ZOOM, Series I; 605

Satsang with Mooji Zoom, number 605, WGBH-TV, Boston, 9 November 1977. Get in there! Get in there! Phil! Phil! Major funding for Zoom is provided by a grant from General Foods Corporation. Additional funding is provided by this station and by other public television stations. We're going to sing and dance and have a ball. Everybody's number one.

Everybody's having fun. Everybody's writing the show. So why don't you zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom? Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom. I'm Amy. I'm John. I'm Carolyn. I'm Nicholas. Of course. I'm Shanna. I'm Che. I'm Susan. Who are you? What do you do? How are you? Let's hear from you. We need you. We're gonna zoom, zoom, zoom-a-zoom. Come on and zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom Come on, give it a try We're gonna reach for the sky You can help us to fly high Come on and zoom, come on and zoom-a-zoom

Come on and zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom Come on and zoom-a-zoom We're going to the zoo zoo zoo How about you, you, you? You can tantoo do too We're going to the zoo zoo zoo We're going to the zoo zoo zoo How about you, you, you? You can go to zoo zoo We're going to the zoo zoo zoo Four eggs and soybeans With a long trunk swinging Great big ears and a long trunk swinging Snuffin' up needles with a long trunk swinging And we can stay all day We're goin' to do-do-do-do How about you, you, you? You can come to do-do-do

We're goin' to do-do-do-do See all the monkeys in a scritch-critch-cratch-ing Jumpin' around in a scritch-critch-cratch-ing Hanging by the long hill And we can stay all day We go to the zoo, zoo, zoo How about you, you, you? You can come to the zoo, zoo We go to the zoo, zoo, zoo There's a big old bear, he's a hop, hop, puffin' Throat's too heavy, he's a hop, hop, puffin' Don't forget to live a hop, hop, puffin' Ooh, boy, you won't stay all day. We go to zoo, zoo, zoo. How about you, you, you? You could go to zoo, zoo, zoo. We go to zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo. We go to zoo, zoo, zoo. How about you, you, you? You could go to zoo, zoo, zoo.

We go to zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo. What does a zoo sound like to you? Roar! Wanna know something about elephants? They're the biggest animal that lives on land. Big elephants are about 12 feet high and weigh about 6 1⁄2 tons. That means that they weigh about 186 kids altogether. Wow.

And you want to know something else? An elephant's skin is an inch thick, an inch thick. They have the biggest ears in the world. And they can use their ears to keep away flies, buzz and stuff like that. It's a fan themselves. But do you know why an elephant has a trunk? They don't know how to grow a real nose. I don't know. Throw dirt up on their back. But that's how they eat. So they can drink water without getting their face all wet. So they can pick up things. An elephant can use his trunk to pick up things from the ground and from trees and to move things. His trunk is so flexible and so strong that he can pick up a little peanut or a 300 pound log. An elephant can hold up to a gallon and a half of water in his trunk. A bigger elephant's trunk weighs about 300 pounds. Wow, that's some nose.

And just because an elephant's trunk is so big, they really smell well, too. Yuck! Terry Raynard from Mesa, Arizona, sent us this goodie. What you do is take peanuts and mix it with raisins, chocolate chips, granola, and sunflower seeds. Put it all in a plastic bag, and shake it up. Make sure it's stuck real good. Then take it to the zoo with you. And if you want, you can put it in smaller bags to give to your friends. Not only do people like it, but animals like it too. How old is Flipper?

