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The gang talks about seeing and being seen when a pair of black jaguar cubs comes for a visit. Sleek and stealthy, these jaguars have excellent dark spotted coats to camouflage them in the dark forest. Plus, they've got amazing night vision that helps them see in their forest home. Martin and Chris wonder what it's like to see like creatures see, so they build a new Kratt contraption: Eye Spy goggles. The device allows them to see like a jaguar, a butterfly, a hawk, and a frog. It's spring and Jackie and the Animal Helpers are planting an evergreen tree. The tree was Jackie's Christmas tree, so she wants to decorate it for the birds. She and the Helpers adorn it with apples and popcorn, excellent treats for her winged friends.

Creature adventuring in a bat cave has made the Kratts rather stinky, a state that attracts the attention of a baby elephant, Toothbrush. She couldn't help but smell them with that great nose of hers. But an elephant's nose does a lot more than smell, and the gang celebrates what a cool creature feature a nose is, especially for elephants and coatis. Celebration turns to concern when Chris, Martin and Zoboo realise that Toothbrush needs to get back to her herd. A harmonica and bloodhound and elephant footprints lead the way back to Toothbrush's herd. Jackie's hard at work mowing her backyard when she spies a garter snake. She decides to leave a portion of the yard uncut so that her snake will have some shady grass to hide in.

Animal Junction's teeming with bugs which gets Chris, Martin and Zoboo thinking that these tiny critters are nature's little superstars. Insects and spiders are amazing athletes. There are quick leaping grasshoppers, far flying butterflies, super strong ants, heavily armoured beetles, and plenty more. Bugs have to be quick because there's a lot of creatures looking to eat them. If bugs disappeared, a lot of other creatures would disappear too. That's why the Kratts always say, "be nice to bugs. " Chris and Martin get a bug's eye perspective when they shrink down to insect size and find out that it's no picnic being an ant. Some kids are stomp

It's kitten pandemonium when a gaggle of all different breeds of kittens turns Animal Junction upside down. An overwhelmed Martin, Chris and Zoboo try to take care of these curious creatures but quickly realise that they're in over their heads. Luckily, the cavalry rides to the rescue when the mother cats arrive to take control of the situation. The guys wonder if wild cats are similar to house cats and go to see if lions purr. Lions don't, but cougars do. Jackie's busy brushing her cat Rapunzel. It's a great way to show your cat that you care for him or her. Plus, you can give the loose fur to the birds and squirrels, who love using it to make their nests soft and warm. Zoboo tells a story about how he taught his friends in Zobooland to purr because purring means that you're happy.

Martin and Chris arrive at Animal Junction determined to build a huge dinosaur model. Zoboo is eager to help out, even though he doesn't know what a dinosaur is. However, once Chris and Martin describe what dinosaurs used to look like, Zoboo's sure he just saw one on the way to Animal Junction. Chris and Martin understand what he means when a monitor lizard arrives for a visit. Rome wasn't built in a day, and it seems unlikely that Chris, Martin and Zoboo's collapse-prone dinosaur model will ever actually be completed. But in the end, the Martinandchrisaurus stands tall for all to see. Jackie discovers an owl pellet - the fur and bone remains

Everybody in the creature world has a funny face, even Chris and Martin. Zoboo's always thought that the Kratts look funny because their eyes are so small and they don't have any hair on their noses. Zoboo saw another funny face on his way to Animal Junction, a baby moose. A moose's big nose helps him find the water plants that he loves to eat, and he doesn't get water up his nose because his nostrils close when they're under water. An elephant has a big nose too. It's big and helpful and the elephant couldn't live without it. Creatures need their funny faces to survive. Jackie and the Animal Helpers are hanging bat boxes for bats to live in.

When a kinkajou comes to hang out in Animal Junction her prehensile tail takes centre stage. A prehensile tail is a grabber that the kinkajou uses to swing through the trees and hop on the ground. Creatures use their tails for all kinds of things. Chris and Martin decide that they'll create supertails that combine all the best elements of creature tails. Jackie visits a litter of newborn kittens. The kittens are cute and cuddly, but it's important to know that to pick them up you gently place your hands around their stomach. A kitten's tail is not a handle! Zoboo knows a creature with an amazing tail in Zobooland. Leaping through the forest,

In the creature world, different smells mean different things. When a skunk visits the gang at Animal Junction, things get pretty stinky. A skunk's smell is its protection. Martin, Chris and Zoboo discover the difference between a "come-here" smell and a "go away" kind of smell. They also visit with mink, a creature that scent-marks to let other creatures know they were passing by. Chris decides to make a Chris scent so he can scent-mark Animal Junction. Jackie gives her friend's dog a bath in tomato juice. The dog found out the hard way that a skunk didn't want to play with her. The tomato juice helps to take the skunk smell out of the dog's fur. In Zobooland, Zoboo's leaping through the forest when he meets Green Puppy. Ever affectionate, Green Puppy licks Zoboo and he notices that Green Puppy has puppy breath.

