"[JUDY GIBBERING]" "[GROWLING]" "[OSTRICH CLUCKING]" "[GROWLING]" "[GROWLING]" "[GIBBERING]" "Look, Jack." "Yeah, just what the daktari ordered." " Uh-huh." " Let's set up the camera." "MIKE:" "Hey." "Once we get our pictures we can go home." "Well, ah, looks like we're gonna wind up this project in a blaze of glory." "MIKE:" "Uh-huh." "Jack, how long has this been going on?" " What, Operation Springtime?" " Uh-huh." " Oh, I'd say about 10 million years." " Oh, very funny." "How long has Marsh been filming childbirth and child care among the animals?" "Uh, this is going to be documentary number one." "We hope." "Keep your fingers crossed." "[GROWLS]" "Hey, heh, we should include some shots of Hedley back at Wameru minding the store, heh." "I don't know how Marsh ever talked him into babysitting for us." "HEDLEY [OVER WALKIE-TALKIE]:" "Who've I got?" "Mike?" "Jack?" "Marsh?" "Paula?" "Judy?" "Even Clarence." " He was eavesdropping." " Heh, ha, ha." "HEDLEY [OVER WALKIE-TALKIE]:" "Hello, hello?" "Come in, please." "Please come in." "We can hear you, Hedley." "So can our ostrich." "We're about to move in for some pictures, so unless you've got" "So unless you've got a mighty big problem" "HEDLEY [OVER WALKIE-TALKIE]:" "Yeah, that's just the point, old boy." "I do." "Now look, Marsh and Paula must be out of range of my radio." "Well, they're out of our range too." "Oh, really?" "Well, then if anyone can help me with my chores, you can." "Now look, don't think I'm complaining or anything like that all I want to know is how much hay do elephants eat?" " Heh, as much hay as you give them." " Oh, thanks." "You're a big help." "Now, don't go away." "Stay there." "[GIBBERING]" "[CHEETAH GROWLING]" "[OSTRICH CLUCKING]" "Mike." " What's up?" " Some cheetahs are after our ostrich." "Emergency, Hedley." "Over and out." "Here you are." "[GIBBERING]" "Judy, you stay here." "[GIBBERING]" "[OSTRICH CLUCKING]" "Hey, look." "She's pretending to be hurt to draw them away from the nest." "[CHEETAHS GROWLING]" "[CLUCKING]" "She still might have a chance." "[BIRDS CHIRPING]" "[GROWLING]" "MIKE:" "Well, anyway, we scared them off." "Too late though, Mike." "Well, that's the law of nature." " She gave up her life to save her eggs." " Ah." "I'm afraid it's also going to be too late for those eggs." "I guess there'll be a few less ostriches this year." "I'd like to do something for them, Mike." "Maybe we could drop them off with Hedley." " You think they'd survive the trip?" " No, it's too bumpy." "They won't survive out here either." " We'd have to move them to a safer place." " And keep them warm." "You know, they might not even be fertile." "True." "The longer we stand here talking the less chance those eggs have of hatching." "Yeah." "[GROWLING]" "All right, Judy." "Take these but be very careful." "Thank you, Judy." "Excuse me, Judy." "This is the last of them." "How are they?" "They're fine." "All fertile except for two." "[ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING]" "[GIBBERING]" "Should hatch in a couple of days." " Or could hatch." " A couple of days?" "How do you figure they'll last through the afternoon, let alone tonight?" "We can't build an incubator." "We might as well face it, they'll never survive." "Look at that." "MIKE:" "What does she want, eggs for dinner?" "JACK:" "Guess again." "Hey, heh, that's a great idea, Judy." "She's trying to tell us all we need is some old-fashioned body heat." "Oh, boy." "Couple of grown men babysitting a bunch of eggs." "Well, at least we have Clarence and Judy, our mother helpers." "Good thing we had to bring them along." "Mm-hm, too bad we didn't bring the elephants too." "Then Hedley would've had even, heh, less to worry about." "One consolation." "Paula is stuck with Sarang." "Big deal." "She and Marsh have snap assignments compared to this." "[SQUAWKING]" "[SNORTS]" "[GROWLS]" "Hey, look." "Come on, come sit." "Come on, sit." "Oh, this is gonna be wonderful." "[BRAYING]" "Well, that ought to do it." "Let's go, Sarang." "[GROWLING]" "Come on." "There we go." "[HISSING]" "[GROWLING]" "Oh, thanks, Sarang." "Now, let's get out of here." "Come on." "Paula?" "MARSH [OVER WALKIE-TALKIE]:" "Paula, do you read me?" "Over." "Paula, do you read me?" "Hi, Dad." "What's the matter?" "Well, uh, nothing serious." "Matter