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"Animals Who Live to be 100 Years Old" is the 18th episode of Season 4 of the PBS Kids show Wild Kratts. It is the 110th episode of the series overall. It premiered on April 28, 2016.

Plot[]

In South America, Martin enters the Tortuga where he seems to be talking to himself. That is until he introduces the rest of the Wild Kratts team to his pet fruit fly, Juice. However, as quickly as the team is introduced to the bug, Juice soon dies, saddening the Wild Kratts; Martin especially. And even though the insect's death looks so immediate, fruit flies live in adulthood for a good few weeks before their passing. So that means that Juice had lived a good long life and it was just his time. Just then, a brilliant scarlet macaw comes flying in; an amazing example of an animal with great longevity living up to 80 years at most. Martin decides to name the macaw Juice 2 in honor of the original Juice, giving him a small amount of closure. The gang then begins to wonder about animal lifespans and if any animals can live for 100 years or more, so they decide to travel the world in search of the longest-lived creatures.

At his home, Zach Varmitech is shocked upon finding a wrinkle on his face. Desperately, he calls Donita Donata for some skin care aid, but there's nothing she can do to help him. After all, there's no fountain of youth. Upon hearing the legend of said fountain, Zach decides to follow the Wild Kratts for the next best thing to the fountain of youth: animals that can exceed at least 100 years of living.

The first stop on the Wild Kratts' tour of really old creatures is the Galápagos Islands where the team meets the world's oldest living reptile: the Galápagos tortoise. The elderly tortoise they befriend is appropriately named Grandpa.

Meanwhile, Zach, who is spying on the team, believes that capturing all of the oldest-living animals worldwide will help him achieve eternal life. So he sends his Zachbots to find these animals. The Wild Kratts soon learn of his plan. In fact, a Zachbot is on the Galápagos Islands and has just plucked Grandpa right off the ground. But the Kratt brothers aren't about to let Grandpa get taken away, so they stop the Zachbot and manage to save the tortoise before he's taken back to Zach. But now, the evil inventor is going after the oldest living amphibian: the olm (also known as "the human fish"). Now the race is on to get the Dinaric Alps where this creature lives before Zach does.

In Europe, the Wild Kratts enter a cave where they find the cave-dwelling amphibian. As they study the creature's adaptations to living without sunlight, they wonder if Zach is either hiding in the shadows or if they left him in the dust. But it turns out that the villain had tricked them into searching for the olm to throw them off, as he instead plans to go after a bowhead whale: the oldest living mammal, pushing to over 200 years. Without haste, the Wild Kratts rush to the Arctic Ocean right away.

There, Zach's robotic minions have successfully fished a giant bowhead whale right out of the water, which the Wild Kratts arrive just in time to see. Thankfully, Koki and Jimmy Z have equipped the Tortuga with an electric laser that can disable the Zachbots. Upon firing, the Zachbots drop like stones into the icy water, taking the whale with them as it swims back into the depths where it belongs. Zach is mad and decides that two can play at that game, so he hacks into the Tortuga's autopilot and sends them far enough away for him to recapture the whale without any interference.

The ship is now on a crash course for the Sea of Japan and the Wild Kratts can't stop it unless someone can get to Koki's station to override. Martin volunteers, but Chris follows him saying that he'll be too late. And he's right, because the Tortuga has made a splashdown in the Sea of Japan, sending the Kratt brothers flying into its waters. But, it turns out that they've found themselves with a creature that surpasses all old living animals: the immortal jellyfish. This peaks Zach's curiosity. This may be the animal that he's needed all along.

The Kratt brothers miniaturize to jellyfish size and dive back into the Sea of Japan to uncover the secret of the power that gives the immortal jellyfish its name. They learn that at one point in the jellyfish' life, it shrinks back to the most immature state in its life cycle called a polyp. From there, it grows back into an adult and can repeat this process over and over. That is the key to the immortal jellyfish' endless life.

Characters[]

Animals[]

Animation[]

Note: Featured animals are in bold.

Live Action Images[]

Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.

Live Action[]

Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.

Trivia[]

  • This episode aired as the 100th episode of Wild Kratts.
  • This is the second episode where an animal Martin named died.
  • Martin has imaginary friends.
  • Zach can be dramatic.
  • Although the Kratt brothers stated that bowhead whales are endangered, their IUCN status is actually least concern.

Key Facts and Creature Moments[]

  • Fruit flies hatch out of an egg after 24 hours. They are then larvae for four days, then a pupae for another four, then a fly for about six weeks. So a fruit fly lives for about 51 days.
  • Parrots, like the scarlet macaw, can live to over 80 years.
  • Giant tortoises can weigh over 600 pounds.
  • Galápagos tortoises are the biggest land tortoise and one of the oldest-living tortoises in the world.
  • Seeing the immortal jellyfish life cycle.
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Season 1

"Mom of a Croc" • "Whale of a Squid" • "Aardvark Town" • "Flight of the Draco" • "Mystery of the Squirmy Wormy" • "Platypus Cafe" • "Polar Bears Don't Dance" • "Build It Beaver" • "Voyage of the Butterflier XT" • "Honey Seekers" • "Bass Class" • "Fireflies" • "Mystery of the Weird Looking Walrus" • "Tazzy Chris" • "Octopus Wildkratticus" • "Walk on the Wetside" • "Elephant in the Room" • "Let the Rhinos Roll!" • "Kickin' It With the Roos" • "The Blue and the Gray" • "Falcon City" • "Koala Balloon" • "Cheetah Racer" • "Kerhonk" • "Mimic" • "Caracal-Minton" • "Zig-Zagged" • "A Huge Orange Problem" • "Seasquatch" • "The Food Chain Game" • "Masked Bandits" • "Flight of the Pollinators" • "The Gecko Effect" • "Little Howler" • "Quillber's Birthday Present" • "A Bat in the Brownies" • "Stuck on Sharks" • "Birds of a Feather" • "Googly Eye: The Night Guru" • "Raptor Round Up"

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