Wild Kratts
Back in Creature Time Part 1
Season 3 Episode 25 | 26m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
The Kratts jump back to the time of the extinct dodo bird on Aviva's time trampoline.
After lamenting the extinction of different animals in recent history and how they’ll never get to adventure with them, Aviva unveils her greatest invention yet: a time trampoline. The Wild Kratts jump back to the time of the extinct dodo bird, but once there, they run into Gourmand’s ancestor, who has decided dodos are definitely on the menu! Once again, it’s Wild Kratts to the rescue!
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Wild Kratts
Back in Creature Time Part 1
Season 3 Episode 25 | 26m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
After lamenting the extinction of different animals in recent history and how they’ll never get to adventure with them, Aviva unveils her greatest invention yet: a time trampoline. The Wild Kratts jump back to the time of the extinct dodo bird, but once there, they run into Gourmand’s ancestor, who has decided dodos are definitely on the menu! Once again, it’s Wild Kratts to the rescue!
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♪ Wild Kratts ♪ MARTIN: We’re here in North America, on the east coast of the United States, amongst the hustle and bustle of New York City.
Hey, it’s us, the Kratt brothers.
I’m Chris.
I’m Martin.
You might be thinking this is a pretty strange place to be looking for creatures, right?
It is, but there are some creatures you can only find here... at a museum!
Like the American Museum of Natural History!
Come on!
Whoa!
Here are skeletons of some animals that once roamed the earth, like this giant ground sloth.
But no giant ground sloths survive today.
They’re extinct.
That’s the scientific word for an animal that once roamed the earth, but doesn’t anymore because they all died out.
Animals become extinct for a few different reasons.
This giant lemur, Megaladapis, went extinct because when people arrived on Madagascar, it was hunted and its habitat was destroyed.
There are some animals alive today that are endangered of becoming extinct because their numbers are falling so low, like the hugely impressive African black rhino, or the beautiful and sleek Ethiopian wolf.
MARTIN: Or the intelligent great red ape, the orangutan.
They’re what are called "endangered species."
If their numbers keep falling, and eventually hit zero, they would become extinct.
Gone from the planet, like these animals of the past.
And we would be left to wonder what it would have been like to see them in real life.
Imagine if we could go back in time-- And see some of those amazing extinct creatures.
What if?
What if?
♪ On adventure with the coolest creatures ♪ ♪ From the oceans to the trees ♪ ♪ The Brothers Kratt are going places you never get to see ♪ ♪ Hanging with their creature friends ♪ ♪ Get ready, it’s the hour ♪ ♪ We’re gonna save some animals today with ♪ ♪ Creature power ♪ ♪ Gonna go wild, Wild Kratts ♪ ♪ Gonna go wild, wild, Wild Kratts ♪ ♪ (Wild Kratts) Gonna go wild, Wild Kratts ♪ ♪ Gonna go wild, wild, wild ♪ ♪ Cheetah speed and lizard glide ♪ ♪ Falcon flight and lion pride ♪ ♪ Gonna go wild, Wild Kratts ♪ ♪ Gonna go wild, wild, Wild Kratts ♪ ♪ (Wild Kratts) Gonna go wild, Wild Kratts ♪ ♪ Gonna go wild, wild, Wild Kratts ♪ ♪ Go wild, wild, Wild Kratts ♪ MARTIN: "Back in Creature Time: Day of the Dodo."
See, Martin?
Climbing even the tallest trees in the Philippine rainforest is easy and quick in a tarsier Power Suit.
MARTIN: Yeah, these legs can leap!
There they are.
Yeah, just a quick in and out of this nest and hey, bada-boom, bada-bing, it’ll be creature mission accomplished.
Okay, egg temperature is normal.
Great.
Hurry, Chris.
(Thumping) (Gasping) Oh, yeah.
I can hear the chick’s heartbeat.
Uh, fantastic.
Done yet?
(Beeping) CHRIS: Oh, yeah, they’re developing nicely.
Everyone’s healthy.
Great.
Okay, done?
Done!
All good.
(Whistling) (Yelling) Not all good!
Look!
A Philippine monkey-eating eagle, with knife-like talons!
(Yelling) MARIN: Philippine eagles look really scary when they’re mad.
