Wild Kratts
Under Frozen Pond
Season 3 Episode 5 | 26m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
The Kratts go on an underwater adventure to see how pond animals survive in the winter.
The Wild Kratts crew goes on an underwater adventure to discover how pond animals survive in the winter.
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Wild Kratts
Under Frozen Pond
Season 3 Episode 5 | 26m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
The Wild Kratts crew goes on an underwater adventure to discover how pond animals survive in the winter.
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♪ Wild Kratts ♪ MARTIN: Hey, we’re here in North America, up here in Canada.
CHRIS: In the eastern woodlands of the great north.
And it’s the middle of winter.
It’s us, the Kratt brothers!
I’m Marin!
I’m Chris!
And it is freezing out here!
But we’re okay, because we’ve got our winter gear to keep us warm.
But what about the animals?
How do they deal with the winter?
Well, for starters, some animals just get out of here!
They live here in the pond in the spring and summer when it’s warm, but when fall comes, they fly south.
MARTIN: All sorts of birds and butterflies too, take flight looking for warm weather, open water, and green vegetation.
(Geese honking) CHRIS: And right now they’re relaxing in the warm weather down south.
They avoid this harsh, freezing environment.
But a lot of animals stay, because they have the creature power to tough it out through the winter.
CHRIS: That’s right.
Out in these woods, you’ve got deer, red fox, coyotes, fishers.
These animals have enough feathers, fur, and fat to keep warm.
MARTIN: And they know how to find food and feed themselves in the winter.
What about in the pond?
Yeah, what about the pond creatures?
The frogs?
MARTIN: The turtles?
CHRIS: The beavers?
MARTIN: The fish?
What do they do when the pond freezes?
How do they survive under the ice?
Imagine if we could get mini-sized, go down under there, and find out.
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 ♪ (Breathing deeply) Oh, it’s a perfect winter day for some outdoor fun!
So, what does everybody want to do?
Play hockey!
Build a snow creature!
(Grunting) Whoa!
Hey, Aviva, you’ve got my boot on.
(Giggling) Oh!
(Laughing) I thought my foot grew!
(Laughing) How about sledding?
Yeah!
Yeah!
I’m in!
Me too!
Wahoo!
These sleds are amazing!
The snow’s just right for sledding.
Woo!
And we’re not the only ones who think so!
ALL: It’s Slider!
AVIVA: Look at him go!
It’s like he is a sled!
An otter’s definitely nature’s most awesome sledder!
Yeah, he’s a natural sled that has built in legs to get to the top of the next hill.
KATIE: Let’s keep up with him!
And then when he comes to the next downhill, he tucks those short legs against his side and belly slides off again.
This is the way an otter gets around in winter.
He slides down every hill.
Wahoo!
Oh!
Whoa, now I’m really sledding, otter style!
(Chuckling) Hey, Slider.
How can Slider slide like that without his tummy freezing?
See, an otter has thick oily fur on the outside, like a waterproof snow jacket.
The soft warm fur on the inside, next to his skin, keeps him super warm.
He really doesn’t feel much cold at all.
Now, that looks cold.
They’re standing on the ice in bare feet!
How come their legs don’t freeze?
They almost do.
But geese don’t feel a thing, and here’s how they do it.
They take all the blood out of their legs, so they don’t lose any body heat.
So, their feet get freezing cold, but the rest of their body stays warm.
Cool!
Well, anything a goose can do, I can do better.
It w-would be a n-n-nice C-c-creature P-power to have!
(Shivering) Ah... (Honking) CHRIS: But most of the water birds don’t stick around for the winter.
They fly south to warmer places.
Remember in the summer how this pond was full of animals?
Oh, yeah.
Now Slider’s the only one here.
Where did all the other animals go?
A lot of them are still here!
Really?
I don’t see them.
Yeah, where are they?
Down there.
Under the ice?
Under the ice.
How in the creature world do they survive down there?
Hey, to find out, let’s take a Creature Adventure under the ice.
After can we play hockey?
Uh, sure.
Promise?
Promise.
But first... Ready for teleportation, Jimmy?
Ready.
Teleporting now.
The Amphi-sub!
And... miniaturize!
All aboard who’s coming aboard!
All right, let’s get this adventure started.
I always wanted to get miniaturized.
It’s going to be so cool.
RONAN: Yeah!
And miniaturizing!
Yeah!
(Miniaturizer whirring) Wait!
We can’t forget to lock up the Tortuga.
You never know when Zach is going to come poking around and try to steal our technology.
Then I think we’d better engage camouflage too, Miniaturizer included.
Set to snow cloaking and activate.
