Block them.
Why?
Let's see how they grow, let's see how they grow
We'll see birds hatch from their eggs
They can hardly stand on their legs
And spiders use their spinners to help catch their dinners
So they'll have more time to play
Let's see how they grow, let's see how they grow
Puppies just love to chew
And their teeth get stronger when they do
All the piggies in the puddle like to cuddle in the mud
We'll see the little baby bunnies with their fuzzy little tummies
There's chickens, ladybugs, even snakes can use a hug
Growing up like me and you
Let's see how they grow, me and you
Let's see how they grow, me and you
Let's see how they grow, me and you
Let's see how they grow, me and you
Let's see how they grow, let's see how they grow
All creatures begin life as babies just like you did
As they grow they learn from their parents
From brothers and sisters and playmates
And from the world around them
They learn about neighbors and friends
About new things they've never seen before
And about playing and working together
Look at this beautiful dog
She's a golden retriever
She just had a litter of puppies
Not one puppy, not two, not three
Or four or five or six or seven or eight
Or even nine or ten or eleven
But twelve little puppies
One of them is me
That's me on the top, Rocky
You probably can't tell us apart
We look alike, don't we?
Boy, are we hungry
We go right to Mom and Suckle
That means we drink her milk
Move over
There's certainly a lot of pushing and shoving
But there's plenty for everyone
After we eat, Mom cleans us up
Now it's time for a nap
Look, I'm two weeks old now
Old enough to go exploring on my own
What's this?
I better examine it
That's what puppies are supposed to do
Whoa, it moves
It moves a lot
But I'm okay
She's thinking I'm going to knock the basket
Whoa!
Uh-oh
Mom, anybody?
Is there a ladder somewhere?
I hope I get out of here before mealtime
Otherwise I'll be a basket case
Mom!
When we're two weeks old
We start to eat meat and cereals
As well as Mother's milk
I think we need a bigger bowl
And maybe more food
Everybody really likes this
Are there any seconds?
After we eat, we like to cuddle together and go to sleep
The perfect end to a busy day
I found a pile of blocks
We're six weeks old now
And we love to explore
I wonder if I can climb to the top
My brother Charlie is sniffing between the green and the yellow blocks
I'm climbing
Careful, Charlie
Don't make the pile of blocks fall
This is very high
Charlie, don't push the red block
Help
Help
Up here, Charlie, up here
Well, there's only one way down
Geronimo
I think that's enough exploring for one day
Mom, you wouldn't believe what just happened
I mean, you just wouldn't believe it
Can I have a snack?
Please?
There's no milk for me now, though
No matter how hard I try, Mother doesn't make milk anymore
By the time we're six weeks old, we've been weaned
That means we stop drinking Mother's milk
We need lots of exercise, and so we play all the time
Sometimes we even pretend to fight
But my brothers and sisters and I are really good friends
Being a puppy, you're really very tiring
I'm 12 weeks old now
See how much bigger my ears are and how much longer my nose is?
My teeth are a lot sharper, too
I think I'll go off for some more exploring and let Mom have the bed
She can probably use the rest
Bringing up 12 puppies is a lot of work
I hope she won't mind that I got a little carried away chewing on the bed
Let's see how they grow
Let's see how they grow
Are we born yet?
It's hard to tell
My eyes haven't opened and I can't hear very well
My ears can't even stand up
This is my mother
That's my brother and sister
We're just a few days old
No need to push, there's plenty for all of us
We lie close to Mother and drink her milk
But every so often Mom gets up
She has to eat too, you know
I hope she comes back soon
Mother checks up on us to make sure everything's okay
Then the three of us cuddle together
Here I am, I'm two weeks old
Our eyes are open, our ears are standing up straight and our code and whiskers are much longer
And we're very curious
I'm ready to go exploring
But first, I've got to get out of this basket
Easy does it
I've done it
How do I get back in?
Oh great, my brother's telling me for leaving the basket
I better get back in before Mom sees me
It's harder getting back in than it was getting out
Look out!
Everyone's asleep
But I'm too excited for my adventure to take a nap
What's that thing coming toward me?
It's getting closer, I'm scared
Run for your lives!
