Prairie Friends

The Prairie Friendshttps://www.pixar.com/boundin are characters featured on the 2004 Disney/Pixar animated short Boundin'. They are creatures living in the prairie area of the American West serving as the Lamb's neighbors.
==Background==
The animal species watching the Lamb bounce around the consist of animals found in the prairies regions respectively - consisting of a meadowlark, prairie dogs, trouts, a burrowing owl, or a rattlesnake respectively. Serving as his neighbors, they are shown to be kind in observing the Lamb's dance move - as in the way he bounces across the prairie, causing them to enjoy his dance, regardless whether he has wool or not. However, whenever winter arrives at the prairie, all the animals would hibernate for the winter, causing them to be inactive, showing that they are used to the warm weather rather than cold weather.
==Appearances==
===Boundin'===
A meadowlark is first seen whistling happily while swinging on a flower stem just before the camera transitions to the prairie scene. Two trouts leap onto the stream, while a Lamb begins to dance with his pure white wool. As he begins to dance, the neighbors begin to observe his dancing and watch him dance. Amongst the Lamb's neighbors are prairie dogs, trouts, an owl, and a rattlesnake that dance along with him. However, one day, when a man shaves the Lamb's wool, the prairie dogs begin to make fun of him, causing him to feel uncomfortable about it.
Later when a Jackalope arrives, the Lamb tells him that the prairie dogs would make fun of him, but the Jackalope teaches him how to become confident, causing the prairie dogs to remain quiet while the Jackalope instructs. As the Lamb follows the Jackalope's advice, the prairie dogs, the trouts, the owl, and the rattlesnake happily observe him bouncing just before the scenery transitions into winter where all the animals hibernate during the winter - the snake himself being covered by snow while hibernating. Some time later after winter ended, the animals wake up from hibernation mode to being active again. The Lamb then feels comfortable of bouncing across the prairies with the animals - even without his wool. Later at the end of the short, the prairie dogs then follow the Jackalope towards a hill, ending the short.
==Gallery==
Boundin Dancing Trouts.jpg|The fish resembling Gurgle from Finding Nemo
Boundin Burrowing Owl.jpg
Boundin Rattlesnake.jpg
Boundin Gopher Plush.jpg|Plush toy of a prairie dog
==Trivia==
*The very first character seen in the very first shot of the short is confirmed to be a meadowlark, a species of bird native to Montana, which the late Bud Luckey was originally from. Additionally, the meadowlark was Luckey's favorite bird."Who is Bud Luckey?" (The Incredibles Disc 2, 2005)
*While the rodents seen in the short are confirmed to be prairie dogs according to the Boundin' production team, they are occasionally described as "gophers" in certain sources such as the English Audio Description. Gophers and prairie dogs are different species of rodents in real life.
*The fish seen in this short are in fact modified versions of Gurgle from Finding Nemo based on their appearances.Boundin' Audio Commentary (The Incredibles Disc 2, 2005)
*According to Bud Luckey, the burrowing owl's model is a modified, recycled version of the model used for the prairie dogs, judging by the owl's torso.Boundin' Audio Commentary (The Incredibles Disc 2, 2005)
**Additionally, Luckey designed all the characters in Boundin' - not just the Lamb and the Jackalope, but also to all of the other animals that are the Lamb's neighbors.
*During the scene where winter arrives at the prairie, the rattlesnake aside from the lamb is the only other animal that is visible during the winter, as all the other animals dancing with the lamb have already hibernated. This can be evidenced by the snow covering the rattlesnake's entire body where he is shown to have hibernated during the winter.
**In real life, rattlesnakes use rock mounds, dense vegetation, and empty mammal burrows for hibernation, unlike the one seen in Boundin', where he is seen hibernating with the snow covering his entire body.
*The way the Lamb bounces across the prairie with the animals bobbing their heads up and down with calliope music heard in the background and the camera moving around resembles the movement of a real-life carousel.Boundin' Audio Commentary (The Incredibles Disc 2, 2005) Additionally, the Boundin' production team rode on carousels to do research for the camera movements for the scene."Who is Bud Luckey?" (The Incredibles Disc 2, 2005)
*The Cars DVD and Blu-Ray contain a version of Boundin' with Guido who is briefly seen as six prairie dogs, in addition to containing Mater as the Jackalope and Lightning McQueen as the lamb.
==References==
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