Old Flipper is just a young baby seal, just caught last year out of the ocean, in the Pacific Ocean, and right now he's about two and a half years old. Does Flipper, now that he's in the zoo, like it? Do you think he likes it? Yes, he's very happy. This is how he was jumping in there before we did the show. Ready? Watch the ball. Watch it, Flip. You've got it. Hang on to it. Be careful. Easy. Don't run. Easy. That was fine. All right. That's nice. Class with me, boy. All right. That was a good one that time. I didn't know you could do it like that, Flip. I didn't know you could do it like that. Wait a minute. Wait right there a minute. Right there. Flip it. See if you can catch all three rings around the net. Are you ready? Flip. comes the first one what I'm glad that's one another one coming up right here right there that's two very good one more three all right exactly is a California sea line they come from around the Santa Barbara Islands in

California how much does he eat a day how much does he eat well he'll eat a lot more when he gets to be full grown but right now during the course of the day he eats about 10 pounds of fish. Are you a happy seal? Yeah, I hope so. Let's start out here and make a piece of fish disappear. Disappeared. It's a magic act. Show them. Go on. I've trained seals now all my life. My father trained seals before me and my grandfather trained seals before me so they sat in a zoo my grandfather did he started in a zoo in buffalo buffalo new york he went to visit the zoo one day and saw the seals swimming in the pool decided he'd like to have one like that so he got one and as a pet put it in his backyard and that's how he happened to start training seals take your time easy does it Easy, easy. That'll do fine. Okay, good one. Hey, Slipper, that was beautiful that time. Where'd you learn that? Where'd you learn that stuff? I don't know about you. All right, come here. You want to step up in the front? right now I want you to bring back all three rings first one down the end but hey go ahead

there's one that's one right there oh you missed it back up okay there's another one dead ahead right here what never mind this never mind showing off in front of the cameras right there. All right, here's one more. Way down the end, Flip. Right there. Right there. All right, good. Come on, Flip. Hurry up. Put that away. Put that away. Hurry up, Flip. Hurry up. Way up on top. Turn around. Turn around. Well, that was good that time. This is what I was wondering about. At first, they don't know what anything is about. Even a ball, they're afraid of a ball when they first see one and then after they gradually get used to it they become accustomed to it and then you can start teaching them how to juggle a ball. But is it all just taught or does some of their natural reactions come out while you train them?

Some of their natural reactions come out. They ad-lib a lot but everything that they do has to be taught but they're just like we are. Some of us can do things where some of us can't. You have to find out what their ability is to do. What are the things he does that people do? Does he do anything like... Well, he clowns around. A lot of people clown around. I hope this is your hoop. Can you do that on Zoom? Come here. Hey, wait a minute. Hold it, hold it. A high jump through the hoop and in the water. Right from there. Can you make that flip? Right there, flipper, flipper. Hey, right there, show the hook, jump. Up here, too high? You want to lower? Quit lower, how's that? Hey, wait a minute! Hey, you're getting to be a wise guy, you know that?

Hey, Mr. Wise Guy, flipper. Come here, I'm talking to you. Come here, I'm talking to you. Hey, come here, Flipper, what's the big idea of blowing a wolf? Oh boy, you're gonna get it. Now you're really getting in trouble over there. We'll get up over here. I don't know about you. You're smart, huh? Yeah, you're getting too smart, so you're doing good. Come here, Flipper. Christy Watkins of Houston, Texas, sent us this tongue twister. Purple Panthers pick pink pickles. Purple Panthers pick pink pickles. Purple Panthers pick pink pickles. Purple Panthers pick pink pickles. Purple Panthers pick pink pickles. Purple, painted, pink, pink, pickles. Purple, painted, pink, pink purples. Do you know what a tiger does when it meets another tiger? They rub heads. It's their way of saying hello. I think that's nice.

Tigers are nicer than people sometimes, I think. They're always shy and they only become people-eating tigers when they're sick or wounded. They're also very good swimmers and they can climb trees, but they usually don't. Tigers are the biggest kind of cats, about 8 feet long and 300 pounds. When a tiger roars, you can hear him for two miles away. Tigers are an endangered species. That means that there aren't very many of them left. And if we don't try hard and make sure that they're protected, there won't be any tigers anymore. Judy Cohen from Fishgill, New York says she wrote this poem while playing on a jungle gym.