Things only get scarier when you face them with your brother or sister
Let's see what it is
Maybe there's no need to be frightened
Maybe we can play with it
I kind of like this
I'm not scared anymore
This is fun
We're six weeks old now and we spend hours playing and getting into mischief
We love running
Housing
And chasing
I guess I got a little more wrapped up in my play than usual
My brother and I certainly like a good yarn
Cat food
And now that I'm one year old, I'm much too big for mother's milk
I spend my days doing all the things full grown cats do
Right now it's bath time and then I'll have to get busy taking a nap
I have such a full schedule
Let's see how they grow
Let's see how they grow
Let's see how they grow
This is my house and this is my dad
He's checking up on my mom and she's sitting on top of me
I'm in an egg and mom's keeping me warm so I'll hatch
Parakeets lay one egg each day when they're nesting
As many as eight in one nest
But there's only going to be two kids in our family
Dad can't wait to fly off and tell everyone the news
It's been three weeks since my egg was laid and now I've hatched out of my egg
I'm blind and have no feathers
It's a big chili
Mom!
This doesn't feel like mom
Oh, it's my sister
Now we've both hatched
Breaking out of our shells was hard work
After a few days our eyes open, our feathers start to grow
And we look a little more like parakeets
Our mother still has to feed us up to four times an hour
As the days go by we get stronger and our feathers continue to grow
And our colors begin to show
But we look a little scruffy still, don't you think?
We're five weeks old now and completely feathered
I'm ready for my first venture out of the nest
Excuse me, one side please
I'm trying to get out
I have exploring to do, new worlds to conquer
Wait a minute, this isn't as easy as I thought it would be
Whoa!
Let me try it from the ground
Chest out, shoulders straight and flap the wings
I've never seen a house like this before
I wonder what it would be like to live in a house like this
Hello, anybody home?
I'll just have a look around
The kitchen is very neat
I have to do something about the wallpaper
I think I'll go upstairs
Hmm, a bedroom
That mattress looks hard
I'm used to a soft feather bed myself
Oh, this room has a fireplace
But my feathers keep me warm enough, thank you
This is a beautiful house
But I think I like mine better
Hey, what's that sound I hear coming from my house?
It's my sister Sarah
Sarah can fly too
That's great
I'm going to join her
Now we're adults
We have sharp hooked bills for cracking tough seed shells
And we come in a variety of colors
We like to get together with all our parakeet friends and have a sing-along
You can tell I'm a male parakeet by the little blue lump just above my beak
A female has a brown lump
We're very affectionate birds
We sing to each other
And coo
Perhaps I should think about starting a family
On the other hand
Maybe I'm still too young to settle down in a birdhouse of my own
Let's see how they grow
Let's see how they grow
Let's see how they grow
You wouldn't think you'd find fish in a garden
But this garden is underwater
Inside an aquarium
An aquarium is a house for fish
And this aquarium is my home
I'm Golda
And I'm in this little egg on this tiny branch
My egg has already grown
At first it was smaller than a pinhead
After about four days
My egg hatches
And I emerge as a tiny fry
No bigger than a hare
A few days later
I'm swimming happily about with the others
After a few weeks
I'm not small fry anymore
Even though I'm not very big
But I look more like a goldfish, don't I?
Can you see my gills moving?
My gills let me breathe underwater
I have a lot of growing up to do before I'm as big as this goldfish
Uh-oh, I think I disturbed him
I'll hide in the shell
I guess he woke up on the wrong side of the aquarium today
Is he gone yet?
The coast is clear
As the months go by, I become less transparent
My scales get darker
Some even turn black
And then at last I begin to turn more gold
Until I become a real goldfish
Now I can play with everyone in the aquarium
There are wonderful creatures here
They don't look like me
But they're all goldfish
Look at this one
This goldfish is black
You could get lost in her eyes
She has beautiful ruffles too
What a pretty fish
This kind of goldfish is called a red cap
He's older than me
But he's one of my best friends
We play together
And I watch and learn from him too
The red cap and I race around the rocks
We swim side by side and explore the aquarium
I feel safe with the red cap
He watches out for me when we're together
Now the red cap has stopped for a snack
He's always hungry
I know, I'll play a game and hide from the red cap
We like to play hide and seek
I hear him coming
Golda
Shhh
Golda
Shhh
Golda, I know you're in here somewhere
Here I am
Let's play again
This time I'll count and you hide
Okay, anything you say
I like the red cap
He's my best friend
And you're a great little goldfish, Golda
Let's see how they grow
We'll see birds hatch from their eggs
They can hardly stand on their legs
And spiders use their spanners to help catch their dinners
So they'll have more time to play
Let's see how they grow
Puppies just love to chew
And their teeth get stronger when they do
All the piggies in the puddle
Have to cuddle in the mud
We'll see the little baby bunnies with their fuzzy little tummies
There's chickens, ladybugs, even snakes can use a hug
Growing up like me and you
Let's see how they grow
Me and you
Let's see how they grow
Me and you
Let's see how they grow
Me and you
Let's see how they grow
Me and you
All creatures begin life as babies, just like you did
As they grow they learn from their parents
From brothers and sisters and playmates
And from the world around them
And this story is about a chicken named Christine
Let's watch me grow
Look at this chicken, isn't she beautiful?
