0:00:02 > 0:00:07# Tinga Tinga Tinga Tinga-a Tinga Tinga Tinga Tinga-a
0:00:07 > 0:00:10# Tinga Tinga is a land
0:00:10 > 0:00:13# Full of stories and surprise... #
0:00:13 > 0:00:15Tell me about it!
0:00:15 > 0:00:17# If you like to wonder why
0:00:17 > 0:00:20# Tinga Tinga is a land of whys
0:00:20 > 0:00:23# You won't believe your eyes
0:00:23 > 0:00:25# Why I swing from tree to tree
0:00:25 > 0:00:27# Why my trunk is long
0:00:27 > 0:00:29- # Why I'm so slow - Why I tick
0:00:29 > 0:00:31# Why my skin is smooth and slick
0:00:31 > 0:00:33# You ask why, why, why, why, why?
0:00:33 > 0:00:35# Why?
0:00:35 > 0:00:38# You ask why, why, why, why, why?
0:00:38 > 0:00:41- # There's a story - Lots of stories
0:00:41 > 0:00:43# Beneath the Tinga sky
0:00:43 > 0:00:47- # Tinga Tinga Tinga Tinga-a - Tales from Africa
0:00:47 > 0:00:51- # Tinga Tinga Tinga Tinga-a - Tales from Africa
0:00:51 > 0:00:55- # Tinga Tinga Tinga Tinga-a... # - Look at all my friends!
0:00:55 > 0:01:00- # Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh. # - I'll tell you why...
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Oh! Hmrph! I'm so hot!
0:01:13 > 0:01:15That's because you are so hairy.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17HIPPO STRAINS
0:01:17 > 0:01:21There was a time when Hippo was covered in hair.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23Jambo, Hippo, how's things?
0:01:23 > 0:01:28- Hot.- When the sun is hot, you've got to keep cool.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31That's all very well for you to say.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35# The angrier you get The more that you will sweat
0:01:35 > 0:01:38# You huff and puff You're going to lose the plot
0:01:38 > 0:01:42# Look at Croc who's keeping still The thing to do is chill
0:01:42 > 0:01:45# I know it's hard when everything's so hot. #
0:01:45 > 0:01:49Hee hee! Take a nice, cold shower at the very hottest hour.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52# Have a sleep and find a shady spot
0:01:53 > 0:01:57# The thing is just keep loose and have a mango juice
0:01:57 > 0:02:00# I know it's hard when everything's so hot
0:02:00 > 0:02:02# You've got to keep cool
0:02:02 > 0:02:05- # You've got to keep cool - You've got to keep cool
0:02:05 > 0:02:07# You've got to keep cool
0:02:07 > 0:02:10# You've got to keep cool. # Hee hee!
0:02:12 > 0:02:14- Oh! - MONKEYS GIGGLE
0:02:14 > 0:02:18- What's going on? - Move, Hyena, you're in my shade.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20- Oh!- Hm.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Don't even think about it, Monkey.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27HE WHISTLES, MONKEYS GIGGLE
0:02:27 > 0:02:31- # You've got to keep cool. # - You've got to keep cool.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33You've got to keep cool!
0:02:34 > 0:02:37HIPPO HUFFS AND PUFFS Oh! This is too much!
0:02:37 > 0:02:39Hey, Hippo.
0:02:40 > 0:02:41Oh!
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Crocodile can have a swim. I'm going for a dip too.
0:02:45 > 0:02:50You can't. You know what Lion says. Water is for fishes.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53And now, hippos! Hairy hippos!
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Quietly, then. Don't wake Lion.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57LION SNORES
0:02:57 > 0:03:00CREAK! GRUNT!
0:03:01 > 0:03:03- CRUNCH! - Oh! Hippo!
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Sorry, Tortoise, I didn't see you.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08- No beast ever does.- Quietly.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11This is quietly!
