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huh

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and then

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you take a turn

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this sounds like fun oh hey everyone

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squeaks was just telling me about this

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fun game he played with jesse it's

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called guess that animal here's how it

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works squeaks and i each picked a few

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animals but we kept them secret from

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each other and now we're gonna take

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turns giving each other clues to see if

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we can guess what they are then we watch

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a video to learn more about them ready

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squeaks

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you think i should go first okay

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let's see

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my first animal is pretty tall it has

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long legs

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and a long neck it has tan fur and two

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big humps on its back can you guess that

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animal

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the firm means it must be a mammal huh

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you're right

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and you can only think of one type of

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mammal with big humps on its back

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that's right squeaks my animal was a

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camel let's watch this to learn more

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about camels and the amazing ways they

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survive in the desert squeaks and i are

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getting ready to go on a hike i've got

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my big backpack with all sorts of stuff

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for both of us let's see what we got we

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have a big bag of trail mix a water

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bottle and two cheese sandwiches one for

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you and one for me

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you're right i think we are ready for

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our hike now squeaks i just had an

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interesting thought you know what

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wearing this backpack makes me think of

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a camel my backpack is kind of like a

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camel hump and not just because it sort

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of looks like a hump we're kind of like

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camels today because camels are some of

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the best hikers out there and what's in

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my backpack gives us a clue about why

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take the sandwiches for example they're

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just like what camels keep inside their

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humps fat and a lot of it this backpack

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makes me look like a camel with one hump

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but there are also camels that have two

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humps the humps are still the same made

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of fat but each type of camel has a

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special name a camel with one hump is

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called a dromedary or sometimes an

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arabian camel and a camel with two humps

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is called a bacterium camel a camel's

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hump can weigh as much as 35 kilograms

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which is pretty heavy it's like two of

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those gigantic bottles of water we use

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for the water cooler at the fork all

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that fat gives camels lots of energy

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which they really need camels live in

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the desert where they have to go without

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food for a long time and by using up the

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extra fat when they need energy they can

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survive for three weeks without food

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right we can't live off our cheese

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sandwiches for three weeks but along

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with the trail mix they'll give us

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energy for the day and cheese is mostly

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fat just like a camel's hump you'd need

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almost 200 sandwiches to get to 35

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kilograms now that's a lot of cheese

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sandwiches as a camel uses up the fat in

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their hump for energy the hump actually

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shrinks down and when they eat more it

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gets big again another way we're like

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camels is because of our water bottle a

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camel's hump isn't filled with water

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like this bottle it's just fat but

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camels can go a really long time without

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water depending on the time of year if

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it's summer they can go almost a week

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without water and if it's winter they

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can go six or seven months without it we

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definitely can't do that so how do

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camels go all that time without water

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well when camels drink water they can

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drink tons of water at one time around a

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hundred liters that's about as much as a

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big trash can if a camel comes to say a

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lake in the desert they'll drink and

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drink and drink because it might be a

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very long time until they find another

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lake and they can drink it pretty fast

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too it usually takes camels less than 15

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minutes to drink all that water camels

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also hold on to water differently than

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we do they don't sweat very much so they

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don't lose much water that way although

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they do still lose more water when it's

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hot out which is why they need to drink

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more water in the summer camels don't

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pee that much either so they drink a lot

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and then they hold on to it now there's

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one more thing that makes us awesome

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hikers like camels our hiking boots

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which help us keep our feet firmly

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planted on the ground camels live in the

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desert where the sand can be kind of

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hard to walk on think about how

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difficult it can be to walk through a

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big mound of sand especially if it's

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windy out and the sand is moving around

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and the desert can be rocky too so

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camels have their own version of hiking

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boots their feet are wide padded and

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pretty tough so they can walk on the

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sand without any problems and what about

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when it gets super windy in the desert

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and the sand starts blowing around all

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over the place yep camels are totally

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ready for that too they have big

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eyebrows three sets of eyelids and two

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rows of eyelashes so that sand won't

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blow in their eyes plus they can

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actually close their nostrils when it

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gets super windy so sand won't blow up

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their nose either we don't have three

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sets of eyelids and the only way we can

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close our nostrils is by pinching them

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shut but then again we're not planning

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to walk through any sandstorms today

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with our food our water and hiking boots

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we're prepared to hike like expert

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camels well squeaks i think it's time to

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start our hike and i can't wait to eat

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my cheese sandwich okay squeaks

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it's your turn

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your animal has eight limbs huh

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some are really big and some are really

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small hmm

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i think i might have an idea

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and it lives under water i thought it

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might be a spider but those don't live

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underwater oh i know

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is your animal an octopus

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i got it right octopuses are so cool and

