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Hello, friends, welcome back to Kids Animal

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Stories. That's smiths Ster Jim here,

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and I'm so glad to have you

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on the Critter Protector team with

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me. You see, if you love critters of all

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shapes and sizes, we need you on

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our team. So check out the show notes

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below of what it means to become

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a Critter Protector today. Well,

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friends, are you ready for an amazing

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story about Dominic the bottlenose

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Dolphin? Me too, Let's

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go. It

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was a beautiful day in Shark Bay,

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Australia as Dominic

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was zooming around with his friends.

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They were playing tag eight,

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nine, ten, Ready or

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not? Here? I come, shouted

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Dominic as he was zooming around

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trying to tag all of his friends. You

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see, they were deep, deep down

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in the very blue, clear

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ocean off the coast

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of Australia. This was

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a beautiful place for any

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dolphin to live in a place

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that was full of adventure. I'm

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gonna catch you, Mateo. Get back here,

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shouted Dominic as he turned a corner

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and tried to catch up to Mateo. And

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then out of nowhere, Mateo

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the great speed dolphin zoomed

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out of the water wow,

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and jumped right over Dominic

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his head watched above as

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Mateo soared through the air

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above the ocean, and

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then, with a giant splash,

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Mateo finished his double backflip.

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Holy smokes, Thallas, that

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was the coolest thing I've ever seen, shouted

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Dominic. Have you ever we're seen dolphins

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do flips like that before? Yeah,

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they're pretty much like the gymnasts

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of the ocean. Have you ever

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done a sumrsault or a cartwheel

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or maybe even a real flip before.

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I definitely don't know how to do

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that, but that looks really

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fun. It would be a lot easier

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to try it on a trampoline and jump

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really high, right, Yeah,

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well, they don't have trampolines under the

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ocean, and that is why dolphins

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are such powerful swimmers.

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They push their tails super fast

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back and forth, and then they can zoom

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out of the water and do some really

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cool moves in the air. After

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several more hours of playing

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their game of tag, it was

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finally time to head home. Wow,

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Matela, that was such a cool game.

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You're so fast, said Dominic.

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Oh wow, thanks, you're fast too, Dominic

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said Matteo. I can't wait to

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play. You want to do something tomorrow?

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Yeah, I'll check with my mom, but I'm pretty sure

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we're available. That sounds fun, said

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Dominic. He waved his fin goodbye

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as he swam back towards his house, ate

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a delicious dinner, and then started getting

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ready for bed. Oh

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mom, we had so much for

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today, said Dominic with a

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big yawn. We were zooming

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around and oh, we're just

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getting faster and faster, and Manteo did a

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double backflip. It was insane,

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said Dominic. Wow he

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did a double backflip, said

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Dominic's mom. That is pretty

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impressive. Do you think I can

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play with them again tomorrow morning. I

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don't see why not, said his mom. I'm

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glad that you have such good friends. Me

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too, said Dominic as he closed

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his eyes and fell asleep, well

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kind of a sleep. You see, when dolphins

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sleep, there really only

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half asleep because they still need

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to come up for air. Remember,

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dolphins are mammals, so they

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don't breathe water like

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fish to I know, it's kind

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of confusing and surprising, but yeah,

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dolphins breathe air just like

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us, so

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they have to come up for air. That's

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why they have that little hole on the top of their head

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that helps them breathe the air that

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they need to survive. The next

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morning, Dominic woke up with a big

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yarn. Good

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morning, Dominic said his

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mom. Oh, good morning, Mom.

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Oh all right, well, I gotta

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get ready. I think my friends are

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gonna be waiting for me at the Coral

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playground. Ooh, the coral

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playground. That sounds fun, said

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mom. But just remember

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to not go too far out there because it gets very

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sharp. Mom. Bye,

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love you. Dominic waved

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his fins goodbyes. He swam off to meet

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up with his friends at the Coral playground.

