Kid E Cats meets Max and Ruby: Animals

**Kid E Cats meets Max and Ruby: Animals** is the fourth installment in Kid E Cats meets Max and Ruby series of PC games, released in 2019 for Windows 10

## Voice cast

 Nolan North | Sherlock Bones Weird Owl Factovish

## Animals

### Animals in Temperate Forest

* American Red Fox
* American Red Squirrel
* Big Brown Bat
* Downy Woodpecker
* Eastern Moose
* Golden Silk Orb Spider
* Great Horned Owl
* Grizzly Bear
* North American Beaver
* North American Porcupine
* North American Raccoon
* Red-Eared Slider
* Snowshoe Hare
* White-Tailed Deer

### Animals in Tide Pool

* Actiniaria
* American Lobster
* Black Tegula
* Caribbean Hermit Crab
* Chocolate Chip Sea Star
* Common Bottlenose Dolphin
* Common Starfish
* Edible Crab
* Giant Pacific Octopus
* Mottled Sculpin
* Ochre Starfish
* Sea Urchin
* Semibalanus balanoides

### Animals in Rainforest

* Blue and Gold Macaw
* Brazilian Jaguar
* Brown-Throated Sloth
* Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
* Goliath Birdeater
* Green Iguana
* Keel-Billed Toucan
* Leafcutter Ant
* Red-Headed Poison Dart Frog
* Red-Tailed Boa
* Southern Tamandua
* White-Eared Titi
* Zebra Longwing

### Animals in African Savannah

* East African Bush Elephant
* Eastern Black Rhinoceros
* Eastern White-Bearded Wildebeest
* Grant's Zebra
* Hamadryas Baboon
* Kenyan Impala
* Masai Lion
* Mound-Building Termite
* Nile Hippopotamus
* Red-Billed Oxpecker
* Reticulated Giraffe
* Tanzanian Cheetah
* White-Backed Vulture
* Serengeti Thomson's Gazelle
* Serval
* African Leopard
* Eastern Nile Crocodile
* African Wild Dog
* Giant Eland
* African Cape Buffalo
* Olive Baboon
* Central African Warthog
* Eastern Spotted Hyena
* Leopard Tortoise
* Nile Monitor
* Vervet Monkey

### Animals in the Desert (unused content)

* Arabian Oryx
* Deathstalker Scorpion
* Desert Hedgehog
* Dromedary
* Dung Beatle
* Fennec Fox
* Horned Viper
* North African Ostrich
* Striped Hyena

## Transcript

### Intro

* **Pudding**: Hey everyone, the Animal Habitat Contest is about to begin if you win you'll be an Official Animal Explorer don't delay and enter today.
* **All**: Cookie was flippin' through the habitat magazine. Ruby helped us out with the words that we couldn't read C-O-N-T-E-S-T.
* **Cookie**: What's that?
* **All (except Cookie)**: Contest
* **Lucy**: The best.
* **All**: Said Lucy who grabbed the bag and read the rest, looking for one, two three and more. Curious kids who love to explore the natural habitat of areas and animals with
* **Ruby**: Snakes,
* **Max**: Bats,
* **Bagel**: Frogs
* **All**: And Camels. Temperate Forest to the Desert sands, Tropical Rainforest, Savannah, Grasslands, the Tide Pools and the Arctic zones identify animals in their homes.
* (Elephant trumpets)
* (Birds chirping)
* (Goat bleating)
* **Candy**: Cousin Alexander, won't you help us win the contest?
* **Cousin Alexander**: Sure, learning about animals is fun.
* **Pudding**: Hi everyone, I'm Pudding, here's how to win the Animal Habitat Contest, visit habitats to learn about animals and finish these four contest sheets but first you have to sign up.

### Sign Up Sheet

* **Pudding**: Type in your name then click on a level then click on me or press enter if you've started the contest already find you name on the list and click on it, if you didn't see your name on the list click on the arrow buttons to find it.
* (When a player clicks level 1)
* **Pudding**: Level 1.
* (When a player clicks level 2)
* **Pudding**: Level 2
* (When a player clicks level 3)
* **Pudding**: Level 3
* (When a player press enter)
* **Pudding**: You're all ready to go and let the contest begin.

