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Totally Wild: Ground Level

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Ground Level

Season 23 | Episode 151 | ELEVEN | July 4, 2016

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Health and PE

Geography

Sustainability

Classification: General

We're laying low on the land today. Nat meets a girl who trekked across the arctic and Emma hangs with some adorable Bassett Hound puppies.

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We're laying low on the land today. Nat meets a girl who trekked across the arctic and Emma hangs with some adorable Bassett Hound puppies.

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Natalie interviews 14yearold Jade Hameister, the youngest person in the world to trek across the North Pole.With her main goal to inspire young girls to take on great challenges in their lives,Jade plans to complete the polar hat trick in another year's time.Big inspiration for her is the fact that her dad is along on her expeditions, this man having scaled all seven summits including Mt Everest. And now his teenage daughter is inspiring the world!

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Scott questions keeper Kerry Bebbington on the characteristics of the world's largest rodent the capybara! Most closely resembling a giant guinea pig on steroids, they're actually a placid creature that loves to chill out by standing around for hours in a lake. As they're semiaquatic, they love to do this in their pond at the zoo. With an interesting diet including bamboo, it's fun to watch them take chomps out of fruit, as Scott enthuses while we watch him participate at feeding time.

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Scott questions keeper Kerry Bebbington on the characteristics of the world's largest rodent the capybara! Most closely resembling a giant guinea pig on steroids, they're actually a placid creature that loves to chill out by standing around for hours in a lake. As they're semiaquatic, they love to do this in their pond at the zoo. With an interesting diet including bamboo, it's fun to watch them take chomps out of fruit, as Scott enthuses while we watch him participate at feeding time.

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Kellyn talks to senior croquet player John Silkstone, who shares the rules of this old English game with us. Duane joins the game and has some questions for Penny about certain offensive strategy. In this case she knocks her ball over another to get hers straight through the hoop which is the constant goal. Finesse, strategy, handeye coordination plus good aim these skills make up the game of croquet. Add in fresh air, good sportsmanship and nice manners all round, and you have a sociable outd

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Kellyn talks to senior croquet player John Silkstone, who shares the rules of this old English game with us. Duane joins the game and has some questions for Penny about certain offensive strategy. In this case she knocks her ball over another to get hers straight through the hoop which is the constant goal. Finesse, strategy, handeye coordination plus good aim these skills make up the game of croquet. Add in fresh air, good sportsmanship and nice manners all round, and you have a sociable outd

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