She's my mother
She's sitting on something, can you guess what?
She's sitting on eggs
And I'm inside one of them
My name is Christine, I'm just about ready to come out
I start to chip around the inside of my eggshell with my beak
I have a little rest
Catch my breath
Then I try to push my way out
I push and push and push
I have to do it all by myself, it's very difficult
I'm nearly out
Ah, free at last
Hello, I'm out
Look, I can walk already, where is everyone?
Is that chirping from my brothers and sisters?
There they are, aren't they soft and fluffy?
Mother, I've been looking all over for you
Look, John is our mother's back, he's one of my brothers
We're about one hour old now
Our feathers have dried and they are soft and downy
I like to stay right next to my mother
She's very warm and I feel very safe here
Now where's mother going?
What's she doing?
She's pecking at something, she's eating
Nobody wants to miss this
Everyone's rushing off again
Wait for me
Good, there's lots, it's chicken feed
That may not mean much to some people but it means plenty to us
I'll eat it like mother's doing, like this
Delicious
Now where's everyone rushing off to?
They're certainly in a hurry
They're getting something to drink
I think I'll try it
Oh, that's very refreshing
I'm eight days old now
Look how my feathers are beginning to grow
I'm starting to look more like mother
We spend our days pecking around the barnyard
But there's still nothing I like better than cuddling with my mother and my brothers and sisters
One big happy family
Do you know who this is?
It's my father
Look at the magnificent red comb on his head and the waddle under his beak
He's so handsome
And what's this?
It looks like some kind of house
Who lives there?
One of my sisters is feeling very brave
She doesn't think she needs to stay by mother anymore
She's going inside the house
Dad's keeping an eye on her though
There goes another one
And another one
And another one
Uh oh, the house was occupied
Mind your manners or father will have a word with you
Look how big I've gotten
My comb and waddle have grown and our feathers are longer too
Goodness, there's a frog in our water bowl
This water is for drinking, not bathing, Mr. Frog
Hop to it
Hop to it
Hop to it
Imagine sitting right in my water bowl
Maybe he thought I wouldn't say anything about it
He must have thought I was chicken
Hop to it
Let's see how they grow.
Let's see how they grow.
Out of my way, please, coming through. Move aside.
Oh, hi. I'm Marvin.
Don't mind my brothers and sisters. We're pretty informal around here.
Look at my mom. She gets up from the table right in the middle of the meal.
I haven't had seconds yet.
I guess moms want to eat too. Maybe I should try some hay. When I get older, I'll like hay.
But for now, I like my mother's milk a lot better.
That's more like it.
Hello. Did I hear someone say, new time?
Now that we're three weeks old, we're much larger and can eat solid food like these pig nuts.
Step aside, please. Coming through. Move down. Thank you. Plenty of room in the back of the bus.
I want to get big and strong so I can do grown-up things like my dad does.
I'm not sure exactly what dad does for a living, but I know it involves a lot of rolling around in the mud.
He really enjoys his work. Someday, I'm going to grow up to be just like dad.
Here we are at six months. We're almost as big as mom and dad now.
We love rooting around in the grass to see what we can find to eat.
We don't really mind what it is. Roots, bulbs, a worm or two.
Step aside, please. Coming through. Gangway.
Oh, it's dad's office. I don't suppose he'd mind if I dropped him. I'll just have a look around.
Say, this is great. I think I was born for this work. Oh, yes.
Oh, here comes the rest of the gang.
Go ahead. Make a pig out of yourself. That's it. All the way in.
You've got to wallow in it.
I feel very grown up. Dad will be so proud of us.
This could be the start of a family business.
Let's see how they grow.
Let's see how they grow.
Oh, this is the first time I ever stood up. I was just born. I'm sure glad mom is here.
Now, what next? Well, I'll have some of mother's milk while I think about it. Straight from her udders. That's where her milk comes out. Delicious.
Mom makes milk for a living, but I get it for free. That's our neighbor, Rooster. He came to say hello.
