The Alphabet Zoo Game/Transcript (Part 2)

## Join Alicia, Jenny Wakeman, Korrina and The Lion Guard/Rooms A, B, C, and D

*(Diego and the viewer enter the first four exhibits. He sees some peacocks, wolves, giraffes, hippos, horses, and raccoons in the distance, while a male computerized voice speaks)*

**Male computer voice:** Now entering the letter exhibit area. Worldwide animals, please report to the exhibits immediately. Caution, feeding and enrichment now in progress.

**Ono:** Hi, Diego. *(Diego and the viewer see The Lion Guard.)*

**Kion:** Why are you so smart?

**Diego:** Because I'm just too smart to get my A-Z zoo animals right.

**Alicia:** *(listens while she appears)* Huh? Well, wait a minute. *(walks up to Diego)* Let's just see about that. *(measures Diego with a measuring tape)* As I suspected, just perfect for learning A-Z animals! *(rolls the tape back up)* Allow me to introduce myself. My card. *(shows Diego her license card)*

**Ono:** Her name is Alicia. Alicia Marquez.

**Diego:** Nice to meet you.

**Ono:** I'm Ono.

**Beshte:** And I'm Beshte.

**Alicia:** And we'll be happy to teach you your A-Z with a full-proof system developed right here by a very ingenious scientist.

**Diego:** Who?

**Jenny Wakeman:** Us! My name is Jenny Wakeman. In these zoo animal exhibits, we teach every zoo animal with enrichment and food beginning with that letter.

(Korrina appears joining Diego)

**Korrina:** Alright, Alicia. First stop is the A exhibit.

**Kion:** That's right. A room. Why don’t you join the anteaters with us, Diego?

(Suddenly, we see ants crawling out of the anthill.)

**Diego, The Lion Guard (without Bunga), Jenny Wakeman, and Korrina:** (Excitedly) AAAHHH!

**Alicia:** Perfect. That was exactly the right sound for the letter A. "ah" as in "ant". Which reminds you that Anteaters are from South America. What do the anteaters eat? *(Alicia waits for the viewer to respond)* That's right! Grubs! Learning and classifying animals are easy. *(writes an A on a white board and puts the anteater picture)*

*(The footage of anteaters are seen.)*

**Alicia:** Giant anteaters walk with a slow shuffle on all four legs with their nose pointed to the ground. They don’t walk on their feet; instead, with the claws curled up into the feet, anteaters walk on their "fists." This helps to keep the claws sharp so anteaters can dig into ant mounds or defend themselves from predators. Anteaters are also good swimmers, using the freestyle stroke and with their long snout as a snorkel.

**Diego:** Wow, what zoo animal is next?

*(They are at the door to the B exhibit.)*

**Alicia:** The letter B.

**Kion:** *(notice a lowercase b on the door)* Hey, this "b" forgot one of its bumps.

**Alicia:** That's a lowercase b, Kion. And this large one is called a capital B. *(erases the original capital and lowercase B and rewrites them on the door.)* Each letter can be either a capital or a lowercase. But they both make the same sound, no matter what their shape and size.

*(Soon, the viewer, Diego, Alicia, and The Lion Guard saw bears growling and roaring and catching live fish as their enrichment. The bears play the balls as soccer with the other bears.)*

**Alicia:** *(stops the roaring)* Hold it! Hold it! I heard a thunderous roar of playing. You are not party people. You are the bears, and... *(writes a B on a white board and puts the bear picture)*

*(The footage of bears are seen.)*

**Alicia:** Bears come in all sizes and shades, and can be found around the world. First, there's the North American-native grizzly bear, the Polar Bear, which we will learn about later, the South American spectacled bear, three kinds of bears found in Asia: The sun bear, giant panda and sloth bear, and also the American black bear.

**Ono:** That's a lot of bears!

**Alicia:** All bears have short, thick limbs, a big, heavily built body, and a large head. Look carefully and you’ll notice that most bears walk pigeon-toed, with their feet turned inward. It makes them look a little clumsy when they’re walking, but don’t be fooled—bears can move much more quickly than most people realize.

