8.9/1023 votes#1 - The Nose Knows
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/25/1999
Toothbrush, the baby elephant finds Martin and Chris Kratt, roaming about in a cave where bats live. Since Toothbrush has been separated from her family, the Kratt brothers aide her in searching for them. This way, she will be reunited with them again. A garder snake is spotted, when Jackie was cutting the grass. The snake likes being in dark areas, so she doesn't mow down, part of the grass.
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- 7.8/1018 votes
#2 - Eye Spy
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/26/1999
After admiring the camouflaged coats and amazing night vision of two visiting black jaguar cubs, Martin and Chris build a pair of "Eye-Spy goggles", a contraption that lets them see the world as various animals do. Jackie replants the evergreen that was her Christmas tree and decorates it with apples and popcorn for the birds.
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- 8.2/1019 votes
#3 - Dinosaurs
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/7/1999
While the brothers are building a model of a dinosaur they call the ""Martinandchrisaurus,"" Zoboo tells them he thinks he saw a dinosaur on his way to Animal Junction. The mystery creature turns out to be a monitor lizard. Jackie breaks open a pellet from an owl's stomach to see its prey's bones and fur inside, then runs into the Kratts while visiting the Royal Ontario Museum to see dinosaur bones.
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- 7.5/1017 votes
#4 - Who's In the Hole
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1999
A flying squirrel glides in looking for a hole to live in, and a search around Animal Junction reveals lots of other animals, from foxes and rabbits to snakes and porcupines, already living in various holes. When a man starts to cut down a dead tree with a hole in it, Jackie stops him by explaining that it may be the home of an owl.
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- 8.6/1018 votes
#5 - Happy Lemur Day
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/1999
When two fellow ring-tailed lemurs come to visit, Zoboo is stunned to hear that many people don't know what a lemur is. The Kratt brothers offer to remedy things by declaring an international Lemur Day holiday, complete with party and cake. Jackie rescues two turtles who were heading for a busy highway.
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- 8.2/1019 votes
#6 - Swimming
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/1/1999
The arrival of a couple of river otters prompts a swimming party, with black jaguars, soft-shelled turtles, penguins, and capybaras jumping in. Jackie and her dog Goldie join in with a swim in MudPuppy Pond, where they meet even more water creatures.
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- 7.9/1016 votes
#7 - Slimy Buddies
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/2/1999
Chris, Martin, and Zoboo explore the good things about slime, from puppies showing affection by licking to the slick coatings that keep frogs from drying out and let earthworms slide through dirt. To help make MudPuppy Pond an even better home for her own favorite slimy buddies "mudpuppy salamanders", Jackie rakes dead leaves into the water.
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- 7.0/1017 votes
#8 - Snow Day
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/3/1999
During the snowstorm of the century, Martin, Chris, Zoboo, and Jackie shelter one very cold Japanese snow monkey and shovel paths for animals having trouble maneuvering through the white stuff.
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- 7.4/1016 votes
#9 - Night Time
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/4/1999
A camp-out at Animal Junction gives everyone a chance to discover nocturnal animals, creatures who sleep during the day and are active at night. Binturongs, raccoons, owls, ringtails, and dormice are among those living the night life.
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- 8.8/1018 votes
#10 - Climbing
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/5/1999
Many animals have unique features that help them climb, from the sticky pads on the bottoms of frogs' feet to the prehensile tail of the kinkajou. The Kratts lose a climbing contest to a band of coatis, whose sharp claws and long tails give them an advantage, while Jackie and the Animal Helpers rescue a kitten who has figured out how to climb up a tree—but not how to get back down to the ground.
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- 7.1/1016 votes
#11 - Fierce Creatures
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/8/1999
Zoboo decides he wants to join a visiting pack of Arctic wolves, so he takes lessons in howling, hunting, and obeying the pack pecking order. But just when he's ready to go home with his new friends, someone explains how different from warm, sunny Animal Junction the wolves' home territory is, and he rethinks his decision. Meanwhile, Jackie rescues a spider who's been stranded in a neighbor's bathtub.
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- 8.0/1017 votes
#12 - Homes
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/9/1999
The Kratts help out a beaver who's looking for wood to build a dam, and Jackie and the Animal Helpers build nest boxes for Eastern bluebirds.
