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Still image from: SciShow Kids: Narwhals--Unicorns of the Sea

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Oh Rats

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Ravens Are Super Smart

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Roar--Meet the Big Cats

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Save the Rhinos

Still image from: SciShow Kids: The Biggest Rodent

Still image from: SciShow Kids: The Outrageous Octopus

Still image from: SciShow Kids: The Real Animals of Madagascar--Animal Science for Kids

Still image from: SciShow Kids: What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Where Do Pearls Come From?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Who Knew? Amazing Owl Facts

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Do Animals Have Tails?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Do Dogs Pant?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Do Kangaroos Have Pouches?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Do Squirrels Dig?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Don't Animals Need Sunscreen

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Don't Woodpeckers' Heads Hurt?

Glowing electric blue jellyfish swim in a navy-blue environment.

A veterinarian checks a sea turtle placed on a towel.

A pair of marine seals swimming in sea.

Still image from: Search for the Last Unicorn

A herd of elephants. Caption: Some elephant populations seem to be missing their tusks.

Bird with a brown body, drooping white neck, and splayed tail feathers stands in front of a smaller, plain brown bird. Caption: If a female is interested, she lets him know it

Two spiders facing each other on a leaf. Caption: To win a mate, the males must perform an elaborate dance,

Three turtles, one with a tag around its neck. Caption: The turtles are all here together.

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Cow Skull

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Vireo Nest

Coral in the water. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Skunks for Kids

Still image from: Spiders for Kids

Split screen of a deer standing in a snow flurry on left and a fox sitting in the snow on right. Text at bottom reads, "Winter coats."

illustration of Coelophysis. On screen text, dinosaurs. Caption: Female, Coelophysis lived about 220 million years ago.

Adult and baby goat standing next to each other. Caption: The kid is a younger and smaller version of the adult goat.

Still image from: Stink Bugs for Kids

Cartoon. Closeup of a wolf's face with eyes looking towards camera and mouth slightly open as if speaking. Caption. During the season of the falling leaves.

Still image from: Summer in the Meadow: Diary of a Vanishing World

Still image from: Super Animals: Amazing Acrobats

Still image from: Super Animals: Funky Fliers

Still image from: Super Animals: Marvelous Minis

Still image from: Super Animals: Super Natural

Still image from: Super Animals: Super Sharks

Still image from: Super Animals: Super Speedsters

Still image from: Super Animals: Super Stealth

Still image from: Super Animals: Super Strength

Still image from: Super Animals: Super Vision

Still image from: Super Animals: Team Players

Still image from: Super Animals: Underwater Wonders

Still image from: Super Animals: Unique Movers

Still image from: Super Animals: Weird Wonders

Still image from: Super Animals: X-traordinarily Odd Animals

Still image from: Super Animals: X-Treme Adapters

Still image from: Super Animals: X-treme Predators

Still image from: Teaching in Room 9: Backpacks, Fossils, Roosters, and More!

Small, furry animal with a pointed head and nose. Caption: meerkats emerge just after sunrise.

Person gesturing above an open book. The book has a broken spine and faded, handwritten text. Caption: So we catalogue the most primitive first

Person standing next to a platform with two taxidermized elephants. Caption: (Emily Graslie) Carl and Delia Akeley's Fighting African Elephants

Person sitting in the bow of a canoe that is butted up against a riverbank. Dr. Lesley De Souza. Caption: She's a conversation scientist and ichthyologist.

Snake slithering down a thin branch. Caption: looking for snakes and frogs and salamander

Brown fuzzy mammal sitting in a tree. Caption: An olingo is a member of the raccoon family.

Two people standing in front of a mural. One holds a printout of a photograph. Caption: One of Carl Akeley's photos. The beautiful bunch of aloe.

Closeup of an animal with a pointed snout, large claws, and overlapping scales covering its body. Caption: They are covered in keratin scales,

Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Rat Dissection--The Cutest Parts Are on the Outside

Person holding a taxidermized flying squirrel with legs extended. Caption: As you know, flying squirrels don't fly, they glide.

Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Rose Pest Solutions Tour

Illustration of a skeleton. Arrows indicate the front right toe and back left heel. Caption: Their elongated heel bone and Achilles tendon.

Person turning the page of a book with detailed illustrations. The turning of the page. Caption: revealing a new page every week,

A photograph of Cetti's Warbler and its egg which measures 1 centimeter. On screen text, Cetti's Warbler, Cettia cetti. Caption: This is a Cetti's warbler from Southern Europe.

Black and white photo of a man on a boat holding a baby panda bear. Caption: Her export papers read, "One dog. Fee: $20."

Taxidermized female lions in a museum. Caption: are two of the most famous specimens at the Field Museum,

Still image from: The Electric Sheep: Fantastic Zoology and Ecological Balance (Spanish)

Still image from: The Hunt: Hide and Seek

Still image from: The Hunt: Hunger at Sea

Still image from: The Hunt: In the Grip of the Seasons

Still image from: The Hunt: Living With Predators

Still image from: The Hunt: Nowhere to Hide

Still image from: The Hunt: Race Against Time

Still image from: The Hunt: The Hardest Challenge

Brown lizard with red spots wearing a collar, standing on a rock. Caption: (Ms. Frizzle) Why, that's a collared lizard!

