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all living things have a lot in common even though peanut plants [jelly fish floating in the water]

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and jellyfish are very different and a peanut butter and jelly fish sandwich is

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a very bad idea learned that one the hard way both peanut plants and

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jellyfish are alive which means they have some similarities for starters all [a man looking disgruntled after eating a sandwich]

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living things need air water and food to survive jellyfish get their air from the

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water peanut plants get their water from the air and soil and both get their food [rain lashing down on a field of peanut plants]

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from costco oh wait they actually get it from the water and or soil around them

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huh guess that does sound cheaper living things all have a will to survive and [a shelf stacked full of books with a staying alive club banner attached]

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everybody in the staying alive club finds a way to get whatever it is they need to

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stay an active member for example all plants need sunshine to stay alive

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instead of making them tan it makes them a nice shade of green which is kind of [a plant that has turned dark green in the sunshine]

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like the Wicked Witch of the West during spring break because plants need

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sunshine for the process called photosynthesis they grow towards the sun

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so if we see a house plant bending toward a window or corn stock standing and [a house plant bending towards the window of sunlight]

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tall we know that's the will to survive in action either that or they're spying on

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their neighbors again so tactless animals are just as determined to [plant holding binoculars spying on their neighbors]

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survive when humans build houses on the habitats of deer the deer take matter

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into their own hands or well hooves if we see deer eating our grass flowers or any [woman walking along the front garden of her house]

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of the tasty stuff in our gardens it's because they're just as determined to

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survive as every other living thing not just because they like driving our

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grandma crazy all living things also find some way to reproduce otherwise [a lot of baby ducks following their mother]

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their species don't stick around too long so the will to make babies is a big

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part of the will to survive even if babies crying all night can make moms [a baby crying as parents enter the room]

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and dads second-guess the whole thing plants reproduce through their seeds

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they stick in the soil they suck up water sun and minerals and suddenly

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there are some new baby plants in the world new baby plants that are [plants shown to be growing from the seeds in the soil]

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guaranteed not to keep their families up at night how kind some seeds are super

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successful because they're sticky think it

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free ride when they stick to our pant legs or the hair of our pet dogs or our [a dog walking past a persons legs]

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pet orangutans if we have those the will to survive comes out in all kinds

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of crazy ways sometimes predator animals even adopt prey animal babies like that [4 piglets following a tiger in a rainforest]

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mama tiger had took care of baby pigs the mama tiger needs babies and the

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piglets needed a mom so it was a match made in heaven although the mama tiger

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did insist the piglets wear striped coats she didn't want the other tiger moms [piglets dressed in striped coats]

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thinking her cubs were raised in a barn heaven forbid

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