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by Adventure Academy. ♪ Wild Kratts ♪ Hey, it's
the Kratt Brothers here. I'm Chris. I'm Martin. And we're out on the Caribbean
Sea looking for sharks. There are about 400 different
species of sharks in the world, and we've seen many of them
on our adventures including the massive
whale shark, which feeds on microscopic
plankton, the hammerhead shark
with its strange head shape, and the silky shark, who can be
found all over the world. Sharks, here we come! All right,
we've hit the shallow water. CHRIS:
It might not seem like there are sharks
up this channel, but there are. And we're going to head up it.
Come on, we'll show you. There they are! Lemon sharks.
We found them. This quiet channel
is a lemon shark nursery. It's a safe
out-of-the-way place where lemon shark mothers
can have their babies. And it's a place
where young sharks can live for the first few years
of their lives. There's still so much about
sharks that we don't know, especially certain species
like the great white shark, that we filmed
off the South African coast. The movements and life cycle of
this secretive cold-water shark are probably the least known
of all sharks. Imagine if we could stick
with the great white shark as she travels
through the seas. And see what her secret life
and life cycle is all about. What if? What if? ♪ On adventure with
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Wild Kratts ♪ ♪ Go wild, wild, Wild Kratts ♪ Whoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo! We're almost there. And these Manta Riders
can really fly. Whoo! Whoa. And so can real
manta rays. Oh, I have a feeling we're in for one of the greatest
adventures yet. Yeah, one of the greatest,
whitest adventures yet. All we have to do
is find a great white shark. Yeah. People know so little
about great white sharks. They're one of the most
mysterious creatures on the planet. And if we want to follow them
and find out more, we got to go where the largest
sharks in the world like to go. BOTH:
To the cleaning station! Can't wait
till we get there. (Whimpering) If we get there. Whoa. It's you again. Not the largest shark
in the world, but definitely the largest ray:
a manta ray. CHRIS:
Oh, but completely harmless
filter feeders. He might be going to the same
place we are. Mantas and great white sharks
both visit cleaning stations. Amazing. Look at the way
he flaps those giant wings. CHRIS:
Yeah, up to a 22 foot
wingspan. It's like he's flying
underwater. MARTIN:
Hey, buddy. What do you think
of our Manta Riders? You know they're designed
after you. (Chris laughing) Huh? What? They are. I know, I know. I just wish this remora
would stop tickling me. (Laughing) Come on, pal. Cut it out.
We're on a mission. Wow. Remoras have
the coolest heads. I think we should name him
"Sucker-Head." Sucker-Head.
That's perfect. Yup. That one just latched
onto the manta using suction. Looks like he wants
to hitch a ride. (Gasping) Uh-oh. Chris, don't great white sharks
eat rays? CHRIS:
Yeah, they do. MARTIN:
And don't our Manta Riders kind of look like manta rays? CHRIS: Yeah. CHRIS AND MARTIN:
Hide! Uh, maybe riding
our Manta Riders on a great white shark
adventure isn't such a good idea. Definitely not. But I think Sucker-Head
has the right idea. If we want to tag along
with a shark, we got to-- Go remora! Go remora! Aviva, change in plan.
We're on our way back. This is the coolest
fish in the world. Okay, stick to the glass for me
one more time, Sucker-Head. Got it. When he attaches,
he backs up and those special bony ridges
get raised. That makes his head sucker
stick on. It's kind of like a-- Huh? Hm! Suction dart? Huh? Or a plunger. Whoa! A plunger harpoon.
That works too. That should do it.
Remora rocket sub ready to go. Load up, guys. Guys? MARTIN:
All set, Aviva. Miniaturize. Yeah! Let's go, remora! If it's okay,
I'll pass on this trip. MARTIN:
I feel like a fish out of water. You and me both, bro. Uh, could we get a little help
over to the water? AVIVA: Adios! KOKI: Bon voyage! Come on, Sucker-Head. Great white sharks,
here we come. (Tires screeching) (Grunting) (Sniffing) Ah, the salty sea. Home to some of the rarest, most endangered animals
on earth. Now isn't that convenient? Because that's the kind
I like to cook. (Laughing) Oh, here it is. MARTIN:
Oh, the cleaning station. That's it?
