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Halloween Animals (with Special Guest, wildlife filmmaker Skip Hobbie)
What Halloween animal is making you happy today? Hear Laura and Rob get spooky and choose Halloween animals, a new Halloween dance party song about owls (Happy Owl-Oween), awesome animal clues from five year old Everett, and an interview with our special guest, Emmy award winning cinematographer and wildlife filmmaker Skip Hobbie. What animal is making Skip happy? It’s an animal that is one of the most common kinds of mammals on Planet Earth, and it flies! Plus, hear about other critters that have crawled on Skip while he was filming these special animals in caves. If you like owls, bats, toads, aye ayes or komodo dragons, this episode is for you.
The Happiest Animal Show (on Planet Earth) is a comedy podcast for kids and families who love wildlife, with original animal songs, stories, jokes and special guests from comedians to scientists to kids. It's hosted by Laura Sams and Robert Sams, who are sister/brother zoologists, filmmakers and songwriters.
Animal Sidekicks (with special guest Mike Wilson)
What animal sidekick would you like to have?! What animal can spit water up to 10 feet? What animal poofs up like a ball in the winter? Hear Rob and Laura choose what animal sidekicks are making them happy, a song about chickadees, awesome animal clues from 5 year old Tucker, and an interview with our special guest, the multi-talented science songwriter and computer science teacher Mike Wilson. What animal is making Mike happy? Here are some hints: part of its name rhymes with the word “happy” and it is a rodent.
The Happiest Animal Show (on Planet Earth) is a comedy podcast for kids and families who love wildlife, with original animal songs, stories, jokes and special guests from comedians to scientists to kids.
Animal Songs
A dance song about axolotls! A disco song about sloths! A new version of baby shark filled with real shark names! A naptime song about cats, dogs, porcupines, moose, capybara, albatross and more! A country song about octopus! A rock song about the mola mola (ocean sunfish)! In this episode, we play some of our favorite animal songs from this season. Yep, it’s all music folks. Get ready to sing, dance and laugh with the animals that have been making Laura and Robert happy.
Camouflaged Animals (with 10 year old Oscar)
What camouflaged animals are making you happy today? And what camouflaged animal has three hearts and blue blood? Hear Laura and Robert choose what camouflaged animals are making them happy, a bouncy song about ghost crabs, awesome animal clues from 10 year old Graham, and an interview with special guest and anime fan, 10 year old Oscar. What animal is making Oscar happy today? Here are some clues: It has feathers, it is blue and it can swim.
Misunderstood Animals (with comedian Alex Falcone)
What animals do you like that other people don’t like? What animal is covered in spots and makes a whooping sound? Laura and Rob chat about misunderstood animals that make them happy, plus you’ll hear a song about hyenas and vultures, a game show about animal sounds, awesome animal clues from fan Jack and an interview with special guest, comedian Alex Falcone. What animal is making Alex happy? It’s an animal that throws up its food when it gets scared.