*(One of the bears growls loudly so hard it blows Alicia, Diego, The Lion Guard, and the viewer out of the exhibit. They land in the C exhibit, with cheetahs and crocodiles.)*

**Ono:** Oh my! We're in the cheetah exhibit with crocodiles?!!?

**Alicia:** This is the C room. Cheetah and crocodile both begin with C. *(writes a C on a white board and puts the cheetah and crocodile picture)*

(The footage of the cheetah is shown.)

**Alicia:** Long and lanky, cheetahs are the sprinters of the cat world. Their bodies are uniquely designed to run very fast for fairly short distances, allowing them to catch prey that other big cats can’t get. A cheetah’s ability to run starts with its flexible spine, which allows the front legs to stretch far forward on each stride. Its claws are hard and sharp like cleats, giving the cat great traction when running.

(The footage of the crocodile is shown.)

**Alicia:** Crocodiles inhabit all continents except Europe and Antarctica. They live in wetland areas, as they are most at home in or near the water. They even look like they belong there, appearing like logs that are floating in a swamp or washed up on shore. Crocodiles can hold their breath underwater for more than an hour. But don't be fooled by their seeming lack of activity—crocs can swim up to 20 miles per hour (32 kilometers per hour) and can run on land as fast as 11 miles per hour (17.6 kilometers per hour) for short distances if they need to!

**Diego:** *(gasps)* Look out!

*(Several crocodiles appear out of the water. Everyone sees the crocodiles, the cheetahs run into their cave while Diego, Alicia, the viewer and The Lion Guard start running from the crocodiles and screaming as they swing in vines to get away from the crocodiles which then burst out of the C exhibit across the zoo and try to go in the D exhibit causing the crocodiles to go back in their C exhibit. Then Diego, Alicia, the viewer and The Lion Guard are safe from the crocodiles.)*

**Korrina:** Whew! Good thing I wore my roller skates again.

*(They go into D exhibit where the donkeys are braying and grazing. We see cows, sheep, horses, pigs, chickens, roosters, rabbits, and sheepdogs play around. The donkey stops and sees Diego, Alicia, the viewer and The Lion Guard.)*

**Donkey:** Hmm? Oh! Welcome to the D room, partner.

**Alicia:** *(Now wearing a cowgirl hat and to the viewer)* These donkeys need your help and we are here so the sprout can soak in your message. *(writes a D on a white board and puts the donkey picture)*

(The footage of the donkey is shown.)

**Alicia:** The hee-haw sound that donkeys make is called a bray. Donkeys bray as a way of communicating with other donkeys, to voice their feelings of loneliness, discomfort, or distress. They also bray when hungry or warn others of impending danger. Male donkeys bray more than their female counterparts since they are more vocal. Donkeys bray loudly in deserts to maintain contact with other donkeys over vast spaces.

**Donkey:** Crazy! (to the viewer) I need your help to bray like a donkey. When the violins play alternate high, loud notes, you have to say HEE-HAW! Now say HEE-HAW when we wait for the music to begin.

(The donkeys bray with violins.)

**Diego:** (to the viewer) You just sound like a donkey! Good job!

## Review Segment #1: A, B, C, and D

*(The scene shows Julie wearing shades and holding a megaphone)*

**Julie:** OK now, listen up! We really need to impress you. So I'm thinking of creating an incredible beginning for the video! OK, first, I need to build a big set with a slide.

**Boots:** Julie, we really don't have time for any changes.

**Julie:** Let's take it from the top with A, B, C, and D.

*(Zazu starts to imitate animal actions and noises)*

**Dora:** Now, action!

(The anteater digs for ants, the bear growls and eats honey, the cheetah runs around when the crocodile comes out of the pool, and the donkey brays loudly.)

**Julie:** Now here's where we use my remote control spotlights!

*(Julie turns on the spotlight. But they are so bright that Zazu, the anteater, the bear, the cheetah, the crocodile. and the donkey are blinded and they end up rampaging into each other)*

**Zazu:** (He flies and the crocodile tries to eat him) Help!

*(Dora covers and hides her eyes in horror as the first four animals rampage the scene when Boots and Zazu scream at each other)*

**Zazu and Boots:** Aaaahhh!

**Julie:** *(embarrassed over what she just did)* Okay. So, maybe we don't use the spotlights.