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EPISODE #5: SLIMY AND SLITHERY

Our hosts get up-close-and-personal with some pretty slimy critters. Elisha goes into the woods with a herpetologist on a frog-capturing expedition. Their mission is to find a black masked frog with a white upper lip called a wood frog and see what happens when they bring it back to the lab, freeze it and then witness a real miracle as it thaws out and comes back to life. We'll see how these kinds of frogs actually super-cool their bodies during the winter months which is pretty cool to us too!

Tyler is up to his elbows in creepy crawlers as he worms his way into a huge bait farm. He'll take delivery of a truckload of worms and watch how they get shipped to fishermen all over the world. These slimy night crawlers are picked by hand from the soil, loaded into styrofoam boxes stuffed with peat moss and rolled into a well-lit cooler to make sure the worms don't crawl away. Good thing Tyler won't have to count the worms, there can be up to 300,000 in each shipment!

Vanessa also has her hands full as she journeys to the Seattle Aquarium to meet Neah, a fifteen pound Giant Pacific Octopus. Vanessa will take Neah out of her tank, place her in a big barrel and weigh her. With an arm span of about five feet, these creatures can be pretty nimble and pretty smart and Vanessa gets the chance to actually watch Neah grab and digest her clam dinner.

Although Charlie has only two arms, he puts them to good use in his adventure teaching us how to make our own homegrown slime.

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