♪ Wild Kratts!

♪ MARTIN: Hey, we're here in Africa, on a large island called Madagascar.

It's us, the Kratt brothers!

I'm Chris.

I'm Martin.

We're on a mission to find one of the most power-packed creatures in the world.

There's probably about twenty of them watching us right now.

There.

One gave himself away.

His eye moved.

And that is one of the great creature powers of the chameleon.

He can stay perfectly still and see in all directions just by moving his eyes.

A chameleon is one of the only creatures in the world that can move each eye independently at the same time.

And he can see two totally different pictures, like watching two movies at the exact same moment.

So, that eye is seeing us.

And that eye is looking at you.

MARTIN: And he's camouflaged too, by the way.

He just melts into the vegetation.

He's staying hidden for two reasons.

One: so predators don't see him.

And two: while a chameleon's avoiding hunters, he is also hunting.

He stays still so bugs don't see him.

His body is frozen.

But his eyes are spotting for bugs that come too close.

And if he sees one, he might edge a little closer, very slowly and smoothly.

Oh!

Whoa!

That is some tongue thwapping power.

We got to see that again!

Imagine if we had that tongue thwapping chameleon power.

Imagine if we had all of the chameleon's powers.

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 ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ Gonna go wild, Wild Kratts ♪ ♪ Gonna go wild, wild, Wild Kratts ♪ ♪ Go wild, wild, Wild Kratts ♪ Hey, there goes another lemur!

Madagascar is so full of unique species.

Question is, who should we hang out with next?

Throwing a ball usually gives us some good ideas.

I'm not getting anything.

You?

Nothing.

Hey, I've got an idea!

Try pitching it right in here!

All right, I'm going with my legendary fastball.

Where do you want it?

Okay, put it over the plate, right down the old pipe, boy.

Throw me the mustard.

Atta boy, come on, come on.

Ah!

Huh?

Uhh, Chris?

That was way off target!

You need better aim.

Maybe you should do some target practice with a chameleon or something.

That's it, a chameleon!

That's exactly the animal we should creature adventure with.

Chameleons rule!

Hey, the baseball!

It's rolling away!

♪ There it is!

Wouldn't want to lose my favorite baseball.

But how in the world are we going to find a chameleon?

The masters of camouflage?

Shadows of the forest?

Cloaked in multicolor?

Yeah, they are one of the hardest creatures to find.

They could be right next to you.

And you would never even know it.

We've got to figure out a plan to find these legendary lizards.

And in the meantime, let's go tell the gang that today's creature adventure is searching for chameleons!

All right!

(Buzzing) ♪ Hey, Aviva!

Ah!

Today, we're going to find a chameleon!

And you can program the most awesome Creature Power Suit yet!

Están locos?

You almost made me wreck the super delicate ring chip I'm working on!

"Ring chip"?

What's a ring chip?

The ring chip is a new computing part for the Creature Power Suits.

(Sighing) Remember how the Creature Power Suits sometimes malfunction?

Yeah.

How could we forget?

Remember you were flying and got Bass Powers?

Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

CHRIS: Yeah, and remember when your Oak Tree Powers suddenly deactivated?

Whoa!

Ah!

Well, I think I can fix all that with what I call the ring chip!

Wow!

Whoa!

That is so cool, Aviva.

But, I don't mind when the Creature Power Suits malfunction.

And it can be kind of fun.

Yeah.

Besides, while we're here in Madagascar, it's much more important for us to discover the secrets behind all the chameleon's creature powers.

Eyes that look in different directions.

Amazing camouflage: can't see them until they move.

Tongue thwapping abilities: boom, right on target!

Vice-like feet and a prehensile tail for climbing.

(Sighing) I already told you!

I am working on my ring chip!

And you want me to just drop it to program creature powers, and not just one, but a chameleon suit that has at least five creature powers?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I am inventing my ring chip.

I am not programming any Creature Powers today.

No creature powers?

That means no chameleon powers.

I can't believe it.

Not being able to make a Creature Power Suit, this has never happened before!

Yeah, I know.

It's a disaster.

Hey, but wait a sec.

Chameleons are colorful.