I'm four weeks old now and I've grown quite a bit. I have fresh hay to eat and my own stall with clean straw to lay on in a special manger just for me.
I'm getting better at swatting flies with my tail and scratching myself too. I get itchy when flies land on me.
Ah, that's better. Now, what's that? My mother's very interested in it too. Mother's eating it. Well, that's good enough for us. Charge!
I bet he wants some too. We'll try to leave you a little.
We're the sons of grazing animals. Grown-up cows spend most of their time just eating grass in the fields. But we eat other things, like cow nuts too. Mmm, they're delicious.
I don't know if there'll be any left for the rooster. Besides, this is food for calves, not for roosters.
They always say they're going to leave me something and they never do. Chicken feed. That's all I ever get.
I'm eight months old now. And at the end of a full day of eating, we like to settle down together and chew the cud.
We all share a large barn now at night. We keep each other company and we keep each other warm.
Now I'm all grown up, just like Mother. We spend our days out in the field feeding on grass. We still enjoy being together and eating all day long.
Grazing is a full-time job, but we have to do it to produce milk. Now that we're adults, our udders are fully grown and filled with milk.
And every morning and evening, we go to the milking barn where the farmer puts us on a milking machine.
My milk is pumped through special pipes and bottles to keep it cool and fresh.
Let's see how they grow Let's see how they grow
How they grow
This is me, Sam. I was born only a few hours ago. Here's a picture of me first standing up. You can see I went right to my mother.
I drink from her udders. They're filled with milk.
Here's my twin brother. He looks just like me. I hope he keeps sleeping. More milk for me. I'm just kidding.
Here he comes now. That's the way. Drink up. It's very good for you. Now that's milk.
Well, that's quite enough for one day. All that work of being born has worn me out. I think it's time for a nice rest.
Here I am a few weeks older. I'm much plumper now. My coat has changed too. It's much thicker than it was.
I heard something. It's another lamb.
What should we do?
She looks very friendly. She's going out into the field. Let's follow her.
Wait a minute. This grass looks very appetizing. We're developing a taste for grass now. We'll have to come back and try some of this spot.
But for now, never mind the grass. Where did that lamb go? There she is. She's a black sheep. She really is exactly the same as us, except that she's a different color.
Mom, what happened? All your wool is gone. Mom's been shorn. That means her wool coat has been cut off. But her coat of wool will grow back.
We're much bigger now, and we don't stay as close to mother anymore. But we still like to stay close to each other. We don't drink milk anymore either. We just eat grass. We're like living lawnmowers. I see something.
Look over here. Now what's this? There's a hole here. Come and look at this. I don't think it grew by itself. An animal dug this hole.
Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Something's down there. I can see a rabbit down there. He won't come out. He's very shy.
Look! My brother found a bale of hay to play with. I want to play too. I wish the rabbit would come out of the hole and play.
It's the rabbit. He's watching us play.
Jumping over the bale of hay is fun. I wish the rabbit would play with us. He seems too shy. He just wants to watch. We're much bigger than the rabbit. Maybe he's afraid of us. We won't hurt the rabbit. Now where is the rabbit going?
He's hopped through our gate. He's on our hay. Excuse me. Excuse me. You're welcome to sit on our hay, but please don't bathe in it. I hope I didn't hurt his feelings. I think the rabbit is going home now.
Well, back to our game. So where were we? Who's turn to jump over the bale of hay?
Mine!
Let's see how they grow. Let's see how they grow. We'll see birds hatch from their eggs. They can heartily stand on their legs. And spiders use their spanners to help catch their dinners so they'll have more time to play.
Let's see how they grow. Let's see how they grow. Puppies just love to chew. And their teeth get stronger when they do. All the piggies in the puddle like to cuddle in the muddle. See the little baby bunnies with their fuzzy little tummies. There's chickens, ladybugs, even snakes can use a hug.
Growing up like me and you. Let's see how they grow. Me and you. Let's see how they grow. Me and you. Let's see how they grow. Me and you. Let's see how they grow. Me and you. Let's see how they grow.
Let's see how they grow.
Let's see how they grow.
Look around a peaceful pool of water in the countryside of the woods,
and you'll find many wonderful creatures.
Bugs and insects, amphibians and mammals.
But all of them, like you, begin life as babies,
and learn about the world as they grow.
Look at this peaceful country pond.
You could walk across it on this bridge,
or you could swim across it if you were a duck like this.
Isn't she beautiful?
With her yellow bill and white feathers,
she's my mother.
And this is her house.
She was born here.