of fact, I, uh...." "PAULA [OVER WALKIE TALKIE]:" "Dad?" "Dad, what's the matter?" "Dad?" "Hang on just a second, honey." "I think I spotted a good subject for our study." "[CAMERA WHIRRING]" "[WHIRRING STOPS]" "Hey, Paula?" "Paula, I just got a good shot of a mother rhino showing her calf around for the first time." "It should cut in very nicely with what I've got." "I got a great shot and it wasn't easy." "Uh, but, Paula, when you're done, we should have a film record that'll be useful to zoologists all over the world." "Sarang, I got a feeling he's building me up for something." "MARSH:" "Oh, no, no, it's a simple assignment." "Matter of fact, I was planning on doing it myself but, um, I have a flat tire to fix." "PAULA:" "All right." "What is it?" "Oh, something very romantic." "You'll love it." "A family of warthogs." "Warthogs?" "You've gotta be kidding." "Where are they, the other side of Wameru?" "No, no, no." "Just west of you a few miles." "You'll have no trouble finding them." "Of course not." "I'll just follow my nose." "You know, sometimes I wish I were a man." "Now what's the matter?" "Then I'd get some of those easy assignments you hand out to Jack and Mike." "Goodbye." "Good luck on your tire." "Right on." "Check with you later." "There." "Not bad for a lion." "Well, he's gonna have to do till we find an ostrich." "What makes you think an ostrich will warm up to a batch of strange eggs?" "Why not?" "Clarence did." "He's not even an ostrich." " I'm not sure he's a lion either." " Heh." "Well, Mike, we're gonna have to take first things first." "We find a lady ostrich, then we pop the question." "Right?" " Mm-hm." " Okay, you two." "Stay put." "[GIBBERING]" "Now, remember, keep those eggs warm." "[HOOTING]" "[GIBBERING]" "Here you are, Guinevere, vitamin pills." "Come on, that's the girl." "They're very good for you." "That's it." "Vitamin pills." "Come along." "You've gotta take some more." "You've gotta put on weight." "They're very, very good for you." "Guinevere, come on." "[TRUMPETS]" "What is it, Tiny?" "Now, be quiet." "You don't get fed again for three hours." "Guinevere, all you get are vitamin shots." "It says so right here." "Toto, what are you bringing that for?" "Oh, by Jove, you're right." "The pills aren't for Guinevere, they're for me." "The fruit's for Guinevere." "Come along." "Here you are, Guinevere." "Take it here." "Here's the fruit." "That's right, the vitamin pills are for me." "Now come on, Toto." "That's the way." "Thank you very much." "[GIBBERING]" "Uh, everything but what we're looking for." "We'll find an ostrich." "We have to." "Well, it better be soon." "We've already left Clarence and Judy alone too long." "You know, those eggs are a great temptation for a scavenger." "Hey look, let's try that way, huh?" "[GIBBERING]" "[HISSING" "[GIBBERING]" "[GIBBERING]" "[HISSING]" "[JUDY GIBBERING]" "I'm beginning to wonder about finding an ostrich in time." "Maybe we ought to risk moving those eggs to Wameru." "Uh, it's too late for that now." "Jack, we've been working the wrong side of the street, look." "Three males and a female." "We've got it made." " At 40 miles an hour?" " Well, can't you do any better?" "[TIRES SCREECH]" " Uh, we lost them on the far turn." " Yeah." "Well, we'll just keep after them." "Uh, not this trip." "We've gotta get back before sundown." "That's right." "It's getting cold." "We have eggs to sit on." "[ANIMALS GRUNTING]" "[GIBBERING]" "PAULA [OVER WALKIE TALKIE]:" "Hello, Dad, this is Paula." "Do you read me?" "Yeah, Paula." "You ready to head home?" "The warthogs won't let me." "Oh?" "What's wrong?" "They giving you a bad time?" "They're not giving me any time." "I haven't found them." "I'll go after them in the morning." "Are you planning on spending the night out in the bush by yourself?" "Of course not." "I've got Sarang with me, remember?" "Anyway, I wanna get those warthogs for you." "Well, all right." "I'll, uh, I'll check with you first thing in the morning, okay?" " Where will you be, at Wameru?" " No, I'm staying the night too." "I've spotted a nesting mousebird." "From the way she's acting, it looks like the eggs could hatch by morning." "Sounds great." "I just hope it won't be too difficult to get on film." "No, no, it shouldn't be." "No harder than, uh, a warthog." "All