That's the cleaning station? There's nothing there. And what's the little remora
doodle sticky-head doing? Oh, he's just waiting
for a ride. A remora
swims around like that until he finds a new shark
to hitch on to. Incoming shark. (Gasping) Uh-oh, and she's a big one. MARTIN:
Look like an 18 footer. That's the largest predatory
fish in the ocean right there. But what is she
there for? What gets cleaned of these cleaning station
doohickeys anyway? CHRIS:
She does. Yeah, check it out. And he's the guy
that does the cleaning. Well, him and his buddies. Cleaner fish. Cleaner fish. Hm. Oh, and she's pulling
into the station. The body position. It's telling the cleaner wrasse,
"Please clean me. I may be a shark,
but I won't bite. I promise." And the fish version
of a dentist says, "No problem.
That's what I do." They're picking parasites from
the shark's teeth and mouth. For them it's food,
so it's a good deal. Sharks, rays and all kinds
of fish line up at these cleaning stations. Sucker-Head's making his move. He's on! We'd better get in there. Mm-hm. Okay, here we go. Nice sharky. "Sharky"? How about "Razor-Mouth"? Look at those teeth. CHRIS:
Yeah. Well, whatever. Sharky, Razor-Mouth.
Just go easy on us, big girl. Just want to find out
more about you. MARTIN:
Whoa, you can see
new rows of teeth coming in behind
the old ones. Oh, yeah.
Those teeth never stop coming. We only have 2 sets of teeth
and that's it. Sharks just keep
growing them. And look. Sharks get loose teeth too. CHRIS:
Got it. Wow, they're serrated with those super-shark ridges
on the edges just like a saw. Those teeth are serious
slicers and dicers. MARTIN:
Chris, look out. We're drifting. Oh, no. A current.
It's pulling us off course. Yeah, and on course
to be her main course. I hope she's not hungry. If she is,
we're about to be shark bait. Whoa, please don't
close your mouth. Please don't close
your mouth. Uh... Whew! Close one. Time to meet this mission
head-on. Engaging head sucker plate. CHRIS:
Steady. Steady. We're about to make contact. Three, two, one. Yes! We've landed. The first successful mission
onto a great white shark in the history of creature
adventuring. Yay! We did it! Mission control
to remora sub. Well done, guys. Whoo-hoo! Oh, yeah. CHRIS AND MARTIN:
We're stuck on sharks. Whoa! AVIVA:
It looks like they're heading
straight out to sea. I wonder where
she's going. KOKI:
It says here that scientists
have recently discovered that great whites travel
long distances to get to different places
for food. Me too. The trek from the couch
to the fridge wears me out. I mean really far, Jimmy. Sometimes over
12,000 m. That's a quarter of the way
around the world. In fact, there may not be
as many great white sharks as people think. It might just be
the same sharks moving around the world
all the time. Well, wherever she takes them,
I just hope my remora sub can hold on long enough to uncover the secrets
of the great whites and find out where
she's headed. ♪ The biggest fish in the sea ♪ ♪ Will make the tastiest
soup for me ♪ (Laughing) (Sniffing) Ah, the sweet smell
of shark. (Sniffing) That way. (Laughing) Soon, I will have
the final ingredient of my latest
endangered species recipe: shark fin soup. (Slurping) (Lips smacking) Yes, it needs more bite. The bigger the shark,
the bigger the bite. (Grunting) Mm-hm. Well, the fins
of the great white will make the most
fantastic soup. No: fin-tastic. Ha-ha! Gourmand's fin-tastic
shark fin soup. (Cackling) Yeah. Ah, this is great. Cruising along the ocean
on a top predator. We've got nothing
to worry about. Yeah, smooth sailing,
great white shark-style. Must be kind of nice
being a shark. I mean, who's going
to mess with you? (Thumping) Whoa! Oh, okay. Uh, I forgot. There is a creature that will
mess with a great white. An orca. And he's not done yet. There's more than one. No wonder these guys are
nicknamed "wolves of the sea" and can take on
a great white. They hunt in packs. CHRIS:
Go, Razor-Mouth. Swim for your life. MARTIN:
And ours too. Tightening sucker grip. I hope she holds. Whoo! Nice move,
Razor-Mouth. A deeper dive. That's a great defense. Great whites can go deeper
than orcas can. And it worked,
because there they go. That must have been
scary for Razor-Mouth. Yeah, just when we thought a shark had nothing
to worry about. Way to hang on, Sucker-Head. And nice work with that sucker
strength, Aviva. That sure was a good test. Okay, let's get back to it. It looks like we're still
heading west. She's definitely on course
for somewhere specific. We just don't know where. Hey, guys, while you're
traveling let's do a body scan to get a health check. Maybe she's hungry
and heading to a feeding ground. Do you see
the orange controller? Got it.