Rhode Island Red chicks hatch at Animal Junction, but Martin, Chris and Zoboo don't have any idea who's inside the other egg they find in the nest. Imagine their surprise when they discover it's a baby alligator. Martin and Chris take the baby alligator back home to mom. Jackie and the Animal Helpers are protecting salmon egg nests. Salmon eggs are tiny and delicate; they can easily break if the water around them is disturbed. So Jackie and the Helpers are making sure that people cross further up stream and don't interfere with the salmon eggs. Zoboo saw an egg hatch in Zobooland. Zoboo leaps through Animal Junction and lands on a giant egg. The egg breaks and out pops Baby Zoboomafooasaurus, who thinks Zoboo is her mom. Zoboo tells her he's not her mom, but he helps find her.

A sandstorm has buried Animal Junction in sand. Perfect for the meerkats, scorpion, and camel that stop by for a visit. Chris, Martin and Zoboo explain how each of these creatures is suited to living in a dry, desert climate. Jackie's at the beach, exploring some tide pools. She says it looks just like a puddle but it's home to all sorts of creatures. Beaches are amazing places to check out creatures. Zoboo tells a story about the time he was playing in the sand with a friend, and suddenly felt tickled - sure enough, another friend was hiding in the sand and tickling them!

Creature coats are the key to keeping animals warm in cold weather. Chris, Martin and Zoboo realise that animals beat the cold with fur, feathers, and fat... and in the case of otters, fun. Those are the four F's for staying warm in winter. But what happens when the weather warms up? Ernie the camel comes to Animal Junction looking for a good scratching post to help him shed his winter coat. Summer's coming and he's not moulting. No need for all that fur when it's hot outside. Jackie's brushing her dog, Goldie, helping her take off her heavy winter coat. Dogs and cats love being brushed. It feels good to lose that extra hair. In Zobooland, Zoboo bumps into Wiggy, who's upset because she's losing her feathers. Wiggy thinks she's melting, but Zoboo tells her she's not melting, she's moulting.

When two African penguins stop by Animal Junction, Chris, Martin and Zoboo get talking about water creatures. Even though penguins are birds, they don't fly, they swim. But these penguins aren't swimming! It takes some time to figure out that the penguins won't swim in the pool because the water is too warm. When the water is chilled with ice cubes, there's no stopping the penguins... or the Kratts, once they've donned wet suits to protect them from the cold. And did you know that jaguars love to swim too? A black jaguar stops by and plays ball with the Kratts in the big pond. Jackie's got a new fish for her aquarium, a goldfish named Sunny. But Jackie doesn't want her new fish to get a shock so she sets Sunny's bag into the aquarium. The water in Sunny's bag will become the same temperature as the water in the aquarium and Sunny will get used to her new home gradually. Zoboo knows a great swimmer in Zobooland. He and Narchi are playing boogleberry catch and the boogleberry goes into the water. Fibby throws the ball back to them. Now they have another friend to play catch with, so Narchi and Zoboo throw the boogleberry to Fibby in the water on purpose.

Martin and Chris are exhausted after an around-the-world hike, but there's no time for sleep because Animal Junction's full of babies: lynx and bobcat kittens, a baby ring-tailed lemur. Needless to say, Zoboo, Martin and Chris have got their hands full. Babies can be pretty helpless and need lots of care. Babies are also pretty vocal when they are in need of something, especially these creature babies. Jackie and the Animal Helpers are returning from blueberry picking when they discover a baby bird that has fallen out of his nest. The nest is too high for them to reach, so they put the bird into a blueberry basket and set the basket into the

Things get messy when three muddy dogs descend upon Animal Junction. To make matters worse, Martin gets coated in mud, too, so now there are four creatures in serious need of a bath. Zoboo and Chris run a bath and clean up the filthy four. But bathtime isn't always about getting clean; it's about feeling good, too. Pigs take a mud bath to cool down, so do elephants, rhinos and hyenas. Jackie is busy filling up her birdbath with water so that birds have a place to drink and to splash around. Even the racoons like using her birdbath.

Zoboo, Chris and Martin care for a young black bear cub that arrives at Animal Junction alone. Baby bears have to learn everything about being a bear: how to climb, hunt, dig and fish. Another black bear, an adult male, arrives and devours all of the snacks he can get to fill his big bear belly. Zoboo, Chris and Martin try to eat as much as the bear, but since they can't even come close, they realise that this bear is preparing for his long winter's nap. The Kratt brothers help the adult bear find a suitable resting spot. Jackie thinks bears are great, but she knows that bears and camping food don't mix. She puts her family's food in airtight containers so the smell won't attract bears and she hangs the containers up in a tree where bears can't get at it.

There are many climbing creatures and they all have different features that help them climb. A tree frog has sticky pads on its feet, and a kinkajou has a prehensile tail that she uses like a fifth arm when climbing through a tree. When a playful band of coatis turns up at Animal Junction, the gang marvels at how sharp claws and a long tail help a coati climb trees with the greatest of ease. Coatis are better climbers than the Kratts because they're built for it. Jackie and the Animal Helpers rescue a climber-in-training, a kitten who is stuck up in a tree. He knew how to climb, but he's too afraid to climb down.

