by Mark Teague
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AnimalsTranscript
00:00We are going to be pals.
00:13By Mark Teague.
00:14Hello.
00:16I was watching you from that tree up there.
00:19Who am I?
00:20I am an egret.
00:22A cattle egret.
00:24I ride around on fellows like you.
00:27You will have no egrets about that.
00:30Ha ha.
00:32That is a small joke.
00:34An egret plus a rhinoceros makes a symbiotic relationship.
00:39Do you know what that means?
00:42It means.
00:43We are going to be pals.
00:46Because we two, we're stuck like glue.
00:49Wherever you go, I go.
00:52Wherever we go from now on.
00:55We go together.
00:56Isn't that wonderful?
00:59So how we are friends?
01:01Perhaps you are thinking, I am not the friendly type I understand.
01:06I will teach you.
01:08The first thing friends must do is help each other.
01:12How might you help me?
01:15You could chase those jackals over there.
01:18Ha ha.
01:19I do not love a jackal.
01:22You do not wish to chase jackals.
01:24No problem.
01:26There is more to friendship than jackal chasing.
01:30For instance, we could eat grasshoppers.
01:33What?
01:35You do not like grasshoppers.
01:37Seriously?
01:39Never mind.
01:41We will find other ways to have fun.
01:44Riding on your horn would be fun.
01:47No.
01:48Not fun.
01:50Let that be a lesson to both of us.
01:53A lesson about respecting personal boundaries.
01:57Boundaries make a friendship work.
02:00So, I won't ride on your horn and you for instance, will not squish my toes.
02:06Now, being best pals doesn't mean we are the same.
02:10Far from it.
02:12Take me for instance.
02:14I am small and good looking.
02:17You are large and also, I am a talker whereas I have yet to hear you speak.
02:22Maybe you are more of the silent type.
02:26No problem.
02:27Me.
02:28I am what you might call an idea bird.
02:32Here is an idea.
02:34We could go to town.
02:36We could watch a movie.
02:38We could certainly do more than what we're doing now.
02:42Which is nothing.
02:44We are literally doing nothing.
02:47Or, you're right.
02:49We could go the watering hole.
02:52Hyenas, crocodiles, zebras, giraffes.
02:55The whole gang is here.
02:57But where are the news?
03:00No news is good news.
03:02I guess.
03:04Ha ha.
03:05That is another joke.
03:07What?
03:09You're tired already.
03:11I respect that.
03:13Respect is at the heart of any friendship.
03:16Say, look at those big cats.
03:19I'd be lyin' if I said they didn't bother me.
03:23Did you catch that?
03:25I said I'd be lyin'.
03:27Rise and shine big fellow.
03:30What do you say we sit under the baobab tree today?
03:33No.
03:35You prefer the acacia tree.
03:37Fine, acacia tree it is.
03:40You see.
03:42That is called compromise.
03:45Compromise is what makes a friendship tick.
03:48For instance, say you want to roll in the dirt and I do not want to.
03:53Maybe you could compromise and not roll, just this one time.
03:58Do you see what I am getting at?
04:01The hyenas say I talk too much.
04:05Can you believe it?
04:07They say it is anything.
04:09I told them that you are my best friend and you are not annoyed.
04:13You are not annoyed, are you?
04:16You know, communication is the key to friendship.
04:20That is what makes it work.
04:23I understand though.
04:25You need some time alone.
04:28That is good for a friendship too.
04:30I will just wander over to the watering hole for a little while.
04:35Well.
04:37This is a dilemma.
04:38Imagine a smart bird like me getting stuck in quicksand.
04:43And there is nothing to be done about it.
04:46Certainly my best friend should not come and get me.
04:50The great lumbering brute would be stuck even worse than I am.
04:54I guess there is no way out of this predicament.
04:58What?
04:59You came for me?
05:01You big lug.
05:03Why did you do that?
05:05You'll never get out.
05:07We are both goners now.
05:10Or perhaps not.
05:12But your horn.
05:13I should definitely not be riding on your horn.
05:17What, you don't mind?
05:19Well, that is kind of you.
05:23Kindness is what being pals is all about.
05:26And loyalty and honesty and appreciation of course.
05:31Also communication.
05:33Did I mention communication?
05:36For my pal Laura.
05:38The end.