### At Home

* **Cousin Alexander**: I brought snack money for our field trip to the Wild Animal Park. They're hardly that our teachers finally going to a normal field trip.
* **Max '**: The way I see that remains will be seen.
* **Cousin Alexander**: My mom says I sleep like an elephant seal 'cause I'm such a deep sleeper. She could practically sit on me and I won't wake up. It is just me or does anybody else think it's gross that Indian rhinos roll in the mud so they don't get sunburned?.
* **Cookie**: You asked me, Cousin Alexander, I think the smell of mud beats the smell of some of those sunscreen
* **Cousin Alexander**: Gophers run just as fast backwards as forwards. Sure wish we had one on our baseball team. Did you know a one day old reindeer can run faster than a baseball player?
* **Lucy**: Wow! We should sign up one up for the East Bunny Hop Baseball team
* **Cousin Alexander**: These are my pet goldfish, Fastball, Shortstop and Slugger. Fastball, Shortstop and Slugger make good pets. They don't wake me up to let them out in the morning and the best thing is, they don't poop on the floor. Even though fish are pretty easy to take care of, you still have to clean out their bowl and make sure to feed them the right amount of food -- something I can relate to. I wonder what the smartest animals in the world are?
* **Max**: I'd say fish, because they go around in schools
* **Lucy**: Someday maybe we'll go on a field trip to the Wild Animal Park. I want to ride an elephant.
* **Cookie**: Knowing Me, Candy, Pudding, Max, Ruby, Alexander, Lucy and Bagel we're more likely to travel up his trunk
* **Lucy**: Some people ride bucking broncos, but me? I'd like to try riding a rhinoceros. Even though they weigh over 3,000 pounds they can go 30 miles an hour! Yehaa!. Living in the kangaroo pouch would be awesome. Kangaroos can hop as far as 44 feet in front of them and 11 feet up in the air. That's something I've gotta try. Can you imagine being a grey whale? When they go, they go! They travel twenty-six thousand miles every year, migrating from their feeding grounds, and then back to their breeding grounds. What a way to see the world!. When it's garbage night and the trash goes out, I have a alarm clock that wakes me in the middle of the night. It's a raccoon who thinks our garbage is it's gourmet meal. Raccoons can live almost everywhere. If they live in the woods by a stream they eat fish and frogs. If they live in the city, they eat pepperoni pizza. Now that's what I call adaptable. Before raccoons eat their food, sometimes they dip it in water. How do I know that? In the morning our dog's water bowl is full of muddy gunk and there are raccoon tracks leading away from it. Talk about a masked bandit! The raccoon's fingers are so nimble it can open doors, garbage cans, cupboards, practically anything.
* **Cookie**: According to my research Mr. Estevez and Miss Bunty have taken us to an ordinary field trip
* **Lucy**: And according to my prediction of the future, they will
* **Cookie**: Did you know that in Australia, desert kangaroos keep cool by drenching their bodies in their own saliva?
* **Max**: Or you could say they get cool in a pool of their drool.
* **Cookie**: According to my friend, Cupcake, It's not a good idea to go around kissing frogs. Some of them are extremely poisonous
* **Lucy**: Thanks for the tip Cookie. Guess I better cancel that frog-kissing booth I planned for the school carnival
* **Cookie**: This is the best joke I've found about horses. What did you call a story about a small horse?
* **Lucy**: Oh, I know that, I know that. Uh, I don't know that
* **Cookie**: A pony-tale!. My report is on domestic horses, which means horses that are tame. According to my research, horses are ungulates, which means they have hooves instead of toes. Lots of animals are ungulates. Rhinos, cows, deer and camels also have hooves, which means they're related to horses. The smallest horse that ever existed is called the Fallabella. It was only 30 inches tall -- the size of a one year old baby
* **Max**: Ok guys, which one of these is the biggest mammal in the world? A blue whale or an Asian elephant?
* **Cousin Alexander**: The elephant?
* **Max**: Nope, the blue whale. In the fact the biggest one ever found was 110 feet long. Big enough so eight elephants could line up on its back. All right, which one of these guys can jump 13 feet in the air? A flea or a kangaroo
* **Lucy**: It gotta be a kangaroo
* **Max**: Guess again, Lucy. Okay, in a race between these two guys, who would win? An Olympic runner or a dragonfly?
* **Cousin Alexander**: An Olympic runner. For sure
* **Max**: No, A dragonfly can actually fly 30 miles an hour.
* **Cousin Alexander**: Wow! Maybe we need one of those on the Olympic team!
* **Max**: Okay.... which one is heavier? An Indian rhinoceros or a car
* **Cookie**: According to my research it's a rhinoceros.
* **Max**: And according to my research, I think I'd rather ride in a car than a rhino. I did my report about crows, one of the noisiest birds in my neighborhood. Next to the blue jay, that is, who is the crow's cousin. All that cawing must run in the family. Last night this crow I named Picasso, came around with his buddies. Boy were they making a racket! I went outside and there, they were chasing away a hawk. Picasso is an awesome crow. You should see him bob his head when a girl crow comes around. I think it's his way of asking her out on a date. Crows have brains, but you wouldn't call them "bird brains". They're so smart, they use their feet to pull up fishing lines to steal fish on the hook. Wow - that lion's teeth look awfully big! It's a good thing, too, since he's a carnivore and needs strong, sharp teeth to eat meat! Check out this water snake. If he's really still he looks like part of the plant - that's called camouflage and it helps him hide from both his predators and his prey. Scorpions are really awesome. Look at how they glow when you shine the right kind of light on them. That's a long-horned beetle. There are lots of varieties of these guys, but one thing they all have in common is a huge appetite for wood when they're young.
* **Ruby**: Maybe our teachers remember about the trip to the Wild Animal Park.
* **Pudding**: Yeah or extremely lucky. It's easy to see how the long-horned beetle got his name - look at the length of those antennae! I've always worried about toads. Is it really true if I touch on I'll get warts?