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Hey, Abigail, Hey Adam,

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Dominic called out to his friends, who were

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already there playing. So should

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we play speed dolphin

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today? I saw that the radar

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is up over in the neighborhood over there,

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or we could practice racing.

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What do you want to do? The

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radar that he's talking about, have you ever

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seen in on some streets

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on the side of the street. It'll tell

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you how fast your car is going. Yes,

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it has something called a radar on it that

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detects the speed dolphins.

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They love to go fast, and so in their

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neighborhood they had that radar

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was there to help slow down the dolphins,

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so they didn't go too fast zooming through the

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neighborhoods. But sometimes

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the kids they like to test and see how

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fast they could really go, which

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was kind of against the rules of the neighborhood.

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Uh oh, yeah, let's play speed,

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dolphin, said Adam. I

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want to see if I can break my top

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speed of all time with that radar. Come

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on. Dominic didn't feel

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really good about this because

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he knew that they weren't supposed to be racing

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in the neighborhood with that radar, but

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he followed his friends over there. All

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right, who's gonna go first, said

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Matteo. Uh I will,

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shouted Adam. Step aside, Watch

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how fast I can glide through the

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water one, two, three

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fall. Adam

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took off, swimming as fast as he could

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towards that radar, and as the numbers

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ticked up, he swam as faster and faster

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and faster, and all of a sudden he hit

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nineteen miles per hour.

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Holy smokes. They were all clapping

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their fins, just like a good

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dolphin can. That was

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pretty impressive. But watch this,

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shouted Abigail. She zoomed

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past, and she made it

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in twenty miles per hour.

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That was a new record,

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the fastest speed they'd ever

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seen. Woo, great

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job, Abigail. They all shouted.

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All right, my turn, my turn. Step aside,

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said Matteo as he stepped

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up and started swimming as fast

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as he could. He was the fastest

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of them all and they

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couldn't believe it. As he zoomed past the

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radar, it said, twenty

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two miles per hour, a new

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record. Yeah.

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As all the dolphins started cheering

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and cheering, they saw

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somebody off in the distance. Hey

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are you kids racing that radar?

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You're not supposed to do that. Come on over

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here, let's get out

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of here, all the dolphins

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and started swimming away as fast

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as they could. They did not want to get caught.

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Oh no, it gonna be. It's so much trouble,

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said Dominic as him and his friends

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were trying to swim away as fast as they could.

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They were going as fast and far as

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they could. They didn't even know which direction they

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were swimming. Okay, okay,

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I think we're they were far and Offlets

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slow down, said Dominic as they

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all stopped and turned around. Where

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are we, said Abigail. I've

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never been this far, said

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mateo out. Wow,

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what is that, said

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Adam. Oh, that is a really

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sharp coral? Holy smokes,

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guys, are we in the

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sharp coral field? Really far

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away from our neighborhood. Dominic

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was starting to panic. They were

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not supposed to go all the way

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out this far because it's really

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dangerous. Coral can be very

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sharp for a dolphin. It

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can scratch them and

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make them very hurt. As

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these four dolphin friends spun

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around in circles, they all

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looked at each other and realized

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that they were very lost and

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far away from where they were supposed

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to be. Oh no,

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what in the world is gonna happen with Dominic

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and all of his dolphin friends. It sounds

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like they didn't make some good choices and

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now they're lost. We're gonna have to wait

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and see what happens on the next episode of

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Kids Animal Stories. Great

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job, you listened all the way to the

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end. And did you know that dolphins

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could swim that fast? Wow?

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They are super duper fast.

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They can swim three times faster

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than the fastest person swimming.

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Holy, that's fast. And did

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you know that when they sleep they keep

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half of their brain awake? Yeah?

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So remember so that they can breathe

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while they're sleeping, because they have to come up to the

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top of the water and take a breath and then go

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back to sleep. Well, friends,

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I hope you have a super duper

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day and I will see you next time. Bye.