CHRIS: Yeah, well, they are the largest eagles in the world!
BOTH: Whoa!
And they do specialize in catching big monkeys and other large prey!
(Screeching) Uh, does it help that we’re much smaller primates than he usually catches?
(Screeching) I don’t think so!
(Both yelling) Hmm?
(Both yelling) Go, go, Aviva, go!
(Screeching) Huh?
KRATTS: Go!
(Gasping) CHRIS: He’s gaining on us!
Hey, listen, buddy, we weren’t trying to steal your eggs.
We were just trying to help.
Yeah, you Philippine eagles are one of the most endangered creatures in the world, and we just want to make sure you survive.
It’d be nice if we did too!
Hold on, guys!
(Engine rumbling) ALL: Whoa!
(Crashing) (All groaning) I don’t think he understood.
But at least we know that all the eggs are officially safe.
BOTH: Deactivate!
Get off!
Ooh, uh...
Sorry.
Sorry.
Well, Koki, the male eagle’s doing a good job of taking care of the eggs on his own.
So, that’s good news, and with any luck, his mate will be back out helping him soon, as soon as her wing heals up that is.
And don’t worry, we’ll stick with you until you’re healthy and your chicks hatch.
That’s right.
With only about 400 left in the wild, every single one of these eagles is super important.
Because if the number gets down to zero, that means no more Philippine Eagles in the world... forever.
(All gasping) Don’t say it!
What?
"Extinct?"
Oh, you said it.
Whoa!
Extinct?
No way.
That just can’t happen.
We won’t let it.
So many creatures have gone extinct already.
Ones that we’ll never, ever get to see.
Ever, ever get to add to our Creature Life List because they’re gone!
Gone!
(Groaning) Uh-oh, they’re in their extinct species trance, dreaming about adventures that could have been.
Sorry.
(Groaning) Well, now’s the time.
While we’re keeping an eye on these eagles, I’ve got something that’s sure to snap these guys out of it.
(Beeping) A trampoline!
Look!
You guys love trampolines.
Hmm...
But this isn’t just any trampoline.
This is a time trampoline.
Say what?
Yup.
With this trampoline, you can actually jump back in time, up to 500 years.
What?!
Woo-hoo!
Whoa!
Did you say "jump back in time?
Up to 500 years?"
Let’s go!
Woo-hoo!
Ah!
Ah-ah-ah, not so fast.
I’ve never tested it before.
So, we have to make sure we do everything right, or you could get lost in the past.
And we’ve got to figure out what creature we’re going to find.
Oh!
Yes!
I know, Megaladapis!
Or an auk penguin!
Oh, wait, Tasmanian tiger!
(Gasping) CHRIS: Yes!
Golden toads!
Oh, it’s impossible to decide!
There’s only one way to do this, bro.
Ta-da!
Ta-da!
We’ll let the Extinct Creature Spinner decide.
(Lightning crashing, horns honking) (Bell ringing) Yes, I know what you’re thinking.
"Zach Varmitech is a genius!
The greatest inventor ever!"
Rhino-dozers, t-devil security bot, Mosquito-bots.
And there’d be many more varmint robots if it weren’t for those Wild Ratts, rescuing their precious "living free and in the wild" animals.
Give me a break!
What are those pesky Wild Ratts up to now?
Nice spinning wheel.
Thanks.
I’ll spin.
They’re playing a little animal game with a spinner and a trampoline.
That’s frivolous and boring.
Wake me up if they do anything interesting.
(Alarm ringing) (Yelling) (Groaning) I didn’t me wake me literally.
While they play their silly games, I’ll just finish my latest and most genius invention yet!
Now you see me, now you don’t!
(Laughing) MARTIN: Okay, okay... I’m feeling lucky.
What’s it going to be?
Oh, come on, come on.
(Gasping) Oh... (Bell ringing) Dodo bird!
Dodo bird!
The classic extinct creature!
♪ Oh, we’re going to see a dodo bird ♪ ♪ Yee-haw, yippee!
♪ ♪ Gonna see a dodo bird ♪ ♪ Yes, siree!
♪ Okay, guys, let’s get the trampoline set.
To the balcony!