right, night, honey." "And be careful, huh?" "Bye, Dad." "Okay, young lady, bedtime." "Clarence, the one thing you cannot do tonight is roll over in your sleep." "There you go, aah." "Good night, Judy." " Okay, Mike, you're next." " Oh, boy, ugh." " Be my guest." " Uh-huh." "[MIKE GROANING]" " Comfy?" " Oh, yes, thank you." "MIKE:" "You know something?" "JACK:" "What?" "I'd give a month's pay right now to trade places with Marsh Tracy." "Yeah." "I'll promise you one thing." "He's not sleeping on a pile of uncooked omelets." "Nighty-night." "[GRUNTS]" "[SIGHS]" "JACK:" "This is ridiculous." "MIKE:" "I agree." "[ANIMAL GROWLING]" "I told Paula to be careful, aah." "[GROWLS]" "[ROARING]" "Hey." "Hey." "Now what's frightened you, huh?" "The moon?" "There's nothing out there." "You've been a house pet so long that you're beginning to act more like a tabby than a tiger." "Now, you go back to sleep." "I'll protect you." "Just go back to sleep." "Come on." "What is it, Judy?" "Thank you, Judy." "Mike, get up, we got trouble." "Hmm?" " Mike?" " Hmm?" " What's the problem?" " The heartbeats are weaker." " I think they need more heat." " Oh, coming right up." "HEDLEY [OVER WALKIE TALKIE]:" "Mike?" "Jack?" "This is Wameru Compound." "I'll get that." "It's Hedley here." "Come in, please." "Mike, Jack, don't you read me?" "We read you, is something wrong?" "It's Doris." "I can't get her to go to sleep." "Do you hear that?" "She's been carrying on like that for hours." " What time is it now?" " What?" "Oh, it's 2:00 in the morning." "Why?" "Check your list, Hedley." "Doris is supposed to get a bottle at midnight." "Oh, of course." "I've been so busy." "Do you think that'll soothe her?" "Yes, Hedley." "And while you're at it, take one yourself." "Yes, I'll do that." "Thanks, Mike." "Now, Toto, I'll look after Doris and you go and warm her bottle." "Now go along, do that." "Then perhaps we'll get some sleep." "Emergency at Wameru now under control." "Ugh, well, so is ours, for the moment anyhow." "And now for the big job, the ostrich hunt." " Uh, with a flashlight?" " No, with a noose and a long stick like this." "It'll give me something to do tonight." "I'd hate to waste all that time sleeping." "Oh." " Good luck." " Hm." "[SINGING] Rock-a-bye, baby" "On the treetop" "When the wind blows" "The cradle will rock" "When the bough...." "[SNORING]" "[GIBBERING]" "Judy, stop kissing the eggs and make yourself useful." "I'll tell you what, go wake Jack up." "[GIBBERING]" "Fine way to treat a lady." "Oh, yeah." " Perfect ending to a restful night." " Ah, but it was worth it." " We saved the eggs?" " All but three." " Good." " But we're pushing our luck." "Yeah, I know what you mean." "Clarence is not gonna sit there forever." "MIKE:" "Well, we understand, Clarence." "No, we have to trade you in for an ostrich soon or we're all gonna sprout feathers." "Hey, Judy, take that stuff to the truck, huh?" "Go on." "Boy, the things we do for Mother Nature." "And Marsh Tracy." "[MIKE CHUCKLES]" "Okay, Clarence." "Now, you guard these like they're made out of gold." "I promise you we're gonna find a replacement if we can." "[ANIMAL SCREECHING]" "[SIGHS]" "Oh, no, you don't." "You're not going back to sleep." "MARSH [OVER WALKIE TALKIE]:" "Paula." "Paula, come in." "Paula, do you read me?" " Good morning, Dad." "How you doing?" " Oh, I'm fine, fine, ahh." "How's everything with you?" "Everything all right?" "More or less." "I'll go after your warthog as soon as I get Sarang out of the sack." "Good girl." "What's, uh, what with Sarang?" "We had a very restless night last night." "Tell me, how are you doing with your mousebird eggs?" "Well, they haven't hatched yet." " So you're standing by until they do?" " Yeah, right." "Bet that's exactly what Mike and Jack are doing." "What?" "Standing by while a female does all the work." "[CHUCKLES]" "Well, that's the way nature is, Paula." "Nothing you can do about it." " I'll check with you later." " Bye, Dad." "Come on, Sarang." "Get up." "Come on, uhn." "You're just like all men." "You take it easy when there's work to be done." "Come on, go." "Come on, Sarang." "Nothing." "Our feathered friends have taken their business elsewhere." "Yeah." "Talk about wild-goose chases." "[GIBBERING]" "[SNORTING]" "[GIBBERING]" "Let's get out of