Cartoon character reaching under a hen nesting on eggs and pulling out an egg. Caption: So all we need is one of these.

People on the magic school bus wearing rain hats. Caption: Ahh. The sweet smell of swamp gas.

Person talking on a cellphone and walking in a dark building with bats hanging from the ceiling. Caption: First of all, if vampires aren't real,

Cartoon characters with faces and the bodies of pigeons sitting on the window ledge of a high-rise building. Caption: We'd better get back to the others.

Multi-sailed ship on the ocean as seen from above. Caption: Darwin jumped at the chance to sail around the world

Children talk to each other while standing next to a chain-link fence.

Young woman with her hair in a braid stands near a small pond in a park, with palms and tall trees in the background, as she speaks to someone off-screen.

Boy wearing a headlamp speaks to us as he sits on the platform of a bronze statue of a man wearing work pants and boots, near a bright green forest.

Boy with a quizzical facial expression sits on the platform of a bronze statue of a man who wears work pants and boots.

Wooden sign for Amelia Island State Park held up between thick wood dock pilings and rope, in front of a forest of trees that the sun is peeking through

Wooden sign for Amelia Island State Park held up between thick wood dock pilings and rope, in front of a forest of trees that the sun is peeking through

Underwater photo of a manatee poking its nose up to the surface of the water. A cartoon illustration of a manatee surrounded by small red hearts is overlaid at the edge of the frame.

Underwater photo of a manatee near the sunny surface of the water. A cartoon illustration of a manatee surrounded by small red hearts is overlaid at the edge of the frame.

Boy holds up a fabric net while talking. In the background, the thick sloping trunks of cypress trees emerge from still water.

Boy holds up a fabric net while talking. In the background, the thick sloping trunks of cypress trees emerge from still water.

Two kids walk through a trail bordered by palm fans and surrounded by trees. A thick tree limb in the foreground frames the top of the scene. Caption reads: "Lake Griffin State Park."

Two kids walk through a trail bordered by palm fans and surrounded by trees. A thick tree limb in the foreground frames the top of the scene. Caption, in Spanish: "Parque Estatal Lago Griffin."

Four animal puppets playing instruments on the bank of a river. Spanish captions.

Animal puppets in front of the backdrop of a barn. Spanish captions.

Animal puppet speaking. Spanish captions.

Three animal puppets. Spanish captions.

Animal puppet wears a bow tie and stands in front of a stage. Puppets on stage face to the side in front of a backdrop that depicts a path through the forest. Marquee above the stage reads, "Hoy, La Traidora." Spanish caption. El secreto del perro había sido revelado.

Animal puppet in front of a building. Spanish captions.

Colorful puppets on a jungle themed stage. Spanish captions.

Two puppets, one in a hazmat suit. Spanish captions.

Five puppets on a stage. Spanish captions.

Three puppets on a stage, two of them dancing. Spanish captions.

Sloth puppet laying on its side. Spanish captions.

Two puppets singing. Spanish captions.

Animal puppets in front of the backdrop of a jungle. Spanish captions.

Puppet of a bat handing upside down holding a microphone and wearing a Santa hat. Spanish captions.

One puppet tells a story while a group listens to him. Spanish captions.

Two colorful puppets. Spanish captions.

A puppet standing in a staged bathroom. Spanish captions.

A meerkat sitting in the sand. Caption: As part of the attempt to understand our world,

A monkey sitting on a rock. Caption: Now the kooky chimpanzee

A painting of cactus along a stream and a mountain range in the background. Caption: A whole ecosystem disruption can come from this barrier.

A child wearing a harness next to a woman. Caption: here at the Kennedy Space Center.

Still image from: Through the Garden Gate: A Diary of the English Countryside

Still image from: Through the Woods: A Snowy Morning

Still image from: Through the Woods: Hush Little Bunny

Still image from: Through the Woods: Squirrel Treasure

Closeup of a turtle with its head lifted and a Wild Adventure Girls label in the bottom corner. Title text reads, "The Great Turtle Rescue!"

Two turtles swim in shallow light green water.

2-D T-Rex leans toward us as it walks through a forested landscape. Text reads, "Tyrannosaurus Rex."

A specimen of a wild cat. Caption: It's a sculpted animal that the skin is then glued to.

Digital art. Against a black background, a green wavy line depicting a sound wave moves towards two red lines.

Still image from: Venomous Snakes for Kids

Still image from: Vultures for Kids

Still image from: Whales for Kids

Still image from: What Are Chordates?

Still image from: What Are Cnidarians?

Still image from: What Are Mollusks?

Still image from: What Are Nematodes?

Still image from: What Are Porifera?

Cartoon image of an open book. Caption: Let's look inside this book and see.

