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8.16.25 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to raze Ji's Story Hour. As a reminder,
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RAI is a reading service intended for people who are
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blind or of other disabilities that make it difficult to
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reprint material. Today we will be reading from various books
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on Trees. Your reader today is Diane. We will begin
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with the book Trees. It was published by beach Lane
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Books and Imprintive Simon and Schuster's Children Publishing Division. It
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has a copyright year of twenty nineteen and it was
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written by Verley Hutchins. Each tree, all versus story, a clue,
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a dance that makes it its very own self. Mapel
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scenes to the heavens. Reaching out, she offers her precious
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sap to celebrate the return of the light and sweeten
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the last days of winter. Aspen, tall and graceful, dance
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on her tippy toes, Her gold and leaves like castanets,
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shimmer in the breeze. Oak stands strong, rooted deeply in
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the earth. His mighty branch is held out just so,
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palms up to receive the joy of birds. Silly Palm,
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plain and skinny doesn't have one single branch. She saves
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all her leaves for her most amazing hat shy pussy
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Willow takes in her stage one week in spring, when
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kitten velvet buds adorn her. Modest twigs, apple tree wis
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and gnarled binslow. His branch is weighed down with round
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red fruit and age. Little red bud plays hide and
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seek in bare branch woods until pink purple giggles burst
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forth and give her hiding place away. Spruce in blue
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porcupine armor aims for the sky like an arrow. His
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heart sores dogwood bows beside the walk. Welcoming the guests,
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he offers treats on silver trays, canopies of sunshine and
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pollen sycamore. The fashion queen wears a jigsaw puzzle gown
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and big flashy leaves. Fuzzy round bobbles dangle from her ears,
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white pine, unruly uncle, large and messy shirt tails, flying buttons,
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a kilter, shaggy hair, unkempt, unkempt, he laughs too loud.
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Willow dances in her narrow kimono with elegant sweeping sleeves,
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wafting in gentle wind birch when other trees were leafless
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black struts and royal ermine robes. Sequoia holds memories for
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the tribe of trees tilling from another age before the
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time of Saals. Our next book is titled The City
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Tree and it was published by Clearing Books and Imprint
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of Harper Collins Publishers. It has a copyright year of
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twenty twenty three and the author is Shira Boss. In
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front of Danny's building was a hole, sometimes dusty, sometimes puddly,
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and sometimes wild with bits of green. One day, Danny
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saw something coming, something different from the bricks and buses,
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glass and steel. Its bark was craggy, its limbs were curvy,
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leaves slip flat. Danny used to be woken in the
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morning by the garbage and recycling trucks rumbling and crunching.
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Now at down little birds and the tree chirped and
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cheapd The tree was the weather vein. It's leaves fluttering, breezy.
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Today it's branches bending, said, bundle up. On wet days,
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Danny watched the leaves grow brighter, brighter green, with a
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wash of pattering raindrops. The city changed and snorted and roared.
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The tree rustled and swished and soothed. Traffic bellowed and belched,
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the tree spreading canopy made a cloak that childed Danny
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from the noise and grime. Danny watched the branch's weaving
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new shapes, the shadows always changing. People hurried and scurried,
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rushing right past Danny in the tree. The tree stood steadfast.
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Danny poured out stories, wonders, worries. Danny climbed bigger trees
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in the park, trees with squirrels and blossoms and apples
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to eat, but always came home to this tree, which
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was less magnificent but more special. However, not everyone passing
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by was kind to the tree, and often it needed
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some help. In spring, buds appeared and leaves unfurled. The
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tree was a garden. In summer, the leaves shaded the
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stoop and sidewalk from the hot sun. The tree was
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an oasis, and fall gun leaves floated down one after another.
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The tree was a treasure chest, and in winter the
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branches rested like paint brushes in a cup. The tree
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was the starlight morning, noon and night, through stormy days
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and sunshine rays. The tree was a good friends. The
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life of a street tree. Why are street trees special?
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Trees Planted long city streets bring the colors, shapes, and
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breath of nature. Right to the front doors of people
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who don't have yards with trees, come birds, insects, and
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signs of the changing seasons. How do street trees help people?
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Trees help soften the harsh sounds of a city. They
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can absorb as much as half of urban noise that
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makes the city more peaceful. Trees clean the air by
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absorbing air pollution and trapping dust and grit on their
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leaves and bark. A large street tree can absorb ten
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pounds of air pollutants every year. Ten pounds is like
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two large sacks of flour. That makes the air healthier
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for us to breathe. In hot weather, a city gets
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even hotter than other areas, becomes a heat island. Buildings,
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pavement in other hard surfaces trap and hold heat, then
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radiate back like an oven. Trees act like air conditioners.
