# NEW PREMIUM TRAILER: The Ostrich Glitch

An episode of [Animal Tales: The Kids' Story Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1644596989), 25 Jun 2026, 5:26.

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## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a special taster of our new
[0:03] Speaker 1: premium only story. We hope you like it. Hey yo, Hello,
[0:23] Speaker 1: I'm Josephine and this is the Animal Tales podcast. There
[0:27] Speaker 1: are over one hundred extra stories on our premium service,
[0:31] Speaker 1: with a new one released every Friday, and this is
[0:34] Speaker 1: another one. Jane is a premium member from Santa Monica,
[0:39] Speaker 1: USA and she would like a story with an ostrich,
[0:43] Speaker 1: a Komodo dragon, and a blue whale. Don't forget to
[0:47] Speaker 1: listen to the animal facts after the story to learn
[0:50] Speaker 1: more about these creatures. If you'd like to suggest an
[0:54] Speaker 1: animal for a story, then please do let us know
[0:57] Speaker 1: at podcast at Animaltales dot UK. As premium listeners, we
[1:02] Speaker 1: guarantee to write one for you. For now, it's time
[1:06] Speaker 1: to sit back and get comfy, because it's time to
[1:09] Speaker 1: begin the Ostrich Glitch. Jane had laid an egg. She
[1:18] Speaker 1: was very proud of it, not least because of its
[1:20] Speaker 1: impressive size. As an ostrich, a large egg was to
[1:25] Speaker 1: be expected, but even so, actually seeing it with her
[1:29] Speaker 1: own eyes made her giddy with happiness. Now all she
[1:34] Speaker 1: had to do was help it to hatch. That was
[1:38] Speaker 1: the difficult part. Jane lived like all ostriches on the
[1:43] Speaker 1: grasslands of Africa, where sinister predators hunted and sneaky egg
[1:48] Speaker 1: thieves proud. This is no place to hatch my egg,
[1:53] Speaker 1: decided Jane as she listened to the roars, growls and
[1:57] Speaker 1: grunts around her. I need somewhere far away from all this.
[2:03] Speaker 1: And so the Ostrich wrapped up her egg to keep
[2:07] Speaker 1: it warm and set off in search of somewhere new.
[2:12] Speaker 1: The problem she discovered was that no matter how far
[2:15] Speaker 1: she traveled, there was always some sort of vicious carnivore
[2:20] Speaker 1: already living there. Jane had no choice but to keep
[2:24] Speaker 1: walking onwards in the hope that just over the next hill,
[2:28] Speaker 1: or just across the next stretch of water, she would
[2:31] Speaker 1: find the perfect spot to hatch her egg, which was
[2:36] Speaker 1: how the Ostrich arrived on the shore of an island.
[2:40] Speaker 1: Now this looks more like it, said Jane, talking to
[2:44] Speaker 1: her egg. It's pretty, it's peaceful, and it's the perfect
[2:49] Speaker 1: place for you to come out of your shell. She
[2:53] Speaker 1: strode off, looking for a spot to call their home.
[2:58] Speaker 1: But if the Ostrich thought that the island was safe,
[3:01] Speaker 1: than she was in for a nasty surprise, for this
[3:05] Speaker 1: island was home to a very large and formidable creature.
[3:09] Speaker 1: The Comodo dragon, and one of these giant lizards had
[3:14] Speaker 1: seen Jane arrive. Oh boy, oh boy, said the Comodo dragon,
[3:21] Speaker 1: as it licked its lips with its long forked tongue.
[3:25] Speaker 1: What a tasty looking pear. I don't know which one
[3:29] Speaker 1: to eat first, the big chicken or its gigantic egg.
[3:34] Speaker 1: My belly will be stuffed after those two. The big chicken,
[3:39] Speaker 1: he had noticed, had very long legs, so he knew
[3:43] Speaker 1: he could never catch it if it decided to run away. No,
[3:48] Speaker 1: it would be much better to let it get settled
[3:51] Speaker 1: somewhere and then pounce. He flicked his tongue in and
[3:55] Speaker 1: out a few times, tasting the air, before slowly following
[4:00] Speaker 1: the trail. Jane, meanwhile, had found what she felt was
[4:06] Speaker 1: a lovely spot amongst the trees on the hill side.
[4:10] Speaker 1: She had a beautiful view of the beach and could
[4:13] Speaker 1: enjoy the gentle sounds of the ocean waves breaking on
[4:16] Speaker 1: the shore. It's paradise, grinned Jane, still talking to her egg,
[4:24] Speaker 1: she had scraped a shallow pit in the earth, set
[4:28] Speaker 1: her egg down, and was now sat upon it. Here
[4:32] Speaker 1: there were no Loathsome lions hassling hyaenas horrid honey badgers
[4:39] Speaker 1: or any of the troublesome predators she'd grown up around.
[4:43] Speaker 1: But how wrong she was. The Commodo Dragon had tracked
[4:48] Speaker 1: her down and was now watching her from amongst the bushes.
[4:53] Speaker 1: The only thing stopping him from racing forward and claiming
[4:56] Speaker 1: his prize was that he was still unsure what to
[4:59] Speaker 1: have first, the big chicken or the egg. If you'd
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[5:08] Speaker 1: can find out how in the description. The premium service means.
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[5:16] Speaker 1: get bonus stories, and we guarantee to turn your animal
[5:20] Speaker 1: suggestion into a future tale. I look forward to seeing
[5:24] Speaker 1: you there.

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