Closeup of pink flowers with water dripping from them. Caption: Plants also need water to survive.

We look over the back of an Okapi as it curves it neck to look back towards us. Text reads, "Columbus Zoo."

Pelican floating in the water. Spanish captions.

Still image from: What Is a Vertebrate?

Still image from: What Is an Arthropod?

A snake on a rock. Caption: All reptiles are cold-blooded,

Still image from: What's Wild: Fox Squirrel

Person walking through stacked rows of chickens in cages. Caption: This is the age of the designer egg.

Man wearing a black Columbus Zoo polo speaks to us as he stands in front of an ostrich enclosure. Text reads, "Columbus Zoo."

Closeup of two gibbons hanging from the branches of a bare tree trunk.

Woman in a black Columbus Zoo polo smiles at us as she clasps her hands while giraffes and other animals roam in the background. Text reads, "Columbus Zoo."

Puppet of a cow in overalls next to a barn. Caption: Let's go to the barn and visit real pigs.

Still image from: Wild About Animals: A Wolf Hybrid, Tropical Fish, and African Vultures

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Alaska

Still image from: Wild About Animals: An Orphaned Anteater, Gibbons, and Elephants

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Australia

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Elk, Dogs, and Heartwarming Reunions

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Giraffes, Monkeys, and Penguins

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Hawaii

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Humpback Whales, Unwanted Dogs, Primates, and Raptors

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Icelandic Horses and Lionfish

Still image from: Wild About Animals: New Zealand

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Pelicans, Sea Stars, and Snakes

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Queensland and the Australian Outback

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Seattle, Washington

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Semper Fido and Punxsutawney Phil

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Spanish Mustangs and Sheltered Animals

Still image from: Wild About Animals: The Pacific Northwest

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Turtles, Horses, and Migrating Birds

Still image from: Wild About Animals: Zoos, Aquariums, and Research

Still image from: Wild Child: Hunt--Creature Hunt & Archery Challenge

A herd of bison with a few young ones on a brown, grassy plain. Caption: A year later, the first offspring were born--

Sand beach dotted with rocks. Caption: His next expedition is down to the shore to observe

Closeup of the partially decayed carcass of a bat on the ground. Caption: In caves, everything is food for something else.

A bat hanging upside down in a cage. Caption: These young bats have lost their mothers

A monkey walking on all fours across a tree branch. Caption: a monkey named Tessa is the new girl in town.

A sloth hangs from a tree. Caption: They survive by moving slowly and sleeping a lot,

Elephants of various sizes in natural habitat. Caption: (narrator) But Fay also found animals that are thriving…

Several adult and baby pigs drink from a small waterhole. Caption: a javelina already has her piglets,

Digital art. In a frame, a green and orange goat falls stiffly sideways, looking shocked. Text reads, “Fainting goat.”

Smiling girl stands in front of a table with a pig on top of it. The pig is eating something and wears a red harness. Above him reads the text, “8 Amazing Pig Facts!”

Sepia-toned photo. Two bats fly against a blurry backdrop.

Girl stands in front of a digital art science-themed tent. She holds up her hands and smiles next to the text, “Baaaaaa-mazing sheep.”

Against a tropical background with palm trees, a green river, and a sloth, a girl stands in the foreground, looking for something with binoculars.

Underwater photo. From below, we look up at a seaweed forest in an ocean, racing up toward the sunlight. Text reads, “Macrocystis.”

Digital art. Falcon faces a cheetah, competitively smiling at each other. The headline reads, “Wild Explorers presents The Ultimate Speed Showdown World Championship. Watch now.” Below them in red banners reads the text, “Falcon vs. Cheetah. See who is the fastest on the planet!”

Girl looks up at a falcon sitting atop an arched perch on the table in front of her. Text reads, “The name peregrine falcon means ‘wanderer!’”

Blond fox scampers towards us; its eyes are large with curiosity.

With a surprised look, a girl gently holds a skunk in her arms.

Girl holds her hands up in curiosity standing in front of a photo of a giant panda chewing on a carrot.

Close-up shot of a person holding a black and tan snake that looks towards us.

An excited girl holds her arms out as five brightly-colored cartoon toucans swing from the ceiling on bamboo perches.

Silhouette of a mountain range as the sun sets behind wispy clouds. Back text in center of screen reads, "Kingdom of giants."

Multiple ranges of steep green hills with low-lying clouds on a blue-sky day. White text in the center of the screen reads, "Secret worlds."

Valley of green trees between light brown hills with sparse green bushes partially shaded by fully white clouds. White text in the bottom center of the screen reads, "Dragons' Domain."

Still image from: Wolves for Kids

Person at a loom with a partially finished piece of patterned fabric. Caption: Spanning and weaving wool by hand takes a lot longer

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Alaska

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Animal Engineering

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Animal Migrations

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Grizzlies of British Columbia

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Nature's Classroom

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Taking Flight

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Yosemite

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: Animal Kingdom Meets Future Tech

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: Nature Inspires