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

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Claudia Lloyd

Richard Jeffery

Lenny Henry

Ruth Madoc

Miriam Margolyes

Shaun Parkes

Tameka Empson

Flaminia Cinque

Ninia Benjamin

Eugene Muchiri

Johnnie Fiori

Edward Kwach

Faraaz Meghani

Patrick Kanyeki

Eric Wainaina

Bridget Hurst

Junior Simpson

Patrice Naiambana

Bruce Hobson

Karuga Ngigi

Tinga Tinga Tales: Series 2: Episode 3: Why Wildebeest Stampede

Why Wildebeest Stampede

Episode 3

Episode 3: Why Wildebeest Stampede

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The Wildebeest eat so much grass that the other animals decide to do something about it.

Stories about how different animals became distinctive. Wildebeest never used to stampede, until Tortoise tricked them into running away.

There was a time when Wildebeest didn't stampede. They used to stand on the plains and munch grass all day. But there were so many of them, and they were eating so much grass that all the animals had to do something about it. 

Tortoise realised that the Wildebeest weren't the brightest animals in Tinga Tinga and they always did whatever the last beast said. So the animals decided to tell the Wildebeest that they were welcome to stay in Tinga Tinga, and they must never run! So what did the Wildebeest do? They ran and they ran and they ran!

Tinga Tinga Tales: Series 2

Series 2

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

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