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guess what squeaks and I have come up with a bunch of new animals for our game Guess that
animal you can play along with us here's how it works we've each picked a few secret animals and
we're gonna take turns giving each other Clues to see if we can guess what they are then we watch a
video to learn more about them and because it's almost Halloween this time all of our Clues are
about animals people might think of when they think of Halloween I'll go first okay squeaks
my first Halloween animal is furry they usually have big ears and they squeak a lot
no it's not a rat but you're sort of close my animal also has wings
you want one more hint your best friend is one of these animals
that's right a bat like our friend Sam the bat a lot of people think bats are sort of scary
but they're actually really cool helpful Critters here's Jesse to tell you more I'm thinking of an
animal it's small and furry it can be pretty cute and it flies around at night can you guess what
animal it is that's right I'm thinking about bats some people think bats are scary maybe because
they only come out at night or maybe because sometimes they live in Dark Places or maybe it's
because some species of bats called vampire bats Survive by drinking blood but you probably won't
ever run into a vampire bat only three species of bat are blood drinkers the rest of them over 1200
species eat fruit nectar bugs and other small animals if you ask us bats are totally awesome
here are just three of our favorite things about them to start some bass can hear their way in the
dark that's because they don't rely on their eyes like we do instead bats you sound to find
their way around have you ever yelled into a big empty room or or a canyon and heard your
own voice shout back at you that's called an echo the sound of your voice moves across the room to
the walls and then bounces back to your ears as a bat flies through the night it does something
really similar it makes a sound and then carefully listens for the Echo and the way the echo comes
back can tell the bat a lot about what's around it this special skill is called echolocation if
the echo comes back quickly that means there must be something pretty close to it because the sound
only traveled a short way before bouncing back but if the echo takes a long time to bounce back
then the bat knows that the object is further away bats can tell not only how far away something is
but also how big it is and how fast it's moving all from using echolocation and since bats are
constantly using echolocation to figure out the world around them you'll often see them flying
around with their mouths open to keep making sounds to bounce back another thing we like
about bats they really like to hang out bats hang upside down in quiet dark hidden places like the
roof of a cave or the underside of a bridge but how when I hang upside down from from the monkey
bars after a while I start to feel like my head is going to explode bats can hang for a long time
because their bodies are built for life upside down the little Pathways in their bodies that
blood moves through called arteries have special valves in them that only let blood through one
way as the bat's heart beats the blood has to keep moving through its body in just one direction that
keeps the blood from getting stuck in the bat's head when it's hanging upside down that's a pretty
neat trick but you know another thing that's easy to like about bats they make really great moms
bats usually have one baby called a pup in a year at the beginning of that pup's life it clings to
its mother's belly all the time while the mom wraps Her Wings around it maybe we should stop
calling good snuggles bear hugs and start calling them bat hugs and thousands of moms in their pups
can live together in a huge group called a nursery even when it's cold outside the nursery stays warm
because of all those bats hanging close together plus when Mom needs to go out and find food she
can just drop her baby off at the nursery with all the other moms and pups when she comes back you
might think it'd be hard to find her baby again I mean there are thousands of pups that look just
like hers but bats in their Puffs can recognize each other through their smells and their voices
so when a pup calls out the mom can fly right to it it would be like trying to find your family in
the middle of a crowded amusement park except all of the other kids at the park are calling out for
their parents too so what do you think aren't bats scary cool they have super sensing abilities they
can hang out upside down and they are marvelous moms okay squeaks you want to take a turn [Music]
your animal also flies huh hmm give me another clue
your animal has feathers and it comes out at night I think I know does your animal also go oh is your
animal an owl owls big eyes give them sort of an eerie look don't they but those big eyes
also help them hunt and owls are some of the best hunters in the whole bird family oh oh squeaks do
you hear that do you think could be up there I think it's an owl I love watching all kinds of
birds but owls are some of my favorites they're quick they're adorable and they're some of the
best hunters in the whole bird family and there are lots of different kinds of owls about 200
species they range in size from the tiny little elf owl which is only about 13 centimeters tall
that's about as big as my hand to the great gray owl which can be about a meter tall that's about
as big as a two-year-old kid their size is may be different but all owls have a few things in common
like the food they eat depending on its size an owl might eat frogs mice Birds rabbits insects or
other animals but the point is an owl's food is on the move so these birds have special features that