And now she's going to have her children in this house.
A whole family of fluffy little ducklings,
and I'm going to be one of them.
I'm in this egg.
My name is Danielle, and it's time for me to hatch.
I'm going to have to use my beak to break this shell.
Hello?
Anyone there?
Phew, this is hard work.
Someone forgot to put in a door when they built this egg.
I'm almost out.
I think my foot's caught on something.
How did I ever fit in that little thing?
I have a bill and feathers, just like Mother.
Here I am with my brothers and sisters,
coming out of our house for the first time.
We're two days old.
It's time for our first swimming lesson.
Okay, kids, last one in is a chicken.
Geronimo!
Geronimo!
It's wet!
Look, I'm floating!
Because it doesn't look so bad.
We're covered in silky yellow fluff called gown.
We can put our bills in the water like Mom does.
And we can glide along the water, too.
It looks like magic, doesn't it?
Here's our secret.
We have webbed feet that make wonderful paddles.
And sometimes they really come in handy.
Wait up, guys.
Mother watches over us as we swim and play.
That was fun.
But now we're all wet.
Where's the towel?
Time to dry off, everybody.
Like this, see?
Like this?
That's it.
I don't know which is more tiring, swimming or doing the wet duck dance.
We're three weeks old now.
My sister and I are out for a walk.
Or should I say, waddle?
Our webbed feet are better for swimming than walking.
Where is everyone?
Where did everybody go?
We're over here.
Come in.
The water's flowing.
Well, it's a lot easier than walking.
Now that we're older, we're much better swimmers.
Let's play follow the leader.
But who's going to be the leader?
We'll just swim together.
We spend our days swimming and feeding, getting bigger and stronger all the time.
It won't be long until we can swim wherever we want in the pond, just like Mother.
Guess who these beautiful ducks are?
It's us!
We're seven weeks old and almost fully grown.
We can dive down in the water.
And swish our tail feathers just like Mother.
We'll always love swimming together in our beautiful pond.
Let's see how they grow.
Let's see how they grow.
Springtime is a busy time for animals that live by the pond.
But here's an animal that's taking a moment to relax.
Can you see her?
She's a frog.
But not just any frog.
This frog is my mother.
She's an amphibian.
That means she can live on land or in the water.
Right now, she's going to look in on her children.
Here we are.
Hi, Mom.
She's just laid this mass of eggs.
And in the center of each egg is a tiny black speck waiting to grow into a tadpole and then into a frog.
It's two weeks later and you can see we're beginning to grow into tadpoles.
Look, here I am.
Ted the tadpole.
I'd like to get out of this egg.
It's very hard, like trying to punch your way out of a bag of jelly.
Look, everyone.
I'm hatching.
Look, it's me.
I'm a real tadpole now.
I'm ready to start changing into a frog.
Two weeks after hatching, I've grown feathery gills so I can breathe oxygen from the water.
Ta-da!
I'm two months old now.
I can swim faster every day.
And I'm developing lungs inside my body so I'll be able to breathe air when I'm a frog.
It's Gold of the Goldfish and she looks hungry.
Golly, can I go and hide in your wreath?
I just saw a very hungry looking frog.
And I don't want to be his gourmet meal.
Hiding from a frog?
I'm not falling for that old trick.
I'm not that gullible.
I'm three months old now and every day I'm feeling more frog-like.
And I'm beginning to look more frog-like too.
Don't you think so?
I spend most of my time looking for food, like tiny water plants and insects that fall into the water.
Now look at me.
My back legs have grown much bigger.
I'll use them to hop about the land when I'm a frog.
And I even have front legs too.
Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit.
I like to practice saying ribbit.
That's what frogs say, you know.
Ribbit.
I still have my tail.
I need it until I'm ready to leave the water.
Ribbit, ribbit.
Look, I'm 14 weeks old and I'm a fully formed frog.
I can breathe air and live out of the water.
I could lick any tadpole in the pond.
Ribbit.
But even though I'm a frog, I still have some growing to do.
I think I'm trespassing someone's favorite rock.
Now I have to learn to live on land and learn about my new neighbors.
What's that?
It's a mouse.
What's a mouse doing by my pond?
It's not going for a swim, is it?
A swimming mouse.
Now I've seen everything.
How different everything is on land.
I think I'll drop by the old neighborhood and see what everyone's up to.
It almost makes me nostalgic for the old days.
But I'm a frog now.
I'm going to like living on land.
Let's see how they grow.
Let's see how they grow.
