Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies — Season 1, Episode 16: Why Zebras Can't Fly; Super Duper Savannah Animals

Episode synopsis

Karla and her friend, a peregrine falcon named Perry, are playing, and Karla begins to envy Perry's impressive flight skills. She wants to fly, spurring Mama to play several films showing which animals do and don't fly. Bo, Karla and Max are playing their favorite pretend game, Savannah Superheroes, and they're on the lookout for new members. When a rhino beetle named Ron shows up, they learn that even the smallest of us can be powerful.

About Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies

Using live-action wildlife films from the National Geographic and the BBC archives, this animated PBS series tells the warmhearted story of an elephant named Mama Mirabelle, who travels the world filming wildlife movies that she shares with her family and friends back home in the African savanna, including her son Max, Bo the cheetah, a zebra named Karla and three monkey brothers -- Kip, Flip, and Chip.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Elephant Walk; Sounds of the Savannah
• E2A Little Help from My Friends; Baby of a Different Stripe
• E3Hide and Seek; Tell Me About It
• E4To Sleep with Wombats; All Creatures Great and Small
• E5Anybody Home?; Healthy Habits
• E6The Play's the Thing; Sam Spades of the Savannah
• E7Gourmet Grazing; Kings & Queens of the Savannah
• E8I Spy; Eyes, Ears, Nose & Trunks
• E9What's in a Tail?; Footprints In The Sand
• E10Here Today, Gone Tomorrow; Nobody's Perfect
• E11Things That Go Yip, Howl And Screech In The Night; Cracking The Code
• E12The Boy Can Blow; I Don't Like Spiders and Snakes