They're cool.

They're charismatic.

Nobody can say no to a chameleon for long.

If we just find a chameleon, it'll be easy to convince Aviva to forget about that ring chip and program us some creature powers!

It's worth a try!

Let's go!

And we are in the right spot to find a chameleon.

Almost half of the world's chameleon species live right here in Madagascar.

Yup.

That means if there are 185 species of chameleon in the world, then 80 live right here.

Yeah, and they could be anywhere, camouflaged and hidden, from tiny little ground chameleons like Brookesia, who hide in the leaf litter, to the giants like Parson's chameleon.

Look up!

They can be high in the canopy.

(Stomach rumbling) This search might take a while.

Time for a snack.

Wild gooseberries: safe to eat and yummy.

(Buzzing) Hey, Martin, you've got company.

Whoa, a Malagasy hover fly.

Hey, I'll name you-- Lunch for a chameleon!

We've got to see that again!

Okay.

I'll record for Aviva to see.

(Beeping) (Buzzing) ♪ Woo-hoo!

Woo-hoo!

Way to go, Target!

And that's what I'm going to name you, because you're always on target.

And you know what else, Target?

You're awesome.

Yeah, awesome.

Chameleon powers rule.

If we show this to Aviva, she is sure to come around.

And tongue thwapping is just one of a chameleon's amazing creature powers.

Wow.

Chameleon feet are like clamps: two toes on each side that clamp on to the branch, and a prehensile tail.

Oh, yeah, this tail can grab.

Target's a really careful climber, always making sure he's holding on in three places before he takes a step.

What a climber.

This little lizard is loaded with Creature Powers!

Look at Target's eyes.

The chameleon is the only lizard in the world that can move each eye independently in a different direction.

That means his right eye can look backwards while his left eye looks forward.

His right eye can look up when his left eye looks down.

And his left eye can stay looking down when his right eye looks to the side.

Almost no other animal can do that!

So, a chameleon can look in any direction while keeping his body perfectly still.

That helps him spot prey like hoverflies and, also, predators he has to avoid.

(Wind blowing) Check it out.

Target's doing the chameleon shuffle.

Oh, yeah.

When a chameleon wants to move, he often waits for the breeze to blow.

Then he moves, herky-jerky, so he mimics the leaves blowing in the wind.

A cool kind of camouflage, but, of course, there's color camouflage too.

A chameleon changes color to blend into his surroundings.

Now he matches my shirt!

Nice!

I wonder if a chameleon can turn blue.

Yes!

Now my favorite lizard is my favorite color!

I thought a Gila monster was your favorite lizard.

It was, last week.

This week, my favorite lizard is a blue chameleon.

Okay, what other colors can he turn?

I think just about any color there is.

Orange, red.

Yellow, purple.

Purple!

Violet purple is Aviva's favorite color.

If we can show a chameleon turning violet, that just might do the trick to convince her to stop invent-uring with that ring chip-- So we can start adventuring with chameleon powers!

Let's bring Target back to the Tortuga.

And he can show Aviva his chameleon coolness!

"His Chameleon Coolness!"

Ha, I like that.

Okay, I've just got to walk like a tree.

♪ Check it out!

Ah!

Incoming Creature Power!

Will you stop doing that?

If anything happens to this ring chip, I'll have to start all over.

It took me over a year to get this far!

Wow, Aviva.

Well, you must be exhausted.

Well, maybe you should take a break from all that ring-chip-ing and check this out?

Yeah.

Check what out?

That you're walking weird?

I'm walking like a tree because there's a chameleon climbing on me.

Yeah, right.

A chameleon?

Where?

I don't see any chameleon.

He's camouflaged, right there!

Ooh.

Ooh.

Ah.

This is a Parson's chameleon.

His first name is Target.

CHRIS: And he can turn more than 20 different colors.

And more than 40 shades.

From canary yellow to violet.

"Violet"?

Really?

Violet, really, really!

(Gasping) Increíble!

(WHISPERING): We did it.

Yeah, she's hooked.

Wow!

He can swivel his eyes in different directions?

Independent ocular mobility: fascinating.

Wow.