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- 7.2/1018 votes
#13 - Puppies
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1999
The discovery of a litter of eight puppies turns Chris, Martin, and Zoboo into puppysitters. When one of the puppies and a calf both wander off from their mothers, everyone at Animal Junction learns how important it is to keep a close watch on babies.
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- 7.8/1016 votes
#14 - Tracks
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/1999
Martin and Chris follow the tracks of a lynx through the snow, and Jackie works on protecting her bird feeder from marauding squirrels.
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- 7.2/1015 votes
#15 - Fling
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/1999
"Fling" is the nickname the Kratts give to a white-fronted capuchin monkey, which they return to the wild. Jackie learns about the wild when she tries to build a terrarium for a frog.
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- 7.2/1016 votes
#16 - Itchy
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/15/1999
Everyone has got an itch, whether it's from poison ivy, bugs, or burrs.
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- 7.2/1016 votes
#17 - Ears Hear
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/16/1999
Rabbits, bloodhounds, springhares, and foxes weigh in as Chris and Martin want to hear every animal's range of hearing.
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- 8.1/1017 votes
#18 - Feeling Good
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1999
It's all about animal coats, from porcupine to lynx to duck.
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- 6.4/1016 votes
#19 - Running
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1999
Martin and Chris run like other animals, beginning with the emu, extending to the crab, the fisher, the gecko, and the cheetah.
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- 7.4/1019 votes
#20 - Animal Daycare
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1999
Today, Animal Junction is full of baby creatures! A baby ring tailed lemur, lynx kittens, bobcat kittens, a sliver fox kit, and baby coatis all need to be taken care of. Chris and Martin build a creature playpen to keep them all in. DUCK! Jackie and her helpers find a baby bird that fell out of a tree. They make a nest and put the bird back for the mom to find him. TO THE CLOSET! The guys take a trip to see how different animal moms take care of their babies. CREATURE QUESTION: What creature is the biggest native North American land mammal and lives in big herds? Written by Anna Bourque Directed by Steve Wright
Director: Steve Wright
Writer: Anna Bourque
- 8.1/1016 votes
#21 - Giants
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/1999
There are giant animals galore at Animal Junction: giraffe, elephant, camel, and capybaras among them. This leads the Kratt brothers to find the world's biggest deer, biggest lemur, and biggest cat. Trees are also given giant attention.
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- 6.3/1016 votes
#22 - Pets
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/21/1999
Chris and Martin find a bunch of pets at Animal Junction. They all belong to Jackie and her animal helpers. Zoboomafoo learns how to take care of ducklings, goldfish, a rabbit, puppies, kittens, a crab, and even a calf. We also learn that all pets need lots of love. Zoboo also learns which animals should be pets and which ones should be ""free and in the wild"". DUCK! While the guys are taking care of their pets, Jackie and the helpers take a raccoon back to his home. TO THE CLOSET! Jackie shows up at Animal Junction to help the guys take the pets back to their owners. CREATURE QUESTION: What creature uses Zoboo's hand as the spot to ""go""? As Martin says, ""You told her to go p* wherever she wants"". Ooops, false alarm, it's only pee!!! Funny guys! Written by Anna Bourque Directed by Steve Wright
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- 8.2/1016 votes
#23 - Bears
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/22/1999
Animal Junction finds itself the center of attention for bears, wolverines, and kinkajous.
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- 7.7/1015 votes
#24 - Lids
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/23/1999
The guys have a plan to plant grass seeds to attract the African Crowned Crane to Animal Junction. But, they have a time trying to keep the sheep and goats from eating all the grass beforehand. These creatures have amazing lids like horns on top of their heads. DUCK! Jackie learns about lids, like antennas on different creatures. TO THE CLOSET! Chris and Martin go off to find some more amazing lids. They run into prong horned antelope and a moose. They both have horns and antlers to protect their heads when fighting. CREATURE QUESTION: Written by Anna Bourque Directed by Steve Wright
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- 6.4/1016 votes
#25 - Great Singers
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/24/1999
Animal "music" spills into Animal Junction, performed by camels, wolves, and elk, far better than a sound effects machine.
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Nose Knows" is the best rated episode of "Zoboomafoo" season 1. It scored 8.9/10 based on 23 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/25/1999. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "Eye Spy".