Favorite Animals

The transcription is about two separate segments of a show called "Top Ten." In the first segment, the host interviews a 7th grade history teacher about his top 5 favorite animals, which are sea turtles, gorillas, bears, eagles, and unicorns. In the second segment, the host interviews a 7th grade science teacher about his top 5 favorite animals, which are African elephants, killer whales, penguins, butterflies, and he is undecided on the fifth animal. The teachers discuss the reasons they find these animals fascinating, such as the size and energy requirements of elephants and blue whales, and the transformation and migration of butterflies. The segment ends with a lighthearted exchange between the host and the teachers. Welcome to Top 10! Hello everyone! Welcome back to Top 10! And today, we have Jason, Wyatt, Quinn, and Ethan. And right now, we have our guest right now. Why are you yelling at me? Today, we have a guest here. Our 7th grade history teacher, Mr. Camargo. So, Mr. Camargo, what are your top 5 favorite animals? Alright, in no particular order, my top 5 favorite animals throughout my life would have to be... I'm a big fan of the sea turtle. I like the idea of longevity. And I like the idea that they, you know, flow together or that as their offspring are born, they kind of make it to the sea. So it's pretty epic in terms of how they are, you know, born or raised. I would then also go with gorillas. Gorillas are probably my favorite of the animals, but there's something about, again, the idea of family and the way that they communicate, the way that they mess around. I'm a big fan of, like, bears as a whole. Not only for, like, the anthropomorphic cartoon versions of bears, but just, you know, bears, like, in general. Then following that, I would have to go with some sort of bird. I'll go with an eagle. Just because, you know, those razor talons and the, you know, bald eagle and being a bald man myself, you know, you gotta represent. And then for my last one, I'll go with a unicorn, which is a mythological creature. And throughout college, I used to end statements by signing off as calling myself the last unicorn. I don't know if that's true or not. I don't believe myself to be a unicorn today, but I do think there's something pretty magical about them. All right. Thank you, Mr. Camargo. I don't know what to say. Okay. That was today's episode of Top Ten. A little more. That was like 30 seconds. That was part one of Top Ten. Part one of Top Ten. Wait. Okay. Chandler School is a great place to send your children to learn and thrive. We all experience the community every single day. The teachers are always interactive and fun. Send your children to Chandler School for more information. Visit our website at ChandlerSchool.org. I'm Kenneth Kent, and I support this message. Yay! Oh, wait. It kept rolling. Okay. Hello. Welcome to part two of our Top Ten series. Yes. We are here today with seventh-grade science teacher and dean of boys, Mr. Cao. Hello. Today we're going to be asking you about your top five favorite animals. That's a hard question. All right. Number one, African elephant. Two, killer whales. Three, one of the larger penguins, emperor or king. Four, butterflies. And five, picket. No, I'll take that one back. I'll take that one back. It'd be like in bottom three. Does it have to be five? What would be the other one? I have to come back on the fifth one. I don't know. Do you have any particular reasons for any of the animals that you picked? I love... Why it's so big. Right? Why does an elephant have to be that big? Why does an orchid have to be that big? Why does a blue whale have to be that big? To maintain that level of mass requires an extraordinary amount of energy. So why did they develop to that level that makes life really hard for them? Can I go a little bit more? Like an elephant, I think I told you, has a horrible digestive system. A grown male, bold male, needs to eat up to 300 pounds of grass daily just to maintain its necessary energy requirements. Blue whales, probably at least a ton, if not two tons, of plankton per day to maintain those levels. So why did they evolve to be that big? And then the butterfly, it's just because it morphs, right? From an egg to a larva, then into this beautiful animal. And I don't know if you know this, but monarch butterflies who migrate, they go through two or three generations. So they'll start in Canada, they'll head down to central Mexico, but when they get to central Mexico, it's already the third generation. Because along the way, they've landed, they've laid eggs, they've grown into the next generation, and so on. Okay, great, thank you. That was good. We heard it from Mr. Cao. This is all segments, so we're putting them together. Oh, nice. So you heard it from Mr. Cao, the top five favorite animals. 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