A yellow fish with large green fins swims in bright blue water.

It says,
BLOOP, BLOOP, BLOOP,
BLOOP, BLOOP

A brown monkey with beige hair bounces up and down.

It says,
OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH

A zebra runs while a pink and yellow snake slithers with a knot tied in its body and an elephant sings out of its trunk. The eyes on the feathers of a peacock blink. A pig holds a white umbrella.

The Animanimals march one by one across the orange ground. The pig sits on the elephant’s back.

The Anianimals sing,
ANIMANIMALS
ANIMANIMALS
ANIMANIMALS
ANIMANIMALS
ANIMANIMALS
ANIMANIMALS

A large cloud shakes. The other Animanimals look surprised.

The cloud sings,
ANIMANIMALS

The Animanimals say, HUH?

A sheep pokes its head and legs out of its fluffy white wool.

The sheep sings,
ANIMANIMALS

The rest of the Animanimals smile.

They sing,
ANIMANIMALS

(Trumpeting)

The Animanimals sing,
ANIMANIMALS

The pig floats down to the ground with its umbrella.

The title reads, “Animanimals. By Julia Cocker”.

(Meowing)

The episode title reads, “Mammoth”.

(Low-pitched grunting)

A grey mammoth with a thick furry mane uses its trunk to feel around the snowy ground.

(Trumpeting)

The mammoth is followed by three other mammoths. They hold onto each other’s tails with their trunk while they stand in a single file. A pink baby mammoth is the last in the line.

(Trumpeting)

(All grunting)

The mammoths take a step forward. The baby is pulled and bounces off another mammoth’s rear.

(Groaning)

The leader of the mammoths sniffs the ground again and pulls the others forward.

The leader finds a rock on the ground.

(Trumpeting)

The mammoths move forward. Each of them hops over the rock as move along.

(All groaning)

The leader bumps into a tree. The other mammoths bump into each other.

The mammoths say, OY-YOY-YOY!

(All grunting)

The mammoths walk past the tree. They approach a cliff. The mammoths fall over the side.

(Trumpeting)

(All groaning)

The leader falls trunk first into a valley. The other mammoths land on top of it.

They say, OY-YOY-YOY!

(Grunting)

The leader stands up with other mammoths on its back. It marches toward a brown spotted fruit lying in the snow and sniffs it.

The leader picks up a rock next to the fruit with its trunk. It eats it.

(Trumpeting wildly)

The leader spits out the rock.

(Trumpeting)

The mammoths continue to march through the snow. They trample over the fruit.

The baby mammoth stops and eats the mashed fruit off the snow.

It says, OOH!

(Slurping)

The baby mammoth slurps up the entire pile of fruit with its trunk.

It says,
MM!
OY?

The other mammoths are gone.

(Trumpeting weakly)

(Groaning)

The baby mammoth runs across the icy ground while the other mammoths climb a mountain. The baby mammoth trips over a rock and tumbles across the snow. It stops at the edge of a steep hill.

The baby mammoth says,
HM?
OH?

It slides down the hill. The baby mammoth flips through loops and takes off from a ramp.

It says,
OY-YOY-YOY!
AHH!
AHH!
OY-YOY-OY!

The baby mammoth land on a sandy beach. It bumps its head into a tall palm tree next to a pile of rocks. A crab looks angry as it crawls out from behind the rocks.

The baby mammoth passes the crab as it walks toward the shore. It steps into the water and then runs back to the crab. The baby mammoth lays on the sand.

(Weeping)

(Grunting)

The baby mammoth says,
OY-YOY-YOY-YOY-YOY!

It pulls on the long pink hair covering its eyes.

The crab scratches its head with its claw.

It says,
AWW.
HMM...
AH!

(Grunting)

The crab snaps its claws. It walks over to the baby mammoth and crawls on its back.

The baby mammoth says, OH!

The crab tries to cut the baby mammoth’s hair. The baby mammoth bats at the crab with its trunk. The crab leaps off the baby mammoth’s back. The baby mammoth chases it across the beach.

The crab crawls up onto the baby mammoth’s ear. It trims the hair over one of the baby mammoth’s eyes. The baby mammoth looks up at the crab.

The baby mammoth says,
OY-YOY-YOY!

It looks happy as it points to the rest of its body.

The baby mammoth says, HA-HA!

The crab cuts off the baby mammoth’s hair. It leaves a small tuft on top of the baby mammoth’s head.

The baby mammoth carries the crab to the other mammoths in its trunk.

(Trumpeting)

(Grunting)

One of the mammoths feels around the baby mammoth’s body with its trunk, then feels the crab.

The crab says,
OH!
HA-HA!

It quickly gives all three mammoths haircuts.

(Gasping)

The crab jumps back down onto the baby mammoth’s trunk. They both smile.

(Joyful grunting)

The mammoths look pleased.

They say,
WHOO!

One of the mammoths pats the baby mammoth on the head, then pats the crab.

The baby mammoth flings the crab high in the air.

The crab says,
HA-HA!
WHEE!

It lands on the back of one of the mammoths on the beach. The other mammoths play in the water.

Credits read, “Producer: Thomas Meyer-Hermann. Design: Julia Ocker, Kiana Naghshineh. Script & Direction: Julia Ocker. Animatic: Nora Marie Back. Story Advisor: Andreas Hykade. Copyright Studio Film Board. Kika / ARD & ZDF - SWR 2022”.