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Speaker 1: It's winter and it's cold. What's the weather like where

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Speaker 1: you are today? We're exploring mammals above and below the equator,

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Speaker 1: the imaginary line that splits Earth into top and bottom.

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Speaker 1: Everything above the equator is called the Northern Hemisphere. Everything

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Speaker 1: below is the Southern Hemisphere. No matter where you live,

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Speaker 1: we hope you enjoy today's episode. Welcome to Storytime by

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Speaker 1: Lingo Kids, where we discover fascinating facts about the world

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Speaker 1: around us and the fun of play learning. We're in Canada,

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Speaker 1: in the Northern Hemisphere, and winter has just begun. It's

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Speaker 1: thirty two degrees fahrenheit or zero degrees celsius. That's the

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Speaker 1: temperature that it turns water into ice. Although it's freezing outside,

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Speaker 1: I'm fine. I have a warm home with plenty of

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Speaker 1: food in the cupboard. These are essentials not just for humans,

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Speaker 1: but also for other mammals. Mammals are animals that produce

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Speaker 1: milk to feed their babies. Can you name a mammal?

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Speaker 1: Today we'll find out how three magnificent mammals adapt to

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Speaker 1: their habitats. Let's begin here in the woodlands of Canada,

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Speaker 1: home of the brown bear. Bears fatten up for winter

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Speaker 1: by eating as much as they can all summer and fall.

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Speaker 1: A bear may eat as much as ninety pounds or

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Speaker 1: forty kilograms of food per day. By the time winter comes,

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Speaker 1: a bear can double its weight. That's why humans have

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Speaker 1: to be very careful when camping where bears live. Bears

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Speaker 1: have the best sense of smell of any animal on Earth.

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Speaker 1: A bear can smell over two thousand times better than

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Speaker 1: a human, So if you have any food around a

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Speaker 1: bear's nose nose. Once a bear's nice and fat, it

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Speaker 1: hibernates for many weeks. This means it makes a den

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Speaker 1: in the forest and goes into a deep rest, living

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Speaker 1: off its extra fat. When the snow starts to melt,

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Speaker 1: a bear will wake up and go back out into

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Speaker 1: the world. Would you want to hibernate all winter like

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Speaker 1: a brown bear? While the bears sleep through winter? Another

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Speaker 1: mammal relies on its blubber for energy as it swims

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Speaker 1: thousands of miles towards the equator. It prefers to have

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Speaker 1: its babies in warm water. Can you guess what mammal

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Speaker 1: that is? Here's a clue, right Billy the blue whale,

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Speaker 1: the largest animal on the planet. A blue whale can

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Speaker 1: be one hundred feet or thirty three meters long. During summer,

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Speaker 1: blue whales head north to feed. They open their giant

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Speaker 1: mouths and scoop up krill, tiny shrimp like creatures. They

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Speaker 1: can eat six tons of krill a day. That's twelve

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Speaker 1: thousand pounds or five thousand, four hundred and forty three kilograms.

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Speaker 1: When they're not eating, blue whales love to chat. Let's

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Speaker 1: try to talk like a blue whale. Listen carefully, now

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Speaker 1: repeat after me.

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Speaker 2: oOoOO oooo oooooo oooh your turn, oohoo.

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Speaker 1: Blue whales need healthy habitats. Unfortunately, plastics and other things

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Speaker 1: made by humans end up in the ocean and get

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Speaker 1: swallowed by these beautiful beasts. Recycling waste helps to protect

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Speaker 1: all ocean creatures. We have time for one more mammal.

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Speaker 1: Remember as we bundle up in the wintery north, it's

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Speaker 1: summer in the southern hemisphere. Let's go down Anda to

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Speaker 1: meet an incredible mammal found only in Australia. Meet the

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Speaker 1: adorable platypus. Funny name, right, Let's say it five times ready,

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Speaker 1: Platypus platypus, platypus, platus, puss platypus. This creature is found

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Speaker 1: in freshwater creeks, lakes and rivers along the eastern side

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Speaker 1: of Australia. Do you know what a platypus looks like?

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Speaker 2: Imagine this.

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Speaker 1: It's sort of like a small dog covered in thick

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Speaker 1: brown fur. It has a wide, flat tail. Now here's

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Speaker 1: the fun part. It has webbed front feet and a

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Speaker 1: rubbery bill like a duck. No, it doesn't sound like

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Speaker 1: a dog or duck. It sounds like this. The platypus's

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Speaker 1: wide flat tail is a survival tool. It's used for

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Speaker 1: swimming and it stores fat in its tail when there

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Speaker 1: isn't much food around. This comes in handy because, like

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Speaker 1: the bear, the platypus hibernates during the southern winter. Unlike

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Speaker 1: the bear and the blue whale, the platypus does something

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Speaker 1: almost no other mammal does. Here's a hint. Birds do it.

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Speaker 1: Can you guess what it is?

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Speaker 2: Not sure?

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Speaker 1: Even though a platypus is a mammal, it lays eggs.

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Speaker 1: It's rare to see a platypus, and these shy creatures

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Speaker 1: are protected from hunting. However, they rely on clean, healthy

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Speaker 1: plants that grow along creeks and rivers. It's up to

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Speaker 1: us to make sure their habitat isn't polluted or destroyed.

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Speaker 1: So who wants to help keep these three magical mammals

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Speaker 1: alive and healthy on our planet. Let's go from one

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Speaker 1: mammal to another. We're all in this together. Thank you

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Speaker 1: Lingo Kids listeners for joining us for this winter fun journey.

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