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They shade these surfaces and us and release water vapor
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through their leaves. This cools the air around them up
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to ten degrees. That makes the city more comfortable and
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saves energy. When trees line city streets, traff it moves
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more slowly. That keeps us safer. City trees lower our
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stress and help us feel happier. Just seeing a tree,
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even through a window, actually helps our bodies' bit sickness.
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When you live near a tree, you typically miss for
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fewer days of score work. The bigger the tree, the
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greater it's benefits. That's why it's so important not only
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to plant trees, but to help them grow for many,
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many years. How can we help street trees this story
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Danny helps the tree grow strong by cleaning trash out
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of the tree pit, protecting it from dog urine, building
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a tree guard, and by treating it like a friend.
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We can help street trees by doing these same things.
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Trees also need to be watered when they are newly
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planted and in dry, hot weather. A new tree needs
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twenty gallons of water a week. All street trees will
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grow better when water during the summer. Use a hose
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or buckets to give your neighborhood tree a drink. Loosen
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up the soil. City trees, especially those without tree guards,
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get stepped on a lot that pounds down the soil,
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so it cannot absorb as much water and tree roots
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cannot get the oxygen and water they need. Use a
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hand coveater, which looks like a claw to loosen up
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the top inch or two of soil in the tree
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pit at least twice a year. You'd like to plant
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flowers at the base of your city tree. Drought tolerant
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plants are a good choice. Can also find suggestions by
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checking the local planting guidelines for your city. Spreading some
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composts and then mulch in spring and fall helps feed
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a tree, protects the soil from compaction and keeps it
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from drying out as quickly spread a three inch layer
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starting a few inches from the trunk. Don't leave lights
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or anything wrapped or tied around the tree trunk or
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limbs for longer than a year or two. That would
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be like you growing up while wearing the same pair
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of pants. When we are friends with trees, we help
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each other thrive, even on crowded city streets. Our next
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story is called The Shady Tree and it was published
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by Henry Holt and Company. It has the copyright year
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of twenty sixteen and it was written by Demy. Once
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upon the time, in China, there was a very rich
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boy named Tan Tan who lived in a very big
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house by the side of the road. The house was
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shaded by a very big tree where birds and animals
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loved to play. Tan Tan also loved to play in
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the shade of the tree with its very expensive toys.
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One afternoon, a very poor boy named Ping came and
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sat down under the tree. Tan Tan did not like
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this at all. Get up, get up, get up, he shouted.
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You cannot stay here, but it is so nice, Ping said,
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Tan Tan protested, this is my tree. I own all
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of it, the trunk, the branches, the leaves, and the
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shade everything. Pin thought, I couldn't possibly buy all that,
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but maybe I could afford to buy the shade, and
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that might be even better. Well, you sell me the
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shade of the tree, Pin ass Tang Tang. Greedy. Tang
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Tan loved money, and so he quickly answered why not,
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Thinking Pin was a silly goose. Pin gave Tang Tan
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the two coins he had in his pocket, and the
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shade was sewed. Every day after that, Pin came to
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sit in the shade of the tree wherever it happened
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to be, Pin sat in it. When the shade moved
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into Tang Tang's big house, salted Pin with his chickens
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and his water buffalo. When the shade moved into Tang
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Tan's bedroom, solded Pin. He took a nap right on
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tang tan spad. Often, Pin invited his many friends and
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their animals to sit in the shade too, wherever it
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happened to be. A day came when Tang Tang could
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stand this no longer. How dare you come into my
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big house and even into my bedroom with your animals
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and friends. Get out, Get out, Get out, he screamed,
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but Pin continued as before before he had bobbed the
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shade of the tree. One day, Tang Tang was celebrating
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his birthday was his very rich friends. They were all
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seated around a big shaded table when Ping suddenly entered
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riting his water buffalo and then sat down at the
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table too. When the friends learned that Tang Tang had
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sold the shade to Pin, they all laughed and said,
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Tang Tang is a silly goose. This was too much
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for Tang Tang to bear. He moved away to another
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house where there were no shade, and there were no trees,
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and there were no friends. Meanwhile, Pe knows that the
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tree shaded some parts of the house all day and
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all night too, and so he moved into the empty house,
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bringing his many friends and animals with him. He never
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turned away anyone who wanted to rest or to sing
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and dance in the beautiful shade of the shady tree.
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Non even Tang Tang. Our next set of stories are
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about feet, and the first one is titled Sandy Feet
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Whose Feet Footprints at the Shore. It was published by
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Sleeping Their Press. It has the copy right year of
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twenty nineteen and the author is Susan Wood's Sandy Feet
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on the beach make prints in the sand, digging feet
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very friendly, wet dogs lick your hands, waiting feet as
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piper hops, water, curls and sprays, crawling feet, click clack.
