Wild Kratts
Creature Features
Clip | 2m 10sVideo has Closed Captions
Walruses and manatees use their flippers for swimming, steering, and finding plants.
Walruses and manatees use their flippers for swimming, steering, and finding plants and algae.
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Wild Kratts
Creature Features
Clip | 2m 10sVideo has Closed Captions
Walruses and manatees use their flippers for swimming, steering, and finding plants and algae.
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Whoa!
CHRIS: We'’’ve got walrus!
(Imitating walrus) Hello.
(Laughing) CHRIS: Those flippers!
The key to swimming.
Hey, girl.
Let me see that flipper.
Oh!
I know flippers are for swimming, but for slapping me around?
Oh!
(Laughing) Hey, what was that all about?
Oh, thanks, that'’’s nice.
Come on, please let me see your flipper?
Thanks.
Every creature has special features that help it survive where it lives.
Oh, yeah.
And flippers are the key for moving for lots of water creatures.
They help them swim smoothly through the water.
MARTIN: Manatees sometimes use their flippers more like arms, dragging themselves along the sea bottom in search of food like water plants and algae.
Fur seals use their flippers to twist and turn and help them escape from the jaws of their deadliest enemy, the great white shark.
CHRIS: But flippers aren'’’t much good on land so creatures like the cheetah have developed a different way of getting around.
With a lean body and long legs, they'’’re perfectly adapted for life in the wide-open African savannah.
Their amazing legs help make them the fastest running animal in the world.
MARTIN: So, legs are for land, flippers are for water.
And you'’’re made to live in the water, right, boy?
(Laughing) (Laughing) Okay, I'’’m soaked.
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