* **Bagel**: No way, Pudding, but you might get warthogs..
* **Candy**: Bagel!
* **Pudding**: Did anyone know that for every human on Earth, there are one million insects? Even the thought of it bugs me. Does anybody knows what Max and a lizard have in common?
* **Bagel**: We should ask Liz
* **Pudding**: Good try, Liz. You and Max are both vertebrates, which means you both have backbones. Can anybody guess whether a dolphin is a closer relative to a shark or me?
* **Ruby**: Uh, a shark
* **Pudding**: Nope, it's closer to me because a shark is a fish and a dolphin and me are both mammals. I did my report on my hamster, Scruffy. Scruffy is a rodent and is related to mice and rats, but I don't hold against him. Scruffy has the fattest cheeks I've ever seen. That's because he's got pouches in there to store food. Kind of like sticking a sandwich in you pocket and saving it for later. Weird gross rodent fact. Their curved teeth keep growing, just like my fingernails. So they have to keep gnawing on stuff, or their teeth would curve around so much they'd puncture their skull. Guess which one of these is not a rodent... a prairie dog, a squirrel or a beaver?
* **Bagel**: A beaver?
* **Pudding**: Nope. I fooled you. They’re all rodents.
* **Bagel**: Pudding! Okay. What pet is always found on the floor?
* **Ruby**: I don’t know, what?
* **Bagel**: A car-pet! Here’s one. When did the fly fly?
* **Pudding**: Beat’s me!
* **Bagel**: When the spider spied her. Tell me this. Why does a dog wag its tail?
* **Candy**: Because nobody else will wag it for him?
* **Bagel**: How’d you know that?
* **Candy**: Everyone knows that one, Bagel.
* **Bagel**: Does anybody know why the mother flea is so sad?
* **Ruby**: I give up.
* **Bagel**: Because her children were going to the dogs. Here’s a really funny one. Why do flies walk on the celling?
* **Pudding**: So we can’t catch them
* **Bagel**: No, because if they walk in the floor, someone would step on them. If a rooster laid a white egg and a brown egg, which one would hatch first
* **Candy**: Uh, I don’t know. The brown one?
* **Bagel**: Nope, neither one. Roosters don’t lay eggs. Hens do.
* **Candy**: Bagel!
* **Bagel**: My report is on Zoomer, my dog. There are several hundreds breeds of dog in the world, but there is only one Zoomer. Man’s best friend, that’s what dogs are called. That’s because they’re so loyal. They should also be called “Man’s first non-human friend” because they’re the first wild animal people ever tamed. Dogs are carnivores, which means they eat meat. Mostly Zoomer eats “Beef Bits”, which look more like dirt clogs than beef. But don’t tell Zoomer that. He actually like the stuff. Okay, time to play “Putting On the Dog”. Which one these animals is not, I repeat, not a dog. A fox, a jackal, a poodle or a hyena?
* **Zoomer**: (Barks)
* **Bagel**: That’s right Zoomer. A hyena is NOT a dog. But foxes, jackals and even poodles are all your cousins. That’s some family you’ve got.
* **Ruby**: I’ve never met an animal I didn’t like, except I write a fictional novel about the bus shrank and we got eaten by that tuna fish
* **Bagel**: You and me both. I don’t even like looking at a tuna fish sandwich anymore.
* **Ruby**: At my old school when we on our field trips we needed a permission slip, not a passport. My cat Mittens is such a beautiful cat. There must be perfect way to describe her
* **Bagel**: I’d call her a purr-fect beauty
* **Ruby**: Some of the books in our school library talk about endangered animals. I feel sorry for them because they’re in danger of disappearing from the planet. I did a report of my kitten, Mittens. She’s a domestic cat, which mean she’s tame and she’s a pet. But she’s related to wild cats all over the world. Wild cats live everywhere except for Australia and Antarctic. Mittens usually lives at the foot of my bed. Cats have great eyesight. Six times sharper than humans’. If Mittens is sitting on my windowsill, she can spot a mouse in my neighbor’s backyard. I know she catches and lets them go in the house. Yuck. I found out why cats have whiskers. It helps them find their way in the dark. If they’re in a tight space and their whiskers touch something , they know not to crash into it!
* **Candy**: I was thinking about directing a movie about the life of a queen termite. But it’s going to have to be a really a long movie because they can live for 50 years. On the second thought, maybe doing a film about a mayfly would be easier. They live less than a day. I wonder why my mom always tells me I’m a queen bee
* **Bagel**: Because we talk on the phone so much whenever anyone tries to call they get a buzzy signal
* **Candy**: I wonder what kind of ant is the biggest ant?
* **Bagel**: An elephant
* **Candy**: Bagel! Why have just one pet when you can have a whole farm? These are my ants and they are amazing to watch. Wanna play Ants-er This? Do ants use their antenna to hear, see or smell?
* **Pudding**: Oh, Uncle Mark taught us this. The answer’s on the tip of my nose
* **Candy**: You got it, Pudding . They use their antenna to smell stuff like if we’re their friend or their enemy. Okay, Ant-ser This. Why do ants always look so busy?
* **Ruby**: According to Cookie’s research, they all have special jobs to do. There are guard ants, foraging ants who look for the food, builder ants who build nests and nurse ants who take care of the babies. Not mention the queen who lays all the eggs
* **Candy**: Ruby, that was magnific-ant! Ants lives colonies and there are thousands of them living there at a time
* **Pudding**: Then how come there are only 63 in your ant farm?
* **Candy**: Not enough space. I’d tried to fill up the bathtub up with dirt, but my mom pulled the plug on the whole idea
* **Pudding**: Now there’s a cat who’s really got her paws full! Can you tell how many kitten’s she has?
* **Sherlock Bones**: Welcome to the Bone Zone. Call me Bones, Sherlock Bones. (Sniffing) I see you've discovered a pile of bones. We've got to figure out who they belong to... or belonged to, I should say. You need to finish putting this animal's skeleton together. So have at it, Bone-voyage! Elementary indeed. Fine detective work. Case Closed
* **All (except Pudding)**: Yay! we're gonna win the contest, we're gonna win the contest.
* **Pudding**: Click on a habitat you'd like to visit. Okay, get in your seats and we'll be on our way