There are all kinds of creature ears but they all do the same thing: ears hear. Chris, Martin and Zoboo discover rabbits, a bloodhound and her litter of five puppies, springhares, and fox kits, all creatures with incredible hearing. Toothbrush, the baby elephant, stops by for a visit. His hearing might not be as good as a bloodhound's, but his ears are still great. Martin and Chris wonder what it's like to hear like these creatures, so they build a new Kratt-contraption, Super Ear Sensors. But there's so much to hear in Animal Junction, the Super Ear Sensors can't take the volume and they overheat. Jackie builds a fence to protect fox kits from the road. Foxes have incredible hearing!

When a cheetah visits Animal Junction, Zoboo, Chris and Martin try to join the cheetah coalition. Who wouldn't want to be the fastest creature in the world? Unless you want to be a creature that takes it slow and easy, like a snail or a slow loris. Fast or slow, creatures move at the speed that's best for them. Jackie's planting a garden of flowers for the hummingbirds that live around her house. Hummingbirds are amazing creatures that flap their wings 50-70 times per second. Now that's fast. But slugs like Jackie's flowers too: her garden is home to fast and slow creatures.

When a porcupine comes to Animal Junction, the gang focuses on creature coats and how they feel. A porcupine has spiky quills for protection. A sheep has thick wool for warmth. A lynx has soft fur and furry paws to help her live in the snowy cold. And a quick trip to a petting zoo drives the point home even more. Creatures have all kinds of coats, but every creature has the best coat for wherever he or she lives. Jackie does a turn as a duck-crossing guard. She helps herd ducklings across the road to the safety of MudPuppy Pond. After she scoops the last one across, she nuzzles into the duckling's soft down. Ducklings feel amazing!

The arrival of Arctic Wolf cubs has got Zoboo feeling really wolf-ish. Zoboo knows that wolves aren't fierce creatures; in fact, he wants to join the wolf pack, so Chris and Martin teach him the wolf basics. After lessons in howling and hunting, Zoboo's all set to leave with the pack, until he finds out that the barren Arctic is a lot different from sunny Madagascar. Zoboo doesn't want to live in a world without mangoes... or the Kratts, so he says goodbye to his pack mates. Jackie rescues a spider that's stranded in a friend's bathtub. She lays a towel over the side of the tub so that the spider has a surface that she can climb out on.

Monkey business abounds when a white-fronted capuchin monkey who loves to play catch comes to Animal Junction. Chris, Martin and Zoboo examine the differences between lemurs and monkeys, and touch upon one key similarity - neither monkeys nor lemurs make good pets. Dubbed "Fling" because of his throwing abilities, the capuchin turns Animal Junction upside down looking for food. Martin and Chris decide to walk Fling home and they see other troops of monkeys along the way. Jackie and her Animal Helper friend have made a cool terrarium home for a frog they found the day before at MudPuppy Pond. But the frog doesn't seem very happy - he'd be happier living free and in the wild - so they decide to return him to his natural home.

When three capybaras arrive for a visit, Zoboo's amazed to find out that these water creatures are giant rodents. They are not as large as a rhinoceros or an elephant, but compared to any rodent, a capybara comes off looking mighty huge. A moose is the biggest member of the deer family, the indri is the largest lemur, a Siberian tiger is the biggest cat, and Martin is the biggest Kratt. The world is full of giants, great and small. Jackie and the Animal Helpers plant a tree in Jackie's backyard. It's only a tiny sapling now, but it'll grow to be a giant... a giant home for lots of creatures.

Animal Junction is alive with the sound of creature songs, so the gang is excited when a kookaburra flies in. But excitement turns to disappointment when this great singer refuses to sing. Zoboo decides that he can figure out how to get the bird to sing, and with some help from Martin and Chris, he does. But birds aren't the only great singers in the creature world. What about camels, wolves and elks; they are great singers, one and all. Every creature has a different song to sing. Jackie and the Animal Helpers are busy applying hawk silhouettes to the windows of Jackie's house. Jackie explains that songbirds often fly into glass windows because they think they can fly right through them, but hawk silhouettes scare songbirds away from windows.

Animal Junction becomes Lemur Central when friends of Zoboo's, two ring-tailed lemurs, come for a visit. Zoboo is stunned to hear that most people don't know what a lemur is. But Martin and Chris have a great idea to set the record straight when they declare an international creature holiday, Lemur Day, a celebration of all things lemur. There's even a special Lemur Day cake. A black and white ruffled lemur, some ring-tailed lemurs, and Zoboo's parents join in the party. Jackie tells the guys about a creature rescue. She saw a water turtle and a land turtle heading for a busy road but managed to relocate them to a safer place: a pond for the water turtle and a forest for the land turtle.

When a beaver gnaws his way through Animal Junction, Chris, Martin and Zoboo realise that he's looking for wood so he can build his dam. A creature's home provides shelter from bad weather and protection from predators, so the beaver's dam is important business. So important that Chris and Martin don't mind that the beaver has "borrowed" one of their canoe paddles to use in his dam. Jackie knows how important creature homes are, that's why she and the Animal Helpers are building enclosed nestboxes for Eastern Bluebirds.