♪ Gonna see a dodo bird ♪ ♪ Yee-haw, yippee!
♪ Okay, when did dodo birds go extinct?
Hundreds of years ago, around 1690, right, guys?
Uh-huh, yeah.
Yeah.
So, I’ll set the time machine to around the early 1600’s, and the location right there, in the Indian Ocean, the island of Mauritius.
Set location.
Ready?
Ready.
Woo-hoo!
Yeah!
CHRIS: Let’s go!
Here, you’ll need this to get back.
The main trampoline will bounce you back in time, and this remote trampoline will bounce you home to the present day.
Don’t break it or let it run low on transistor energy, or you’ll get trapped in the past.
No problem.
Oops.
Ah!
Phew!
Phew!
Easy, gorilla hands, it’s fragile.
Speaking of that, someone else has to go.
Koki’ll do it.
You and I are the only ones who know how this works, so one of us should be on each side of the time connection to make sure nothing goes wrong.
Well, I wasn’t really planning on travelling to the past today, but okay.
Nothing’s happening.
Go higher.
You have to get up to the right jump height to open the time connection.
Whoa!
Ha!
Keep going!
The further back in time you’re going, the higher you need go get.
Yeah!
Whoo!
There!
Jump into the time warp!
Got it!
Dodo birds, here we come!
(Cheering) We did it!
They’re headed to the past!
Let’s hope they get there okay.
Ooh, right.
ALL: Whoa!
(Laughing) We’re here!
Throw it!
Out there?
Yes, quick!
We need to enter the warp now!
(Grunting) ALL: Whoa!
CHRIS: Mauritius Island!
KOKI: Over 400 years ago!
CHRIS: Whoa!
(Groaning) Maybe a trampoline wasn’t the best choice for time travel.
Take a bad bounce and you never know where you’re going to land.
(Groaning) Now we just have to find a dodo.
Ow!
(Gasping) Uh, that was easy.
ALL: A dodo bird!
MARTIN: Wow!
(Cooing) Tortuga HQ to time jumpers, we can’t see through the time warp, but we can hear you.
Did you say "dodo bird?"
You found one?
KOKI: Affirmative.
We found a dodo bird.
I can’t believe it!
It worked!
I invented a time travel machine!
CHRIS: It’s one small bounce for creatures... MARTIN: One huge leap for creature-kind.
(Cheering) (Aviva laughing) All right!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Oh, Zach, you’ve outdone yourself this time.
(Alarm ringing, screaming) Ah!
Stop doing that to me!
What?
Is something happening?
Ah!
(Beeping) (Words rewinding) I can’t believe it!
It worked!
I invented a time travel machine!
A time machine?!
No!
That was my idea.
I’m the genius!
I’m supposed to make the time machine first.
No fair!
No fair!
No fair!
Oh, yes, you’re right.
I’ll get a closer look at her latest invention with my latest invention.
And no, it’s not just a cape.
This my Zach-bot, is the ultimate in spy gear.
To the Tortuga HQ!
(Laughing) (Bell ringing) Amazing!
A 3’ tall member of the pigeon family.
You know, seeing you is a dream come true.
KOKI: I can’t believe how friendly he is.
Every other bird would fly away by now.
Except he can’t fly.
He doesn’t need to.
There are no predators on this island, including no humans.
So, dodos evolved to be flightless ground birds without much to be afraid of.
But they’re too big, plump and heavy to fly anyway.
Maybe that’s ’cause he eats rocks.
Hey, how about this rock, buddy?
Oh, huh.
I’ll call you Rocko, Rocko the dodo.
But that’s just the first course.
He really eats those: fruits!
KOKI: That’s more like it.
CHRIS: Yeah, the rocks he ate help him digest.
They sit in the dodo’s stomach and help grind up the fruit.
(Beeping) MAN: Land ho!
Drop anchor!
(Martin gasping) Well, so much for no humans.
Hmm... an undiscovered island.
Maybe there’s some undiscovered animals I can cook.
Woo-hoo!
After all, it is lunch time and discovering new lands makes me mighty hungry.
(Laughing) Wait a second.
That guy looks really familiar.
Yeah, like he could be Gourmand’s great-grandfather or something.
We’re back in time way farther than that, aren’t we?