### Amphibians and Reptiles by Cousin Alexander

* **Cousin Alexander**: Amphibians and Reptiles by Alexander. Click on a picture if you want to find out about slimy and scaly creatures. What's the differences between an amphibian and a reptile? Amphibians like this frog, have slimy bodies and lay their eggs in he water. Frogs and salamanders need to stay wet because some of them actually breathe through their moist skin!. Reptiles like this lizard, don't need to stay wet. They have scaly skin covering their bodies and the scales help to keep them from drying out. Reptiles like turtles and lizards lay eggs on land. So do snakes... but some snakes and even kinds of lizards don't lay eggs at all. Their babies come right out of their mothers' bodies just like mammals. Cold-blooded animals. Animals who needs the sun to warm up their bodies are called cold-blooded. It doesn't mean these cold-blooded iguanas are cold, just that their bodies are the same temperature as the air around them. For most amphibians and reptiles, like this crocodile, who's cooling off in the water with it's egg, that works just fine. But maybe not for this little lizard whose feet are burning up on the sand. He's outta here!. Slimy and scaly babies. This mother frog's tadpoles were born underwater. In fact most amphibians, like frogs and salamanders, lay their eggs underwater, so that their eggs don't dry out. But once they're grown, you can find amphibians anywhere, even gliding from trees, like this flying frog. Reptiles, on other hand, like iguanas, skinks and turtles, lay their eggs up on land. When babies hatch, their scaly skin them moist even in the desert.

