Meat Eater Kids

Part 1

Why It's the way it is

Today on why it's the way it is

We're going to get into why is a teddy bear, a teddy bear.

Now, I know people call them all kinds of things.

They call them stuffies, fuzzies, I don't know, but teddy bears is kind of the original name for when you had like a little friend, right,

that would take the bed with you and carry around with you.

And at a time, a long time ago, most of those little stuffies took the shape of a bear.

And I'm going to talk about why that came to be and how that name Teddy Bear came into existence.

And to understand it, you have to go all the way back to 1902, 120 years ago.

The president of the United States in 1902 was named Theodore Roosevelt.

People would call him Teddy Roosevelt, though he didn't like that nickname.

He might be the most important president in terms of wildlife and wild places in America.

In South Dakota, there's a thing Mount Rush Rushmore, where there's these huge carvings

in the mountain of different presidents' faces, four very important presidents.

He's one of those presidents, alongside George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas

Jefferson.

Now, he was, just like he was a great conservationist and did a lot for wildlife in America

and to preserve wild places in America.

He was a very avid hunter, which seems funny now.

It seems funny now to imagine a U.S. president who spends a lot of time out hunting bears, right?

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