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Hey, it's the Kratt Brothers here.
I'm Chris.
And I'm Martin.
And somewhere in these trees
is a really cool night-loving primate.
Primate, that's a group of creatures
that includes the lemurs, the monkeys and the apes.
Chris, you see anything?
Not yet.
He's got to be around here somewhere, though.
Hey.
(Gasping)
A slow loris.
Yeah!
Look at these eyes.
They're massive.
We might not have seen him, but he definitely saw us.
Those big eyes gather a lot of light.
That's what helps him see in the dark
without any flashlights.
See the dark center of my eye?
That's a pupil.
It opens wide when it's dark
to let in as much light as possible.
An eye needs light to see.
So, it has to get really wide at night.
MARTIN: The loris' huge eyes and big pupils
let in lots of light.
And they're able to see
in much less light than our eyes can.
Look at him go.
He's an expert climber.
His arms and the grip of his hands are super strong.
These guys are part of a whole group
of mysterious nocturnal animals
like bushbabies, lemurs, lorises and tarsiers.
Imagine if we had their incredible night-vision powers.
And could keep up with them in their nocturnal world.
BOTH: What if?
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CHRIS: Martin over here!
He went this way!
Whoa, he's bouncing around like a ping-pong ball!
Oh, this Indonesian rainforest is thick!
But fun to climb around in.
With awesome creatures.
Who was that anyway?
We got to keep up to find out.
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There, behind the leaf.
CHRIS: He's gone.
He disappeared.
We're dealing with a creature magician.
Where'd he go?
If only we had better night-vision.
Yeah, like some kind of giant eyes
that work well in moonlight.
Whoa!
Like those.
Those giant googly eyes.
We finally caught up to you.
I'm so much bigger than you
that if I had eyes like that,
they'd be as big as grapefruits.
You're like a little alien creature.
MARTIN: Whoa, I don't believe it.
The shy and elusive--
Rainforest dwelling--
Night prowling--
Tiny primates of the rainforest!
BOTH: The tarsier!
Hey, little buddy.
Let's follow him.
Hey, googly eye, wait up.
CHRIS: Googly Eye, that's a perfect name.
Whoa!
AVIVA: Hey, Jimmy, can you give me a hand?
Uh-oh, I don't really like when you say that.
Why?
Because it usually ends bad for me.
No, take a look at this.
It's a model mechanical eye that I made.
I'm using it to help me with my latest and greatest invention,
these high-powered night-vision goggles.
I think the reason I can't quite get it to work
must have something to do with light gathering.
Light gathering?
Who gathers light?
An eye does.
It needs light to see things.
That black center is the pupil.
It opens and closes to let more or less light in.
Right now, there's lots of light in here,
so the pupil doesn't have to be open very wide
to let enough light in to see.
But if I turn off the lights...
Now there's only a little bit of moonlight,
so the pupil has to open
to let as much of that light
into the eye as it can.
Because an eye always needs light to see.
Cool.
So for these night-vision goggles to work,
first I have to make sure they can let in a lot of moonlight.
(Shrieking)
It's eating me!
I'm getting eaten by a giant eyeball!
(Laughing)
Low light!
Pupil opens.
(Sighing)
I have got a stop helping these inventions.
It hurts too much.
Ugh.
Wait up, Googly Eye!
We want to learn about you!
Your customs and traditions!
Whoa, he can get through this darkness no problem!
Without any lights!
Just pure tarsier nocturnal eye power.
Uh-oh, my light!
I can't see anything!
Whoa!
(Both groaning)
AVIVA: You hear that weird howling?
Sounds like trouble.
(Groaning)
Yeah, that one's name is Chris and--
(Martin groaning)
That one's name is Martin.
Double trouble.
Note to self,
always charge head-lamp batteries
before a night expedition.
That looks painful.
What happened?
We were following this really cool
rainforest ping-pong ball-y leaping creature.
Yeah, a tarsier and--
And our headlamp batteries died.
Of all of the times for our batteries to go--
We were just starting to get to know him.
We'll just get these batteries on recharge
and get back out there.
Well, guess what, brothers.
Yet again, I've got the answer
to all your creature adventure dreams.
You do?
Yeah, see?
I'm back to work on my night-vision goggles.
They're not quite working right yet, but I am getting closer.
Awesome!
They'll help us find Googly Eye!
Yeah, either that or that googly-eyed creature
will help us finish these goggles.