here." "[GROWLING]" "[SIGHS]" " That was too close." " You know it." "Look, there they are." "[CLUCKING]" "MIKE:" "She's headed for the wooded area." "JACK:" "Yeah, so, what do we do now?" " Play cat and mouse and sneak up on her." "Skill and silence is the name of the game." "Charming." "I'll get the noose." "Judy, you'll have to sit this dance out." "Judy, chimps and ostriches don't mix." "We can do better without you." "[GIBBERING]" " You see her?" " No." "[GIBBERING]" "[YAWNS]" "Oh, is it morning already?" "Oh, heh, thank you, Toto, so much." "I'm afraid I prefer something a little stronger." "[GIBBERING]" "Oh, I see." "It's not for me, it's for Doris." "Yes, of course." "Well, you're doing so well, you give it to her." "Yeah, that's right." "Give it to her." "Give her that bottle." "There we are." "I've got so many other chores to do." "There we go." "There we go." "[OSTRICH GRUNTING]" "Hey." "Sounds like an ostrich fighting." "[JUDY GIBBERING]" " With a chimp?" " Judy?" "Let's go." "Shall we get our new mama ostrich over to those eggs?" "Uh-huh, we can't expect Judy to do all our work for us." "[GROWLS]" "[HISSES]" "[GROWLING]" "[GROWLS]" "[CHIRPING]" "Oh, come on, female." "Do something." "Hold it, Sarang." "Boy, dad wasn't fooling." "It's the whole honest-to-goodness family." "Hey, come on, you sit." "Stay out of sight." "Come on, sit." "[WARTHOGS GROWLING]" "[CAMERA WHIRRING]" "[GROWLING]" "Sarang." "No." "Come back here." "Stop, you're drooling." "You're on cans nowadays, remember?" "Sit, come on." "Sit." "Ooh." "Sit." "Sarang, please." "Please?" "Quiet." "Good." "[WARTHOGS GROWLING]" "How about that?" "She certainly is sitting pretty." "Yep, she sure is." "If Paula were here she'd have her named Sitting Bull by now." "I think Sitting Bird would be more appropriate." "Mm, that may be." "Hey, what do you think about that hood?" "Think she's happy doing her act blindfolded?" "We're going to take it off once she gets used to being here..." " ...and accepts her new role of mother." " Yeah, we hope." "Well, what do you say to some chow?" "This ostrich hunting works up an appetite." " What do you suggest for chow?" " Anything but eggs." "[CLARENCE GROWLS THEN OSTRICH CLUCKING]" "Oh, no." "Clarence, you scared her away." "What did you do that for?" "MIKE:" "The poor guy probably thought he was being replaced." "Well, work up a bigger appetite by finding a hooded ostrich." "Those cheetahs are probably still around." "And with that hood on, she's defenseless." " Like a blind man on a battlefield." " Yeah." "Let's go." "[CLUCKING]" "[GROWLING]" "[GIBBERING]" "What is it, Judy?" "Aha, looks like she went that way." " I'll get the noose." " Yeah." "Take a walkie-talkie in case we get separated." "All right." "Uh, Judy, you stay here like a good girl and we'll bring that wild ostrich back, huh." "[GIBBERING]" "[SQUAWKING]" "[YAWNS]" "[BIRD CHIRPING]" "Well, that's odd." "I wonder why she's leaving." "No wonder." "[CAMERA WHIRRING]" "Uh, I hope the boys catch something as good as this." "Well, that does it." "We've lost her tracks." "Time's running out, Jack." "Maybe we ought to go after another ostrich." "I don't know." "Maybe we should have brought Judy after all." "Jack, an ostrich runs at a speed of 45 miles an hour." "If we lost her, what could Judy have done?" "You know Judy, she" "[GIBBERING]" "[OSTRICH BOOMING]" "[JUDY GIBBERING]" "JACK:" "Well, how about that?" "Told you she could do it." "HEDLEY [OVER WALKIE TALKIE]:" "Jack?" "Mike?" "Both here, Hedley." "Look, chaps, I want your advice badly." "Can you tell me the difference between a boy snake and a girl snake?" "Hedley, I should think that would only be of interest to another snake." "Hedley, why don't you go to Marsh's library and look it up in a book?" "I would, old boy, but I'm somewhat tied up at the moment." "You see, according to my list, I have to give Cleopatra her medication and Mark Antony his food, and I don't know which is which." "Look, I'm afraid the snake is pinning me down." "You'll really have to help me." "Give me some advice." "Yeah, Hedley." "Run." "Oh, but how do I get Cleopatra, or Mark Antony to release me from this supposed Garden of Eden?" "Well, uh, maybe you should try tempting him, or her, with an apple." "It worked once, you know." "Hedley, we cannot chit-chat any