help them find and eat their prey for example when you look at an owl what's the first thing
you notice maybe they're big round eyes owls have two eyes that face forward just like ours do some
other kinds of animals like fish chickens and deer have eyes on the sides of their head this
lets those animals see what's going on all around them at the same time but owl's eyes like ours
Focus only on what's right in front of them that's pretty handy if you want to swoop down and catch
some food that's on the Move owls usually hunt at night so their eyes have to take in a lot of light
to help them see in the dark that's why owls have such huge eyes but unlike you and me owls can't
move their eyes our eyes are well balls they're eyeballs and you can move them around in your head
like this we can look left and right and you might even be able to roll your eyes but owls can't do
any of that that's because owl eyes are not balls they're shaped like tubes and they're held in
place by bones so owls can't roll them around to look at things instead they have special necks
that allow them to turn their heads almost but not quite all the way around can you do that [Music]
I can't so how do owls do it the secret is in the bones in their neck these are called vertebrae and
owls have more vertebrae in their necks than we do owls have 14 of these bones while people only have
seven these extra bones let an owl swing its head almost all the way around which is very
useful since it can't just move its eyes when it wants to look at something but what about when an
owl can't see its prey like when a little mouse is in a tunnel under the snow or if a toad is
hiding under a pile of leaves how would an owl find its lunch then no big deal if an owl can't
see its prey it can just listen for it that's because owls have a super sense of hearing now
we can't see an owl's ears from the outside those things that look like ears on say a great horned
owl those are just feathers but the feathers all around an owl's face are really useful they help
Channel sounds into the ears which helps them to pick up on even the very quietest of sounds so by
using its super sense of hearing it's big eyes and its flexible neck and Al can find and catch that
hidden prey okay my turn my animal is small they can be fuzzy and sometimes they Scamper around the
floor and startle you no still not a rat squeaks do rats have eight legs like my creature does
my animal also builds webs to live on and to catch their prey with do you know what it is squeaks
you're right squeaks I was thinking of a spider spiders can be a little scary especially when
you find one in your house or you walk through a spider web but just like bats spiders can help
us by eating insects and they have all sorts of other incredible abilities too let's check it
out hi guys we just came across this spiderweb look how pretty it is you might know some kids
or adults that get kind of nervous or even afraid around spiders in fact one of our four-year-old
viewers is kind of afraid of spiders too but she knew exactly what to do she wrote us and said I
want to learn about scary spiders so that I'm not afraid of them anymore that's a great attitude
knowledge is power so let's all see what we can discover about spiders one thing that you should
know is that spiders have a really important job to do they eat lots of small little insects like
mosquitoes gnats and house flies so if spiders weren't around to do their jobs then there
would be a lot more of these pesky insects around speaking of insects some people think
that spiders are a kind of insect but that's not true you might remember how you can tell
an insect from other kinds of animals insects have six legs and they have three main body parts ahead
a thorax and an abdomen plus they sometimes have other body parts too like wings to help them fly
around an antennae to sense their surroundings now spiders are different in a lot of ways for
one thing they only have two body parts they have an abdomen but instead of having a head
and a thorax they have just one other body part with the two put together it's called
encephalothorax and maybe the easiest way to spot a spider is that they always have eight
legs and they don't have wings or antennas here's another fun fact about spiders spiders
have different kinds of eyes than insects do insects have really complicated eyes called
compound eyes they're made up of thousands of little lenses that work together so the insect
can see but spiders have simple eyes with just one lens just like you and I do so you actually have
something in common with spiders but if you've ever seen a picture of a spider up close you
might have noticed that spiders have more than two eyes most of them have eight eyes one kind
of eight-eyed spider is called the jumping spider these spiders have some of the best vision of any
spider in the world their eight eyes make them able to see almost the whole way around their
bodies but jumping spiders do something else very well too and I bet you can guess what it
is they jump some of these fires can jump up to 50 times the length of their own bodies if you
could do that you'd be able to jump over 12 cars in a single leap but these spiders are careful
jumpers they always stick a piece of silk called a drag line to whatever they're jumping from so
if they happen to miss what they're jumping for they won't fall clever spiders jumping spiders
are quite smart and really kind of cute but they don't do something that lots of other spiders do
they don't spin fancy webs for the most beautiful webs around you should keep an eye out for spiders
known as orb weavers the word orb means round and that's the shape we see in an orb Weaver's web a