Those look like they're pretty close to being done, Aviva.
Can't we just use them now?
Sorry, there's a bug in them that I'm still working out.
I'll need to finish them in the morning.
But we've got to find Googly Eye now!
Look, they're not ready.
No way.
You guys can't use them yet.
I've been working on this all day, and I need some sleep.
I'm not nocturnal, you know?
We'll find them in the morning, bros.
Ugh.
(Snoring)
If we wait, we might never see Googly Eye again.
I know. And, look!
These are 99% done.
That's pretty much there.
I mean, what could go wrong?
True.
And we at least have to test them out.
Yeah, we'd be doing Aviva a favor.
Right, a favor.
I'll just leave her a little note.
Let's go!
Googly Eye, here we come!
Pepperoni ice cream.
(Snoring)
These are awesome.
Yeah, with the iris open all the way,
and the light-sensing cones on high,
the moonlight lights up everything.
All right, so where are you, Googly Eye?
Uh, Martin, do you feel like we're being watched?
Yeah, like from back there.
Hm, nothing.
Hm, let's keep going.
Hm. What?
What do you mean, what? Huh?
Huh? Who?
Hey, who?
Who? Where?
Where? What?
What?
Googly Eye!
Check it out.
We have googly eyes too.
Hello, little alien creature.
We come as friends, googly eyes one and all.
(Chuckling)
MARTIN: Follow that tarsier.
I wonder where he's taking us.
CHRIS: I don't know but he sure seems to.
This? This tree?
What is so special about this tree?
Hey, Martin, you know, we're pretty deep in the forest now.
(Clicking)
Huh?
Yeah, who knows where this tree is on the map?
We better mark our route on the GPS.
Pass me my Creature Pod.
What do you mean?
You have the Creature Pods. Don't you?
No, you were supposed to grab them off the charger.
I was? No, you were.
I'm pretty sure it was you.
Um, nope.
Huh.
So what you're telling me
is that we're deep in the Indonesian rainforest
in the middle of the night without our Creature Pods,
following a tiny elusive primate
with nothing but these experimental
night-vision goggles that could fail at any minute?
Uh, yeah, pretty much.
Awesome!
Now, where did Googly Eye get to?
He's on your head.
He's on your head too.
Wait a second.
More Googly Eyes!
Wow, a whole family of tarsiers.
You took us to your home tree, the great fig.
Hello, strange little creatures.
We come in peace to learn your customs and tarsier traditions.
Googly Eye, teach us the ways of the tarsier.
(Jimmy snoring)
Pepperoni pancakes.
Ugh, gross.
Pepperoni Popsicles.
But I wish I could sleep like him.
Might as well finish my night-vision goggles, so--
What?
Huh?
Where's my pepperoni?
Hey, who's messing with my sweet dreams?
I don't believe it.
AVIVA: They didn't!
Who didn't? Didn't what?
Those brat brothers!
Read it.
"Aviva, we borrowed the goggles.
"Be back soon.
Thanks."
Ooh.
"Thanks"?
That's it? "Thanks"?
I told them those goggles weren't ready.
Wasn't the iris unstable?
Yeah, they might seem like they work, but only for two hours.
Then they'll shut down.
Leaving Martin and Chris in the dark.
I'll get them to get back here right away.
Call them on the Creature Pods.
You mean these Creature Pods?
And look. They left their flashlights too.
(Sighing)
Oh, brothers.
They were in such a rush to get out to that tarsier;
they didn't even take their Creature Pods.
This could be bad.
I just hope they get back before those goggles die.
Good luck, Chris!
Okay, Googly Eye.
I'm ready to learn tree leaping from the master.
Whoa, the spring in your legs is unbelievable.
It's the long legs, isn't it?
They're longer than your body.
Okay, let's do this, Googly Eye.
So you use those frog-like legs
to leap off the branch like this! Yeah!
I did it.
I love this vertical clinging and leaping.
I'm ready for more.
Farther!
Yeah!
Farther!
Farther! Yeah! Ugh!
Uh-oh.
Well, human legs definitely can't leap
as far as tarsier legs.
Uh-oh, got to break his fall.
Chris, vine coming at you.
Whoa!
Yes, oh, thanks, bro.
That was good-- Ugh.
Work.
Ugh.
I'm good with the leaping for now.
What's the next tarsier tradition?
Well, it looks like they're getting ready
for something really important.
Everyone is leaving home tree, even Googly Jr.
