Why Porcupine Has Quills Tinga Tinga Tales

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Tell me about it!

# If you like to wonder why

# Tinga Tinga is a land of whys

# You won't believe your eyes

# Why I swing from tree to tree

# Why my trunk is long

-# Why I'm so slow

-Why I tick

# Why my skin is smooth and slick

# You ask why, why, why, why, why?

# Why?

# You ask why, why, why, why, why?

-# There's a story

-Lots of stories

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-Look at all my friends!

-# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh. #

-I'll tell you why...

Ouch! Hee hee!

You see, there was a time when Porcupine was not prickly.

In fact, she had the softest coat in Tinga Tinga.

-Ah!

-Ah!

-Gently, Monkeys.

-Hmmm. So soft.

-Mmmm. So beautiful.

THEY MURMUR WITH PLEASURE

No beast ever calls my coat beautiful.

That's because it's not.

-It's grubby...

-Messy...

-And a little bit yucky.

MONKEYS GIGGLE

I want a beautiful coat.

We've told you before, Jackal, I want never gets.

-And Jackal never listens. He never listens.

-Hm.

We'll see. We'll see!

-Mm.

-Ah.

-Mmm.

Oh, a nit! I'll eat it.

-Careful, Monkeys.

-Sorry.

It's only a nit, Porcupine.

Oh! Wha-wha-wha! What is going on?

Monkey, even the tiniest little thing can hurt Porcupine,

because her skin is so soft.

Oh, Monkey hasn't ruined Porcupine's beautiful coat, has he?

-That would be a tragedy.

-A disaster.

No, no, no, Monkey hasn't ruined my coat at all.

It just needs a wash, that's all.

I don't know. The number of times I have to wash this coat.

Sometimes I wonder if it's really worth all the fuss.

I really do.

Elephant, you can put Monkey down now.

Yes, you can put Monkey down now.

Oh, OK.

-Asante, Elephant.

-THEY CHUCKLE

-Not too hard, not too hard, not too hard.

-Not too hard, Elephant.

Be careful of Porcupine's fur.

Sorry. Turning it down.

-Turning it down.

-MONKEYS GIGGLE

Ooh, that's lovely. Hee hee. Thank you, Elephant. Asante.

-Blow dry?

-ANIMALS:

-Elephant! No!

Oh! Oh!

-Elephant!

-Sorry.

-Big head, tiny brain, see?

-RATTLING

MONKEYS LAUGH Don't worry, Elephant.

Sometimes I wish I didn't have such a beautiful coat.

How can you say such a thing?

But it's too soft and too difficult to look after.

THEY LAUGH

That beautiful coat would look much better on me.

-I want it.

-I want never gets.

We'll see, hee hee!

I'm off.

# Wet, wet!

# Muddy and wet

# Happiest hippo the wetter I get

# You'd better find yourself some shelter

# Don't wanna get that coat all wet again. #

Thank you, Hippo.

I shall go and dig a hole until the rain stops.

That coat is too good for an animal that lets it get all wet.

THUNDER RUMBLES

-Eh?

-TORTOISE COUGHS AND SPLUTTERS

-What you doin'?

-I'm so sorry, Tortoise.

I thought you were a rock.

Happens all the time.

Now, hurry, Porcupine, and get that coat out of the rain.

Oh, oh, OK, sorry.

Don't dig under the tree, Porcupine. The ground is too hard.

Try by the river.

Thank you, Monkeys, OK.

I want that beautiful coat.

Porcupine, my friend, your coat, it's getting wet.

And you must be getting tired.

Oh, this coat. I'm exhausted.

Why don't you come to my cave where it's nice and dry?

Thank you, Jackal.

After you, ha ha. Ho ho ho!

If that coat gets any wetter, it will be ruined forever.

Be careful, Porcupine.

That Jackal always wants what it can't have.

Do you know? Sometimes I wish I didn't have such a beautiful coat.

-MONKEYS:

-Be careful, Porcupine!

Jackal always wants what he can't have.

Thank you for inviting me into your home, Jackal.

It's very kind of you.

Be careful, Porcupine! Jackal...! Oh, never mind.

