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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a special taster of our new

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premium only story. We hope you like it. Hey yo, Hello,

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I'm Josephine and this is the Animal Tales podcast. There

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another one. Jane is a premium member from Santa Monica,

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USA and she would like a story with an ostrich,

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a Komodo dragon, and a blue whale. Don't forget to

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guarantee to write one for you. For now, it's time

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to sit back and get comfy, because it's time to

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begin the Ostrich Glitch. Jane had laid an egg. She

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was very proud of it, not least because of its

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impressive size. As an ostrich, a large egg was to

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be expected, but even so, actually seeing it with her

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own eyes made her giddy with happiness. Now all she

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had to do was help it to hatch. That was

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the difficult part. Jane lived like all ostriches on the

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grasslands of Africa, where sinister predators hunted and sneaky egg

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thieves proud. This is no place to hatch my egg,

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decided Jane as she listened to the roars, growls and

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grunts around her. I need somewhere far away from all this.

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And so the Ostrich wrapped up her egg to keep

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it warm and set off in search of somewhere new.

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The problem she discovered was that no matter how far

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she traveled, there was always some sort of vicious carnivore

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already living there. Jane had no choice but to keep

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walking onwards in the hope that just over the next hill,

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or just across the next stretch of water, she would

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find the perfect spot to hatch her egg, which was

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how the Ostrich arrived on the shore of an island.

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Now this looks more like it, said Jane, talking to

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her egg. It's pretty, it's peaceful, and it's the perfect

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place for you to come out of your shell. She

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strode off, looking for a spot to call their home.

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But if the Ostrich thought that the island was safe,

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than she was in for a nasty surprise, for this

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island was home to a very large and formidable creature.

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The Comodo dragon, and one of these giant lizards had

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seen Jane arrive. Oh boy, oh boy, said the Comodo dragon,

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as it licked its lips with its long forked tongue.

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What a tasty looking pear. I don't know which one

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to eat first, the big chicken or its gigantic egg.

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My belly will be stuffed after those two. The big chicken,

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he had noticed, had very long legs, so he knew

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he could never catch it if it decided to run away. No,

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it would be much better to let it get settled

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somewhere and then pounce. He flicked his tongue in and

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out a few times, tasting the air, before slowly following

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the trail. Jane, meanwhile, had found what she felt was

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a lovely spot amongst the trees on the hill side.

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She had a beautiful view of the beach and could

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enjoy the gentle sounds of the ocean waves breaking on

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the shore. It's paradise, grinned Jane, still talking to her egg,

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she had scraped a shallow pit in the earth, set

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her egg down, and was now sat upon it. Here

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there were no Loathsome lions hassling hyaenas horrid honey badgers

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or any of the troublesome predators she'd grown up around.

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But how wrong she was. The Commodo Dragon had tracked

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her down and was now watching her from amongst the bushes.

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The only thing stopping him from racing forward and claiming

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his prize was that he was still unsure what to

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have first, the big chicken or the egg. If you'd

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