The Case of the Unknown Animals

**The Case of the Unknown Animals** is the first episode of Season 2 of Fishtronaut and the fifty-third episode of the series.

## Summary

The episode opens with Fishtronaut, Marina, and Zeek who encounter a family of bluebirds and a moose as Marina takes a picture of them; however, Fishtronaut tells Marina that the trio was walking for hours and she has taken enough pictures of animals. Marina then explains to Fishtronaut that her teacher needs twenty photos of different forest animals as her grandfather said that there are more than twenty different forest animals. Zeek then tells Marina that half of the album is blank (there are no photos in some of the blank pages) as Marina tells Zeek that her teacher must turn in the photo album by tomorrow. Meanwhile, we see a rabbit playing see-saw with a turtle that won't be launched in the sky as the rabbit keeps on jumping since the rabbit isn't heavy enough. The rabbit tells the turtle that he must find an animal that is heavier than him. All of a sudden, a hippo arrives towards the rabbit and the turtle; the hippo is then suggested to play on the see-saw. As the hippo jumps on the see-saw, the turtle is launched high into the air and nearly hits an eagle.

Meanwhile, the trio encounters an opossum hiding in the bush and the possum tells Marina if she wants to take a picture of him. However, Marina says that she already took a picture of the opossum. All of a sudden, a P.O.P. arrives towards the trio.

**P.O.P. Clues:** a balloon and an acorn

Receiving the clues, Fishtronaut makes a suggestion about animals that eat nuts and the trio decides to find nut-eating animals. Marina then meets two capybaras who have no problem eating nuts and an agouti arrives telling Marina if she finished her photo album. Marina is curious if there's a problem with the park's nuts as a squirrel appears and remembers that he buried the nuts and couldn't find one of his nuts. Marina then sees a nut tree already growing in progress as the squirrel's nuts didn't vanish. The squirrel then leaves with one of the nuts from the agouti. The trio found out that there was no problem with the nuts in the park, but the trio couldn't find the balloon. The eagle that saw the turtle in the sky has the balloon and the eagle asks the trio if the balloon is the object that they were looking for. Upon receiving the balloon, the eagle says that he saw a turtle in the sky which was something unusual he saw.

The trio hears the same rabbit who is calling for the turtle's attention. The rabbit says that the hippo was playing with the turtle on a see-saw and the hippo saw the turtle launched into the air. The trio has thought the turtle has landed on one of the trees (which could be a walnut tree, like the ones that are growing) and this could be the reason why the turtle couldn't hear the rabbit calling his name and the trio decides to go to the great and tall walnut tree to know that the turtle must be hiding in there. As Zeek decides to climb up the tree, Fishtronaut gives Marina the Climbing Up and Up Kit for Marina to climb the tall walnut tree. While climbing, Marina eventually drops her camera that breaks. However, Marina has never seen a tree with different plants in one place. All of a sudden, the turtle that was launched by the hippo appears on the tree. Upon finding the turtle, the trio decides to bring the turtle down to the ground, but the turtle says that he must say goodbye to his friends first. His friends are: a monkey frog, a grasshopper, a white-bellied parrot (with a scarlet macaw), a blue jay, other birds, two dragonflies, and a marmoset.

Zeek is curious that he had a frog for a cousin, but another monkey frog appears and the monkey frog says that she isn't Zeek's cousin. The monkey frog says that the reason why she has the name is because she plays on the tree branches like an actual monkey. The turtle then remembers when the hippo jumps on the see-saw that launched him into the air and surprised the eagle and landed on the walnut tree's branch; the tree animals helped him by flipping him over as the turtle can't turn over by himself. Marina then explains that her grandfather says that there are a lot more animals in the park and if it weren't for the turtle, the strange animals wouldn't be described. All of a sudden, another P.O.P. arrives towards the trio

**P.O.P. Rewards:** a replacement of Marina's camera

Receiving the reward, Marina can finish her photo album with a new camera and decides to take a picture of the animals in the walnut tree, and she sees Zeek pretending to be a mantis.

## Musical Interlude Lyrics

*This is a monkey frog*

*A black grasshopper with yellow polka dots*

*And there's a white-bellied parrot...*
*...with his friend, a little blue dacnis*

*(lyrics not in the English dub)*

*Just look what I discovered that up in these trees. There live so many animals. And even more can be found by anyone who's interested.*

## Errors

* The blue jay is incorrectly called a "blue dacnis", a type of passerine bird common in many parts of South America. This is probably due to an error oversight. Also when aired on Qubo, the captions misspell the blue dacnis's name as "blue duck hen".

* Some of the lyrics for the musical interlude are missing in the English dub after the part with the blue jay.