Deploying body scanner. Receiving image. Cool. We can see the skeleton. And there's her stomach. And further down there's-- Wait a second. Huh? She's-- She's going
to have babies. Baby sharks. Babies? Babies? CHRIS AND MARTIN:
Baby sharks! Oh, they're cute. They're cute. That's impossible. Sharks are fish
and fish lay eggs. I'll prove it. See, my grandfather and I found
this on the beach last summer. It's a shark egg case. Like the shark version
of an eggshell. Jimmy's right.
Some sharks, like cat sharks, do lay eggs like that. They attach them to seaweed
with those stringy hooks. And they stay there until the baby shark
is ready to hatch out. Ha! Boo-yeah!
Knew I was right. But Aviva's scan is right too. Ha! Boo-yay.
Er, whatever. With other sharks,
like great whites, their eggs hatch
in their bellies. Wow. That's totally different
from most other fish. Oh, I can't believe it. Razor-Mouth
is going to be a mama. She's going to have pups. Pups? What? She's having baby dogs too? No, baby sharks
are called pups. (Laughing) Shark puppies. That's cute. Hey, if she's having pups,
maybe that's where she's headed. Yes, to a nursery. A shark nursery. Other sharks, like lemon sharks,
have special places they go to have their pups. And maybe great whites
do too. Nobody's ever seen a great white
shark nursery before. We got to stick with her. (Sonar beeping) If I find some big fish,
then the shark will come to me. Ooh, I knew there'd be
a school of fish around here somewhere. (Laughing) The shark will catch the fish
and I will catch the shark. (Cackling) MARTIN:
I'm getting hungry. Razor-Mouth
must be getting hungry too. She hasn't eaten in days. Oh, great. And we're swimming
right up towards her mouth. It's a good thing they don't eat
remoras very often. Fish, sea turtles and seals
are the great white's favorite. So we should be okay. "Should be"? Whoa. Look at those nostrils. I wonder what smells
they're picking up right now. MARTIN:
Those nostrils
can sense the blood of an injured fish or other sea
animal from 3 miles away. And the eyes: they've got a special ability
to roll back into her head when she bites something so her eyes get protected
from getting poked. Martin, seems like
she's looking up. Yeah. I have a feeling
she might be-- (Rumbling) Ah! Quick! Latch on! Get closer! Got it! Oh, she's moving so fast
I can't see a thing. Just keep that Sucker-Head
suckered, dude. Let's hope it holds. CHRIS AND MARTIN:
Whoa! (Chris and Martin screaming) Well, I guess great whites
like tuna fish for lunch too. (Groaning) Yeah. Hold the mayo. And Sucker-Head
gets the leftovers. Another good reason
to stick with sharks: a free meal.
Free ride and free meals? Wow. These remoras have it easy. And look. Razor-Mouth just leaves
the little remora alone. Yeah. Like most animals, sharks have certain foods
they like to eat, and everything else they'd
rather just stay away from. And that includes people,
cleaner fish and remoras. And remora subs.
Right, Razor-Mouth? Razor-Mouth! Look out! Razor-Mouth! Look out! Hang on, buddy.
We're coming. (Gasping) Oh, we should have known. (Laughing) CHRIS AND MARTIN:
Gourmand! Huh? I've been out to sea
too long. I thought I heard
those pesky Wild Kratts. CHRIS: You did. Hm? Oh. (Sniffing) Yes, I smell them. But where? Hm? Oh, ha-ha-ha. It's the Kratt Brothers riding in a bathtub toy. Well, isn't that nice? Yeah, yeah. Well, what are you
doing with that shark? She needs to get back
to the sea. She's going places,
you know. Oh, I know. You do? You do? Yes. She's going in my soup. Now, putter away.
I've got shark fin soup to make. MARTIN:
Shark fin soup? Are you kidding me? You want her fins
for a soup? Why, yes. But only her fins. (Laughing) You can't just
take her fins. She won't survive
without her fins. She won't be able to swim.
She'll die. You can't do this.
