1 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I'd like 2 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: to say hello to Harper, Hello to Garig and Nolan. 3 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: Hello to Ewan who is seven, and Amalia who is three. 4 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: Hello to Jack in Alaska. Hello to Makaiah who is nine. 5 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: Hello to George and Margot Thompson, who are six year 6 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: old twins that live in Albany, New York. Hello to 7 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: Jack and Emma, who are five years old and live 8 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: in Worcester, Massachusetts. And hello to Nova. I'd like to 9 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: say a happy belated birthday to Vivian who turned seven 10 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 1: on June twenty four. Happy birthday to Oliver who is 11 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: celebrating his birthday July first, Happy birthday to Bickpick who 12 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: is turning six on July second, and Happy birthday to 13 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 1: Brittany from Kitchener, Ontario who was turning eight on July third. 14 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,679 Speaker 1: Happy birthday to you all. I hope you have a 15 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 1: wonderful day. Shout Outs and birthday wishes are one way 16 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: we give thanks to our supporters. 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It was 26 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: the last day of Old Mother Nature School in the 27 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: Green Forest. And when jolly round bright mister Sun had 28 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: climbed high enough in the blue blue sky to peep 29 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 1: down through the trees, he found not one missing of 30 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: the little people who had been learning so much about themselves, 31 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: their relatives, neighbors, and all the other animals in every 32 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: part of this great country. You see, not for anything 33 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: in the world would one of them willingly have missed 34 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: that last lesson I told you yesterday began Old Mother Nature. 35 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: That the land is surrounded by water, salt water, sometimes 36 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:22,679 Speaker 1: called the ocean, and sometimes the sea. In this live 37 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: the largest animals in all the great world, and many others, 38 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: some of which sometimes come on land, and others which 39 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: never do. One of those who come on land is 40 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: first cousin to little Joe Otter, and is named the 41 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: Sea Otter. He lives in the cold waters of the 42 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: western Ocean of the Far North. He resembles Little Joe 43 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: Otter quite a bit, but has a finer, more handsome fur. 44 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: He is among the shyest and rarest of all animals, 45 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: and is taken to living in the water practically all 46 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: the time, rarely visiting land. He lies on his back 47 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: in the water and gets his food from the bottom 48 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: of the sea. It is mainly clams and other shellfish. 49 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: He rests on floating masses of sea plants. He is 50 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: very playful and delights in tossing pieces of seaweed from 51 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: paw to paw as he lies floating on his back. 52 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: Of course, he is a wonderful swimmer and diver, otherwise 53 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: he couldn't live in the sea. Another who comes on 54 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: land but only for a very short distance from the water, 55 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: is called the walrus. He belongs to an order called Finnipedia, 56 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 1: which means fin footed. Instead of having legs and feet 57 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: for walking, members of this order have limbs designed for swimming. 58 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: These are more like fins or paddles than anything else, 59 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: and are called flippers. The walrus is so big that 60 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: I can give you no idea how big he is, 61 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: except to say that he will weigh two thousand pounds. 62 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: He is simply a great mass of living flesh, covered 63 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: with a rough, very thick skin, without hair. From his 64 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: upper jaw, two huge ivory tusks hang straight down, and 65 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: with these he digs up shellfish at the botto bottom 66 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: of the sea. It is a terrible effort for him 67 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: to move on shore, and so he is content to 68 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: stay within a few feet of the water. He also 69 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: lives in the cold waters of the far North amidst 70 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 1: floating ice. On this he often climbs out to lie 71 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: for hours. His voice is a deep grunt or bellowing roar. 72 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: The young are born on land close to the water. 73 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: The sea lions belong to this same thin footed order. 74 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: The best known of these are the California sea lion 75 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: and the fur seal, which is not a true seal. 76 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: The California sea lion is also called the barking sea 77 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: lion because of its habit of barking, and is the 78 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: best known of the family. It is frequently seen on 79 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: the rocks along the shore and on the islands off 80 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:16,239 Speaker 1: the western coast. These sea lions are sleek animals, exceedingly 81 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: graceful in the water. They have long necks and carry 82 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: their heads high. They are covered with short, coarse hair 83 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: and have small, sharp pointed ears. Their front flippers have 84 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: neither hair nor claws, but their hind flippers have webbed toes. 85 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: They are able to move about on land surprisingly well 86 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: for animals lacking regular legs and feet, and can climb 87 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: on and over rocks rapidly. Naturally, they are splendid swimmers. 88 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: The largest member of the family is the stellar sea lion, 89 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: who sometimes grows to be as big as the walrus. 90 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: He is not sleek and graceful like his smaller cousin, 91 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: but has an enormously thick neck and heavy shoulders. His 92 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: voice is a roar rather than a bark. The head 93 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: of an old sea lion is so much like that 94 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: of a true lion that the name sea lion has 95 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: been given to this family. The most valuable member of 96 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 1: the family is the fur seal, also called sea bear. 97 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,599 Speaker 1: It is nearly the size and shape of the California 98 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 1: sea lion, but under the coarse outer hair, which is 99 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 1: gray in color, is a wonderful, soft, fine brown fur. 100 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: The young of all members of this family are born 101 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:05,079 Speaker 1: on shore but soon take to the water. The fur 102 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,719 Speaker 1: seal migrates just as the birds do, but always returns 103 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:14,959 Speaker 1: to the place of its birth. Man and polar bear 104 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: are its enemies on land and ice, and the killer 105 