Cool.

What's he looking at?

(Buzzing) There!

A Malagasy hover fly!

Where?

Where is it?

CHRIS: Right there!

It landed right next to your ring chip.

Uh-oh!

Uh-oh!

What's wrong?

Did he just swallow my ring chip?

Phew, it's okay!

Well, of course it's okay.

Chameleons have great aim.

He was aiming at the hoverfly.

And as always, Target was right on target!

Tongue thwapping ability, isn't that an awesome creature power?

Back off, bros!

Stay away from my invention station until I am done with this ring chip!

Uhh, Aviva-- Don't even-- No, really-- Upp-upp!

I think you're just trying to persuade me to program chameleon powers.

And I don't want to hear it.

Aviva, some kind of lemur just stole your ring chip!

(Gasping) Ah!

(Gasping) It will take a year of work to get back to where I was with that ring chip!

You've got to get it back.

But we don't know what kind of lemur stole the ring chip.

It could be any one of the 103 species of lemurs that live on Madagascar.

But since we're in the cloud forest habitat, it could be any one of these five: the mouse lemur-- CHRIS: The golden bamboo lemur-- The sportive lemur-- The greater bamboo lemur-- And the simpona.

We're going to have to catch a lot of lemurs to find the one with a ring chip on his finger!

And they climb.

They run.

They leap.

They bounce.

Lemurs aren't easy to catch.

Hmm?

Hmm?

Unless you have chameleon powers!

Yeah, Bro!

We could use that tongue thwapping power to catch lemurs and find the one with the ring chip on his finger!

Aviva!

Aviva!

(Groaning) This can't be happening.

We know how to get your ring chip back.

Wait.

Did you put a lemur up to this?

No, we didn't, honest.

We don't know who that lemur was.

But using chameleon powers to find him is the best plan available.

And the most fun.

All you have to do is program chameleon powers for our Power Suits.

And we'll do the rest!

All right, fine.

What do you got?

(Beeping) ♪ Huh.

Oh, I get it.

The Chameleon tongue is a matrix of muscles that expands and contracts against a special collagen structure that launches the tongue like a spring.

(Beeping) Listo!

Chameleon Power Discs complete!

Wahoo!

Yeah!

Wow, Aviva, thanks!

You're the invent-iest inventor!

BOTH: Activate chameleon powers!

♪ This is awes-- ah!

Ah!

Oh!

(Groaning) What are you do-- Mmm.

Huh?

Ah!

Ah!

Ow.

Ooh.

I told you so!

A malfunction like this is exactly why I was inventing the ring chip!

(Groaning) The chameleon programming has malfunctioned-- The tongue mechanism shoots out every time you open your mouth!

Cool!

Cool!

Huh?

Mmm!

Mmm!

But you guys don't have control of those tongues.

Every time you open your mouths and talk, your chameleon tongues shoot out!

(MUFFLED): We'll just keep our mouths closed then.

Till we get the hang of it.

To the ring chip rescue!

To the ring chip rescue!

Okay, if that's chameleon speed, I'm worried.

Let's split up and cover more ground.

Good luck, bro!

Whoa!

Oh!

Ah!

Watch it, Martin!

Ah!

Not again.

Ah!

Ooh.

(Laughing) How are they doing, Koki?

Put it this way, Aviva: You might want to start working on ring chip 2.0.

(Groaning) I'll just wait for a lemur to come by me.

My camouflage hides me.

I blend into the forest, ready for ambush.

My eyes move, looking in every direction.

But the rest of me stays still until a golden bamboo lemur comes by.

Thwap.

(MUFFLED): Hello.

Just checking to see if you accidentally took Aviva's ring chip.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Nope, okay, you didn't.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Enjoy your lunch.

Got to keep looking.

A sifaka!

He's out of range.

Must get closer.

Okay, a chameleon tongue can be two body lengths long.

So, I'm in range.

Ready, steady-- Tongue thwap!

Ah!

This lemur tastes-- (Gagging) Furry!

Hmm, but no ring chip on his finger.

Hey, I'm talking without tongue thwapping.

I got the hang of it!

Leaping lemurs!

