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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

Junior Simpson

Njuguna Wakanyote

Ben Spybey

Faraaz Meghani

Patrick Kanyeki

Ninia Benjamin

Shaun Parkes

Johnnie Fiori

Lenny Henry

Tameka Empson

Patrice Naiambana

Eric Wainaina

Claudia Lloyd

Richard Jeffery

Bruce Hobson

Bridget Hurst

Tinga Tinga Tales: Series 1: Episode 16: Why Lizard Always Hides under Rocks

Why Lizard Always Hides under Rocks

Episode 16

Episode 16: Why Lizard Always Hides under Rocks

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The animals decide to teach greedy Lizard a lesson when he pinches their food.

Stories telling a young audience how animals got their distinctive parts. The animals teach greedy Lizard a lesson when he pinches their food.

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 Lizard did not hide under rocks. He would scamper around Tinga Tinga pinching other animals' food and keeping it all for himself. Then one day the animals decided to give greedy Lizard a dose of his own medicine. When Lizard realised the error of his ways, he ran and hid under a rock, too ashamed to show his face in Tinga Tinga.

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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