It's called, If I Were a Monkey. This one over here, Amy. If I were a monkey hanging upside down, the sky would seem to be the ground. The clouds would be little white rugs. The birds and planes would be teeny tiny bugs. There'd be no doors, windows or walls. There'd be no floors, ceilings or halls. All there'd be is the little white rugs and the teeny-tiny bugs. Sharon Spring from Quinton, Oklahoma, sent us a great picnic goodie. It's called a traveling apple salad. And this is what it looks like. First, you cut off the top of your apple, and then with the big part, you hollow it. Have your mother do it, because you can't get hurt with the knife. Then you mix about a teaspoon of mayonnaise, some walnuts or any kind of nuts, raisins, shredded carrots, and about a tablespoon of cottage cheese.

If you like more, you can put more in, but I don't like it too much. Mix it all up, and then you take the top off your apple, just pack it in there, and then put the top on the apple and then stick a toothpick there and stick a toothpick here and then the top stays on then you can store it in your picnic cooler if you make them ahead of time and there it is traveling apple salad Hold on. I have this letter I want to read. Janice Ballinger sent us this letter. Dear zoo, what do you think about zoos? Some people think zoos are good because they take care

of the animals and feed them. Other people think zoos are cool because they put wild animals in cages i think zoos are good because our children will see animals they won't be able to see in the wild what do you think i think that zoos are good but like and they feed them and all that but um like some of them some of them are all they put them in such small places that's cruel because the bigger animals are put in smaller places than the small animals you know I know, I think it should be the other way around, you know, bigger animals, bigger animals. I think they could all have the same size moves. Uh-uh, that would be good. Like, the iguana who only lives in a small space would have as much room as a lion. I heard of this zoo that, um, where you're caged in and not the animals. No, no. The animals are, um, like, all around you, and you're in this little thing you can look out at.

Oh, that would be neat. What if one's like way over and you can't see him? They should put the zoos like one area without any bars, just high fences like for the gorilla, for instance. A fence over his head, but they shouldn't put him in cages. Gorillas climb. I know, they should have a tree, like a big tree. I think the good thing about zoos is like, you know, they protect the animals and everything. I mean, I'd rather be in a zoo than not get feed. They probably couldn't. I also think the trees are good because you can have fun there and you can learn a lot in ecology and stuff. You know, you can study animals. And also, I just like fun to even look at the animals. It's so easy. But I think that sometimes they're kind of cruel because, you know, feeding the animals a pre-made mixture They're vexed their hunting instinct so that you can't turn them out in the wild if you

built an artificial knowledge. That's why I like the... Once you keep them, you can't give them away. Like, you see animals, they're all cooped up, and you don't feel right. You put yourself in their place. I know. Everyone's looking at it, just looking. When you go to the zoo, do you ever wonder what it's like to be an animal? If I could talk to the animals, just imagine it, chatting with the chimp and chimpanzee. Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting with a cheetah. What a neat achievement that would be. If I could talk to the animals, learn their languages,

maybe take an animal degree. I'd study elephant and eagle. Buffalo and beagle. Donkey, alligator, pig and flea. I would converse in polar bearer python And recite verse in fluent camel too If people asked me can you speak rhinoceros I'd say of course there is Can't you? If I confer with our furry friends Kid to animal Think of the amazing rat party If I could walk with the animals Talk with the animals, grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals, and they could talk to me. I'd study every living creature's language

So I could speak to all of them on sight If I were asked to sing in hip-hop what a miss I'd say why not a miss And if you just stop and think of it There's no doubt of it I would win a place in history A kid who walks with the animals Talks with the animals Runs and squeaks and squawks with the animals Why they would squeak and squawk And speak and talk to me Pink, pamper, pickle, look-o. Purple, panther, pick-pick-pickles. Kristen Marie's dad is the assistant manager of the zoo. She knows a lot about how the zoo works.

