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Wild Kratts
2011 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 7 seasons
Created by Martin Kratt, Chris Kratt
The adventures of Chris and Martin Kratt as they encounter incredible wild animals, combining science education with fun and adventure as the duo travels to animal habitats around the globe.
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>> started crying when we hid it after only a very short time
I'd cry too if you showed me a bright colorful shiny fun new thing and then took it away after only two minutes.
Part of what you're seeing is the novelty. There does seem to be something about screens, but it's possible to have healthy screen habits as a young child. My 3 year old enjoyed an episode of Wild Kratts on PBS Kids on our TV while we finished packing up for a trip to the aquarium today. No problems turning it off once the episode was over and it was time to go. It's not his first time watching TV though.
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This is shown in the Wild Kratts episode "A Huge Orange Problem", first broadcast in 2012.
We took our kid to a county park where they keep some animals that were too injured to return to the wild, and give talks about them, etc. My kid was answering a lot of the questions and the presenter said "wow, you know a lot of about animals!"
"That's because I watch so much TV!!" my kid said proudly.
Bit of a cringe moment in front of the other parents, but then again, my kid did know all the answers...
(The relevant TV show is "Wild Kratts" on PBS and pbskids.org.)
Neat! They didn't cover this exact technique, but a kids' show we watch talked about orcas eating sharks: Wild Kratts, Season 4, Episode 21 - "This Orca Likes Sharks"
My 4 year old daughter was able to recognise a fairly artistic photo of a proboscis monkey [0] about one month after having seen an episode of Wild Kratts [1] (in Belgium they only have the cartoon and not any live footage). So this was not a toy that she'd played with, she'd never seen a photo and they don't have them at the local zoo. Nor was it an obvious animal. But clearly the nose is distinctive enough to match up from a cartoon to a photo.
In dutch it's effectively called a 'nose monkey' (neusaap) which makes the name easier to remember for kids.
[0]: http://timflach.com/work/endangered/slideshow/#74
[1]: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RPnKpAsxUaM/maxresdefault.jpg
Wild Kratts (and their earlier show, Zaboomafoo?) are on Netflix, too. Prepare for kids dj-ing to their favorite episodes.