Besides, she's got-- Baby shark pups. GOURMAND:
Au revoir. Taking sharks
for their fins? I had no idea
people actually do that. Some do. It says here
that between shark fin soup and hunting sharks for sport, people kill about
100 million sharks every year. 100 million? Like, 1 and 8 zeros? Yeah. And less than 10 people
die from sharks every year. And it's usually only because
a shark mistakes them for natural prey. Sounds like sharks have more
reason to be scared of people than we do of them. So we've got to save
Razor-Mouth and her pups. Pronto. (Gasping) One remora disc
and one great white shark disc coming at you, guys. Teleport. Yes! Yes! Activate Shark Powers. (Gasping) Sucker-Head, wait for me. Whoa! (Screaming) Activate Remora Powers. Follow that boat,
shark face. CHRIS AND MARTIN:
To the creature rescue! (Sniffing) And now for the final
ingredient. (Crashing) Whoa. Ah! What was that? Why isn't my boat moving? Turbo fins, full reverse! Who is driving this boat? That would be me.
With Remora Power. Get off! Sorry. I'm stuck. Ha! Full power.
That'll shake them off. Ready, Chris. All systems go. Okay, Martin.
Here I come. With Shark Power. Oh, yeah. There's one more thing
about sharks. They're living torpedoes. They can move so fast
that sometimes they leap clear
out of the water. You're free, Razor-Mouth. Detach sucker. Whoa! Whoa! (Screaming) Have a great trip, Gourmand. Have a great trip, Gourmand. (Gourmand grunting) Looks like his cage
is full again. Yeah, but that's one
different catch. (Laughing) Razor-Mouth, wait up. AVIVA:
Hey, guys. You made it just in time. I think she found the place
she came all this way for. Yes. This could be it. The never-before-seen
secret nursery of a great white shark. It's the perfect place. A shallow bay away from
the dangers of the ocean, like bigger sharks,
whales and orcas. Yeah. Other sharks have their
pups in area a lot like this. It's just that no one's ever
seen where great whites go. And you won't either
if you don't look. It's happening. Amazing! A great white shark pup. Two. Three. Oh, three great white
shark pups. Now that's my kind
of puppy. Aw, they're cute. Aw, they're cute. Huh. Wait, where's Razor-Mouth
going? CHRIS:
It's okay, Koki. She's heading back
to deeper water. These shark pups have everything
they need to survive. All those amazing shark features
ready to go. And they're on their own
from the moment they're born. So they're all alone? Well, they're not
completely alone. He's got Sucker-Head
to keep him company. And Sucker-Head
has a new ride. (All laughing) So even though
great white sharks are one of the top predators
of the ocean, they still have to deal
with some of the same challenges and dangers that other creatures
are faced with. MARTIN:
There is still so much
for us to learn to understand them better. CHRIS:
But using radio telemetry, scientists are beginning
to discover new things about
great white sharks, like how they take massive
journeys across entire oceans during their lifetime. MARTIN:
These lemon sharks,
on the other hand, we know a lot more about thanks
to the work of our friend, Dr. Gruber and his team. Hey, doc. All right. CHRIS:
Dr. Gruber has spent decades here in the Bahamas
studying the life cycle of the lemon shark. This place is called
a shark nursery. And why are these
young sharks here? Because there are predators
out in the deeper water that would eat these little
sharks, namely other sharks. So the young sharks
stay here in the shallows, where no predators
can get to them. It's a safety zone
for the sharks, a place where they can get
bigger and stronger until it's time to head out
to deeper water. And we want to catch
one of these sharks and give it a tag, and we can follow
their growth. MARTIN:
There's one right under there. CHRIS:
All right, here comes one. Yeah! All right. Yes. All right,
a nice lemon shark. GRUBER:
Now, let's let him calm down. He's almost ready
to go to sleep. CHRIS:
Oh, yeah. He's asleep. GRUBER:
He is asleep. CHRIS:
You don't even have to hold him. MARTIN:
That is a beautiful shark. Wow. GRUBER:
And then we inject the tag underneath the skin.
Tag's in there. Let's read it. Number? MARTIN:
4-A-6-3-3-8-0-1-0-5. Okay, excellent. We know who he is. All right,
buddy. We're almost done. You're helping with science. That way, we can help
protect these sharks. That's exactly right. And they do need protection. CHRIS:
Total length is 71. That's about a year old. Okay. A year-old lemon shark. Wow. Every year the team learns
something new about the sharks,
like now they know that the sharks usually come
back to where they were born when they're big enough
to have their own pups. All right, she's all done
and we're ready to release her back to living free
and in the wild. All right. Gently push.
Thanks a lot, shark. MARTIN: All right. GRUBER: Excellent. MARTIN: All right, good job. CHRIS: Great. We're stuck on sharks. See you
on the creature trail. CHRIS:
That was awesome. MARTIN:
Long live the sharks. ♪ To find out more
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