# NEW PREMIUM TRAILER: Crocodile Fears

An episode of [Animal Tales: The Kids' Story Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1644596989), 6 Feb 2026, 5:08.

Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69571379/subtrailer87_crocodilefears_mixdown.mp3

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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. He yo, Hello,
[0:23] Speaker 1: I'm Josephine and this is the Animal Tales podcast, home
[0:27] Speaker 1: to over four hundred and fifty stories written just for you.
[0:31] Speaker 1: Our Friday story is especially for our premium subscribers only.
[0:36] Speaker 1: Ari is a premium member for Massachusetts U s A.
[0:40] Speaker 1: And he would like a story with a crane, a stork,
[0:44] Speaker 1: a crocodile, a frog, and a turtle. Don't forget to
[0:49] Speaker 1: listen to the animal facts after the story to learn
[0:52] Speaker 1: more about some of these creatures. For now, it's time
[0:55] Speaker 1: to sit back and get comfy, because it's time to
[0:58] Speaker 1: begin crocodile fears. Growing up in a swamp might sound
[1:06] Speaker 1: like an unpleasant place to live, but for Ari, it
[1:11] Speaker 1: was the best place in the world. Ari was a crocodile,
[1:16] Speaker 1: and he thought nothing could be better than the swamp's cool,
[1:19] Speaker 1: murky waters. You're probably imagining Ari as a huge, long crocodile,
[1:27] Speaker 1: covered in lumpy scuts and with a mouthful of enormous teeth. Well,
[1:32] Speaker 1: he wasn't quite like that, although he hoped to be
[1:36] Speaker 1: one day when he grew up. Right now, Ari wasn't
[1:41] Speaker 1: very big at all, not even as long as a
[1:44] Speaker 1: house cat, but that didn't bother him much. That was
[1:48] Speaker 1: because he was surrounded by ten brothers and sisters, all
[1:52] Speaker 1: of whom had hatched together. And then there was their mum.
[1:57] Speaker 1: Now she really was a big crocodile, and that meant
[2:01] Speaker 1: that all the other creatures of the swamp, particularly the predators,
[2:06] Speaker 1: stayed well away. It was these other animals that fascinated Ari.
[2:13] Speaker 1: As a wild animal, he had no TV to watch,
[2:16] Speaker 1: books to read, or phones or tablets to look things
[2:19] Speaker 1: up on, so the only way he was going to
[2:22] Speaker 1: learn about the world around him was to look at
[2:25] Speaker 1: it for himself. Stay close, warned his mum as he
[2:31] Speaker 1: swam to investigate a snail suspended over the water upon
[2:35] Speaker 1: a leaf, I will Ari called back, although he was
[2:40] Speaker 1: hardly listening. How could he when there was such a
[2:44] Speaker 1: bizarre animal in front of him. It had a soft,
[2:47] Speaker 1: squidgy body and a hard curling shell. A deep buzzing
[2:53] Speaker 1: sound thrumbed over his head, and Ari looked up in
[2:56] Speaker 1: time to see a dragon fly buzz past. It looked
[3:00] Speaker 1: so big and moved so strangely, darting this way and
[3:04] Speaker 1: that hovering still for a moment, then zipping away once more.
[3:11] Speaker 1: Ari couldn't help himself, creating a path through the green
[3:15] Speaker 1: surface plants as he tried to follow. Then beside a
[3:20] Speaker 1: half submerged log, the dragon fly put on a burst
[3:24] Speaker 1: of speed and disappeared from sight. That was amazing, grinned
[3:31] Speaker 1: the little crocodile, scrambling up the logs side. Perhaps from
[3:36] Speaker 1: up here he could see more strange creatures, and he
[3:40] Speaker 1: was in luck. He was being watched by a whooping crane.
[3:46] Speaker 1: The tall white bird stood knee deep in the water.
[3:50] Speaker 1: It had a long pointed beak and a red patch
[3:53] Speaker 1: on top of its head. Hi, said Ari. The whooping
[3:59] Speaker 1: crane look surprised to be spoken to er Hello, it replied,
[4:06] Speaker 1: aren't you afraid of me? Why would I be afraid,
[4:10] Speaker 1: asked the little crocodile. I don't know a thing about you.
[4:14] Speaker 1: And besides, I'm with my mum and all my brothers
[4:18] Speaker 1: and sisters. I don't see them, said the whooping crane.
[4:23] Speaker 1: Unable to hide its grin, Ari had a good view
[4:28] Speaker 1: around him from the top of the log. Worryingly, his
[4:31] Speaker 1: family were nowhere to be seen. Oh no, said Ari,
[4:37] Speaker 1: I've lost them. But said the whooping crane as it
[4:42] Speaker 1: took a step forward. I've found you. If you'd like
[4:47] Speaker 1: to hear more, please join our premium service. You can
[4:50] Speaker 1: find out how in the description. The premium service means
[4:55] Speaker 1: you can listen to all animal tell stories advert free,
[4:58] Speaker 1: get bonus stories, and we guarantee to turn your animal
[5:02] Speaker 1: suggestion into a future tale. I look forward to seeing
[5:06] Speaker 1: you there

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