### Birds by Bagel

* **Bagel**: Birds by Bagel. A report that is really for the birds -- or about birds, this is. Want to find about them? Click on a picture. What makes a bird a bird?. This is a bird... this is a bird... and this is a bird! If there's one thing birds have in common, it's feathers. In fact they're the only animals that have feathers. Birds also have hollow bones and very light beaks instead of heavy teeth. And why do you think everything about them is so light? So they can fly! But not all birds can fly... like this big ostrich and these penguins. But most birds? All they have to do is flap their wings and take to the sky. Owls. Who, who, who finds its prey by using it's hearing? The owl. Owls, like this barred owl, have really sharp hearing because their ears, which are hidden by feathers, cover the entire sides of their heads. And when owls fly they are totally silent, because they have fluffy feathers and comb-like edges on their wings. That way they can hear their prey instead of the flapping of their own wings. And how about those eyes? They are HUGE. Owls eyes take in enough starlight, so that on a moonless night owls can see as well as we can on a cloudy day! Bird Beaks. Birds can't use their wings to hold things or even scratch themselves, so sometimes they use their beaks to do the job. This penguin is using its beak to feed its baby chick. When you take a look at a bird you can also tell what it eats. Shorebirds, like this Black Necked Stilt, have long skinny beaks like tweezers that they stick into the mud when they look for worms. Flamingoes and ducks have beaks that work like sieves. The water runs out and the food stays in. Beaks also work as feeding spoons when mother and father birds feed their babies. And take a look at this hummingbird's beak. It works like a straw. Letting the bird sip nectar from the flowers

### Mammals by Lucy

* **Lucy**: Lucy here, reporting on Mammals. Just click on a picture to check it out! What is a Mammal? A mammal is a warm-blooded animal with fur like foxes, seals... and zebras... Mammals come in all shapes and sizes, from little to giant. Some live on land and some live in the sea, but no matter where they live, all mammals breathe air. When mammal babies are born, they don't hatch from eggs, they're born live right from the mother. Mammals take really good care of their babies, and they feed them milk, just like these cheetahs. Rodents. Lots of small mammals, like this little mouse, are rodents. But some rodents, like these capybaras are huge! So what makes both of them rodents? It's their teeth. Look at 'em on this Beaver! All rodents have big front teeth called incisors. Two on the top and two on the bottom. The curious thing about rodent's teeth is they keep growing and growing and growing. So rodents like this porcupine chew on hard things like nuts and wood to keep their teeth sharp. And it's a good thing they do because without all that gnawing, their teeth would grow right out of their head! Hoofin' It. Some mammals, like this pig, have to hoof it. Animals with hooves are called ungulates. All animals with hooves are related to each other. Zebras, horses, rhinoceroses, deer, camels, cows and pigs are some of the mammals who are related because they all have hooves. Hooves are hard and flat come in handy for running on hard ground. This tapir, like all it's hoofed relatives, is a herbivore, which means it doesn't eat meat. All ungulates' teeth are big and flat. They're made to munch grass and leaves

### Marsupials by Cookie

* **Cookie**: Marsupials, by Cookie. Click on a picture if you want to hear my report. Life in the pouch. Believe it or not, this is a baby kangaroo! It was just born and it's crawling up its mother's pouch where it will nurse and grow. Animals that have pouches are called marsupials. Koalas are also marsupials... So are bandicoots... honey possums... and the tree kangaroo. Most marsupials call Australia home, including this cute poteroo! Opossums. The opossum is the only marsupial found in Australia who is also native to North and South America. An opossum's tail is prehensile, which means it can use it to grab onto things. It can even use its tail to hang upside down. If you went to South America, you'd see lots of different kinds of opossums, from big to tiny, like this little murine mouse opossum. Opossums eat fruit and any animals they can catch. Opossum babies stay in their mother's pouch for two months while they grow bigger and stronger. After that they can go in and out. Sometimes they even take a ride clinging to their mother's back! Kangaroos. Kangaroos live all over Australia. They are great jumpers and can leap 30 feet in the air. The kangaroo babies or joeys, can jump into their mom's pouch headfirst. These marsupials live in herds like deer. They kickbox for play and when they fight. There are 45 different kinds of kangaroos living on Australia.