If you look closely amidst the grasses, ferns and leaves beside a quiet pond, you'll find many wonderful creatures.
Like this one.
She's a salamander.
And she's my mother.
Salamanders are amphibians.
That means we can live on land or water.
Right now, she's looking for lunch.
Mom doesn't like heavy sauces or artificial ingredients.
Only fresh food for her.
This looks tempting.
She's warm.
Mom's about to have babies, and now she's going to find a safe place in the pond to give birth.
Some salamanders lay eggs, like a frog.
But other salamanders, like Mom, hatch their eggs inside their body so that when baby salamanders are born, they already have arms and legs and are ready to swim about.
Mom's found the perfect place to have her brood.
Look, it's me on the bottom.
I'm Sammy the salamander.
My brothers and sisters and I spent our first day amidst the reeds where we were born.
We are one big happy family.
See the resemblance between me and Mom?
No?
Well, I guess I have a bit of growing to do.
I have tiny feathery gills on each side of my head.
They take oxygen out of the water.
That's how salamanders breathe.
Can you see my gills?
They look like little fingers, don't they?
I use my arms, legs, and tail to swim around and search for food.
This is my belly.
And that red line is a vein carrying blood around my body.
See that red spot moving under my chin?
That's my heart.
Now, do I look like my mother?
No?
I guess growing up takes longer than I thought.
Now there's air.
If there isn't enough oxygen in the water, we can swim to the surface and gulp some fresh air.
It's been a whole year since I was born.
I'm just about fully grown.
Now do I look like Mom?
Not bad, huh?
See my bright yellow spots?
They make animals think my skin is poisonous, even though it's not, so they won't eat me.
Now it's time to explore the big wide world around the pond.
The wonders await me.
My first day hunting alone.
I hope I remember all the things my mother taught me.
There's so much to remember.
Wait, I think I see my lunch.
Leaping lizards, a snake.
He'll think I'm poisonous.
What was that rhyme Mother taught me?
Spots of yellow, avoid the fellow.
Or was it, spots of yellow, eat the fellow?
Spots, spots of yellow, I better go ask Mom.
I've been exploring for one day.
Let's see how they grow.
Let's see how they grow.
Let's see how they grow.
If you visit a pond in the springtime or summer, look among the flowers and reeds at the water's edge and you'll find colorful, wondrous flying insects.
Like this one.
It's a dragonfly.
Like all insects, its body is divided into three parts.
A head, a thorax in the middle, and an abdomen at the end.
And it has four wings with tiny veins.
The wings are so thin you can see right through them.
It has two big round eyes for seeing and a pair of antennae for feeling and smelling.
And its head can swivel in any direction.
And it has six hairy legs, like this one.
Do you think the dragonfly looks like a dragon?
In the early summer, if you look closely, you'll also find beautiful, delicate damselflies.
Here's a blue one.
They come in a variety of bright colors.
Here's a red damselfly.
Isn't she pretty? She's my mother.
She's about to lay her eggs.
Mother finds a reed in the pond and begins slowly lowering herself into the water to lay her eggs.
She wants us to be in the water or very close to it when we hatch, so she goes as deep as she can.
The eggs are so tiny you can't even see them.
Look! Mother's all the way underwater.
She breathes the air trapped around her body. Can you see the air bubbles around her?
You can?
After she lays her eggs, she dries off. And she doesn't even need a towel or a blow dryer.
It's been a year since Mother laid her eggs, and now we've all hatched.
This is me, Daisy, and I live underwater.
I'm a larva now. That's the first insect stage.
I grow quickly, and as I grow I get too big for my skin, so I shed it several times while I'm a larva.
See the antennae on top of my head?
And look at my tiny wings. I guess I don't look like a damselfly yet.
Most damselflies have these leafy tails, but they can get pulled off in a fight.
I like living in the water, but I think I prefer flying to swimming.
I'm ready to change into a damselfly. I climb out of the water and find a spot on a leaf or reed and hold on very tight.
Then I split my skin and start to push my way out.
This is a tight fit. I must have put on more weight than I thought. Just a bit more to go.
At last! I'm a damselfly!
Now I'll pump up my wings and let them dry out.
I can't wait to fly!
Look, that's my old empty skin hanging on to the reed. I don't know how I ever fit into that thing.
I'm ready to explore the world!
Pre-flight checklist, antenna set, flight controls check, wings ready, here I go!
Up, up and away!
Whee! Look, all my brothers and sisters are flying too!
Red, green, blue damselflies! This sure beats swimming!