(Beeping) All right, let’s see what’s going on down here, under frozen pond.
(All cheering) RONAN: Here we go!
So, where can we meet for this year’s Annual Villain’s Meeting?
Do you know why we always keep the location secret until the very last minute?
So those pesky Wild Kratts-- who always interfere with my plans-- don’t find out about it!
That’s why!
We need some place remote, inaccessible, with no animals.
(Beeping) Ha!
Perfect!
No animals can live in those harsh winter environments.
Take me there!
Engage!
Whoa!
Ow!
CHRIS: 0900 hours.
Our exploration of how pond creatures survive the winter is underway.
KATIE: Hey, a rainbow!
BOTH: It’s... it’s... rainbow trout!
KATIE: There’s two.
No, three.
They’re hardly moving.
Yeah, the fish slow way down in the winter and they don’t need to eat much.
But they don’t hibernate.
They move down deep where the water doesn’t freeze.
(Gasping) Incoming!
ALL: Whoa!
It’s Slider!
Wow!
The trout still looks pretty fast.
You’re right, but just a little slower and easier for the otter to catch in winter.
GAVIN: He caught it!
CHRIS: He’ll take the fish to the surface and eat it up there!
This frozen wasteland will be the perfect location for our secret meeting.
Drop me down for a closer look!
What?
Whoa!
I didn’t mean literally!
(Yelling) (Sighing) I meant drop the plane down with me in it!
Now, let’s see what else is going on down here.
Anybody up for heading down-down-down to the pond bottom?
KIDS: Yeah!
This is perfect!
A lifeless, frozen wasteland!
Not an animal in sight.
The Kratt Brothers would never come here.
Drop the plane down!
Uh, slowly and not on me!
Perfect!
(Phone dialing, ringing) (Ringing) Dabio, phone!
Coming!
Speak, darling.
Donita, I have found the perfect location for our secret meeting.
Can you patch Gourmand in?
Zachary, tell me you know how to use a phone.
What?
Of course I do!
(Chuckling nervously) I got to just-- what’s that button?
(Phone ringing) If I-- oh!
Hello?
Gourmand?
I have found our secret locale.
Sending the coordinates now.
(Beeping, dial tone sounding) Uh, hello?
MARTIN: We are here.
KOKI: Uh... not much happening down here.
Doesn’t that mud hill look kind of like a frog?
KOKI: Bringing sonar imaging online.
(Sonar beeping) (Beeping) KIDS: It is a frog!
It’s a hibernating bullfrog.
Wait a second, bullfrog’s breathe air, he’d drown.
Of course, in the summer bullfrog’s breathe air.
But in the winter, their bodies slow down so much that they absorb the little oxygen they need from the water into their skin.
A frog can breathe through his skin?
Yeah, you could say that!
A pond’s reptiles and amphibians have the ability to absorb all the oxygen they need directly into their bodies without breathing for the entire winter.
Now, that’s creature power.
Uh, frogs and turtles can breathe that way, but we can’t.
With all these people aboard, the Amphi-sub only has about five minutes of air left.
Whoa!
Then we’ve got to go!
Prepare to surface.
Whoa!
What was that?
Uh-oh.
The hole in the ice is covered by a big piece of metal!
How are we going to get out?
We’d better figure it out, and soon.
We’re running out of air.
Uh, where does the beaver get air?
We can’t go looking for a beaver.
But he’s right there!
MARTIN: You’re right, Katie.
He’ll know where to get air!
It’s a good thing beavers don’t swim too fast.
Yeah, beavers are slower moving partly because they don’t hunt.
They’re vegetarians.
Vegetarians?
But where do they find vegetation to eat in the dead of winter?
Good question.
We’re following him, so let’s find out.
CHRIS: But we’ve only got two minutes of air left!
Oh, perfect!
Put us down on that ski hill, Dabio.
DABIO: Yes, Donita.
Hmm, it’s about time they showed up.
(Screaming) (Laughing) I knew you’d do that.
(Screaming) (Laughing) You did it again!
Well, we’re definitely not having the meeting out here in the snow.
Let’s go inside!
What?
(Crashing) (Screaming) But park it out here!
MARTIN: What’s our status, Koki?
Less than a minute of air left!
Uh-oh!
Maybe this beaver can hold his breath for longer than we thought!
Um, Chris, Martin, what’s that dark tunnel?
CHRIS: I don’t know, but he’s heading up!
Prepare to surface.
(All sighing) Where are we?
Inside the beaver’s lodge.
KIDS: Whoa!
KATIE: There’s a whole beaver family in here!
BOTH: Hey, we know these beavers!
It’s Timber.
And Sticker.
And Buddy.