0:03:14 > 0:03:15HIPPO HOLDS BREATH
0:03:15 > 0:03:19Whoo-hoo! SPLASH!
0:03:19 > 0:03:20Hippo!
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Ha ha ha ha!
0:03:24 > 0:03:25Ho ho ho ho ho!
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Whee!
0:03:27 > 0:03:29Look at me!
0:03:39 > 0:03:40Ha ha ha! Hey!
0:03:40 > 0:03:42- CACKLES OF LAUGHTER - Hm?
0:03:43 > 0:03:45- Hippo!- Whoo-hoo!
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Hippopotamus!
0:03:49 > 0:03:53What have I told you over 100 times?
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Er...water is for fishes?
0:03:56 > 0:04:00That's right. And the odd crab and crocodile.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02But why can't I live in the water?
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Oh!
0:04:04 > 0:04:07Look at the size of you. You'd eat up all the fish.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10No, I wouldn't. I don't even like fish.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14Crocodile already lives there. We can't have two large hungry
0:04:14 > 0:04:18- animals living in the same waters. - But I'm so hrmpingly hot!
0:04:18 > 0:04:20It's nature's way.
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Land is where you belong, Hippo.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28- Find another way to keep cool, hm? - But...but...- No buts!
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Oh! HIPPO SIGHS AND MOANS
0:04:35 > 0:04:38- Come, come.- I'm so hot!
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Lion has got a point.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Hippo, you're supposed to live on the land.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46I think Hippo has a point.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49She can't just tuck inside a nice, cool shell
0:04:49 > 0:04:50or find a shady spot under a rock.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52You're telling me!
0:04:52 > 0:04:56What's more difficult than getting one hippo under a rock?
0:04:56 > 0:05:00- BOTH:- I don't know. - Getting two hippos under a rock!
0:05:00 > 0:05:03MONKEYS LAUGH Two hippos under a rock! Ha ha!
0:05:08 > 0:05:11Tell me, Monkeys, what do you do
0:05:11 > 0:05:14when one hot, hairy hippo has had too much sun?
0:05:16 > 0:05:18- ALL:- I don't know.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20Run! MONKEYS LAUGH
0:05:20 > 0:05:24ANIMALS ALL LAUGH
0:05:25 > 0:05:26Oh, I'm even hotter.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29I know! I'll make some shade.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Better?
0:05:33 > 0:05:35- Better?- No.
0:05:37 > 0:05:38- Better?- No.
0:05:38 > 0:05:43Tickbird, you're not even big enough to shade one hair on Hippo's head.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48- Oh! How did you do that?- I didn't.
0:05:48 > 0:05:53- Jambo, everyone.- Jambo, Elephant! - What are you doing?
0:05:53 > 0:05:58- Trying not to be hot. - OK. I'll not bother you, then.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02No, no, no, no! Don't move. HIPPO GRUNTS AND GROANS
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Just there. Just stay there. Don't move a single muscle.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Er... How long for?
0:06:08 > 0:06:12- Until the sun goes down?- OK.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18Right, that's it, I've had enough.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20I'm heading home, you two can do what you want.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Just because you're hot doesn't mean I am.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30- C...can I move now?- No, not yet.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35Now you can. ELEPHANTS GROANS LOUDLY
0:06:35 > 0:06:38ANIMALS LAUGH
0:06:38 > 0:06:41- And you really didn't move until the sun went down.- Er...
0:06:41 > 0:06:45- Didn't you get a bit bored, old friend?- No. Ha ha!
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Big head, see? Tiny brain.
0:06:48 > 0:06:49RATTLING
0:06:49 > 0:06:51THEY ALL LAUGH
0:06:51 > 0:06:53Brr brr! It's a bit nippy tonight.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57I'm so hot!
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Hippo, you can't possibly be hot now.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02I am! I'm boiling.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06I'm not meant to be on land with all this hair. I'm really not.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Hmrph! Right. That's it.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12I'm going for a midnight swim.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15Don't! You can't! Lion will be cross.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17Tickbird is right. You know what Lion said.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20- But...but... ALL:- No buts!
