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- The kids are going to become Wilderness Explorers.
- All right, my friends.
So right now I have something for you guys.
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Now this map has all the badges that you can earn.
You can earn all of these badges
up until seven o'clock tonight.
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- Yeah. - So maybe the next time
you go to that lake
you can do me a favor and pick that trash up, okay?
So...
- I wanna do this one.
- [Dad] You wanna do that one?
- You guys need some pencils.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- One thing that we love about this park
is that they have this Wilderness Explorers program
and our kids absolutely love it.
Basically, they give you a book
and you can look all over the park
for different areas where they'll stop
and talk to you and you learn,
and they teach you about the animals
of that location or they teach you about the ecosystems,
or they teach you something, and you learn
and you can talk to experts about
what's going on in that area.
And then they give them a little sticker
so it shows that they've gone to that booth
and talked to them, and you try to collect it all
and I think there might be something
if you collect them all,
but that's not even why we're doing it.
They just enjoy the experience,
and I think that's so cool.
So I absolutely love that about Disney's Animal Kingdom.
- So this would be elephant poop
that you guys touched.
Eww, yes. - Yuck!
Touch it once.
- [Mom] Jacob touches it more. (laughs)
- Yeah, so we can make
paper out of elephant poop,
over here.
- [Mom] Ooh, wow!
- Can you imagine?
Do you want to touch it?
So instead of taking our trees down,
we might as well take elephant poop over here
and make paper.
- Thank you!
- You're welcome.
- Thank you.
- So we're gonna play this little game.
We're gonna match the noses to the other ones
that I have.
Can you put that nose with
which one you think it belongs to?
- Yeah, good job!
You know how we have fingerprints?
- Yeah.
- So everybody has different fingerprints.
Gorillas all have different kinds of noses.
It's kind of like their own little fingerprint.
So their homes are disappearing.
The forest is disappearing.
So what can we do to help save the forest
to protect them?
- Make paper out of...
elephant poop.
- Thank you!
- [Guide] You're welcome!
- I think I like these more than rides, a little.
- [Mom] Whoa, that's saying a lot, buddy!
You're a good explorer.
- I see she's already making her favorite animal.
What is your favorite animal?
- A manatee.
- Ohh, did you go to Epcot and see the manatees?
- Yeah.
- You did?
How cool are they?
- Awesome.
- [Mom] Manatee?
Her manatee.
Jacob's giraffe.
- That's a dolphin and that's a horse!
- [Mom] Awesome.
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- But the languages of India...
So you see this?
- Yeah.
- What do you think it is?
- The alphabet.
- Correct, correct, yes.
Uh. - [Crowd] Uh.
- Ah. - [Crowd] Ah.
- Ih. - [Crowd] Ih.
- Ee. - [Crowd] Ee.
- Oo. - [Crowd] Oo.
- Ooo. - [Crowd] Ooo.
- Ai. - [Crowd] Ai.
- Eh. - [Crowd] Eh.
- Ay. - [Crowd] Ay.
- Oh. - [Crowd] Oh.
- Ou. - [Crowd] Ou.
- Om. - [Crowd] Om.
- Awam. - [Crowd] Awam.
- That is how the vowels go.
I will teach you the most common greeting
in India.
Put your hands together
and say namaste.
- [Crowd] Namaste.
- Namaste is for hello, welcome, and goodbye
and it means that the good in me
respects the good in you,
or I can see the beauty in your soul.
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- That was so interesting!
They know so much about what they're talking about.
That's so cool, and you can tell that it's not just
some person that they taught a script to.
It's people that actually know what they're
talking about run each of these things.
So cool.
- That was what happened with us
with the man from South Africa.
- [Dad] Yeah.
- It was incredible.
- Yeah, she just went over the language of India,
and it was incredible.
So cool.
And other languages in India,
and how many different languages there are
and different ways of saying hello
in different languages.
It's just so cool
- They can ask their random questions
and the person isn't just like,
"Well, let me consult the guide."
- [Dad] Yeah.
- They're like, "Oh, yeah.
"Let me tell you all about it."
- Or, "That's not in the script, kid."
- Yeah, they don't do that.
They're like, "I can tell you everything
"because that is where I am from."
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- [Dad] Ooh.
Bailey's gonna know. - Wooly mammoth.
- You got it!
Gotta write it down.
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- It has the shape of a bill right here
that's kind of like an animal
that's still alive today.
So how about this one,
do you know any long-necked dinosaurs?
- [Child] Yes.
- Yeah, that's a...
Oh, I forgot it's name.
- That's okay 'cause this one's not
the most common among dinosaurs,
I just wanted to make sure you've heard of 'em before.
- [Child] It's actually my favorite.
- This one right here is a Camarasaurus,
it's my favorite dinosaur--
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- [Dad] What are you trying to find?
- The three flags!
And I found them.
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- That one.
- You're right.
All right, so here's your flag badge.
There you go. - So the kids did not finish
their wilderness books the other day,
so we've decided to come back.
This is day two of wilderness adventure,
findin' the things and gettin' the badges.
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- He is a huntsman spider.
He's actually from Florida.
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- There you go, my friend.
- Thank you.
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- I have to find all the items to go
up Mount Everest.
See?
- [Dad] Ooh, a checklist.
Start searchin'!
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- Okay, the kids only have one badge left
and then they are senior Wilderness Explorers.
How are you feelin' about this, Jake?
- Excited.
- [Dad] Excited?
Feelin' strong?
- Oh, got it.
- You got it.
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- Now what kind of plant do you guys see in my box?
Well, you've got your botany badge,
and now you are officially Wilderness Explorers.
Now repeat after me.
Please say the Wilderness Explorer.
- [Kids] The Wilderness Explorer.
- Is a friend to all.
- [Kids] Is a friend to all.
- Either a tiny plant.
- [Kids] Either a tiny plant.
- Fish.
- [Kids] Fish.
- Or a tiny mole.
- [Kids] Or a tiny mole.
- I promise.
- [Kids] I promise.
- I will explore the wilderness.
- [Kids] I will explore the wilderness.
- Forever.
- [Kids] Forever.
- Congratulations, friends.
You got your senior wilderness badges.
There you are!
You guys put in a lot of work.
- [Dad] You did it!
You did it!
- I did it!
I did it.
- All right, we highly recommend doing
the Wilderness Explorer program here at the Animal Kingdom.
It was a lot of fun,
the kids learned a lot of stuff.
Couple pointers:
it's very hard to do all in one day,
and part of the reason for that is
that it ends at seven.
So even though the park,
today for example-- - We did it
for two days.
We did it-- - Yeah, it took you two days.
- Yeah, two days.
Not even three days.
- The program ends before the park closes,
so you have to look at the signs,
usually I think it's seven, it ends,
and then the park closes at nine.
You don't even get the full park day
to finish it.
- I finished.
- I'm an actual
explorer now, Duncan!
Isn't it nice to be an explorer, pal?
(baby gurgles)
I
am finally
a Wilderness Explorer.
It took me one and a half days
to be one.
Dun dun dun dun.
I am one.
(baby laughs)
- [Woman] A frog.
- [Child] It's a live frog. (screams and laughs)
- [Dad] Did it get on your head?
It's on your head! (laughs)
(children laughing)
It's on your head!
- A real frog.
It jumped onto my head!