And Twig.
These are the same beavers from the summer!
You’re right Gavin, they are.
GAVIN: When it was warm, and everything was green, and they were eating the leaves and twigs.
KOKI: But now it’s cold, and everything’s snow covered, and no leaves are growing.
So, what do these vegetarians eat in the winter?
Well, whatever they have in the fridge, of course.
Fridge.
(Laughing) Funny.
Fridge... No, I’m serious.
Beavers have a fridge.
Of course, that’s right, a natural fridge.
Beavers collect branches with leaves and twigs in the summer and they store them in the cool water right at the entrance to the lodge.
The chilly water keeps the sticks fresh all winter, and... it’s all right there whenever a beaver wants a snack.
A natural refrigerator.
That means the hard working beaver has collected and refrigerated all the food the whole family needs for the entire winter!
Can we just hang out with them and warm up for a little?
(Sighing) This year once and for all, we’ve got to find a way to get rid of the Wild Ratts.
Uh... aren’t they called "Wild Kratts?"
Whose side are you on?
I am so sick of them helping the animals.
It always ruins my inventions.
And my meals!
That crab would have been a culinary delight.
I did not particularly care for the time they let the dracos fly from my jewelry either.
Uh... don’t those lizards glide, not fly?
(Sighing) Whatever, Dabio.
They-- they are just so annoying!
DONITA: So is your whining!
(Whining) I’m not a whiner!
Yes, you are, Zach.
Am not!
DONITA: Oh, yes, you are!
I’ve known you for a long time.
(Zach jabbering angrily) Hey, Timber, thanks for warming us up.
You know, you might have the warmest fur in the creature world?
Yeah, but it’s time to get going.
Uh, bro?
We’re frozen under the ice.
Uh-oh, and in here.
But there must be air holes so the beaver can breathe.
You’re right!
All we have to do is find an air hole and then we’re out.
And then can we play hockey?
Yeah, okay.
Whoa, this beaver lodge really is an impenetrable fortress.
And every air hole is too tiny for us to get through.
I’ve got it.
Beaver power built this lodge, so beaver power can get us out.
Hey, my Beaver Power Disc is missing!
Did you borrow it, bro?
I don’t think so.
I can’t find mine either.
Hmmm... oh!
Hey, I found mine!
Oh, and yours!
Why in the world did you put your Creature Disc in my boot?
(Groaning) BOTH: Activate Beaver Power!
♪ Let’s get these beaver teeth chewing.
BOTH: Wow, awesome!
See ya, Twig.
Bye, Buddy!
Goodbye Timber!
Later Sticker!
(Grunting) Beaver powers built this lodge... And beaver powers chewed us out!
AVIVA: Hey, guys, come quick!
Huh?
Whoa!
KATIE: What in the world is that?
Yo no se, but I bet it’s the same thing that blocked the hole in the ice.
We’ll never be able to tell what it is from way down here.
Yes, you are.
Am not, am not.
Yes, you are, Zach.
No, I’m not, am not.
You’re a whiner.
No, I’m not!
Simmer down!
Now, don’t let your pots boil over.
We need some fresh air to cool off and give us some fresh ideas.
Yes, you are.
Am not.
Oh, yes, you are.
Am not, am not!
(Both chattering) We’ve got to make it back to the Miniaturizer and get back to real size.
That’s the only way we’ll be able to tell what this thing is.
Uh... that looks really far away.
It’s going to take forever for us to get there.
No, it’s not!
Let’s hitch a ride with Slider!
Hey, wait!
Whoa!
(Laughing) Time to go real size!
(Shivering) (Miniaturizer whirring) Huh?
Wild Ratts?
What are they doing here?
See?
Now, they’re trying to sabotage our annual meeting!
BOTH: What?
Oh, so you’re the ones who trapped us under the ice.
We’re here checking out the pond creatures in winter.
There are no animals here!
(Screaming) (Chuckling nervously) Come back some other time because this is our meeting place.
Yeah, we were here first!
No, we were here first.
Prove it.
Okay, I will.
(Beeping) Oh... See how sneaky they are?
What?
What?
We were just on a Creature Adventure.
That’s your problem.
Well, only one of us can stay, so we have to settle this.
I know!
A hockey game!
We could have some kind of a contest.
A hockey game!
Loser leaves, winner gets to stay.
A hockey game!
The contest can be a hockey game!
We did promise him we’d play hockey later.
Why not?
Okay, how about a game of pond hockey?
Yes!
(Chuckling nervously) Oh... (Chuckling) I’m goalie.
I wouldn’t mind going for a skate.
Okay, fine, hockey.
Whoever scores five goals first, wins.