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Oh! Tortoise, you're the clever one.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Haven't you got any ideas?
0:07:25 > 0:07:29I'm sorry, Hippo, all out of ideas today. Must be slowing down.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- You? Slowing down? - MONKEYS LAUGH
0:07:31 > 0:07:33That's funny, Tortoise.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Too hot!
0:07:35 > 0:07:39- Come, come, you say too hot too much.- But I am.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42- We know.- And I'm sweaty, and I'm sticky and I'm...
0:07:42 > 0:07:44- Go to sleep, people.- Oh!
0:07:44 > 0:07:46HIPPO CRIES
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Away from the fire.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53That's it, that's it.
0:07:58 > 0:08:03SNORING
0:08:10 > 0:08:13SNORING
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Oh! Whoo!
0:08:23 > 0:08:24Ooh! Wha-wha!
0:08:24 > 0:08:27Help! Help! Ooh!
0:08:27 > 0:08:28Help. Fire!
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Oh! Help, fire!
0:08:31 > 0:08:33- Do something. - ELEPHANT TRUMPETS
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Roll, Hippo, roll.
0:08:35 > 0:08:36Yeah, roll over.
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Right, that's it!
0:08:43 > 0:08:44HIPPO PANTS
0:08:44 > 0:08:46Oh!
0:08:46 > 0:08:47Whaa-a-a!
0:08:49 > 0:08:51EXCITED CHATTERING
0:08:51 > 0:08:53- Quick, quick, quick!- Oh.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Wha! Wha-wha-wha! ANIMALS SIGH WITH RELIEF
0:09:00 > 0:09:03- HIPPO SQUEAKS - Hippo? Are you all right?
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Never been better!
0:09:05 > 0:09:09For the first time in ages, I don't feel hot at all.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13The water is so cool!
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Hm?
0:09:16 > 0:09:20Argh! Not a single hair on my hide.
0:09:20 > 0:09:21Ooh.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26Come on, Hippo, you know the rules. Water is for fishes.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- You can come out now, Hippo! - Come out? But I'm naked.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35- ANIMALS GIGGLE - We're all sensible animals.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38- (STERNLY) Aren't we, Monkeys?! - MONKEYS STOP GIGGLING
0:09:38 > 0:09:39Please, Your Majesty,
0:09:39 > 0:09:44I promise I won't eat a single fish if you let me live in the water.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46How can we be sure?
0:09:46 > 0:09:48Every day, from this day on,
0:09:48 > 0:09:52I will open my mouth as wide as I can like this.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56Aargh! As many times a day as I possibly can.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Aargh!
0:09:58 > 0:10:02For all of you to see that I have not eaten, swallowed
0:10:02 > 0:10:05or indeed harmed a single fish.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Aargh!
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Hm. Agreed.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12CHEERING
0:10:12 > 0:10:15LAUGHTER AND CHEERS
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Aargh!
0:10:17 > 0:10:19ANIMALS CHUCKLE
0:10:20 > 0:10:21Aargh.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23That's it.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Look, everyone.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27No fishes!
0:10:27 > 0:10:31HIPPO GARGLES, ANIMALS CHUCKLE
0:10:31 > 0:10:33No hair to hold on to.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Stop it, Tickbird.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37- Oh! You're tickling me. - Ooh, slidey...!
0:10:38 > 0:10:41ANIMALS LAUGH
0:10:41 > 0:10:43And that's why Hippo has no hair.
0:10:43 > 0:10:45From the night of the big fire,
0:10:45 > 0:10:49Hippos are allowed to live in the cool waters.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Oh!
0:10:51 > 0:10:52Whoa!
0:10:52 > 0:10:53SPLASH!
0:10:53 > 0:10:58And Tickbird and our ticks, well, that's a whole other story.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00MONKEYS GIGGLE
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