We're right behind you, Googly Eye.
No sign of the Kratt Brothers yet.
Those rods inside the goggles won't last forever.
Huh? What rods?
See? When the light goes through the pupil,
it reaches sensors called rods,
which are at the at the back of the eyeball.
You mean like those orange things?
Yeah, those are the rod sensors from my mechanical eye,
and they work the same way as a real eyeball.
When the light hits them,
the eye sees what it's looking at.
The rods are great at seeing in low light.
And tarsier eyes are loaded with millions of them,
which is why they have the best night vision of any primate.
Hey, guys, do you need some more light in there?
(Jimmy groaning)
(Gasping)
(Groaning)
(Screaming)
It's eating me again.
Sorry, Jimmy.
I got my eye on you, eyeball.
And I've got my eye on that clock.
Those rod sensors I put into the night-vision goggles
will probably only last another 10 minutes.
Then what?
Then it's lights out for Martin and Chris.
Where are we?
No idea.
But look. They're parking Googly Jr.
That's it.
The tarsiers must be getting ready to search for food.
Definitely.
Lots of animals leave their babies
hidden away somewhere safe,
like in a tree hole while they go off to eat.
So it's breakfast time for the tarsiers
in the middle of the night.
Oh, yeah? Just in time for my midnight snack.
What's for breakfast? Berries? Nuts?
What is it?
You see something over there?
Oh, a katydid.
Insects. Oh!
Of course, no berries or nuts for you.
You guys eat insects, lizards and even birds.
That's why you're the most predatory primate in the world.
I think I'll pass on breakfast.
Me too.
But we can see if we can use our night vision
to sneak up on a few katydids tarsier style!
(Beeping)
Oh, yeah, this night vision makes it easy to spot prey.
And to pick your way
quietly towards them
without giving yourself away.
Until I'm close enough
to make one giant leap!
(Chris gasping)
Who turned out the lights?
(Screaming)
Martin, where are you?
My goggles stopped working!
Whoa! Not again!
(Both screaming)
Chris, is that you?
Yeah, I hope we land somewhere soft.
(Branches cracking)
Ugh.
Or squishy.
The goggles, they're broken.
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea
to borrow these goggles before Aviva was done with them.
And without asking.
Pretty dark out here.
Where is here anyway?
Uh, Chris, I think we're lost.
Lost?
Nah, we're not lost.
We don't know where we are.
And it's pitch dark and-- Okay, we're lost.
BOTH: Help!
How are we ever going to find them out there?
We got to do something, except I'm not going out there.
No way, no how.
Hah, no surprise.
Huh?
Aviva? What are you doing?
We've got to go search for them.
We'll fly the Tortuga over the rainforest
and use this searchlight to find them.
I'll fire up the engines.
I'll get out the maps.
Don't worry, guys.
We'll find you.
Okay, so which way is back?
Who knows? Every way is black.
Without lights, we'll end up out here all night.
Ah, the moon.
Thank you, moon.
That will help but we still need to find our way
back to the Tortuga.
I think we came in that way.
You sure it's not that way?
No, but-- Googly Eye!
Is that you?
Our furry master of the night.
Martin, do you realize--?
That all we have to do is...
BOTH: Remember everything Googly Eye taught us!
This is still the same forest it was in the daytime.
Yeah, so let's just trust the senses that we do have.
Yeah, already my eyes are adapting.
The pupils are getting bigger
and I can see better in the dark.
Not as well as a tarsier but better.
(Insects chirping)
Those are all familiar sounds.
(Water swishing)
The rumble of my hungry stomach.
We have lots of senses that we can use in the dark.
(Gasping)
And maybe he knows which way we need to go.
He's our only hope. Come on!
Hm.
It's no use.
I can't see anything from up here.
AVIVA: Jimmy, come in.
I can't see anything through the dense forest canopy.
I need you to take us down into the forest.
You got it.
We're going in.
Any sign of the bros?
No, not yet.
Oh, over there. It's Martin.
I'd recognize that nose anywhere.
(Growling)
Oops, sorry, proboscis monkey.
Hm, maybe not.
Oh, over there. It's Chris.
Oops, well, at least it wasn't a monkey this time.
We'll just have to keep looking.
They've got to be out here somewhere.
Hey, Martin, do you think Aviva will forgive us
for taking her goggles?
I just hope we get back to find out.
Yeah.
Huh?
