Splash and Bubbles
Get Your Feet Wet: The Parrotfish Song
Clip: Episode 15 | 1m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Come get your feet wet and find out where white sand comes from!
Parrotfish eat coral and turn it into the limestone sand. The sand they make then washes up on land. Thank your Parrotfish friends for making the sand in which we play!
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Splash and Bubbles
Get Your Feet Wet: The Parrotfish Song
Clip: Episode 15 | 1m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Parrotfish eat coral and turn it into the limestone sand. The sand they make then washes up on land. Thank your Parrotfish friends for making the sand in which we play!
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- And now it'’’s time to... all: Get your feet wet!
- Where does the white sand on this beach come from?
- A lot of the white sand on tropical beaches that animals live in and people play in comes from a fish-- one of the most colorful fish on the reef.
♪ What parrot fish eat they also excrete ♪ ♪ In a curtain of limestone sand ♪ ♪ They eat some coral, then they poop it out ♪ ♪ And it washes up on land ♪ ♪ It covers the floor while they eat some more ♪ ♪ Almost countless times each day ♪ ♪ So thank your parrot fish friends ♪ ♪ For making the sand in which we play ♪ - ♪ I want to thank you ♪ - ♪ I want to thank you ♪ - ♪ For making white sandy beaches ♪ - ♪ For making white sandy beaches ♪ - ♪ I want to thank you ♪ - ♪ I want to thank you ♪ - ♪ For pooping out sandy beaches ♪ - ♪ For pooping out sandy beaches ♪ ♪ So thank your parrot fish friends ♪ ♪ For making the sand in which we play ♪ - Thank you, parrot fish!
- This has been "Get Your Feet Wet"!
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