What's your favorite animal here at the zoo? Well, the goats because last winter there were two orphan goats and I brought them home and I raised them. First I fed them by bottle and then I fed them grain and hay. And when they were old enough I brought them back to Benson's and they wrapped me in the elephant barn. Has it been fun here? Yeah. Does that mean you like all the animals here or just some particular animal you don't like? I guess the tigers are my worst favorite. Why don't you like them? Uh-uh. Why don't you like the tigers? Because they're awfully dangerous, you know. What about the snakes? Well, I got the snakes here. Oh, wow. This is a diamondback rattlesnake because you can kind of see the diamonds on it, you know. and this is where his rattle was and this is where his head is and there's his eyes you know

and every every few months um this skin gets old you know so they just crawl right out of it but they turn it inside out when they crawl out of it you know and under it there's another skin you know and then on the next few months they call that one and there's another one under that Do you train any animals? Well, sometimes we get to watch the seal trainer train the seals. And that's about it. So that means since you got the snake skin, you don't mind being with the snakes, do you? Well, some of them. Are all snakes that harmful? Like, will all of them give you poison bites? Well, no. Just like the rattlesnakes, they bite you. and the Vulcan sticks, if they wrap around you, they'll squeeze you real tight, you know. If you got hurt by an animal, would you like that animal? Would you think that animal was mad at you or something?

Well, animals really don't get mad at you. Like, if you don't bug them, they probably won't bug you. I have some really neat things to tell you about camels. First, their feet are shaped like snowshoes, and they don't sweat, and they don't chew their food very well. Want to know why? Well, their feet are shaped like that so they don't sink down into the desert sand. And they don't sweat, because they don't want to lose any water, because they really need it. They swallow their food without much chewing, because then later they bring it back up and chew it some more, just like a cow chewing its cud. But why do you think camels have humps? To carry milk and carry water. I don't know. Carry their water? So the guy won't fall off? A camel stores up fat in its humps,

and then they could go for 30 miles carrying 500 pounds on their back. Then they use that fat for food and energy. And that way they don't have to eat for a long time. And since they don't sweat, they don't have to drink for a long time either. I think owning a can will be a lot cheaper than owning a car. Purple, pink. Purple Panthers, pink. What? Purple Panthers pick pink pickles. Purple Panthers pick pink pickles. Doom, doom, doom, do I zoom do? Do I zoom do? Do I zoom do? Our Do for the Zoo is a scrapbook about endangered animals. These are some of them. When animals are endangered, there's a good chance that they might become extinct. Endangered animals are in trouble because of what people do to their environment. We hunt, we cause pollution, and we build highways and buildings on land where they've always lived. There are only about 10,000 polar bears left in the whole world,

and only about 100 Siberian tigers. Now I wouldn't want to meet 10,000 polar bears, but I sure wouldn't want to see them die out either. Camels, leopards, chimpanzees, and gorillas are disappearing too. We're making a scrapbook about endangered animals. If you want to know more about them, write for a Zoom card. And don't forget your self-address and stamp envelope. I got a game for you. It's called Dragon's Tale. We got this game from New Games Foundation. What you do is line up and grab each other behind their waist, and you'll all become the dragon. The last one in line puts a handkerchief in his or her pocket, and that's the dragon's tail. Now the dragon chases its own tail. Help! Help!

I don't know what to do, but I don't know what to do, but I don't know what to do. doing zoom with the zoo was great where else do you think we should go write zoom box 350 Boston, Mass., 02134. We've been to the zoo, zoo, zoo. How about you, you, you?

You came to, to, to. We've been to the zoo, zoo, zoo. Well, we stayed all day and we're dead sleepy, sitting on the bus getting sleep, sleep, sleepy, back already and we're sleep, sleep, sleepy, because we have stayed all day. We've been to the zoo, zoo, zoo. How about you, you, you? You came too, too, too. We've been to the zoo. Yes, we've been to the zoo. Major funding for Zoom has been provided by a grant from General Foods Corporation. Additional funding has been provided by this station

and by other public television stations.