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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

Tinga Tinga Tales: Series 2: Episode 22: Why Cricket Chirrups

Why Cricket Chirrups

Episode 22

Episode 22: Why Cricket Chirrups

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Stories about how different animals became distinctive. There was a time when Cricket couldn't do anything useful, and it was beginning to get him down.

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 Cricket didn't chirrup. In fact Cricket didn't do anything at all and it was beginning to get him down. Every animal had something - Elephant trumpeted, Lion roared... but what did Cricket do? And then one day Cricket discovered that he had rhythm.

Tinga Tinga Tales: Series 2

Series 2

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.

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

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