Correction: like Gourmand’s great-great-great-great-great- great-great-great-great-great- great-great-great-great- great-grandfather.
(Gasping) Quick, hide!
(Chuckling and humming) (Inhaling deeply) I smell something unusual to eat.
You!
How do you taste?
(Cooing) Well, let’s find out then.
(Chuckling) Ha!
This is too easy!
(Cooing) You silly birds don’t even run away!
(Laughing) Oh, no, it’s happening!
What’s happening?
This was the beginning of the end for the dodo.
When people first came to the island, dodo’s were an easy meal for hungry sailors, and people brought other animals too, like pigs, dogs, and even macaque monkeys, and they ate dodo eggs and chicks, destroyed dodo habitats, and not long after that, there weren’t any dodos left.
(Gasping) Rocko, wait!
Stick with us, Rocko.
(Laughing) You’ll make a nice appetizer.
(Laughing) ALL: Oh, no!
♪ And paddling back to the ship I am!
♪ Well, we gotta help them!
We can’t!
We can’t mess with the past.
Who knows what effect it could have in the future?
But we can’t just stand by and watch the amazing dodo bird become great-great-great-- Fifteen "greats."
-- Granddaddy Gourmand’s lunch!
And eventually go extinct forever.
Oh, if only we had a Creature Power from the past.
A dragonfly!
Of course!
They’ve been around for about 300 million years.
It just might work.
BOTH: Activate Dragonfly Power!
♪ BOTH: To the dodo bird rescue!
Wait!
Wait!
We can’t stay here forever.
The trampoline’s energy field will start to break down, remember?
They’d better get back here fast.
♪ Yo, ho, ho and I sail the seven seas ♪ ♪ Tasting all kinds of beasties ♪ (Laughing) Now, you birds fatten up in here, especially you.
(Chuckling) I’ll set a course for home and be right back to cook you up.
(Laughing) Hey!
He can’t talk to little Brainio like that.
"Brainio," great name, bro.
Oh, yeah, thanks.
People think dodos were stupid because they were friendly, but they’re actually really smart birds.
Okay, let’s airlift them out of here.
(Grunting) Did you have to eat so many rocks?
Hmm... if we could just... get them into that boat!
(Panting) Oh, no!
Berry on the loose!
(Gasping) That’s it!
Okay, everybody, just follow the berry.
(Cooing) Yes, it’s work-- oh, no!
The boat is rocking.
Wait, come back.
MARTIN: That’s right.
No, not that way.
MARTIN: The other way!
CHRIS: Yeah, yeah, that way.
Yes, that way!
MARTIN: Go, dodos, go!
Follow that berry!
It worked!
(Cheering) We have a boatload of dodos.
Boy, is great-great-great-great- great-great-- oh, forget it-- Granddaddy Gourmand guy going to be surprised when he figures out the dodos are gone.
Uh-oh.
But what’s going to stop him from just sailing back here and catching them again?
You’re right.
This might not be enough to save the dodos from extinction.
Hey, where you going?
You go ahead, I’ll catch up.
Oh, no problem.
I’ll just tow a boatload of dodos by myself.
Okay, so the island with the big tasty birds is right here.
I gotta remember that so I can come back and get more, maybe even stay awhile.
(Laughing) Now northwest towards home!
Yo, ho, ho, ho, ho!
You’ll never find the island again if I can help it.
Hmm... I’ll send you... there instead.
Those birds will be delicious!
(Laughing) I don’t think so.
Bon voyage!
(Granddad Gourmand humming) ♪ Yo, ho, ho ♪ (Grunting) Hey, Martin!
Need another set of wings?
(Sighing) A two dragonfly powered motorboat, that’s much better.
(Grunting) Finally!
De-activate!
Oof!
Oh, you’re home.
Guys, you made it just in time!
The time connection is destabilizing!
We gotta get back fast!
Okay, let’s go!
Martin, you can’t take him with us.
Why not?
If we bring one back to the future, we can save the species.
The dodos won’t be extinct anymore!
KOKI: But we shouldn’t mess with anything in the past.
It might affect the future in some way that we can’t predict.
Or it might actually save the dodos!
We’ve got to do something.
