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Tinga Tinga Tales

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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

Catherine Wambua

Ben Spybey

Faraaz Meghani

Terence Reis

Patrice Naiambana

Shaun Parkes

Lenny Henry

Johnnie Fiori

Flaminia Cinque

Tameka Empson

Eric Wainaina

Tinga Tinga Tales: Series 1: Episode 15: Why Porcupine Has Quills

Why Porcupine Has Quills

Episode 15

Episode 15: Why Porcupine Has Quills

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How Porcupine lost her soft coat and replaced it with quills.

Stories telling a young audience how animals got their distinctive parts. How Porcupine lost her soft coat to naughty Jackal and replaced it with quills.

There was a time when Porcupine didn't have quills. She had the softest coat in all of Tinga Tinga, and Jackal wanted it. Despite warnings from all the animals, Porcupine allowed Jackal to invite her to his cave to keep out of the rain. Porcupine took off her coat to allow it to dry, but while she slept, naughty Jackal ran off with it. When she awoke, Porcupine was covered in lots of tiny ant bites, and they itched and they itched and they itched. 

Tortoise suggested Elephant squeeze some milk from the milky quill bush, but Porcupine couldn't wait any more and ran into the quill bushes to relieve her itching. Porcupine crashed through the quill bushes and emerged covered in spiky quills! The animals couldn't believe their eyes! But Porcupine was delighted as no beast would ever come near her sensitive skin ever again!

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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