Probably too late anyway.

Hm, nice cave, Jackal.

I'll just make a nice, dry bed of grass for...

Oh! ..you to sleep on.

Oh! Hee hee hee!

Little biting ants.

What a perfect place for Porcupine's bed.

Ho ho ho! Oh.

Oh, is that for me?

Thank you again, Jackal.

Wait, wait.

You are still wearing that soaking wet coat.

Let me take it to dry out overnight.

What a good idea. Asante.

Night night. Sleep tight.

Don't let the bed bugs bite.

PORCUPINE MURMURS DREAMILY

Oh, oh, oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh, yes.

Oh, yes. This is the coat for me.

Beautiful. He he he!

You see! I want DOES get. Sometimes.

Hee hee hee!

JACKAL LAUGHS GLEEFULLY

PORCUPINE MURMURS SLEEPILY

Oh. That's really itchy.

I've been bitten all over.

Where's my coat?

Oh, it's gone!

Oh!

Jackal must have taken it.

Hey, hey, look at my co-o-o-at!

HE CACKLES GLEEFULLY

My beautiful, beautiful new co-o-o-oat. Whoo-hoo!

Oh, poor Porcupine.

Ooh, just looking at you makes me all itchy.

It's unbearable.

We're good at scratching.

-How's that?

-Oh.

-What about that?

-And that?

-Jambo, everyone.

-ALL:

-Jambo, Tortoise!

-Oh, Jambo...

-It's Porcupine.

Porcupine? Why you look like you slept on an ants' nest?

-She did.

-Jackal made her take off her coat

and then she slept all night on a nest of ants.

He's nasty, that Jackal.

I'm afraid that might be the last time

you see that lovely coat of yours.

Oh, never mind the coat.

It's the itching.

-Got any ideas?

-Mmm.

-May I make a suggestion?

-Please. Please. Ow.

Elephant, break off one of those leaves from the quill bush there.

Uh-huh.

Which bush? This one?

Ha ha, this one?

This one? Or this one?

The quill bush!

I am not very good at plants.

-That one! Oh, but mind the...

-Ouch!

..mind the spikes.

Ooh.

Now squeeze the plant over Porcupine's skin.

The milk from the quill bush soothe a lot of problems for the skin.

Ooh, that does feel nice.

It has a soothing quality which takes all the itching away.

Uh-oh. It's run out.

But the thing is, the milk is terrible sticky, you know.

You have to be careful about the spikes...

I've got to have more!

-Lots more!

-Porcupine? Porcupine!

-I've got to have more!

-No, no, no, no, no.

-Ooh. Ow.

-Don't crash about in those bushes.

That milk is sticky!

PORCUPINE LAUGHS MERRILY

And I'm telling you...

If...if those quills snap off, it can get very messy.

PORCUPINE CONTINUES LAUGHING

PORCUPINE GIGGLES

-Whoa!

-Whoa!

-Whoa!

-Ooh.

Now, that is what you call a sticky situation.

No. I think THAT is what you call a prickly situation.

-A very prickly situation indeed.

-ANIMALS CHUCKLE

-I'll help you get those prickles out.

-No, Monkey, don't.

-Oh! Stand back, everybody.

-But no beast can get near you.

Exactly. No animal can touch my sensitive skin

or bite me every again.

That's brilliant. Do it again. Do the spiky thing again.

They're quills, Elephant. They're called quills.

Ha ha ha! Do it again, do the quilly thing again.

ANIMALS LAUGH Good, isn't it?

ANIMALS LAUGH

HOWLING

What's that?

It's Jackal.

-JACKAL HOWLS

-Look at my coat, my beautiful,

beautiful new co-o-o-oat.

That Jackal, he's always been a trickster.

Look at him, the cheek!

Give that coat back! It's Porcupine's coat!

Oh, pfui to the coat.

It's a nightmare to keep soft and you've got to wash it all the time.

I'd much rather keep my quills.

ANIMALS CHUCKLE

And that's why Porcupine has quills.

Well, I still think we should get that Jackal back.

Oh, his day will come.

-Don't you worry.

-HOWLING

And that's a whole other story. Hee hee.

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