This is your team?
Some little kids?
(Laughing) You just wait and see!
Huh?
RONAN: Oh, no.
(Cheering) Phew!
One thing’s for sure, Donita can skate.
Don’t worry, bro.
We’ll get it back.
Ronan!
Uh...
I got it!
Ha!
Goals aren’t on the menu tonight!
(Grunting) (Wild Kratts team groaning) RONAN: Shoot!
Whoa!
Wahoo!
Ten points!
I think we’re in trouble.
I’d activate creature powers right about now, but I don’t even know what animal is good at hockey!
We’re just going to have to play like a team, passing and working together!
JIMMY: Come on Kratts, let’s go, let’s do it!
Pass it!
(Cheering) All right!
Way to go Kratts!
(Growling) Give me that puck!
(Yelling) AVIVA: Here she comes!
Look out!
(Beeping) Huh?
What?
WILD KRATTS TEAM: Boo!
Hey, no fair!
You cheated!
"No fair, you cheated."
(Laughing) Oh, sorry team.
I’m not having much luck in here.
None of us are.
We’ve got to think of something else.
I got it!
I know what animal would be great at hockey!
You can do it Wild Kratts!
Go Kratts, go!
Yeah!
CHRIS: And I know an animal that would be great at goalie too!
BOTH: Activate creature powers!
(Zach laughing) Animal powers aren’t going to help you, Wild Ratts!
(Laughing) AVIVA: Come on, Martin!
Over here!
Over here!
(Laughing) Oh!
(Laughing) Oh!
Yes!
Woo-hoo!
Yeah!
All right, good shot!
Way to go, Kratts!
AVIVA: Nice save!
Huh?
KOKI: Go you guys, go!
AVIVA: Shoot!
(Cheering) Ah!
Ow!
Huh?
Yeah!
Whoo!
Wild Kratts!
Wild Kratts!
Next goal wins!
I need a little help out here, boys.
Hmm... I’ve got it.
(Gasping) (Grunting) (Chuckling) Too easy.
JIMMY: Nice!
What?
AVIVA: Yeah, Martin!
Wahoo!
(Chuckling) Woo-hoo, yeah!
We won!
Woo-hoo!
We won!
Great teamwork, guys!
Now we know which creatures have hockey powers.
Thanks, Slider!
And you too, Timber!
Let’s get out of here and find someplace that has no animals and no Wild Ratts!
KIDS: That’s Wild Kratts!
(Groaning) This was a horrible place for our meeting anyhow.
I’ve had enough of your whining for one day.
Dabio?
Yes, Donita?
Plane, now.
Who likes frozen food anyways?
What a great game!
You guys were all awesome!
So, what do you want to do now?
KIDS: Let’s play hockey!
Until springtime!
And then we can see all the pond creatures again!
Great idea!
Great idea!
(Laughing) KATIE: Over here, over here.
RONAN: I’m open, I’m open!
MARTIN: Let’s go!
No doubt about it, winter in the north is a tough place to live if you’re a creature.
Right now, under the kids playing hockey, there are frogs aestivating, turtles asleep in the mud, trout swimming slow.
MARTIN: But up here, out in the forest, lots of animals are still awake.
And to survive up here, at this time of year, in this kind of weather, you have to have some pretty special creature powers to make it.
So, let’s take a closer look at how different animals make it through the winter.
CHRIS: How about otters?
MARTIN: I love the way the otter deals with the snowy world.
Sliding through the snow, every hill becomes a toboggan run.
They’re perfectly comfortable out here.
We think it’s cold, the otter is like, "What’s the big deal?
"I’ll dive into the water, swim around, come out, just dry off and keep going again!"
Now, what about the snowshoe hare?
Brown in the summer, becomes the color of snow in the winter.
Camouflage powers.
They can make it, and they’ve got lynx chasing them too!
CHRIS: Yeah!
The lynx have those paws, basically built-in snowshoes, so they don’t sink in the snow.
The lynx is the wildcat of the far north.
Porcupines are active during the winter.
Porcupines live all winter long on one type of food: bark, the inner-cambium layer.
One amazing creature that stays out here all winter long is the tiny, little chickadee.
Those feathers keep him warm, and he’s able to find food right in the forest.
MARTIN: And you’ve got the blue jay, the pileated woodpecker, a lot of really cool birds that don’t take off for warm, southern weather.
They tough it out through the northern winter.
So, the winter creature world is full of cool animals and incredible creature powers.
So get out there in the cold weather, and check them out.
Hey, let’s check out this hockey game.
Now, that’s a creature power, skating on the ice!
See you on the creature trail!
Keep on creature adventuring!
♪ 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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