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Crab scuttles on its way, stamping feet. Seagulls cry snacks
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for us to munch. Swimming feet, webbed and strong. Pelican
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scoops of lunch. Wriggling feet on five orange legs. Sea
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star makes its way feathering feet. Barnacles hide in shells
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of white and gray scooping feet. Sea turtle works time
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to make her nest. Running feet, children play sand castles
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are the best. Buried feet, children laugh, daddy's toes poke
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through tired feet. Sun goes down Johns and eyes closed
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to sandy Feet on the beach, leaves Prince in the Sand.
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Our next book is called good Night Feet, and it
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was published by Henry Hote and Company. Has Caught the
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Bright Year of nineteen ninety one, and it was written
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by Constance Morgan Stern. Good Night feet, you've worked hard today.
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I need you feet to run and play. You galloped
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and skipped and pedaled about. Thank you feet for not
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wearing out. But the sheets are cool and clean in
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my bed. Snug in feet rest instead. Good Night head.
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I know a spot for heads that get heavy from
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holding a lot. My pillow will cradle you safe and
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sound until the morning comes around. Good Night hands, you're
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really neat. You helped me color, you helped me eat.
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You held tight to mom when we were across the street.
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I think by now you must be beat. So after
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all our prayers, just pull up the sheet. You can
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hold my teddy if it's fine with you. But if
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you're too tired, that's okay too. Good Night mouth, and
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now you must keep quiet so my ear can sleep. No,
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we're talking for you today, but I think that yawning's okay,
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and kissing good too. When It's time for bed. If
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you don't wake up the rest of my head. Good
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night ears, My pillows soft. My house is quiet, and
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you can turn off just as Mom turns off the light.
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But wait till after she says good night. Good night eyes.
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The room is great. Everything is tucked away. My feet,
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my hands might bare, my head, my mouth, my ears
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all gone to bed. So good night eyes. It is
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time for you to start to pull your shades down too.
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There's nothing else to see. Good night eyes, good night me.
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Our next story is titled The Foot Book, and it
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was published by random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin.
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Random House has a copyright of year of nineteen sixty
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eight to nineteen ninety six, and it was written by
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doctor Seuss. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right feet
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in the morning, feet at night, left foot, left foot,
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left foot, right wet foot, dry foot, high foot, low foot,
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front feet, back feet, red feet, black feet, left foot,
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right foot, feet, feet feet, How many many feet you meet,
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slow feet, quick feet, trick feet, sick feet, up feet,
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down feet. Here come clown feet, small feet, big feet.
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Here come pig feet, his feet, her feet, fuzzy fur
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feet in the house and on the street. How many
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many feet you meet? Up in the air, feet over
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a chair, feet, more and more feet twenty four feet
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here come more and more and more feet left, foot,
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right foot feet feet, feet, Oh, how many feet you meet?
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Our next story is called Look What Feet Can Do
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and it was published by a Learner Publications Company, a
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division of Learner Public Machine Group, has a copywriter of
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two thousand and seven and the author is DMSUSA. Look around,
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feeter everywhere, feeder walking, running, skipping, dancing, kicking and climbing.
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Acrobats are hanging upside down by their feet. Children with
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wheels on their feet are skating. Adults with skis on
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their feet are sailing down hillsides. It's awesome what human
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feet can do. Feet coming all colors and sizes. They
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help people move from one place to another. Other animals
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to amazing things with their feet too. And ostrich for example,
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is the world's just living dirt. Its feet are powerful.
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One quick from an Ostrichus foot can kill a lion.
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Some animals use their feet to catch fish, Some climb
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glass walls or walk on water. Other animals flirt, send
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messages or fight with their feet. We're about to meet
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a few of these far out feet digging machine, the
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metal is still in quiet. A badger catches the scent
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of a gopher. The badger flops on its stomach and
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puts its chin on the edge of the gopher's hideout. Next,
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the badger's huge front feet scoop of dirt and toss
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it under its belly. Its back feet kick everything into
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the air. The animal looks as if it's swimming in
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clouds of dirt and dust. Minutes the badger will enjoy
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a meal. Few prey can escape once this animal starts digging.
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When digging, badgers loosen the dirt with their front feet
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and push it under their belly. Then they kick it
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out of the and with their back feet. The badger
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sometimes travels as many as eight miles in one night.
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When the animal gets tired, it stops its feet dig
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a burrow where the badger can nap. If a bear
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or a mountain lion corners it, those same feet work
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at top speed. They can dig an escape hole in
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less than two minutes. Claws on the badger's front feet
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are almost as long as its toes. Skin between the
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toes gives them added strength. Hind feet or spoon shaped
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to scoop away dirt. Everything about the badger makes it
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a perfect digging machine. A badger's front feet each have
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five toes with claws up to two inches deadly feet.
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A red tail howk looks down from a perch high
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in a tree. Its scaly, knobby feet rest on a branch.
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Four toes are tipped with long, pointed nails. The bird's
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nails are called telm They are as sharp as daggers.
