Why Bees Sting Tinga Tinga Tales

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# Tinga Tinga is a land

# Full of stories and surprise

# Tell me about it!

# If you like to wonder why

# Tinga Tinga is a land of why

# 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

# Beneath a Tinga sky

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-Tales from Africa

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-Tales from Africa

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-Look at all my friends!

-# Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!

-I'll tell you why. #

Why Bees Sting.

-# Honey

-We love honey

-# Lovely, lovely

-We love honey... #

You see, there was a time when bees didn't sting.

-# Lovely

-honey

-Lovely

-honey... #

But the animals kept taking their precious honey.

-I love honey!

-Me too!

-I know, let's play sticky fingers.

-Yes!

Right, remember how to play?

One monkey has to get the honey any way he can.

Ah. Hee-hee. And then gets all the way back.

-That's easy.

-Aha! But you're not allowed to use your hands.

And you've got to watch out for the stinging nettles.

-One sticky finger...

-Two sticky finger.

-Sticky finger three.

-All the sticky fingers.

-ALL: Sticky fingers me!

THEY LAUGH

Come along, sweeties, back home.

Oh, dear. Now, I don't want you getting in a frenzy,

but I'm afraid some honey has gone missing.

# Who stole our honey?

# Who stole our honey? #

Oh, I don't know. But it's a dreadfully sticky situation.

We'll have to go to Lion again.

# Who stole our honey?

# Who stole our honey? #

Well, Bees. This is very serious indeed.

We wouldn't normally make a fuss, but honey is so very precious.

Of course. Does any beast know who is taking honey?

No, no, no.

Aardvark, you like honey.

I do, I love honey.

-But I didn't take any this time.

-I love honey too.

Especially dripping over a fresh, juicy, ripe mango.

-ALL: Yum!

-Animals, please! We have a honey crisis here.

What if there is no honey left?

THEY GASP

-May I make a suggestion?

-Please do.

-We ask an animal to guard the honey.

-Very good.

-Giraffe?

-I'd be delighted.

-Thank you, everyone. Asante.

-# Asante. #

Oh, look! Giraffe is guarding the honey.

Now we can't play sticky fingers.

Of course we can. We'll just have to call it very sticky fingers.

Because you have to get past the giraffe to get to the honey.

My turn, my turn!

What? Huh?

HE GIGGLES

GIRAFFE LAUGHS

What is... Hmm?

HE LAUGHS

One sticky finger.

-Two sticky finger.

-Sticky finger three!

All the sticky fingers. Very sticky fingers, me.

-THEY GIGGLE

-Hmm?

Huh? Oh, my! How did that happen?

-# Who stole our honey? #

-Some bees snuck by YOU?

Oh, I feel terrible. It must have been a animal close to the ground.

Hmm. Sounds like we need another animal to help keep guard.

An animal who knows how to scare off naughty thieves.

-Crocodile?

-Yes!

It would be my pleasure.

SNAP!

Look! Two guards. Giraffe and Crocodile.

Oh. Very, very sticky fingers.

My go, my go!

Huh?

Huh. Phew! Ah.

Hee-Hee. Honey. Mmm.

-One sticky finger.

-Two sticky finger.

-Sticky finger three.

ALL: All the sticky fingers!

Very, very sticky fingers, me.

THEY GIGGLE

SNAP! Oh, my! How did that happen?

-Again?

-I know. Right through the middle of us, Your Majesty.

And me! The scariest animal in Tinga Tinga.

If we don't do something there'll be no honey left.

Hmm. Elephant, call Owl.

HE TRUMPETS

Owl!

Treetops?

Check.

-Ground level?

-Check.

And I've got front, back and both sides covered.

Our precious honey will be safe tonight.

-We'll definitely catch that thief now.

-Thank you, Owl. Asante.

TWIT-TWOO!

-Oh, no! Crocodile.

-Giraffe.

-And Owl.

-That's impossible!

-Nothing's impossible.

-He'll never make it.

-This is very, very, very sticky fingers.

Oh. Now, which one is Crocodile?

-Phew!

-Huh? Hmm?

-Hee-hee!

Nothing this side. Nothing behind. Nothing this side.

Whoa!

-Huh?

-Oh!

-One sticky finger.

-Two sticky finger.

-Sticky finger three.

-ALL: All the sticky fingers.

-Very, very, very sticky fingers, me!

THEY GIGGLE

Some beast stole the honey with three animals guarding it?

Oh dear. Soon there'll be no honey left in Tinga Tinga.

No, don't say that, that's terrible.

HE TRUMPETS Ouch! Oo-oo! That stings!

A-ha! Bees, maybe you should move your honey down to the nettle patch.

But, sweetie, we'd all get stung.

Not if it was you doing the stinging.

Oh! We couldn't possibly do that.

-Do you want to stop your honey from being stolen?

-Well...

If you put it that way, I don't have a choice.

May I suggest that you and your worker bees

take a sting from the end of a nettle leaf

and glue it to your bottoms with a bit of honey.

Then you can protect your own honey with your very own sting.

Stinky bottoms. That's brilliant!

Do we have to?

# Save our honey Please, save our honey, honey. #

I suppose so. Now...

Line up, everyone.

Put a bit of honey on your behind.

Now, sweeties, I want everyone of you to fly down to the nettle patch

and snap off a sting from the very tip of a nettle leaf.

Do be careful, sweeties.

Thank you, my dear. Now, turn around.

Stingers on!

# Stingers on! #

We don't actually have to sting anybody, do we?

Only if they're stealing your precious honey.

Yes, of course. We can't have that.

-There's no-one here.

-Oh, that's no fun.

I know, let's all get one last sticky finger.

THEY GIGGLE

Oh, no. It's the monkeys.

-SHE SIGHS

-It has to be done.

About turn!

Buzz, Bees. Buzz!

Buzz! Buzz-buzz-buzz!

# You stole our honey You stole our honey. #

-Oh, no! We weren't stealing.

-We were just playing!

Oh, dear. Sorry, sweeties.

Buzz, bees. Buzz!

ALL: Aaah!

-Run, run!

-# You stole, you stole our honey

# You stole, you stole our honey

#You stole, you stole our honey

-No, please!

-Monkeys?

Stealing honey from the bees? I am very disappointed in you.

But we weren't stealing. We were playing sticky fingers!

-We're very sorry.

-Very, very sorry.

-Aw, they do seem very sorry.

We didn't mean to steal anything.

-Hmm. Queen?

I think we should give them a royal pardon, don't you?

Granted. Monkeys, you are forgiven.

Phew!

And that is why bees sting.

We have to protect our sweet and precious honey.

And now we can, thanks to you.

HE GIGGLES

A present, from all of us.

Honey. Monkeys, monkeys! Sticky fingers!

THEY ALL LAUGH

Sticky fingers! Let's play.

-Sticky fingers!

-I want to play.

-Let's play!

And us monkeys, swinging in the trees...

Well, that's a whole other story.

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Tales from Africa!

# Tales from Africa. #