### Insects by Pudding

* **Pudding**: This is my report I did on insects. If you want to find out about the world of insects, click on a picture. What is an insect? Some crawl... Some fly... But all have antennae... and six legs. So what are they? Insects. Creepy, crawly, camouflaging insects. Some insects like this dung beetle are huge... some so tiny you need a microscope to see them. The one fact that bugs me about insects is... there are more insects in the world than any other animal family! Butterflies. People like me who don't like bugs make an exception for butterflies. This monarch butterfly is still wrapped up in it's pupa stage, waiting to come out. It has spent weeks and weeks metamorphosing from a caterpillar. To metamorphose means to change. And here it comes! A butterfly, breaking out of its cocoon! Just another few seconds and... its a colorful monarch butterfly! And why are butterflies colorful? The colors help them to attract a mate and they also let predators know that they taste awful. And who would have thought something so pretty could taste so bad? Dragonflies. Dragonflies begin their life in the water and they are awesome predators. When they're young they can shoot out their jaw with lightning speed and catch other insects or even tiny fish with their clawed lip. Talk about bug-eyed! Or compound-bug-eyed, that is. Compound eyes are actually made up of hundreds of tiny eyes that help the dragonfly see movement in all directions at the same time. That way when they're flying they can easily spot other bugs they want to turn into breakfast. Then zap! Dragonflies have been on this Earth for millions of years. This fossil could even be as much as 300 million years old! At that time, way before the dinosaurs, some dragonflies had wingspans of up to three feet wide! Now that's what I call a Big Bug!

### Fish by Candy

* **Candy**: This is a report on Fish, by me, Candy. Want to dive in? Just click on a picture. Something's fishy. Everyone knows that fish live in the water, but what exactly is a fish? All Fish have backbones, they breathe through gills, they're cold-blooded and they have fins that help them swim. Some fish live only on salt water, and some only in fresh water, but not the salmon. When it's young, the salmon swims out to the ocean, then when it grows into an adult fish, it swims back to the freshwater river where it born and lays its eggs. The coral reef. Life under the coral reef sometimes look like you're swimming through a rainbow of colors. It's also a safe place for fish to live, far away from the big hungry open water fish, like sharks and tuna. Saddleback butterfly fish like these eat the coral polyps that grow on the reefs. When saddleback butterfly fish travel together, it's hard to tell when one fish ends and the next fish begins. This long yellow trumpet fish follows the angel fish wherever it goes and not because they're friends. When angel fish eat coral, it forces the small sea creatures who live in the coral to leave. When there sea creatures scurry out from the coral, the trumpet fish swoops down and grabs them. Amazing but true fish tales. Under the sea there are fish and other creatures that are stranger than even I can imagine. Like these sea dragons, who look just like the sea weed around them, making it hard for their enemies to find them. Clown fish, like this one, protect themselves by living inside stinging anemones, but for some reason they never get stung. Father seahorses -- not the mothers -- carry their babies in a pouch. Sounds like a fun way to travel to me!

### Endangered Animals by Ruby

* **Ruby**: The report I did is on "Endangered Animals". If you want to find out about these animals, click on a picture. Why animals are endangered. Many animals around the world, like this panda, are endangered, That means that they are in danger or going extinct... disappearing forever like dinosaurs. So why do animals, like these manatees, become endangered? The main reason is the loss of their habitat. Animal habitats are sometimes destroyed so houses and shopping centers can be built, or the forests they live in are cut down for wood. Famous endangered animals. There are some pretty famous animals that have been endangered, like this bald eagle. Animals that are still endangered include snow leopards... elephants... (ELEPHANT TRUMPET) and humpback whales.(WHALE AND WATER) The loss of habitat affects lots of other animals, too, like the wolf... the Siberian tiger... and the Mountain Gorillas. It's sad to think that someday the only way we may get to see these creatures is in picture books. Help Save the Animals. Today people realize that endangered animals need your help. Habitats are being saved so rare animals, like this white rhino, can survive. There are also laws to protect them from being hunted. The United States' national bird, the bald eagle became endangered when DDT, a pesticide used on plants, worked its way into the eagle's food, DDT didn't kill the eagles directly , but it made their eggs break. When scientists figure this out, DDT was banned in the United States. Now that the eagle's eggs are no longer breaking, more and more eagles are being born every day and growing into strong young birds. If we all keep trying, maybe some of the other animals who are endangered will make a comeback, just like the Bald Eagle

### Invertebrates by Max

* **Max**: My report is on "Invertebrates." If you want to find out about animals without backbones, click on a picture. No Bones About It. This is an Orb Weaver Spider. And this is a Ghost Crab. What do these two animals have in common? They're both invertebrates, which means they don't have backbones. Invertebrates, like this sea slug, have no bones at all! Invertebrates call many places home. Like, this starfish who lives in the ocean. Or this scorpion with her babies on her back who lives on the land. Some invertebrates live both places -- like this red hermit crab. Right now, it looks like he just moved into this cozy glass jar. And who said you couldn't live in a glass house? Slimy sea creatures. Some of the coolest and tastiest invertebrates live in the sea. Clams, crabs and shrimp have shells to protect slimy bodies. But some soft slimy sea creatures protect themselves by having bright colors and tasting really bad. Their colors advertise "Don't Eat Me! Sea slugs are beautiful as butterflies and really squishy. They eat prickly sponges and stinging anemones. Spiders. Spiders, like this hairy tarantula, have fangs and eight legs. These invertebrates spin sticky webs with their silk. All spiders are carnivores. Some hunt down by jumping on them on the ground and some, like this one, wait in their web. BAM! Moth dinner. Or she can wrap it up with her silk and save it for midnight snack.