I want those Creature Powers!

Wait.

But that's another adventure.

Right now, I've got to go find that ring chip.

♪ (Panting) You know, Bro, we've been catching a lot of lemurs.

Yeah, lots, but no ring chip.

And another thing: none of these lemurs have fingers thin enough for the ring chip, except maybe mouse lemurs.

Yeah, you're right.

But the lemur hand we saw in the Tortuga window was way bigger than a mouse lemur hand.

Hmm, that's true.

I didn't get a great look.

But what big lemur has really thin fingers?

(Gasping) It must have been-- Aye-aye!

Aye-aye!

Where are they?

They've got their Creature Pods turned off.

Should we go and find them?

Might as well.

How are they ever going to find my ring chip?

Night-time is the right time for aye-aye!

Star fruit.

This is the perfect spot.

(Knocking) Who's there?

What do you mean, "Who's there?"

Well, you said "Knock knock."

So, I asked "Who's there?"

like I'm supposed to.

But I didn't say "Knock knock."

(Knocking) Who's there?

See?

You did it again!

That wasn't me!

(Knocking) That was an aye-aye.

(Knocking) It speared a grub with his long, thin finger.

(Gasping) And he has the ring chip!

I've got him in my sights.

Back off, Martin.

I've got a clear shot.

Ready-- Aim-- Tongue thwap!

Tongue thwap!

Got him!

No, I got him!

Let go, Bro!

He's mine.

No, he's mine.

I got him first.

I don't believe it.

You guys did it!

You found the lemur with my ring chip on its finger!

(Electric fizzling) (Gasping) Oh no!

The fruit juice shorted it out!

My ring chip is ruined!

Kratt brothers!

Hide!

Hide!

Where are you two?

(Insects chirping) (Sighing) Oh.

Oh dear.

Hey, Aviva, we're-- we're really sorry your ring chip is ruined.

Yeah, we really didn't put the aye-aye up to taking it.

And we really tried to get it back for you.

I know.

It's not your fault.

It's just that I had almost finished it.

And now I have to start over.

But you know, even though I've had a major setback, I'm glad we all learned about chameleons and their powers!

Us too.

Us too.

KOKI: Wild Kratts, where are you?

Hey!

Down here!

Here we go again!

Uh-oh!

Uh-oh!

Whoa!

Whoa!

Martin?

Chris?

Where are you?

(Muffled screaming) And malfunctioning Creature Power Suits are always good for a laugh!

And with the Kratt bros busy for a while, now seems like a good time to get back to invent-uring on my ring chip 2.0.

(Muffled screaming) Chameleons have some amazing Creature Powers.

A-ha, a blue-legged chameleon.

You can't see why he's called that right now because his leg is definitely not blue.

Right now, this chameleon is colored the camouflage color of this tree branch.

His legs only turn blue during the mating season.

The warty chameleon: perfectly disguised as tree bark.

Chameleons can change into more than ten different colors to help blend in and hide.

CHRIS: And another great Creature Power: a chameleon is an awesome climber, with four clamp-like feet and a prehensile tail.

Okay, we've got another chameleon here: O'Shaughnessy's chameleon.

His prehensile tail doesn't want to let go of my hand yet, until he gets up to that next limb.

Oh yeah.

Now, that's climbing power.

And by the way, it takes more strength to climb slow.

Chameleons pack some of the most incredible Creature Powers on the planet.

Now check out his eyes.

Moving independently, each eye can look any direction at the same time.

Imagine being able to watch a lemur in a tree and a galidia on the ground at the same time!

CHRIS: And that tongue: I can never get enough of that tongue thwapping power.

Look at that: thwap!

Focus, and thwap!

From the big chameleons to the tiny chameleons-- Check out this little guy.

It's a juvenile side-stripped chameleon.

He is super cute.

I like the little chameleons.

In fact, I love all chameleons.

MARTIN: Hey, me too.

Keep on creature adventuring!

We'll see you on the creature trail.

♪ To find out more about cool animals... And collect your own Wild Kratts creature powers... go to the Wild Kratts website ...at pbskids.org.

BOTH: We'll see you there!