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: whale in the water. The males are three or four 106 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: times the size of the females, and among themselves the 107 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: males are fierce fighters. The true seals are short necked, 108 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: thicked bodied, and have rather round heads with no visible ears. 109 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,959 Speaker 1: The walrus and sea lion can turn their hind flippers 110 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: forward to use as feet on land, but this the 111 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: true seals cannot do. Therefore they are more clumsy out 112 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: of the water. Their front flippers are covered with hair. 113 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 1: The one best known is the harbor or leopard seal. 114 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: It is found along both coasts, often swimming far up 115 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: big rivers. It is one of the smallest members of 116 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 1: the family. Sometimes it is yellowish gray spotted with black, 117 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 1: and sometimes dark brown with light spots. The ringed seal 118 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: is about the same size or a little smaller than 119 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: the harbor seal, and is found as far north as 120 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: it can find breathing holes in the ice. You know, 121 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 1: all these animals breathe air, just as land animals do. 122 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: This seal looks much like the harbor seal, but is 123 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: a little more slender. Another member of the family is 124 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: the harp, saddleback or greenland seal. He is larger than 125 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: the other two and has a black head and gray body, 126 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: with a large black ring on the back. The female 127 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: is not so handsome, being merely spotted. The most handsome 128 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: seal is the ribbon seal. He is about the size 129 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: of his cousin, the harbor seal. He is also called 130 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: the harlequin seal. Sometimes his coat is blackish brown and 131 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: sometimes yellowish gray, but always he has a band of 132 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: yellowish white, like a broad ribbon, from his throat around 133 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: over the top of his head, and another band which 134 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: starts on his chest and goes over his shoulder, curves 135 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: down and finally goes around his body, not far above 136 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: the hind flippers. Only the male is so marked. This 137 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: seal is rather rare, and like most of the others, 138 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: it lives in the cold waters of the far North. 139 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: The largest of the seals is the elephant seal. Once numerous, 140 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: there are only a few members of this branch of 141 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: the family left. He is a tremendous fellow and has 142 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: a movable nose which hangs several inches below his mouth. 143 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: The strangest looking member of the family is the hooded seal. 144 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: Mister seal of this branch of the family is rather large, 145 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: and on the top of his nose. He carries a 146 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 1: large bag of skin which he can fill with air 147 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: until he looks as if he were wearing a strange 148 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: hood or bonnet. The seals complete the list of animals 149 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: which live mostly in the water, but come out on 150 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: land or ice at times. Now I will tell you 151 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: of a true mammal, warm blooded just as you are, 152 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: and air breathing, but which never comes on land. This 153 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: is the manatee or sea cow. It lives in the 154 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:25,200 Speaker 1: warm waters of the sunny South, coming up from the 155 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 1: sea in the big rivers. It is a very large animal, 156 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 1: sometimes growing as big as a medium sized walrus. The 157 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: head is round, somewhat like that of a seal. The 158 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 1: lips are thick and big, the upper one split in 159 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: the middle. The eyes are small. It has only two flippers, 160 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: and these are set in at the shoulders instead of 161 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: hind flippers such as the seals and sea lions have. 162 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: The manatee has a broad, flattened and rounded tail, which 163 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: is used as a propeller, just as fish use their tails. 164 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: The neck is short and large. In the water, the 165 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: manatee looks black. The skin is almost hairless. This curious 166 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: animal lives on water plants. Sometimes it will come close 167 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: to a river bank and, with head and shoulders out 168 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 1: of the water, feed on the grasses which hang down 169 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 1: from the bank. The babies are of course born in 170 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: the water, as the manatee never comes on shore. Now 171 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: I think this ends to day's lesson and our school. 172 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: Peter Rabbit hopped up excitedly. You said that the largest 173 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: animals in the world live in the sea, and you 174 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: haven't told us what they are, he cried, True enough, 175 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: Peter replied, Old Mother Nature pleasantly. The largest living animal 176 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 1: is a whale, a true mammal, and not a fish 177 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: at all, as some people appear to think. There are 178 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: several kinds of whales, some of them comparatively small, and 179 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: some the largest animals in the world so large that 180 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: I cannot give you any idea of how big they are. 181 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: Beside one of these, the biggest walrus would look just 182 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: like a baby. But the whales do not belong just 183 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: to this country. So I think we will not include them. 184 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: Now we will close school. I hope you have enjoyed 185 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: learning as much as I have enjoyed tea teaching. And 186 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: I hope that what you have learned will be of 187 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: use to you. The more knowledge you possess, the better 188 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: fitted you will be for your work in this great world. 189 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: Don't forget that, and never miss a chance to learn. 190 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: And so ended old mother Nature school in the green forest. 191 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: One by one, her little pupils thanked her for all 192 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: she had taught them, and then started for home. Peter 193 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: Rabbit was the last I know ever, and ever so 194 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 1: much more than I did when I first came to you. 195 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: But I guess that after all, I know very little 196 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: of what there is to know, he said shyly, which 197 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: shows that Peter really had learned a great deal. Then 198 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: started for the dear old briar patch. Hippity hop, hippity hop. 199 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 1: And that is the end of our story. Good Night, 200 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: sleep tight.