Wild Kratts
Catching the Road Runner
Clip: Season 2 Episode 17 | 2m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Chris and Martin are chase a mystery lizard.
Chris and Martin are chasing a mystery lizard through the desert when they stumble on the fastest land bird in North America! The Greater Roadrunner!
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Wild Kratts
Catching the Road Runner
Clip: Season 2 Episode 17 | 2m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Chris and Martin are chasing a mystery lizard through the desert when they stumble on the fastest land bird in North America! The Greater Roadrunner!
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All right, this will be great.
As soon as I spot the lizard...
I'll let you go, and then you'll go flying after him.
And I can grab that mystery lizard as I fly by.
(Grunting) I should've activated Bear Powers or something strong.
Ugh!
You see the lizard?
Not yet.
Could be a while.
Oh, there he is!
What?
Ahhhhhh!
It's... it's... it's a... cactus!
Oh!
(Crashing) Mommy.
Chris, what are you doing up there?
The mystery lizard is getting away.
I'm kind of... stuck.
Oh, yeah.
Here, let me get you down.
Wait, wait, care-- Ow, ow, ow, careful!
Oh great, I'm in the middle of a tug of war between my brother and a saguaro cactus.
Grrr... oof!
Oh!
We can't give up, but that mystery lizard is so fast.
I don't know if anything out here can catch him.
Shhh.
There he is.
He's a...
He's a...
BOTH: Roadrunner?!
Whoa, look at them go!
The roadrunner is gaining!
Oh, no.
We have to find another mystery lizard.
Wow, I never realized a roadrunner is as big as a chicken.
And twice as fast.
I got to see that again.
Okay roadrunner, show us your stuff.
On your marks, get set... run!
Uh, run!
Go!
Race off!
Uh, roadrunners don't listen very well.
Speedometer!
We need a speedometer!
Whoa!
26 miles an hour.
That makes the roadrunner one of the fastest-running birds in the world.
Oh, and check out that aerodynamic running posture.
But with his head down!
He's not running with his head out.
I don't think he can see where he's going, because he's running right into a... cactus!
MARTIN: Ha ha, of course!
We should've seen that coming.
A roadrunner can fly, but he just prefers to run most of the time.
Ho-oh, I love how the roadrunner uses vantage points, like cactus or rocks to perch and scan for prey.
And then when he spots something, he runs off after it.
Oh, and what a great Creature Power that would be to have.
Could you imagine?
Roadrunner Powers!
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