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| Written by: | Marty Isenburg |
| Directed by: | Patrice Bérubé |
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”The Octonauts and the Long-Nosed Bats” is an episode of the Above & Beyond spin-off series' fifth season.
Plot[]
The episode begins in the Sonoran Desert, where Selva is investigating Saguaro cacti using the Terra-Gup 12. A mule deer couple comes and asks Selva if the Saguaro fruit has finished blooming. Selva responds by pointing out the flowers haven't bloomed yet, but when they do, they will need animals like hummingbirds to pollinate them. The mule deer are worried about how they will feed their fawn if there isn't enough fruit. Selva uses her Octo-watch to contact Tracker, who is nearby with the Terra-Gup 6. The previous night, Tracker had set up some hummingbird feeders and filled them, and they have been emptied. However, there are only three hummingbirds close by.
Tracker leads the hummingbirds to Selva, and they use their long beaks and tongues to drink the nectar inside the Saguaro flowers and pollinate them, while Selva manually pollinates others using her brush. However, the hummingbirds quickly tire out and sleep on a cactus. Tracker recognizes this as torpor, a state where hummingbirds will sleep after filling up in a fashion like hibernation, though it only lasts the night. The hummingbirds note they never noticed any feeders, so Tracker goes back to his feeders to investigate. He finds that the feeders have been emptied by bats, but he accidentally scares them away. Unsure of where to find more hummingbirds to help Selva, he sounds the Octo-Alert.
At the Octopod, Captain Barnacles, Professor Inkling, and Shellington answer as Tracker explains the situation. Shellington points out that bats also pollinate flowers; as they drink the nectar using their tongues, the pollen sticks to their snouts, allowing them to spread it to other flowers. Inkling explains that bats also migrate as the weather gets warmer. Captain Barnacles suggests that Tracker can meet up with Ryla, who is nearby spelunking, to help search for bats.
Tracker picks up Ryla and the duo starts searching for caves to find bats. In one cave, they find some bats, but they explain that they are leaf-nosed bats, and their tongues aren't long enough to reach inside Saguaro flowers and suggest they find some long-nosed bats. After some more unsuccessful searching, Tracker finds a group of bats migrating west. That's when Ryla remembers there is one cave they haven't checked yet, and it is on an island. They go to the cave and convince the long-nosed bats inside to follow them to the Saguaro cacti.
It is late at night, and Selva is starting to worry. Luckily, Tracker and Ryla show up just in time with the long-nosed bats and they start pollinating the flowers. The hummingbirds wake up from their torpor and also help pollinate the flowers. Later, the Saguaro fruit is finished growing. The episode ends with the mule deer and their fawn enjoying the fruit as Ryla, Selva, and Tracker observe.
Characters[]
Octonauts[]
Octo-Agents[]
Animals[]
- Two mule deer and their fawn
- A snake
- Three hummingbirds
- Leaf-nosed bats
- Frida the Long-Nosed Bat
- Long-nosed bats
Featured Gups[]
- TG-12
- TG-6
Trivia[]
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