Two animated brains move over a line maze. Two chomping halves of an animated pink brain join together. Text on banners over the brain reads, “Hungry Brain!”

[Upbeat music plays]

A voice says, HUNGRY BRAIN!

The world map shows the location of Mongolia.

[Beeping, upbeat music plays]

A narrator says, MONGOLIA IS AN ASIAN COUNTRY LOCATED BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA. ITS CAPITAL IS ULAANBAATAR.

A photograph shows tall buildings in Ulaanbaatar. Smoke rises from distant smoke stacks.

A second narrator says, HERE'S THE TOP ON MONGOLIA.

Episode title: Top on Mongolia.

The number three appears.

[Crumping, dinging, upbeat music plays]

The first narrator says, NUMBER THREE, A LOW POPULATION.

A photograph shows a yurt by mountain foothills. Another photograph shows a line of yurts on wagons.

[Slide whistle]

The first narrator says, ALMOST 28 PERCENT OF THE THREE MILLION PEOPLE OF MONGOLIA ARE NOMADIC, OR SEMI-NOMADIC, WHICH MEANS THEY DON'T HAVE A FIXED HOME. MAKES YOU "WANDER."

[Whooshing]

The second narrator says, "YURT" TOTALLY RIGHT. MONGOLIA ALSO HAS THE LOWEST POPULATION DENSITY IN THE WORLD, WITH JUST 2 INHABITANTS PER SQUARE KILOMETRE.

A photograph shows three people in front of a yurt.

The first narrator says, STAGGERING! I HAD NO "I-DEER."

The number two appears.

[Crumping, dinging, upbeat music plays]

The second narrator says, NUMBER TWO, DIFFERENT LANDSCAPES.

In a photograph, a waterway reflects the clouds in the sky, and photographs of the desert and an ice-covered lake appear.

[Whooshing]

The first narrator says, THE GEOGRAPHY OF MONGOLIA IS DIVERSE. FROM THE GOBI DESERT IN THE SOUTH TO THE COLD MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS IN THE NORTH AND WEST. THE AVERAGE ALTITUDE IS 1,580 METRES.

The second narrator says, MOUNTAINS, DESERTS, AND HUGE AREAS OF GRASSLAND CALLED STEPPES MAKE IT HARD TO STEP UP CULTIVATION.

A photograph shows a forest on the shores of Lake Khuvsgul.

[Whooshing]

The first narrator says, IT HAS ONE OF THE LARGEST FRESHWATER LAKES IN ASIA, LAKE KHUVSGUL.

The second narrator says, AND ALSO LOTS OF SALTY LAKES, SWAMPS, SAND DUNES, UNDULATING MEADOWS, ALPINE FORESTS, AND MOUNTAIN GLACIERS. PHEW!

Photographs show lakes, swamps, meadows, forests, glaciers, and camels walking up dunes.

[Whooshing]

The second narrator says, THE VAST "EX-TENT."

The first narrator says, AND GET THIS, IN THE NORTH AND WEST OF MONGOLIA, THERE ARE ACTIVE VOLCANOES, AND EARTHQUAKES ARE COMMON THERE. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T THINK THAT'S ANY GREAT SHAKES, GERBILS?

A photograph shows gerbils resting on wood shavings.

The first narrator says, I'D BE QUAKING LIKE A LEAF!

[Popping, upbeat music continues]

The number one appears.

[Crumping, dinging, upbeat music plays]

The second narrator says, NUMBER ONE, GOBI.

Video footage shows barren rocks in the Gobi Desert.

The first narrator says, IN MONGOLIAN, GOBI MEANS "ARID STEPPE."

The second narrator says, THE GOBI STRETCHES OVER 1,600 KILOMETRES FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST, AND 800 KILOMETRES FROM NORTH THE SOUTH, AND COVERS AN AREA OF 1.3 MILLION SQUARE KILOMETRES. IT MAKES IT ONE OF THE LARGEST DESERTS IN THE WORLD.

A line of camels walks away from yurts.

[Whooshing, chiming]

The first narrator says, SO, YOU THOUGHT DESERTS WERE JUST BIG SAND DUNES, RIGHT? WELL, FOR THE MOST PART, THE GOBI CONSISTS OF JUST ROCKS.

The second narrator says, TEMPERATURES CAN SWING FROM A ROASTING 35 DEGREES CELSIUS IN SUMMER TO A TEETH-CHATTERING MINUS 25 IN WINTER. IT IS THE COLDEST DESERT ON THE PLANET, AFTER ANTARCTICA. BRR.

[Whooshing, wind gusting]

A photograph shows a camel with two humps.

The first narrator says, I THINK I'D GET THE HUMP WITH THAT FAIRLY QUICKLY.

The second narrator says, as the camel, THAT PUN WAS THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK.

[Slide whistle, upbeat music continues]

End Credits. Narration: Helen Moorhouse. Iain O’Connor. Writer: Luc Michaud. Trio Orange. Member of the Association Quebécoise de la Production Mediatique. Copyright 2019. Logo: AQPM.