Pilot of an animated series dedicated to wildlife in the Rangiroa sector, an atoll in the Tuamotu archipelago. | dG1fZGI1ZWVudFhRRjA
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00:00 [Music]
00:15 Without a word, Uncle Tu took a pot, a board and a big knife.
00:20 He went as far as the water's edge to prepare the two big dolphin fish.
00:26 This operation was closely followed by a squadron of red girls with bronchitic rat's eyes
00:31 and further down by a dozen pigs in a semi-circle,
00:35 some tetanised tupa crabs
00:38 and Minouchka, the district cat, who, to be precise, was a she.
00:43 And she, by the way, was expecting kittens.
00:46 In the meantime, the land was being cleaned.
00:49 Mahiriyonahe had been the pig's domain for a whole month.
00:54 An hour later, Kiva, Tuatini and Punu arrived in the second boat.
00:59 Turio explained to me that Tuatini and Punu were the district champs
01:04 and that they would stay with me for a week, the time needed to show me
01:07 how to handle things in a district, to fish, eat and work the copra.
01:11 We tucked into Uncle Tu's Maimaitunu.
01:14 Then, Sumo brought me to the water tank to show me how to have a wash.
01:20 You had to walk a hundred yards to an old water tank made of lime-washed stones,
01:24 in which the water was always cool.
01:27 The pipe was plugged with a piece of buoy.
01:30 Everyone was entitled to one bucket.
01:33 We all washed in turn.
01:35 Then, Sumo and his godfather went back to the village by Potimarara boat.
01:40 First night in the district, in the bungalow on stilts.
01:44 Well equipped, with mattress, blankets and mosquito net.
01:49 We ran the generator in order to watch a movie.
01:52 Uncle Tu preferred to sleep alone with the pigs in a copra shack.
01:56 For Kiva, it was worse.
01:59 He was going to sleep in the bush, far away in the bush.
02:03 He was playing hero.
02:05 He would come back at 5 in the morning to drink his coffee,
02:08 completely out of his mind.
02:10 His thundering mother-in-laws would throw Uncle Tu out of the shack.
02:14 Nobody knew where he'd been, but it all seemed a bit fishy.
02:18 [Music]
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