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Wow in the World

Pull A Face! The Science Of Four-Legged Facial Mimicry (encore)

Wow in the World

Tinkercast | Wondery

Education, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.629.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hook your fingers in your cheeks, push your nose up with your thumb and strap yourselves in as Mindy and Guy head to the Interspecies Face Pulling World Championships to see the best funny face makers in the animal kingdom! Will Chad the Chimp finally win the big competition or will the newcomer Susan the Solitary Sun Bear pull a come from behind victory? Explore how animals of all kinds use their facial muscles to communicate in the wild. It's the Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, and Wow in the World of four-legged facial mimicry. Originally aired 5-6-19. 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

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0:06.6

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0:36.6

The next station is Block Street. Please make sure to take all of your belongings with you as you exit from the our starboard side of the vessel.

0:53.6

Add some food.

0:55.6

Mattier, no silly voices. I won't tell you again.

0:58.6

Come on, wake up, guys. We're almost there.

1:13.6

Sorry, Mindy. I must have dosed off there for a second.

1:17.6

Wake up! We're going to miss our stop!

1:20.6

I was a blight last night reading up on today's competitors. Oh, I know. I have been so excited that I went ahead and just refilled all the ants in my pants.

1:29.6

What?

1:30.6

Anywho, when I heard that our little old town was going to be hosting the inner species face-pulling world championships this year, I thought, you know who likes twisting and pulling his face into different expressions? This guy!

1:43.6

Ross! Yeah, that's a good face. Or you could pull it this way with your ears out in your nose up. Or the classic tongue out one-eyed closed face.

1:58.6

Then they let go of my tongue. Or you could go for the... and these stop pulling my face. Oh, but it's so stretchy and like crazy, buddy. Ouch! Oops.

2:12.6

Sorry. Well, anyway, Mindy, I'm so excited making a face and mimicking other people's faces is scientifically speaking an incredibly rare thing and ability only held by a few select animals.

2:27.6

And this is where the best of the best come to compete against each other. That's right. What we're about to see Mindy is a natural scientific phenomenon.

2:38.6

The next station will be Sour Patch Arena. If you're attending the World Face Pulling Championships today, this may or stop. Roger, that's it. I'm replacing you with the robot voice.

2:53.6

No! Here we are, Mindy. Don't forget your stuff. Forget my stuff. How could I forget this? What is this? What even is that thing, Mindy?

3:09.6

What? It's the kitchen sink. The what? Well, every time we go anywhere, I pack my adventure toolkit and then you take one look at it and say,

3:19.6

Mindy, it looks like you brought everything but the kitchen sink.

3:24.6

It's this time, I made sure not to forget it. Well, I didn't literally mean bring the kitchen sink, Mindy.

3:32.6

And now you can fill up your reusable water bottle without having to find a toilet to dunk it in. Okay, let's get off this train.

3:40.6

You want it? You want to get the door? Sure. Okay, let's see here. You should be able to get out this way here. Follow me, Mindy. Right behind you.

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