AVIVA: Hold it right there, Kratt Brothers.
It's the Tortuga. We're saved!
(Tortuga humming)
CHRIS: Oh, oh, oh, are we happy to see you.
Mm-hm.
Hand them over, Kratts.
CHRIS AND MARTIN: Sorry.
I'll forgive you this time!
But, hey, they worked great for a while.
Then Googly Eye saved us.
He was taking us home.
He's the master of the night.
We owe you, Googly Eye.
(Gasping)
Googly Eye, wait.
A tarsier alarm call.
Something's wrong.
Googly Jr. must be in trouble.
Uh-oh, the little tarsier must have left his parking spot.
He's not supposed to do that.
We got to help Googly Eye find him.
Googly Eye helped us when we were lost in the forest.
Now it's our turn to help him.
Oh, but we'll never find that little tarsier
without a lot of search lights and--
Oh, yes, we will, with tarsier nocturnal power.
I can use this little bit of tarsier fur
and my nocturnal eye programming
to add tarsier power to your Creature Power Suits.
How long will it take?
Hah, you mean how long did it take?
They're done!
Two discs made to order.
Yes!
BOTH: Thanks, Aviva!
Tarsier powers, activate!
BOTH: To the Creature Rescue!
Don't worry, Googly Eye. We'll find Googly Jr.
Oh, these ears are incredible.
They can hear even the slightest noises.
Please make a sound.
Please make a sound.
(Leaves rustling)
Pays to say "please."
Rustling leaves that way!
Nothing like getting there fast.
Whoo! With these amazing leaping legs!
Come on, tarsier eyes, don't fail us now.
(Leaves rustling)
It's-- It's--
CHRIS AND MARTIN: Googly Jr.!
Googly Eye, we found Googly Jr.!
Your baby is safe and--
(Squeaking)
(Gasping)
A python!
(Hissing)
Whoa.
They're mobbing the snake
to protect one of their own kind.
Ooh, they're too much for the snake.
They're coming at it from all sides.
CHRIS AND MARTIN: They did it!
All right, now Googly Jr. is safe and sound.
And back with Mom.
Mission accomplished.
The whole tarsier family is back where they belong, at home tree.
And we're back where we belong at the Tortuga home base.
CHRIS: Yeah, thanks to a little help from our nocturnal pal.
If it weren't for him, we might still be lost in that forest.
At least we got to find out
a lot more about night-creature living.
And how their senses, like extra good vision,
are such important features.
Yeah, and I'm even starting to like
this big old mechanical eye.
Oh, here comes the sun.
ALL: Good night, tarsiers.
(Mechanical eye buzzing)
JIMMY: Oh, no, no, no, no!
(Groaning)
Ow!
Not again!
More light the pupil gets--
I know. I know.
The pupil gets smaller.
(Laughing)
So when you actually shed some light
on these mysterious nocturnal primates,
we find out that their world
really isn't that much different than ours, just darker.
And they have what it takes for life in the dark.
Like those amazing eyes that let them see at night
as if it's daylight.
A cricket.
Yeah, I think the loris spots it.
Slow, smooth.
He spots it.
And he's going to reach and grab.
Yeah, I love that style.
That pause and then "whoom." Grabs the cricket.
Takes the cricket totally unaware.
Let's see if he likes raspberries.
I'll put it right here, so he can see it.
Oh, he's looking at it.
He sees it. Cocking his head.
Checking it out.
Here he comes.
He's stalking the raspberry.
Slow and steady, just like he approaches the cricket.
And he makes the grab.
(Chuckling)
He likes raspberries.
There you have it.
Lorises are true omnivores.
They like meat and they like fruit.
That's one difference between a tarsier and a loris.
Lorises will eat fruit.
Tarsiers won't.
Strictly meat for a tarsier.
And there's another very special thing
about a loris right on his elbow.
There's a special gland that secretes a poisonous toxin.
MARTIN: If he needs to defend himself,
he licks his elbow,
the poison mixes with his saliva
and then he bites his enemy.
And the enemy is left with a nasty wound.
A mother loris even licks her elbow,
then licks all over her baby
to give them protection against enemies:
a poisonous protection.
You are one cool creature. Oh, yeah.
Hey, what are you doing?
It's almost morning.
The sun's about to come up.
Time for us nocturnal creatures to get some shut-eye.
Thanks.
(Kratts yawning)
(Kratts yawning)
MARTIN: See you on the creature trail.
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