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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

Njuguna Wakanyote

Tameka Empson

Flaminia Cinque

Johnnie Fiori

Edward Kwach

Shaun Parkes

Patrice Naiambana

Ben Spybey

Faraaz Meghani

Lenny Henry

Terence Reis

Eric Wainaina

Claudia Lloyd

Richard Jeffery

Corine Onyango

Eddie Kadi

Ninia Benjamin

Achieng Abura

Cyril Nri

Kennie Andrews

Tinga Tinga Tales: Series 1: Episode 11: Why Frog Croaks

Why Frog Croaks

Episode 11

Episode 11: Why Frog Croaks

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The birds don't like Frog's singing voice, so they trick him into a singing duel.

Stories telling how different animals got their distinctive parts. The birds trick poor old Frog into a singing duel, and his voice is reduced to a ribbit.

Why do zebras have stripes and leopards spots, rhinos horns and camels humps? Tinga Tinga Tales tells a modern, young audience what really happened. 

There was a time when Frog didn't croak. Frog sang like a bird, and the birds didn't like it. Birds were the masters of song! So the birds tricked poor old Frog into a singing duel and sang and sang and sang until poor old Frog's voice was reduced to a ribbit.

Tinga Tinga Tales: Series 1

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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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