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they're really weird too let's take a

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trip under the ocean to learn more hey

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squeaks i have a joke for you what did

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one ocean say to the other ocean

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nothing it just waved

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squeaks and i have so much in common we

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both laugh at the same jokes there's

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also a lot about us that looks the same

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we both have noses to smell ears to hear

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and eyes to see and a mouth for eating

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cheese yum but take a look at an octopus

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whoa

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you're right squeaks it looks like an

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alien from another planet and it's no

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wonder you think that a lot of movies

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and tv shows about aliens and monsters

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are inspired by the octopus a mysterious

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animal from the bottom of the sea an

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octopus isn't an alien or a monster but

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it is very different from the kinds of

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animals we're used to seeing its body is

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built for the ocean and it's very

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different from ours for one thing

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octopuses have eight arms think of all

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the fish you could catch with eight arms

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for another their blood is blue and they

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have three hearts they also have ink

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that can be poisonous some octopuses are

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very small but some are humongous the

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biggest ones have an arm span as big as

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a two-story house and because octopuses

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hardly have any hard parts to their body

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they can change their shape to squish

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themselves through very narrow spaces

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that's why so many octopuses have

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escaped being captured by humans they

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can fit through an opening the size of a

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quarter then there are all those arms

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which are really more like arms and legs

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and fingers and tongues all roll into

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one octopus arms are covered in suckers

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little muscles that act like suction

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cups to help the octopus walk around

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hold on to food and feel and taste

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everything around it and octopuses are

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very talented with their arms scientists

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protect their den and even drag around

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two halves of a coconut that way when

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can close the coconut around itself and

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hide instead of getting eaten but what

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that they can think on their own animals

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like you and me have brains made out of

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little pieces called neurons and an

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octopus has neurons too about 500

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million of them but more than half of

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those neurons aren't in the octopuses

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brain they're in its arms with all those

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neurons each arm can take in lots of

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information and think about what to do

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next without needing to send any

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messages back to the brain so if you

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were an octopus you could catch a fish

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with one arm walk around and explore the

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ocean floor with a few more use your

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brain to help another arm do your

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homework and still have an arm or two

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left over for video games since

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octopuses are so different from us with

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their mind spread out all throughout

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their bodies they don't think the way

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you'd expect them to scientists will

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laboratory to learn more about how it

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behaves most animals cooperate with the

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scientists but octopuses

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oh boy we've already talked about how

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octopuses are great escape artists but

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they're troublemakers in lots of other

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ways too some have learned to shoot jets

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of water out of their tanks sometimes at

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the lights which can shut down the

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electricity but sometimes they'll squirt

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it at people octopuses have also plugged

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up the water valves in their tanks and

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flooded the whole lab and they can't be

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trusted in aquariums either sometimes

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octopuses will slither out of their

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tanks eat the fish out of the tank next

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door and sink back into their tank when

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the humans aren't looking octopuses sure

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are complicated creatures they can also

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be very curious and they like to explore

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and learn new things just like us so

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even though octopuses look very

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different from humans maybe you're a

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little bit like an octopus squeaks do

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you think that we can act a little bit

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like an octopus

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okay squeaks ready for my next animal

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my next animal is small

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and it can fly

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not a bat i've got one more clue my

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animal also grabs onto trees and hits

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its head against them really hard so

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hard it can make a hole in the tree

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strange right do you know what it is

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great job squeaks a woodpecker do you

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remember why they peck holes in trees

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that's okay

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let's watch this to find out squeaks and

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i are playing a guessing game we're

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pretending to be different animals and

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guessing what animal the other person is

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acting like okay squeaks take a guess

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that's right i'm pretending to be a

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squirrel okay let's do another ready

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ah maybe i'll give you some hints i have

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wings

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i hold on to a tree and i hit my beak on

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the tree like this

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you're right a woodpecker woodpeckers

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are a type of bird and there are

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different kinds all over the world they

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get their name because they all like to

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peck at things like trees just like i

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was pretending to do most woodpeckers

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are black and white with some patches of

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red and yellow but if there's a

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woodpecker nearby you can usually hear

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them before you see them woodpeckers

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make loud calling noises that sound

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almost like a monkey and they tap on

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trees with their beaks to help them chip

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away at the tough wood in a tree their

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beaks are long and hard and when they

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peck they move their heads back and

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forth really fast so fast that it can

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sound almost like someone playing drums

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oh no they aren't eating the wood but

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they are pecking away at it to get a

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tasty meal they're looking for something

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else inside the tree to eat when a

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woodpecker begins to peck at a tree they

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move little chips of wood out of the way

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digging a hole until they find what

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they're looking for like a tasty grub a