Let's see how they grow! Let's see how they grow!
We'll see birds hatch from their eggs. They can hardly stand on their legs.
And spiders use their spanners to help catch their dinners so they'll have more time to play.
Let's see how they grow! Let's see how they grow!
Puppies just love to chew, and their teeth get stronger when they do.
All the piggies in the puddle look to cuddle in the mud.
We'll see the little baby bunnies with their fuzzy little tummies.
There's chickens, ladybugs, even snakes can use a hug!
Growing up like me and you!
Let's see how they grow!
All creatures begin life as babies, just like you did.
As they grow they learn from their parents, from brothers and sisters and playmates,
and from the world around them.
They learn about neighbors and friends,
about new things they've never seen before,
and about playing and working together.
Look at this pretty little ladybug with her gleaming bright red shell.
She's searching for little insects called aphids.
Now she's cleaning herself as she hangs onto the leaf with two of her six legs.
Ladybugs are actually beetles, flying beetles.
The ladybug's hard shell covers and protects two transparent wings and prevents them from drying out.
In the summer, she lays tiny golden eggs under a leaf.
She lays them near aphids, so when we hatch, we'll have something to eat.
After four days we hatch.
You're no bigger than a pinhead at first.
At this stage of my life, I'm called a larva.
Now I'm off to find some aphids.
I wonder what they look like.
What's that? It's an aphid. It's coming this way.
It's so much bigger than me.
Come back!
Here comes another one.
But how am I supposed to catch it?
Is this how you do it?
Ride him, cowboy!
This isn't working.
Maybe I'll have to find a smaller aphid to eat.
Over the next 18 days, I shed my skin three times, and each time I get bigger.
Can you see my spots beginning to appear?
I guess I'm not as pretty as a full-grown ladybug yet.
Now I'm ready to do some serious aphid eating.
I feast on aphids for three weeks.
That gives me the energy for my next change.
I'm going to turn into a pupa, which is also called a chrysalis.
After that, I'll be a pretty ladybug.
Gardeners like ladybugs because we eat so many aphids.
Aphids can be very harmful to some plants.
All my brothers and sisters are out eating aphids, too.
Sometimes we share a meal.
Excuse me, have you seen any more aphids around here?
Maybe down the stalk.
Now I'm ready to begin changing into a beautiful ladybug.
I attach myself to a plant by a foot at the end of my abdomen.
In an insect, the abdomen is the end part of the body.
After a while, my outer skin will peel back, and underneath I am a pupa.
I stay in here for about two weeks, while inside I'm changing into a ladybug.
Then finally it's time to come out.
I split my case and try to squeeze out.
Whoa, this is a tight fit.
Now at last I can rest.
My wings unfold and dry, and my soft shell begins to harden,
and gradually the color appears on my back.
Now I'm a beautiful ladybug, just like my mother.
I'm hungry for an aphid.
If anyone asks, I'll be in the garden.
Let's see how they grow.
Let's see how they grow.
Look at this spider. What's she carrying?
She's carrying an egg sack.
She guards it closely, and she's very careful with it.
It's made of silk, and it protects the eggs inside.
Now she's weaving the stems of grass together.
She wants to make a safe place to put her egg sack.
That's why this is called a nursery web spider.
Look, she's made a nursery tent using her silk thread and the pieces of grass.
Now she'll attach her egg sack to the inside of the web where it's safe
and wait for her babies to hatch.
One of them will be me.
We have just started to hatch.
We're called spiderlings when we first come out of our eggs.
Here we are, all grouped together, still in the protection of our nursery tent.
We don't have eyes or claws or spinnerets for making thread.
Mother is outside the tent, keeping a lookout for danger and guarding us.
After a few days, we shed our skin.
Can you see me under the leaf?
I have a hairy body and four pairs of bristly legs.
Spiders have spinnerets for spinning silk to make webs with, like this garden spider.
It's nighttime now, and he's busily spinning his web.
He draws the silk thread from his spinnerets using his legs.
It takes a lot of practice to be able to do it this smoothly.
The spider goes round and round, round and round and round, in and out,
in and out, in and out, spinning his thread and drawing it out at the same time
to make a beautiful web.
It looks delicate, but it's very strong.
It only takes about one hour to make an intricate web like this,
and most spiders make a new one every day, even if their old one is still undamaged.
He's nearly finished.
Now he eats a little hole right in the center of the web,
so he can easily get to either side.
All done.
Now he waits.
Ah, he's caught something.
