Breakfast Time Andy's Baby Animals

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# If you're a capuchin learning how to eat

# An ostrich chick trying to beat a retreat

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# If you're a black bear looking for a tree to climb

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# Or a penguin chasing Mum at breakfast time

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# An orang-utan trying to make a bed

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Aw!

ANDY CHUCKLES

Hello, I'm Andy.

This is a baby pea fowl, or chick.

We don't know if it's a boy or a girl yet.

If it IS a boy, it will be a peacock. If it is a girl, a peahen.

I'm just about to give it its breakfast.

In the wild it will follow its mum about and learn what to eat.

Young animals have lots of clever ways to get their breakfast.

Let's go to California, in North America.

Many animals rely on their parents to get breakfast for them.

Like this sea otter pup. She and her mum are inseparable.

But they can't play all day. It's time for breakfast. In you go, Mum.

Now it's Pup's turn. She's not so keen.

Her pup does know how to swim, but it's much nicer getting

a ride with Mum.

She'll have to swim on her own if she wants to eat,

because Mum needs to dive down into the seaweed to fetch food.

The young pup hasn't learnt to dive yet.

But she doesn't mind hanging around up here while Mum goes to

rustle up some breakfast.

Sea otters love to eat shellfish, like crabs, mussels and snails.

And all of them are covered in a hard shell.

Before they can eat, Mum has to find a way to crack the shell.

Pay attention now, while Mum shows you how it is done.

The side of a boat makes a pretty good shell cracker.

The rocks aren't bad either.

Mmm, seafood.

Now it's time for her pup to try.

She's got the right idea but that wood is much too soft

so Mum shows her again.

You see?

Oh, dear, now the pup is using a rubber tyre.

That's even softer than the wood.

This could take a while.

Never mind, you won't go hungry.

Mum will keep getting breakfast until the pup

has learned how to crack open shells herself.

Good old Mum.

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Now let's fly over to Brazil.

There are some baby animals on land who have to crack open

a shell to get THEIR breakfast, too.

These are infant capuchin monkeys.

And they live high up on these cliffs in South America.

Every morning,

they have to go all the way down to the ground for breakfast.

Luckily, though, a baby capuchin can climb like...

well, like little monkeys.

And this is what they're after, their favourite food.

It is called a nut palm.

Well, that's breakfast sorted, then. Or is it?

Because the yummy bit is in the middle.

And the outside shell is very, very hard.

The young monkeys have no idea how to get in.

Watch and learn, you lot.

This grown-up looks like an ace nutcracker.

And it's about to do something very clever.

All it needs is a very heavy stone...

..and...

..kapow!

Smash!

Kaboom!

Take that, nut. That is one capuchin monkey breakfast to go. Yum.

I wonder how the young ones are getting on.

Ah, yes, what you have done there, see,

is you've forgotten to use a stone.

Better. But try a bigger rock.

Ah, now, that's more like it.

Oh.

Nuts are packed full of energy so all this effort will be worth it.

Oops.

Crumbs! This is one tough nut to crack.

It takes most baby capuchins several years to become expert nut smashers.

But when they do, it'll be nuts for breakfast every day.

Oh, you clever little monkey, you.

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Last stop is Kenya, in Africa.

Some baby animals don't need a stone to get breakfast.

They just follow their noses.

This mini force of nature is a baby elephant calf.

She is a lively little ellie.

Elephants are the biggest land animals in the world.

But our little calf is the smallest one in this herd.

She's just about four months old.

It's breakfast time but little Ellie would rather have fun

than eat.

Not every animal wants to play with a rampaging elephant, though.

A big animal needs a big breakfast.

Elephants eat grass, twigs,

leaves and almost entire trees.

They use their super-long noses, called trunks,

to pick the food up and pop it in their mouths.

But learning to control such a large hooter isn't easy.

Trunks have lots of different muscles in them,

more than we have in our whole bodies.

Little Ellie here is trying her best.

But branches have a habit of springing back.

Careful you don't get that long trunk stuck in your mouth.

Oh. But it doesn't matter if she can't get her own breakfast yet

because she'll be drinking milk from Mum until she's three years old.

So there is plenty more time for just nosing around.

For an otter cub, a baby monkey or an elephant calf,

learning to get breakfast means copying your mum and dad.

I think this one is hungry. I better get it some breakfast.

See you next time.