CHRIS: What if little Brainio here is the dodo-bird chick that’s needed in this time for the species to have a chance to survive?
He saw how mean and dangerous bad guys can be.
Maybe, hopefully, he’ll know how to stay away and hide from them.
Guys, we gotta go!
Now!
(Gasping) Remember, Brainio.
Run away from those guys.
They’re like predators.
They want to eat you!
Run from them, buddy.
Run!
Take care of her, Rocko.
Everybody look out for each other, okay?
It’s now or never.
Hurry!
(Grunting) Goodbye, dodos!
And so long, Great-Granddaddy Gourmand guy!
GREAT-GRANDDADDY GOURMAND: Ooh.
Hey!
This isn’t the tasty-bird island.
Ohhh... ALL: Whoa!
(Screaming) Jimmy, here they come!
Oh!
They made it!
Oof!
Ugh, gotta watch that exit bounce.
Whoa!
Oof!
♪ Ugh.
Sounds like they’re back.
Well, and it’ll be a better test of this-- my invisibility cloak.
Yoohoo, over here!
(Giggling) See, it works!
I’m going inside.
(Laughing) Aviva, that is one incredible invention!
Yeah, and dodo birds are awesome.
Guess what?
We might have even saved the dodo birds from extinction.
Wait, are they still extinct or did they survive?
Dodo bird.
Checking current status.
Come on, come on, come on.
Please, come on.
Please, please, please.
Dodo birds, dodo birds, dodo birds alive, survive.
(Beeping) CHRIS: Zero dodo birds!
MARTIN: They’re still extinct.
If only we had time to do more back there, like train them all how to run and hide better-- something!
Aviva, can we go back?
It’s too risky.
Going back to the same time and place right away could cause a time-trampoline meltdown.
We could get trapped back there.
Trapped?
Hmm.
If I could somehow trap them back in time, I can lock them in the past and they’ll be extinct forever!
(Cackling) But listen, guys.
We could maybe go someplace else.
We can?
In the past?
Yeah.
The time transistor can hold up for one more trip.
We’re in!
Oh, goody!
Me too!
AVIVA: And this time, I’m going with you guys.
Got it.
So where are we going?
Who will we meet?
Let’s find out.
So the dodo bird is one really cool animal that’s now extinct.
And the only information we have left about them is from old 17th-century accounts and from bones and other remains that we have left.
Scientists agree that the dodo was a smart member of the pigeon family, and flightless.
This skeleton is assembled from bones found on Mauritius Island and it’s clues like this that have helped scientists piece together this life-sized dodo replica.
It’s made from feathers of other birds but it gives a sense of what a dodo looked like.
Unfortunately, we’ll never know much more about the habits and behaviors of the amazing dodo bird because of the forces that drove it to extinction like overhunting... Habitat loss... Competition with alien species.
And right now there are other creatures that are facing very similar challenges like the black rhino.
Black rhinos are one of the most endangered animals in the world right now due to overhunting.
Hi.
We met this two-year-old black rhino in Africa at the Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage.
For her, there’s nothing like a good scratch.
Oh, yeah, she loves it.
MARTIN: Rhinos aren’t hunted for food like the dodo was.
Instead, they’re mostly hunted for their horn which is unfortunately sometimes used for carvings and other purposes.
Another endangered creature that faces similar challenges to the ones the dodo once faced is the golden bamboo lemur.
And golden bamboo lemurs’ very existence is threatened by habitat destruction.
CHRIS: As more and more of their forests are cleared for cities, villages and farms, the golden bamboo lemurs have fewer and fewer places to live.
This exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History shows just a taste of the millions of animals on the planet.
MARTIN: But every year, hundreds, maybe even thousands, of animal species go extinct.
If they lose the battle with extinction, remains like this might be all we have left.
Hey, are you thinking what I’m thinking?
MARTIN: Pandas?
CHRIS: They’re still around.
We’ve got to do an adventure with pandas!
All right!
Keep on creature adventuring.
We’ll see you on the creature trail.
Pandas, here we come.
♪ To find out more about cool animals... And collect your own Wild Kratts Creature Powers... Go to the Wild Kratts website... At pbskids.org.
We’ll see you there!
We’ll see you there!
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