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What does it look like? >> if you get close, you can even touch it. >> im fine. >> this is bugging me. where have i seen this before? >> we started studying what phil rosenthal was doing with "raymond." he was embracing the very best of what the genre could do. which was interesting characters. he provided me with a very, very loud reminder that i didnt need to fix anything. i didnt need to knock any boundaries or walls over. i just need you to embrace what was there. >> i had been in so many sh...

Frog.. and a snake. its a major victory for the grassroo caltrans. a plan to ease the bottleneck on the coastal highway shut down over frogs and snake. its a victory for the grassroots group that took on caltrans. good evening, im veronica de la cruz. >> im allen martin. new at 6:00 a federal judge calling out caltrans for trying to pull a fast one. it involves a controversial project to widen highway 1 at pacifica. standing in the way, two endangered species. kpix 5s melissa caen live in paci...

Hed blow unlike a ball, like look at big i am. the glands squirts out the white stuff f you lick it -- >> okay -- >> so the toad. >> and they are very large, jump very fall. >> this is a big owl. i love birds. >> you should be closer to him. >> the screech owl. >> this is one of the smallest owls in all of the u.s. a lot of people think that owls can turn their heads all the way around, but they cant. they can turn it about 275 degrees. >> a chiropractors dream. >> exactly. the reason for that i...

To wash this off? >> no, they dont. >> and they will eat anything in the african savannah to roots and shoots up to antelopes. >> so adorable? >> could we raise and these at home? >> no, i would definitely not recommend having a monkey. im like please dont have a monkey. >> yep, thats the giant marine todd. >> this is my favorite. >> this is one of the largest toads in -- is actually the largest toad in the world. >> you cant get warts from it? >> no. thats a myth. but these are poisonous. >> th...

Galapagos park. look at that pink iguana. some pink. some green. the 88th southern parallel. we had traveled for over 850 miles. my men driven nearly mad from starvation and frostbite. today we make history. >>bienvenidos! welcome to the south pole! if youre dora the explorer, you explore. its what you do. >>what took you so long? if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. its what you do. >>you did it, yay! your pet... could you love him any more? probably...

>> just go like, that larry. hes feeling -- dont let him get real close. do you see that? >> larry: yeah. do i see it. >> did you feel it? >> larry: yeah. >> what hes doing is hes picking up particles. thats how he hunts. the komodo dragon when he bites you the bites not going to kill you. he will track you for days. this is the biggest one ive ever seen. >> larry: lets get in the alligator. not a big alligator. a little alligator. two little alligators. different from the croc. wait a minute, i...

Whats he eat, little flies and things? does that look like a leaf to you, or what? >> larry: looks like a leaf. >> look at this here. >> larry: what is this? >> a buffeau marine toad. a cane toad. let him hop. hes fine. this is the one that you know who jumped on your son, this is a much bigger one. the only reason your son got nervous, these are poison glands behind his eyes there. thats a neurotoxic poison. >> larry: oh! >> only if you eat the frog. just dont touch it. because you get it in yo...

>> this is full grown. theres some that are smaller -- theres quite a few. crested tamarins. look at it. look at its head. look at the haircut. almost like the haircut some people have. a little mohawk. >> larry: i like that look. now, we have frogs from three rainforests. >> oh, yeah. look at this. put your hands up here where the cameras can see them. open your hands. thats great. >> larry: the one in the middle looks like a toy. give it to madeleine albright. >> which one is this one? >> a re...

>> larry: earlier we showed you a cane toad. if you missed the episode a couple of years ago, chance king, who is now 10, was on with his brother, cannon. they were then 8 and 7. heres what happened with the cane toad. >> dont touch this one. this is an african -- this is a cane toad, everybody. all right? if you notice, theres poison glands. will he hop right here? this is a cane toad. those right here are poison glands. this toad, larry, is the one that came over from south america. they broug...

Wait a minute, i said little. >> is it a little one? holy mackerel, larry, wow, wee. larry, have you ever seen an alligator that close? >> larry: no, ive never seen that many teeth. >> this is the alligator. watch this. he has two eyeliding. if they can show us on the camera, hes got two eyelids. watch this. see that. he can see you under water. when youre down there, you think hes not watching you, he can. he also hunts as our good conservationist steve irwin told us, he knows a lot about the c...