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grub is a baby beetle and some of these

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little insects like to live inside of

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trees as they grow up some of these

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grubs dig little tunnels through trees

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as they get bigger so if a woodpecker

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wants to eat those grubs first they have

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to use their beak to peck away at the

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tree making a hole that reaches a grub

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tunnel then the bird uses their tongue

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to reach into the tunnel and pull out

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any grubs inside woodpeckers have super

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long tongues so even if the grub is on

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the other end of the tunnel the

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woodpecker can still reach it it's a lot

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of work to peck through the tree but

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they get a tasty snack in the end what

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do you think squeaks can you pretend to

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be a woodpecker

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you're a pretty good woodpecker but

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you're a great rat do you have one more

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for me squeaks

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hmm

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your animal has four long legs sort of

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like a camel and it has hooves

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and a short bristly mane is it a horse

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no

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but i'm close okay

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give me your last clue

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oh

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it has

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black and white stripes huh

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i think i got it

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is it a zebra

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all right i got it great clues squeaks

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let's check out this video about zebras

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and then we can see who won hi everybody

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you're just in time squeaks tonight

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we're just looking into an animal

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mystery we were looking through our big

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book of animals and the last animal in

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the book caught our eye it's a zebra

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you've probably heard of them before

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they look a lot like horses but they

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have black and white stripes have you

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ever wondered why zebras have these

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special stripes to find out let's look a

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little closer at the life of a zebra

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zebras are closely related to horses and

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they're a lot like them in many ways

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they look a lot like horses of course

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and they run like them too and they also

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eat grass like horses do but zebras are

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also different from horses in some

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important ways for one thing horses can

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be found in many parts of the world but

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wild zebras only live in africa zebras

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also have hair on the back of their neck

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called a mane that's shorter and spikier

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than it is on horses and of course

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horses come in many different colors and

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patterns but all zebras wear a coat of

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black and white stripes but still not

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all zebras are exactly the same there

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are actually three different species or

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special types of zebra two of these

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species are named after the kind of

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place they live in the plain zebra lives

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on the plains where it's mostly flat and

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there's lots of grass and other plants

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to eat then there's the mountain zebra

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which lives you guessed it in the

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mountains the last species is called the

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gravi zebra and it only lives in a few

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special grasslands in africa but all

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types of zebras have their famous

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stripes and scientists have always

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wondered what these stripes were for and

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this is what we're curious about today

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let's look at a few ideas about how

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these stripes might help zebras to

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survive in the wild some scientists used

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to think that zebras could use their

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stripes to recognize each other it turns

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out that each zebra has a unique pattern

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of stripes just like how every person

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including you has a unique set of

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fingerprints on their fingertips maybe

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by looking at each other's stripes

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zebras could recognize each other and

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their families but you don't recognize

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your friends by looking at their

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fingerprints so we're not sure that

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zebras use their stripes that way either

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after all zebras have many other ways to

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recognize each other like by their smell

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or by the sounds they make so scientists

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have also thought that zebras might use

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their stripes to hide from predators

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lions and hyenas are two predators that

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often hunt zebras so some have thought

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that the zebra's long stripes might help

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them stay hidden in the tall grass but

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after looking closer scientists noticed

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that the zebra stripes didn't stop lions

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and hyenas from finding them instead the

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predators used their noses to find the

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zebras by smell they weren't fooled by

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the zebra stripes at all so maybe the

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stripes do something else and there's

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one other animal that zebras need to

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keep away horse flies horseflies are big

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pesky biting flies and they often bite

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animals like zebras kind of like how

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mosquitoes bite people but scientists

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have noticed that horseflies don't seem

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to like zebra stripes something about

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the pattern of the black and white

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stripes makes horseflies confused so

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they stay away from them so maybe that's

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it today some scientists think that the

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stripes help zebras avoid getting bitten

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by horse flies the stripes might work

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kind of like a built-in bug repellent in

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fact it turns out that zebras have the

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most stripes in places they really don't

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want horseflies to bite them like on

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their faces and many people have started

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using the answer to this animal mystery

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to help protect horses too some farmers

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have started putting zebra striped coats

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on their horses to keep the horse flies

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away what an amazing way to use what

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we've learned to help our animal friends

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it's important to remember that there

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could be more than one right answer to a

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question especially when you're dealing

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with nature and science so scientists

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are still looking at all the other

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things that stripes might help a zebra

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to do wow what a fun game are you ready

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to see who won

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drum roll please

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hmm

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looks like we tied i've got an idea

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let's go think up some more clues and

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play another round

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we're going to come up with some more

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animals you can come up with your own

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clues at home too thanks for joining us

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today if you want to keep learning and

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