Now he's wrapping it up to save for a meal later on.
I wonder if I'll ever be able to build a web like that.
Well, I guess I'm going to need a little practice.
Let's see how they grow.
Let's see how they grow.
You know what this is?
It's a butterfly.
See how its eyes have many different sides, like a diamond.
Look how it drinks nectar from the flower with its proboscis.
It has different types of butterflies, and each has a favorite type of flower.
This butterfly has just laid her eggs under the leaf of a nettle,
because that's her favorite food, and ours.
I'm inside one of the eggs.
See how they are exactly the same color as the leaf?
To help hide us.
Meanwhile, the eggs change color, and we begin to hatch out as caterpillars.
We bite our shells open, and then we have to struggle to crawl out.
Look, I did it!
I have a dark head, but the rest of my body is almost completely transparent.
I need all day long, but I have a lot of growing to do before I'm as large as this big guy.
As I get bigger, my skin starts to feel tighter.
Unfortunately, it's too tight to live in, so I split my old skin and wriggle out of it.
That's better.
Now I can eat some more.
I'm bigger, I've grown.
Now that we're bigger, we eat even more, so I'll have enough energy to change from crawling caterpillars into beautiful butterflies.
If a group of caterpillars like us gathers together and starts eating, it doesn't take very long for a juicy clump of nettles that looks like this to look like this.
Now I'm ready for my final molt, when my body changes for the last time.
I've found a safe place to rest, and I've anchored myself to a stem with silk thread I make all by myself.
I force off my old skin by slowly and carefully pushing it off me.
The black is my old skin, and the yellow is the new me.
It's hard work pushing this old skin off.
Look, underneath my caterpillar skin, I've changed into a beautiful pupa, or chrysalis.
Once I've completely shed my skin, I wriggle into a comfortable position and then wait.
Outside, only my color changes, but inside, I'm changing into a butterfly.
After about ten days, when I'm ready to come out, my chrysalis splits open, and I can gently release myself.
I have to pump my wings full of blood and stay here for at least an hour to let them dry out and harden.
I can practice uncurling my proboscis, too.
Look, I can do it already.
Now I'm a beautiful butterfly.
I can spread my wings like all the other beautiful butterflies.
Let's see how they grow Let's see how they grow
Let's see how they grow
Look at this lovely grasshopper.
It's my mother.
Isn't she pretty?
She has four eyes, an armor-plated body, wings, and three pairs of legs, six in all.
She hears through a hole under the wings.
This is her ear.
And she breathes out of tiny holes in her abdomen called spiracles.
The antennae on her head are her feelers.
My mother lays her eggs in a hole in the ground.
Here we are.
I'm inside one of these eggs.
After about three weeks, we begin to hatch.
At this stage, we're called nymphs.
We struggle to climb out of the ground.
Look, the second one is me.
The first thing we do is shed our skin.
We pump our bodies up and push our skin off behind us.
As soon as I'm out of my skin, I can jump away.
After a few days, I've grown a bit, and my body has hardened and become much darker.
As I grow, I shed my skin.
This is called molting.
Each time it happens, I change color.
My wings begin to grow, but they're still so tiny that I can't fly at all yet.
Grasshoppers like to live in large groups, sometimes millions of us together.
And we spend most of our time eating.
That makes us very unpopular with farmers.
We can eat a whole crop of food in no time.
But we need to eat a lot to give us the strength to grow,
until finally we're ready to molt for the last time and change into an adult grasshopper.
First, I find a plant to hang from.
I attach myself firmly and very gently push myself out of my old skin, bit by bit.
I have to be very, very careful so I don't fall.
Can you see my new body coming out?
It takes me about a half hour to wriggle completely free.
When I'm almost completely out of my old skin, I hang upside down for a while and rest.
My soft body begins to harden and my wings start to open up.
Can you see how my wings have opened up?
Now I'm a full-sized adult grasshopper, and soon I'll change color and become more yellow.
There, now I'm a real adult.
See you later!
Let's see how they grow! Let's see how they grow!
We'll see birds hatch from their eggs. They can hardly stand on their legs.
And spiders use their spanners to help catch their dinners so they'll have more time to play.
Let's see how they grow! Let's see how they grow!
Puppies just love to chew, and their teeth get stronger when they do.
All the piggies in the puddle have to cuddle in the mud.
I'll see the little baby bunnies with their fuzzy little tummies.
There's chickens, ladybugs, even snakes can use a hug!
Growing up like me and you. Let's see how they grow! Me and you.
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