nice pretty Circle the silk that orb weavers and other spiders use to make their webs comes from
special body parts called spinnerets most spiders have six of these spinnerets and they use them to
spin different kinds of silk each kind is for a different job some of the silica or Weavers use
is sticky so when an insect flies into its web it gets caught in these threads but or Weavers
also make a silk that isn't sticky when they want to walk around on their own webs they keep their
eight feet on those special threads then the spider can get to its prey and wrap it up in
another kind of silk until it's ready to eat it now that you know more about them we hope
you feel better about our friends the spiders so the next time you see a spider take a few
minutes to watch it so you can learn more about it you can also learn more by reading books and
of course asking questions okay squeaks let's hear your last one hmm your animal is long and skinny
and it doesn't have any hair or legs hmm
and your animal goes
hmm is it a rat I'm just kidding squeaks I think your animal is a snake
I think snakes are so cool but a lot of people are scared of them but one way to be less afraid of
something is to learn more about it so here's Jesse to tell us some amazing snake facts how
would you like to play a game of true or false squeaks and I came up with a really fun game
where you get to guess what's true and what's not about one of our favorite kinds of animals snakes
snakes are super interesting and there are lots of different kinds scientists think there are
more than 3 500 different types of snakes in the world the smallest is about as thin as a
piece of spaghetti and can curl up comfortably on a quarter but another kind called a python
can grow to be about 10 meters long which is just a bit shorter than a school bus some snakes are
brightly colored While others blend in really well to their environments but there are a few things
that a lot of people including kids tend to think about snakes that are just not true so we came up
with this awesome game so you can learn the facts about these amazing animals okay here's how it
works I'll say something about snakes and you as Greeks can guess if it's true or false ready
all right number one snakes are slimy and Squishy true or false
you're right squeaks false all snakes belong to a group of animals called reptiles like
all reptiles snakes have skin that's covered with scales to help protect them touch your fingernail
how does that feel snake scales feel a lot like that and that's because scales are made of the
same stuff as your fingernails and toenails so scales feel hard and most of the time pretty
smooth which means that a snake doesn't feel slimy at all it feels dry but our snakes squishy like a
worm nope all reptiles including snakes also have something else a skeleton made of bones in fact
a snake skeleton has a lot of the same parts that our skeletons have can you reach around and touch
the middle of your back if you can then you should be able to feel hard bumps that run from the top
of your neck all the way down these bumps are caused by the bones that make up your backbone
muscles inside your body connect to your backbone and help you do all kinds of things like stand up
bend over and sit down a snake has a backbone too and it does the same job as your backbone it works
with a snake's muscles to help it move the way a snake moves is really cool and it has a name
that's kind of fun to say slithering so having a backbone means that snakes aren't soft and Squishy
like worms even though worms and snakes have a shape that looks kind of the same they're not the
same kind of animal worms don't have a skeleton or a backbone so worms don't Slither they wriggle
or crawl okay let's move on to question number two in our game snakes attack and chase people true or
false you're right squeaks that one's false too you might have heard people say that snakes are
aggressive which means they'll attack or chase people but that's not true snakes are usually
pretty shy and most of the time they'll Slither away to hide when people are around but they will
bite if they're afraid or they can't get a way to hide so if you do see a snake you don't need
to run away but you should leave them alone and give them lots of space alright let's do one more
question number three snakes are important true or false this one is definitely true snakes are
very important animals snakes eat other animals and many of those animals that they eat are ones
that can sometimes cause problems snakes might eat baby insects like mosquitoes or slugs that
can eat the flowers and vegetables that grow in our garden they can even eat mice rats and other
small animals that sometimes carry diseases sorry squeaks but you're safe they don't eat robot rats
I want you to imagine what might happen if snakes weren't around to eat some of these animals there
would be more and more of them and the problems they cause would get bigger too so having snakes
around helps keep an environment in balance and an environment that's in balance is good for all
living things including people so if you're lucky enough to see a snake when you're out and about
you don't need to be afraid of it in fact you might want to give it a wave and tell it thank
you and thank you for joining us on scishow kids that's the end of the game squeaks let's
see who won wow we tied again I guess we're both just really great at guessing animals ha squeaks
and I know the perfect prize for animal experts like us some Halloween candy let's each have a
couple pieces and then we can go plan the perfect not so creepy creature Halloween costumes thanks
for joining us today if you want to keep learning and playing games with me squeaks and all of our
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