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Speaker 1: Hello Critter Protectors.

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Speaker 2: Mister Jim here and welcome to Kids Animal Stories, a

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Speaker 2: place where there's always a mystery and adventure around every

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Speaker 2: single corner. If you love critters of all shapes and sizes,

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Speaker 2: I need you on our Critter Protector team. Join our

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Speaker 2: adventure as we learn about critters from around the world.

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Speaker 1: And in our back yards. Well, my friends, are you

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Speaker 1: ready for today's adventure? Me too, Let's go. On the

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Speaker 1: last episode of Kids Animal Stories, Ivy and Jack, two

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Speaker 1: young Tasmanian devils, were out on their own for the

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Speaker 1: first time. They were on their first grown up hunt

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Speaker 1: for food, and so far I hadn't had the best

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Speaker 1: of luck. They had just had a very scary encounter

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Speaker 1: with two grown up, mean Tasmanian devils and found themselves

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Speaker 1: now hidden up in a tree. You see, young Tasmanian

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Speaker 1: devils are actually really good at climbing. Often they climb

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Speaker 1: trees to escape predators or other Tasmanian devils. Some aren't

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Speaker 1: very nice to the young ones, and they've even been

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Speaker 1: known to eat the young ones. Yikes, Ivy, do you

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Speaker 1: think they're still close? Jack asked as he tried to

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Speaker 1: get a better look below him. I haven't heard from

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Speaker 1: them in a while. I think they've moved on, Ivy replied.

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Speaker 1: The brother and sister slowly eased down the tree and

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Speaker 1: looked around for any signs of the old Tassies. The

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Speaker 1: coast was clear. They continued along the roadside and tried

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Speaker 1: to keep their eyes peeled for any other lurking predators.

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Speaker 1: If we could just follow this route through the forest,

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Speaker 1: or something, Ivy said. Moments later, and a few curves

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Speaker 1: in the road later, they both started to hear a sound.

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Speaker 1: Is that water, said Jack? I think so. Come on,

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Speaker 1: let's get closer look, Ivy said. They followed the sound

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Speaker 1: and very soon came to a rushing river. It was

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Speaker 1: pretty fast moving water, but on the other side they

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Speaker 1: saw an open pasture. You have to get across. That

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Speaker 1: might be our best bet of finding some food, Ivy said,

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Speaker 1: But the water's moving so fast, said Jack. Come on,

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Speaker 1: let's see if we can find an easier way across.

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Speaker 1: They searched along the river and found a branch extending

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Speaker 1: far over the water. The very tip of it just

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Speaker 1: reached the other side, and they decided it was their

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Speaker 1: best bet. Always hold on, do you think these two

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Speaker 1: little Tasmanian devil should climb across a branch over a

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Speaker 1: very fast moving river? Or does that not sound like

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Speaker 1: a good idea? What do you think? I don't know, Oh,

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Speaker 1: dear well. They carefully walked across, and we're almost halfway

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Speaker 1: when crack the branch snapped and they fell into the

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Speaker 1: gold water. Spoosh, Wait a minute, said Ivy. This is fun,

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Speaker 1: said Jack. This was Ivy and Jack's first time in

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Speaker 1: the water. They were terrified at first, but actually realized

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Speaker 1: that they were really good swimmers. Wow, did you know

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Speaker 1: that Tasmanian devils were good swimmers? I definitely didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: Oh I was so scared. But oh then it's I

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Speaker 1: don't know. It feels like I've done it a thousand times.

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Speaker 1: Jack said he was so surprised and proud of himself.

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Speaker 1: Eat too, but come on, let's keep going. I'm hungrier

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Speaker 1: than ever. They walked and searched and walked some more

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Speaker 1: through the grassy pasture. You were searching for any sign

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Speaker 1: of something to eat, but it was awfully quiet. Where

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Speaker 1: are the sheep? Asked Jack. I'm not sure, said Ivy.

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Speaker 1: They were starting to lose hope. Maybe it wasn't an

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Speaker 1: actual sheep pasture after all, maybe the sheep were there

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Speaker 1: a long time ago and this was just a grassy

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Speaker 1: field with no food for them. They were almost ready

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Speaker 1: to turn back her head to another group of trees

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Speaker 1: far in the distance, they heard a sound. Hey, well

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Speaker 1: was that I'm not sure. Ivy was cut off by

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Speaker 1: the sound again. It was a rustling sound, like something

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Speaker 1: finally found it. Lying in the grass was a carcass

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Speaker 1: being eaten by a handful of vultures. They saw Ivy

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Speaker 1: lots of it too. Ivy couldn't contain her excitement. She

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Speaker 1: started to dig in the sound of their bone crunching

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Speaker 1: jaws could be heard from a long way away. The

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Speaker 1: two eight and eight they were masters at eating almost

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Speaker 1: and when they got tired, they fell fast asleep. Sh hmm.

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Speaker 1: It sounds pretty smelly to fall asleep by a dead,

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Speaker 1: rotting animal, but to a Tasmanian devil, it's actually a delicacy.

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Speaker 1: Tasmanian devils will sometimes fall asleep inside a carcass just

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Speaker 1: grossest thing I've heard all week. Holy smokes. Oh, even

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Speaker 1: though it sounds pretty gross, this is one way they're

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Speaker 1: sure do like their meat. The following morning, Ivy and

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Speaker 1: Jack ate a little bit more, then sat together, soaking

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Speaker 1: up the feeling of being really full and well rested. Ivy,

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Speaker 1: what a crazy adventure this was just to find some food,

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Speaker 1: you're telling me, Jack, Ivy replied, I guess that's what

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Speaker 1: we tasses are good at. Moving, eating, and I guess swimming, climbing,

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Speaker 1: And we do it all over again, Jack says he

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Speaker 1: thought aloud. Ivy smiled and said back to Jack, and

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Speaker 1: Ivy smiled as she said it back to Jack. This

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Speaker 1: may be the end of our story, but it is

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Speaker 1: only just the beginning of the amazing adventures that these

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Speaker 1: two Tasmanian devils have waiting for them in the days

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Speaker 1: to come. The end. We'll be right back after a

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Speaker 1: the way to the end. All right, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: test your memory skills. Back in part one of this

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Speaker 1: story adventure, we learned where Tasmanian devils spend their first

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Speaker 1: three months of life. Do they spend it in the nursery?

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Speaker 1: Do they spend it in a dead or in their

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Speaker 1: mother's pouch? Dun dun dun, dun dun dunt. Yes, Tasmanian

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Speaker 1: devils spend it in their mother's pouch because they are marsupials. Wow. Friends, well,

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Speaker 1: my gritter protectors, I hope you have a super duper

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Speaker 1: day and I will see you on our next adventure. Bye.