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Tinga Tinga Tales

Animation

Children's: Entertainment & Comedy

Learning: Pre-School

Stories telling a modern, young audience how animals got their distinctive parts.

Why do Zebra have stripes and Leopard spots, Rhinos horns and Camels humps? Tinga Tinga Tales tells a modern, young audience what really happened

Series 1

Eugene Muchiri

Jocelyn Jee Esien

Ben Spybey

Faraaz Meghani

Johnnie Fiori

Lenny Henry

Shaun Parkes

Patrice Naiambana

Tameka Empson

Flaminia Cinque

Njuguna Wakanyote

Eddie Kadi

Eric Wainaina

Claudia Lloyd

Richard Jeffery

Tinga Tinga Tales: Series 1: Episode 12: Why Spider Has a Tiny Waist

Why Spider Has a Tiny Waist

Episode 12

Episode 12: Why Spider Has a Tiny Waist

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Greedy Spider hears of four feasts in Tinga Tinga and wants to go to them all.

Stories telling how different animals got their distinctive parts. Greedy Spider hears of four feasts in Tinga Tinga and wants to go to them all.

One day greedy Spider heard of four feasts in Tinga Tinga, and she wanted to go to them all! So she spun four threads and attached them to various animals going to the feasts. But Monkey, Frog, Hippo and the Bees all set off in different directions - north, south, east and west - and Spider's thread soon ran out. 

The threads got tighter and tighter and tighter, making Spider's waist smaller and smaller and smaller! Luckily the threads broke, but from that day on Spider has always had a tiny waist.

Tinga Tinga Tales: Series 1

The UK's most watched and most loved channel for the under-sixes.

The UK's most watched and most loved channel for the under-sixes, dedicated to delighting and surprising its pre-school audience.

Why do Zebra have stripes and Leopard spots, Rhinos horns and Camels humps? Tinga Tinga Tales tells a modern, young audience what really happened.

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