longer." "We have a date with a hot ostrich and some cold eggs." "Out." "Jack." "Jack, don't leave me, please." "Look, Mark, Cleo, please, old dear." "I know you love me, but I really do have to leave." "Toto, help." "Please, please, ooh." "[GROWLING]" "Sarang, be quiet." "You'll scare off those giraffes." "Sarang, calm down." "Please, Sarang." "[GROWLING]" "Oh, Sarang, you blew it." "[CLUCKING]?" "Now, stay put, Mama, and help us out." "Let's go lay down the law to Clarence." "Okay, Clarence, look." "We have managed to get this situation back to relative normalcy so please, don't rock the boat." "Or the eggs." "Now, Clarence, you're not going to make a sound, not even a hiccup." "And don't forget." "[GROWLS]" "Clarence." "[SHUSHING]" "Well, so far so good." "On the contrary, we have problems, or will have." "Heh, I'm no longer worried about problems." "I realized one thing." "We have faced and, with Judy's help, licked just about everyone in the book." " Something is missing from our family." " A father." "Exactly." "We need a male to keep our little substitute mama happy here." "Sort of, uh, keep the home fires burning over the eggs." "Yes, but where do we find a male?" "I don't know." "[GIBBERING]" "If we did find one, which would probably take a month and several marathon races..." " ...there is one small problem." " What's that?" "JACK:" "Will the male ostrich be compatible with our female ostrich?" "Ah, they'll probably tear each other to pieces." "JACK:" "What else you gonna do?" "Tranquilize the lady so she will stay on top of the eggs." "And as soon as you tranquilize her, her body temperature goes down." "Hm." "We gotta do something, or the eggs will not hatch and those 20 ostriches..." " ...will never see the light of day." " True." "[GIBBERING]" "[OSTRICH CLUCKING]" "Heh, would you believe it?" "Judy's done it again." "I give you Judy, the ostrich hunter." "Oh, I give you Judy, the matchmaker." "Uh, but what kind of match, a love match or a free-for-all?" "Hmm, we'll just take him over to the mama and find out." "[GIBBERING]" "[YAWNS]" "Oh." "Oh, thank you, Toto." "Thank you so much." "Come along, Doris." "Come on." "Thank you, Toto." "You diaper Doris so much better than I do." "I don't know what I'd do without you." "Thank you very, very much." "[CLUCKING]" "[GIBBERING]" "[MALE OSTRICH CLUCKING]" "MIKE:" "Now, you two get acquainted." "[CLUCKING]" "It looks like they dig each other." "I'd like to get those hoods off because until they've seen each other we can't call it love at first sight." " No, but it does prove something else." " Here it comes." "What's that?" " That love is blind." " Love is blind." "[CLARENCE GROWLING]" "[GIBBERING]" "[CLUCKING]" "[PROJECTOR WHIRRING]" "JACK:" "Not bad." "That's all there is." "Isn't any more." "Well, Hedley, what do you think?" "Was it worth all the trouble?" "The trouble I went to?" "Oh-ho, without a doubt." "It's a magnificent record." "But it's a shame the boys didn't get what they were after." "Well, you gotta expect some failure." "After all, no scientific project comes off 100 percent." "Didn't you get anything?" "Not even an ostrich nest with an egg in it?" "Well, we got a few shots, but, um...." "Oh, really, Mike?" "Even if you weren't able to save those chicks..." " ...you ought to run the film for the record." " Well, if you insist." "Guess we'd better run it, Jack." "Guess so." "We did the best we could under the circumstances." "You can't blame a chap for trying, I always say." "It's not the winning but how you play the game." " Right you are, Hedley." " Well put, Hedley." " All set?" " All set." "Okay, it's not much but here it is." "PAULA:" "Hey, Dad, look at that." "MARSH:" "So you got the eggs to hatch after all, huh?" "HEDLEY:" "But it's simply marvelous." "I mean, how did you film it?" " Nothing to it." " It was easy." "[GIBBERING]" "Look at the size of the baby ostriches..." "[GIBBERING]" "Well, I have to hand it to you." "You, fellas, really did a job." "PAULA:" "You jokers." "Congratulations." "We thank you, we thank you." "Of course, we have to share credit with Clarence and Judy." "[JUDY GIBBERING]" "Judy." "Oh, no, no, no." "Take them away." "I never wanna see another egg as long as I live." "No, not me, Judy." "Give them to your buddy." "[GIBBERING]" "[English" " US" " SDH]"