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"Salamander Streaming" is the 9th episode of Season 7 of the PBS Kids show Wild Kratts. It is the 161st episode of the series overall. It is set to premier on November 4, 2024.
Synopsis[]
Mysteriously, the Tortuga shorts and powers down while the gang is streaming a movie. Koki says it won't be back today. What are they going to do? Chris and Martin announce they can still do streaming - salamander streaming! The rest of the gang wonders, what in the world is salamander streaming? The bros explain that salamander streaming is getting miniaturized and floating down a stream in tiny little boats looking for salamanders, of course! It's a race to find as many salamanders as they can while Koki tries to fix the Tortuga.
Characters[]
Animals[]
Animation[]
Note: Featured animals are in bold.
- Hellbender: Foldy Flappy Flaps
- Northern Two-lined Salamander
- Spring Salamander
- Tiger Salamander
- Marbled Salamander
- Blue-spotted Salamander
- Spotted Salamander
- American Red Squirrel
- Osprey
- Crayfish
Live Action[]
Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.
Trivia[]
- This is their fourth amphibian episode.
- Chris and Jimmy worried that a Red Squirrel would eat them, but red squirrels only eat nuts, seeds, fruit, Shoots, buds, and flowers, fungi, insects and eggs, bones and antlers.
- This is the 4th time Aviva activated Creature Powers with one of the Kratt Brothers. The first 3 were Birds Of A Feather, Fire Salamander, and Mystery Of The Mini Monkey Models.
Key Facts and Creature Moments[]
- Differences between Salamanders and Lizards: Salamanders are amphibians with moist skin which they can breathe through and no claws, lizards are reptiles with scaly skin and have claws.
- Some salamander species can climb, but majority are either aquatic or semi-aquatic in nature.
- Hellbenders are the largest species of salamander in North America.
- Hellbender using suction to catch and eat a crayfish.
- Hellbenders have strong gripping toes, a streamlined body and a powerful tail for swimming underwater and crawling aginst fast stream currents without getting swept away.
- Hellbenders have flappy skin folds that increase their surface area in order to breathe through their skin underwater more effectively.
- Hellbenders are fully aquatic salamanders that cannnot move well on land.
- Hellbenders need clean fast flowing streams to live in.
- Two-lined salamanders have two stripes across their body and small limbs.
- Spring salamander attempting to hunt a two-lined salamander.
- Tiger salamanders secrete a toxin from their tail to deter predators.