### Temperate Forest

* **Pudding**: Temperate Forest. Okay, guys, here we go. We're here everybody. Whoops! Bear crossing. Sorry fellas, we'll find a better place to park, check out the view.
* **All**: (singing) Temperate forest, temperate forest, seasons change, season change. Summer leaves are green till the chilly autumn breeze, turns them gold and brown! They all fall down! Temperate Forest, temperate forest, seasons change, seasons change. Snow falls in the winter, hibernate or shiver, till sun and rain bring spring again!
* **Ruby**: I'm heading to the Temperate Forest, catch you later, guys.
* **All (except Ruby)**: Okay see ya!
* **Ruby**: So this is the Temperate Forest, the weather here changes. There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall. It's Pudding from his phone, he probably wants to remind us about the contest. Find out what he's got to say while I start exploring.
* **Pudding**: Hi, everyone, let's look over the contest sheet and see what we have to do. Click on these animals in the Temperate Forest. Big brown bat, White-tailed deer and Beaver to play games and earn points, we also need to take pictures of animals to fill these spaces and earn point. Look over the contest sheet, click on the back arrow when you're ready to start exploring. Let me tell you how the inside of my backpack works, click on the camera button when you want to take the picture of an animal and click on our IMV button to go back to the IMV. The points you earn will appear on my phone just click on my button to see the contest sheet and that's all for now and have fun learning about animals.
* **Great Horned Owl**: Great Horned Owl here, I am a nocturnal that means I came out at night, my big eyes helped me find small animals in the dark. Bats, frogs, mice and snakes are all my food and I hunt small animals and that means that I'm a predator.
* **Pudding**: Nice picture! Click on a spacebar to belong it. Good call, you've got ten points for taking a correct picture.
* **Porcupine**: I'm a porcupine, my quills protect me from bigger animals. Porcupines are nocturnal, at night we come out and search for leaves, plants and other yummy green things. Porcupines only eat plants so we're herbivores.
* **Snowshoe Hare**: I'm a Snowshoe hare. A furry mammal. See my feet, they're long and wide just like snowshoes. That's how I got my name. My fur changes color to help me hide from predators, animals that might try to catch me. In spring and summer I'm dark brown so I can hide in the shadows, in winter I put on the whitest white to blend in in the snow, that's called camouflage.
* **Beaver 1**: Hello I'm a North American Beaver. Beavers have fur that tells you we're mammals. Our fur is waterproof so we can stay in the water even if it's really cold.
* **Beaver 2**: There is no time to talk, we're very busy.
* **Beaver 1**: We're building a home for my family. Phew! it's a lot of work. We start by blocking the stream with a dam to make the water rise then we build a lodge, that's what our homes are called... Feel like giving some beavers a hand? First we need to cut down some trees, here's a special set of beaver teeth, they'll help you do the job. Remember we're North American Beavers can't move big trees around so cut down only the small ones. Move the beaver teeth over the bottom of each of these trees, when the teeth start to chew press the mouse button to cut the tree down. The counter shows how many points you've earn one point for each tree you cut down. Click on the help button to learn how to play or click anywhere to begin.
* **Beaver 2**: You've really great at cutting down trees. Hmm... I could sure use some help finishing this dam, how about moving those trees into place for me. Click on each tree you cut down move it to the dam and click again to put it down. Earn 5 points for placing all the trees correctly on the dam. You earn 5 points for putting all the trees on the dam. Those are all the trees we need. Great Work! But water still flows through the dam. We need to block it with some mud. Click on the mud to pick some up, move into the dam and click again to put it down. Put five handfuls of mud on the dam to earn five points. That's five more points for putting mud on the dam. That's all the mud we need. Now I've got to pat it down with my big, flat tail. You can help me just click on me. Now move me over the dam and click to make me pat the mud down with my tail. The mud's all padded down. See that our dam blocked the water making a little pond, that'll help keep us safe. Time for me to build that lodge. All finished, not bad huh? Hey everybody time to move into our new lodge. Lodges are great places to take care of our beaver babies, they're called kits. Let's take a look inside. That hole in the roof lets the fresh air in, the doors are under the water it makes harder for other animals to get inside, we stay together in that big room in the middle. Thanks for helping us for building our new home. Goodbye.
* **Ruby**: Check out all the points you earned for helping the North American Beavers. Do you want to play again?
* **Pudding**: This contest sheet is filling up fast.
* **Jumping Spider**: I'm a Jumping Spider, don't call me a bug, I'm an arachnid. Bugs have six legs I have eight. We don't use webs to trapping bugs like other spider webs are messy, we find tasty insects and then we jump to catch them.
* **Red Fox**: I'm a Red Fox, I'm on the prowl. Foxes eat all kinds of animals an even plants, since we eat both kinds of food we're omnivores. Foxes live in dens, holes we dig in the ground, our dens have extra doors so that if a bigger animal tries to me in and catch us we can escape.
* **Grizzly Bear**: I'm a Grizzly Bear the biggest bear in the forest. I spend most of my time looking for food. Grizzly bears don't hibernate like other bears, sure we sleep most of the winter but our bodies stay warm. A sleeping grizzly can wake up fast so if you pass my den in the winter, tiptoe, okay?
* **Red Squirrel**: I'm a Red Squirrel, we're rodents just like mice and beavers. I eat lots of things pine nuts, berries, bird eggs, acorns, nuts and even mushrooms. Squirrels save food for the winter, we dig holes, put the food in and cover it.
* **Big Brown Bat**: I'm a Big Brown Bat, bats are mammals the only ones that fly and we're nocturnal that means we only come out at night. Bats are insectivores that means we eat insects. I love mosquitos, moths and other pesky bugs. How do we find them in the dark? We use a little bat trick called echolocation that means using sounds to find things. Fly with me to see echolocation in action.

