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"Shadow: The Black Jaguar" is the 9th episode of Season 2 of the PBS Kids show Wild Kratts. It is the 49th episode of the series overall. It premiered on April 2, 2013. On April 9, 2013, "Shadow: The Black Jaguar" was first released on DVD as part of Wild Kratts: Rainforest Rescue.

In this episode, the Wild Kratts receive a distress call from a Wild Kratts Kid in Central America, who found out that inventor Zach Varmitech is plotting to use a black jaguar in one of his schemes.

Plot[]

The episode begins with a live-action segment. The Kratt brothers are looking for jaguars, but at this time, they are unable to find a single one. Afterward, they ask their "What if?" question, and the show transitions into the cartoon segment.

As the Wild Kratts's Tortuga flies in the Earth's atmosphere, the Kratt brothers are wondering where to head to for their next adventure, which they narrow down to a wildcat-themed one. Meanwhile, Zach Varmitech is spying on them via one of his Zachbots. Zach plots to find a wild cat that would make a good symbol for his new Spybots, which turns out to be a black jaguar. He takes his jet down to the lowland tropical rainforests of Central America and dispatches his Zachbots. Wild Kratts Kid Nina finds out, and she calls the Wild Kratts. The Kratt brothers finalize on a jaguar-themed adventure in Central America.

The brothers find Jimmy sleeping and they tell him to wake up. After a failed attempt, Martin tells Jimmy that his controller fell out of the window and is falling to Central America. Jimmy then wakes up and flies to get it. Jimmy lands the Tortuga in Central America after Martin tricked him into taking them there. In addition, he finds out that his controller was with him the whole time.

Knowing that jaguars are very difficult to find, the Kratt brothers, Aviva, and Nina decide to search for jaguar prey. Not long after, they find a jaguar, and afterward, they follow it to the river bank and see it swim to the other side. To catch up, Martin, with the press of a button, unveils a water raft. However, he forgot the paddles.

Once Martin pushes the raft to the other side of the river, the jaguar looks as if she was going to pounce on the raft, only for her to jump back into the water near the raft where the others see her attacking a caiman. Aviva is amazed but wasn't able to see them anymore. Nina asks Martin if the jaguar always wins, Martin replies that they win most of the time, and Chris adds that they never know. Nina then sees the jaguar drag the caiman out of the water, Chris states that this was a never before seen moment and Martin thinks that it happens every day somewhere down here, though people almost never see it.

Martin states that jaguars are rarely found on the hunt, even though they'll predate on just about everything in the forest. He shows several of the animals that the jaguar hunts as he and Chris name them: spider monkeys, tapirs, peccaries, anteaters, sloths, and armadillos. Chris concludes that they can sneak up on just about every creature they can catch. Aviva then tells them that the jaguar was sneaking away from them, so Martin continues to paddle the others towards the shore.

Soon, the group follows the jaguar to her den. The Kratt brothers miniaturize and enter, where they find a black jaguar kitten, which Martin names Shadow. The Kratt brothers and Shadow exit the den, but then, Zachbots arrive and take Shadow. Martin throws a pebble, distracting the Zachbot holding Shadow, which crashes into a tree. Shadow falls into Aviva's hands; however, another Zachbot seizes Aviva by her foot. The Zachbot shakes Aviva, causing her to drop Shadow into the claw arms of another Zachbot, which then drops Aviva.

After returning to normal size, the Kratt brothers activate their Spider Monkey Creature Power Suits and pursue the Zachbots, but soon after, the Zachbots throw the Kratt brothers down. Aviva then gives Jaguar Discs to them. The Kratt brothers touch a jaguar and activate their Creature Power Suits. Chris immediately gets black fur, but Martin has to reactivate several times to do so. After he eventually gets black fur, they pursue and enter Zach's jet just before it takes off. Once inside, they grab Shadow while Zach is distracted. In the end, the Kratt brothers reunite Shadow with his mother.

The show transitions into the ending live action segment. The Kratt brothers still have not found a jaguar. Instead, they set up a motion-sensing camera in a cave. Afterward, the Kratt brothers conclude the episode by saying "Keep on creature adventuring; we'll see you on the creature trail!" At the very end, the camera takes a picture of a jaguar.

Characters[]

Animals[]

Animation[]

Note: Featured animals are in bold.

Live Action Videos[]

Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.

Mentioned[]

Note: Mentioned animals are linked to Wikipedia.

Live Action[]

Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.

Trivia[]

  • The Tortuga is capable of hovering high up near the edge of Earth's atmosphere.
  • The image of the snow leopard was reused from the Kratt brothers's previous PBS Kids show Zoboomafoo.
  • Zach has always wanted to create a growth-acceleration formula but was apparently always too distracted by the Kratt brothers.
  • This is the first appearance of Zach's cargo plane, which would go on to be his main source of transportation later in the series.

Key Facts and Creature Moments[]

  • There are 36 different species of wildcat on the planet.
  • Jaguars hunt just about every rainforest animal they can sneak up on and catch.
  • Approximately one out of every 16 jaguars have black fur.
  • A jaguar hunting a caiman.
  • The first emergence of a black jaguar cub from the den.

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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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