Hiding Andy's Baby Animals

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That's it, eat up.

Hello. I'm Andy.

And this is Carmen.

She's a baby tortoise.

She's only 14 months old,

but she has the perfect place to hide - in her shell.

Now, tortoises carry their homes on their backs.

When they feel like they need a bit of time to themselves,

they can crawl into their shells...

and relax.

Then when they feel safe,

they can poke their heads back out

and take a look around.

It's good for young animals to have a place to hide.

First we're off to Brazil.

These cuddly critters are coatis.

They're called ring-tailed coati because of that big stripy tail.

This family live in the forest here in Brazil.

But today Mum is taking her pups on a food-finding mission.

It's the first time the pups have been out of the forest

and it's all very new and exciting.

Don't forget to keep up with Mum, guys!

One way the cubs can make sure they don't get lost

is by following Mum's big stripy tail.

This lush, green meadow is a very good place to find food.

Coati love to munch on bugs and grubs

and it's easy to sniff them out with their big, long noses.

HE SNIFFS Found one.

Oh, no, that's my foot!

Their noses aren't as long as his, though. Phoah!

Lots of animals come to this meadow to feed.

But not all of them are friendly.

A savanna hawk has his greedy eye on the little coati pups.

Look out, everyone, it's an air raid!

The best place for the coati to hide is back in the forest.

When they're in the trees,

even a hawk-eyed bird of prey can't spot them.

Oh, are they going to get there?

Come on, guys.

Phew!

They've made it. Well done, everyone.

Oh, no. It looks like this little pup has been left behind

and that hungry hawk is still hanging around.

Luckily, he's so small, he can hide in the long grass.

But he needs to get back to the forest

if he wants to re-join the rest of his family.

On your marks, get set,

go!

Run, little one! Come on.

Keep your head down.

It's hard to run fast when you've got such little legs.

Almost there.

Ah!

Well done. He's made it.

Now, where's Mum got to?

Ah, there she is.

Oh, she's so pleased to see him and so are his brothers and sisters.

Now they're all back in the forest,

the little coati pups will have plenty of places to hide

if the hawk ever returns.

But for now, they can just get on with having fun.

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Over we go to Canada this time.

When you live in a place with no trees at all,

hiding can be much harder.

Take this fluffy eider duckling, for example.

WOLF HOWLS

It needs to hide from this pack of hungry white wolves

who are out searching for a meal.

Luckily, Mum knows just what to do.

She's taking her babies to the lake.

The ducklings have never been there before,

but they take to swimming, well, like a duck to water.

Oh, dear. It looks like one of the wolves has spotted them.

You might think they're safe out there in the middle of the lake,

but wolves are great swimmers, too.

The little ducklings are too small to fly.

So it's up to Mum to save them.

And she does it by playing a game with the wolves.

It's called Catch Me If You Can.

Her ducklings watch her deal with the wolf.

All this splashing around makes the wolf follow her

while the babies duck - excuse the pun - out of sight.

Well done, Mum!

After all that running around, the wolf is puffed out.

Off it goes.

Time for a family reunion.

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We're going to a special lake in Africa now.

Here in Lake Malawi,

there's another animal mum helping her babies to hide.

This fish is a real bigmouth.

Don't worry, I'm not being rude, that's her name - a big-mouth hap.

And she has a very strange way of hiding her babies

from other hungry fish who want to gobble them up.

She doesn't hide them in the rocks,

she hides them in her mouth!

Whenever she thinks there might be danger around, she opens wide...

..and they swim straight inside.

It looks like she's eating them,

but she's just keeping them safe until the danger has passed.

Once she's chased away all the hungry fish, she opens up,

the baby fish swim back out again.

Brilliant!

They'll swim in and out of her mouth until they're six weeks old

and big enough to look after themselves.

But until then, wherever they go,

these little fish will always have somewhere to hide.

I just hope Mum hasn't got bad breath. Ew!

A coati pup,

a duckling, and baby fish.

They've all got their favourite hiding places.

For Carmen here, it's her shell.

See you next time.

Where are you off to again? I don't know.