:30:02
...so apparently, Mother Nature
has played a nasty trick on him.
:30:06
But to make up for it,
she painted phony teeth on his lips...
:30:09
...and she taught him to put up
such an act of ferocity...
:30:12
...that he can even intimidate an elephant.
:30:16
That intricate winding movement
makes him look twice his size...
:30:19
...and lets his scales make
an angry rasping sound as they rub together.
:30:23
He pretends to strike viciously,
but he has to make sure he misses...
:30:27
...otherwise his enemy will find out
that he has no teeth.
:30:31
But his act is so good
that no one ever calls his bluff...
:30:34
...and everyone believes
he's very dangerous.
:30:37
A baboon will eat every creepy-crawly
thing he can find under rocks...
:30:41
...but if he should come across
an egg-eater snake...
:30:44
...he'll fall down in a dead faint.
:30:57
And would you believe it, he looks
under the same rock and faints again.
:31:16
Sometimes he's sorry he got married,
because she's always cleaning house.
:31:27
He wants a girlfriend,
and that's his way of advertising.
:31:30
He knows if there's a lady tapping beetle
within half a mile...
:31:34
...she'll hear him and answer back.
:31:36
So all day and all night,
he taps and listens, taps and listens...
:31:41
...because tapping beetles
are scarce here...
:31:44
...and he has a long
and lonely quest ahead of him.
:31:59
The backfiring beetle doesn't use his rear
end for tapping. He uses it to defend himself.