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The hawk spots a snake moving in the field below.
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Jumping into the wind with outstretched wings, the bird flies up.
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It circles the field a few times, and then dives.
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A red tailed hawk sits very still up in a tree,
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waiting to spot its prey. The eyesight of a hawk
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is eight times as powerful as a human's. Just before
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reaching the snake, the hawk stretches out its legs and toes.
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Feet lock onto the prey. Tealons pierce its flesh until
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the snake is lifeless. In minutes, the hawk flies away
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with its meal. The red trailed hawk is not the
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only bird with daily feet. Other hawks, falcons, vultures, eagles,
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and owls have them too. These birds are known as raptures.
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Long ago, the word meant to grab by force, and
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that's what raptors do with their feet. When getting ready
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to a tiger spray, the hawks diffens its legs and
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pushes its tail ons forward. It uses its tails and
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wings to slow down. Sticky hairs. A gecko climbs a
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glass wall and walks across a ceiling. Then it hangs
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the place by only one toe. How does it do that?
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Beneath each of the gecko's toes are thousands of thin hairs.
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They are ten times thinner than a single hair on
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your head. A million gecko hairs could easily fit on
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the top of a penny. Gecko hairs may be thin,
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but they are strong. A single one could hold an ant.
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Several thousand can easily hold the gecko as it hangs
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by one toe. A gecko can walk up glass and
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across ceilings because of its amazing feet. When the gecko
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takes a step, its hairs row onto the surface until
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they stick. As the animal moves along, it peels the
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hairs away like tape. Stick peels, stick peel. Gecko never
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slips or falls. Scientists are trying to make hairs like
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those on the gecko's feet. They hope someday to attach
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them to material humans can wear. Then maybe we will
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be able to walk up glass walls and across ceilings
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like the get Go Stick Peels Stick Peel. The undersides
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of the gecko's feet have sole and toe pads. These
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pads are covered with around five hundred thousand sticky hairs.
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Water skis a lizard suns itself next to a stream
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in Central America. The creature belongs to a group of
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lizards in the iguana family known as basel licks. Like dinosaurs,
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basel licks can run on two feet. The lizard's large,
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bulging eyes look nervously around. The creature senses that something
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is coming. It may be time to run. The snake
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crawls into the open quickly. The lizard stands up on
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its hind legs. It's large web feet race over the ground.
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Sharp claws barely touch the earth. The basil licks have
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long legs and long toes with sharp claws. This helps
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them run fast. The lizard reaches the stream's edge, but
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it does not stop. It runs across the water and
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does not sink. The lizard's feet are so big it's
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as though it's wearing water skis. The basalisk can run
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about seven miles an ire. As long as it moves quickly,
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it will not sink in the water. If it slows down,
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it will go under. Even if the lizard sinks, it
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still has a chance to escape. Its web feet helped
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it swim below the surface. Predators look around, but they
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cannot find the water skin lizard. Now you see it,
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Now you don't. The lizard is running fast across the water.
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If it slows down, it will drop into the water
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and swim the rest of its way cozy feet. In March,
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cold winter winds flow across Antarctica, the sun never shines,
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and the seas or ice. It is so cold that
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human skin can freeze in seconds. During this time of year,
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most animals leave Antarctica for warmer places, but thousands of
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imperior penguins arrive to find mates. They are the only
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birds to breed or have their young during winter. After
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a penguin pair mates, the female weighs a single egg.
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The male wriggles the egg onto his feet, then he
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covers it with a warm layer of his belly skin.
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A male emperor penguin looks at the egg he is
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keeping warm on his feet. A few days later, the
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female penguins leave. They will spend almost two months at
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sea searching for food. The meantime, their mates will keep
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the eggs warm. Males do nothing but huddle together. They
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eat nothing and can and lose almost half their weight,
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but the eggs remain warm and safe on their feet.
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After the young hatch, the females return and cough up
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food for their young. Chicks move into their mother's feet,
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and hungry males leave on their own fishing trips. For
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two more months, the chicks remain cozy and warm on
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their mother's feet. A chick is keeping warm on its
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mother's feet. When it becomes older, it will wander out
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on its own fishing feet. The large pond is dark
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and still. Suddenly, tiny splashing sounds break the silent. The
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noises are repeated again and again. Fishing bats are at work.
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These unusual bats live near water in Central and South America.
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They have long hind legs and feet much bigger than
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those of other bats. Their wings are huge. During the day,
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the bats sleep in caves, hollow trees, or rock piles.
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A few even rest under large empty turtle shells. All
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their hideout smell fishy. Fishing bats have long hind legs
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and huge hind feet. Their feet are two to four
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times longer than those of other bats. This concludes the
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children's story I are for today. Please join us next
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time as we will read more stories, fables and fairy tales.
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