:22:31,583 three eyelids on each eyeball. 465 00:22:31,583 --> 00:22:32,584 Pretty cool. 466 00:22:32,584 --> 00:22:32,951 Yeah. 467 00:22:32,951 --> 00:22:35,220 You know, I was actually reading about ducks recently. 468 00:22:35,220 --> 00:22:38,223 I was curious how many types of ducks there are in the world. 469 00:22:38,490 --> 00:22:40,926 Do you know how many types of ducks there are in the world? 470 00:22:40,926 --> 00:22:43,895 Something like 45. 471 00:22:43,895 --> 00:22:44,863 It's a good guess. 472 00:22:44,863 --> 00:22:48,433 What I read was that there are somewhere around 473 00:22:48,433 --> 00:22:52,137 135 different with wow looks. 474 00:22:52,604 --> 00:22:56,274 I assumed they were all over the world, and they are, like, 475 00:22:56,274 --> 00:22:57,676 the only place that they don't. 476 00:22:57,676 --> 00:22:59,945 You can't is Antarctica. 477 00:22:59,945 --> 00:23:01,980 That's right. Nice. 478 00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:03,949 That's right. I like having a duck expert here. 479 00:23:03,949 --> 00:23:07,285 Yeah, they're found out on all continents except Antarctica. 480 00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:08,553 How cool is that? 481 00:23:08,553 --> 00:23:10,322 I mean, like, it's the coolest place in there. 482 00:23:10,322 --> 00:23:11,890 Like their feet are immune to cool. 483 00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:14,559 Like, why don't they live there. Yeah I don't. 484 00:23:14,559 --> 00:23:17,062 I mean food is kind of scarce though. That's probably why. 485 00:23:20,399 --> 00:23:21,600 Yeah. 486 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:22,968 There are a lot of ducks. 487 00:23:22,968 --> 00:23:24,870 Yeah. A duck is such a good choice. 488 00:23:24,870 --> 00:23:26,405 Levi and I learned something today. 489 00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:29,374 I learned that ducks can eat cooked beans. 490 00:23:29,374 --> 00:23:31,710 And I've learned that you had a magical encounter with ducks 491 00:23:31,710 --> 00:23:34,279 swimming around your hand one time, which is pretty cool. 492 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:35,213 Yeah. Yeah. 493 00:23:35,213 --> 00:23:36,348 Great choice. 494 00:23:36,348 --> 00:23:37,682 Thanks for being here, Levi. 495 00:23:37,682 --> 00:23:39,551 Thanks for having me. 496 00:23:39,551 --> 00:23:42,554 And now it's the time we've all been waiting for. 497 00:23:42,687 --> 00:23:45,590 The answer to the joke of the day. 498 00:23:45,590 --> 00:23:48,593 What do frogs do with a piece of paper? 499 00:23:49,694 --> 00:23:52,063 Do you have a guess? 500 00:23:52,063 --> 00:23:55,066 The answer is 501 00:23:55,534 --> 00:23:56,034 rip it. 502 00:23:56,034 --> 00:23:59,037 Rip it. 503 00:24:00,138 --> 00:24:01,239 And before we go, 504 00:24:01,239 --> 00:24:04,242 remember, we live on a beautiful planet. 505 00:24:04,476 --> 00:24:07,479 So go out and find what makes you happy today. 506 00:24:10,148 --> 00:24:14,119 Hey, Grown-Ups, we know you're busy, but if you like 507 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:18,056 our show, we'd love for you to tell your friends and family about it. 508 00:24:18,223 --> 00:24:22,027 It is the best way for our podcast to grow and Grown-Ups. 509 00:24:22,060 --> 00:24:26,665 You can also follow us on our social media accounts at Happiestanimalshow, 510 00:24:26,832 --> 00:24:29,067 or check out other fun things on our website 511 00:24:29,067 --> 00:24:32,270 like how to submit an animal or how to get merch. 512 00:24:32,471 --> 00:24:35,307 Visit Happiestanimalshow.com. 513 00:24:35,307 --> 00:24:38,844 The Happiest Animal Show is created by Laura Sams, Robert 514 00:24:44,683 --> 00:24:50,789 Sams with story editor Dave Cain. 515 00:24:50,922 --> 00:24:53,925 And with only a little help from our cat walking across the keyboard. 516 00:24:55,026 --> 00:24:56,862 Now let’s talk music. 517 00:24:56,862 --> 00:25:00,866 Original music is written and performed by zero time Grammy Award winning 518 00:25:00,866 --> 00:25:05,403 songwriters Laura Sams and Robert Sams, except for the end credits music 519 00:25:05,403 --> 00:25:09,474 which was written by Laura and Rob’s Grandma Max, and the joke answer suspense 520 00:25:09,474 --> 00:25:11,643 music was written by David Schultz. 521 00:25:11,643 --> 00:25:13,278 The theme song was written and performed 522 00:25:13,278 --> 00:25:16,848 by Laura and Rob and mixed by Jason Wells of Audiowells. 523 00:25:17,015 --> 00:25:19,651 Thanks for listening. 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