Scary Animals (Amazing Animals)

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Product Description Broadcast nationally on The Disney Channel, Amazing Animals has quickly won children's hearts around the nation. Featuring the lovable Henry the Lizard as the inquisitive object of the narrator's clever questions and insights, each is a riot of humor, live-action footage, animation and information. Children cannot help but have fun as they learn. #1 rated non-Disney program on The Disney Channel(tm) "Fun facts, folklore and animal behavior are rolled into one gorgeous-and entertaining-science lesson."-Publishers Weekly Disney Channel ratings increased 31% for the Amazing Animals broadcast time slot! Amazing Animals: Armored Animals reached #38 on Billboard's Video Retail Charts. .com Monstrously murky sea creatures, bird-eating spiders, killer frogs, slithering snakes. These are just a few of the creepy critters that are bound to mesmerize child and adult viewers. While trying to debunk the very notion of scary animals--they're only spooky because you don't know enough about them, the comforting narrator assures--the accompanying footage won't do much to calm your fears. But the kids will dig it, from learning about basking sharks--those "finely honed killing machines" that usually only attack humans when provoked--to viewing a swarm of army ants or vampire bats. One of the better videos in the Amazing Animals series, this one is for all ages, except the very little ones, who might experience true fear at some of the segments that feature animated host Henry the lizard in eye-popping situations meant to poke fun at fear. --Valerie J. Nelson