How The Whale Got His Throat

Stories Podcast: A Bedtime Show for Kids of All Ages

Stories Podcast / Wondery

Fiction, Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.2 • 12.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2015

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today we bring you an interesting animal origin story from Rudyard Kipling, the author of the Jungle Book. How did whales get so big? Where did their big whale throats come from? We have the answers in the form of this unique, vocabulary-enhancing just-so story. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to Stories Podcast.
0:04.4	Today we are reading how the whale got his throat, a story by Rudyard Kipling.
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0:18.5	Hi, I'm Landon Wittsen and I host an episode of Who's Amazing Life, a Wondery Podcast for
0:24.0	Kids and Families.
0:25.0	In the Plant Doctor, you've always loved plants, but when you leave home in search of new
0:29.9	opportunities, you discover that your passion for bulbs and blooms can help others and maybe
0:35.0	even change the world.
0:36.8	Listen to the Plant Doctor and other incredible stories from Who's Amazing Life on Amazon
0:41.0	Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:43.7	And now how the whale got his throat.
0:46.2	Enjoy!
0:47.2	In the sea, once upon a time, there was a whale and he ate fish.
0:55.0	He ate the starfish and the garfish and the crab and the dab and the place and the
1:00.0	dice and the skate and his mate and the Mac real and the pic real and he really, really
1:05.9	truly loved the twirly, whirly eel.
1:09.3	All the fishes he could find in all the sea, he ate with his mouth.
1:13.8	Till at last, there was only one small fish left in all the sea and he was a small stupe
1:19.2	fish and he swam a little behind the whale's right ear so as to be out of harm's way,
1:25.5	then the whale stood up on his tail and said, I'm hungry and the small stupe fish said
1:31.2	in a small stupe voice.
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