                                     Echo, Echo, Echo, Echolocation

                                      I find my prey, I find my way

                                            Echolocation

                                       I'm a little brown bat

                                      Hungry for midnight snack

                                            Whoop whoop

                                      The sound wave blast

                                      I release to find food blast

                                            Whoop whoop

                                    Bionic ears, ultra sonic frequencies,

                                             I can hear

                                            Whoop whoop

                                     I sleep in the day, upside down, in my cave

                                            Whoop whoop

                                      I fly by night, don't need light,

                                         eat meals in-flight.

                                     Echo, Echo, Echo, Echolocation

                                       I find my prey, I find my way

                                            Echolocation

                                            Whoop whoop

                                     A squeal, like that hits an insect

                                            bounces back

                                            Whoop whoop

                                     Sound reflections will determine my

                                            direction

                                         Echo, Echo, Echo, Echolocation

                                       I find my prey, I find my way

                                            Echolocation

                                         Echo, Echo, Echo, Echolocation

                                       I find my prey, I find my way

                                            Echolocation

* **Ruby**: Help the bat eat as many bugs as possible before time runs out, you'll earn one point for each bug she eats, click on the help button to learn how to play or press any arrow keys to begin. Use the arrow keys to move the bat, the bat will use echolocation to find bugs. People can't hear bat sounds but we'll let you see them as colored rings. Move the bat over each bug, when the bugs' colored rings turns yellow press the spacebar to make the bat eat it. Stay away from owls, they're nocturnal too and they eat bats
* **Ruby**: Time's up, fly the bat to her cave.
* **Big Brown Bat**: Help me fly to my cave.. thanks for the help
* **Ruby**: All right! more points. Do you want to play again?
* **Pudding**: Who won't be long before this contest sheet is all filled in
* **Wood Turtle**: I'm a Wood Turtle. Turtles are reptiles, I eat plants, berries, bugs and even worms. Here's a turtle trick for catching worms I tap the ground with my feet, the noise makes the worms come up and then I eat them
* **Raccoon**: Hello I'm a Raccoon. My front paws are like your hands, I can use them to climb, dig and pick things up. We raccoons eat almost any kinds of food and that makes us omnivores.
* **Downy Woodpecker**: I'm a Downy Woodpecker. Bugs live in the wood of this tree, I find them by pecking, after I peck a hole in the tree, I use a special tongue to get the bugs out
* **Moose**: The Moose is here. My big antlers tell you I'm a male moose. I'm built for tough winners, my long legs are perfect for walking through deep snow and I'm covered with my special hair that keeps my body warm even it's very cold.
* **White Tailed Deer Buck 1**: I'm a White Tailed Deer. How you doing? My antlers show that I'm a male deer, a buck. We're territorial that means we choose a place to live, our territory. We chase off any bucks that try to take it from us.