The WotWots is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 children's television show which debuted in 2009.

The show features two aliens

Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...

, named SpottyWot and DottyWot, who spend their days exploring a zoo

Zoo

A zoological garden, zoological park, menagerie, or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred....

 where their steam-powered

Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.Steam engines are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separate from the combustion products. Non-combustion heat sources such as solar power, nuclear power or geothermal energy may be...

 spaceship has landed.This show also plays on Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

's Treehouse TV

Treehouse TV

Treehouse TV is a Canadian English language cable television specialty channel with programming targeted towards preschoolers that was launched on October 17, 1997. Its name comes from YTV's old children's programming block, The Treehouse...

 which played in early 2010.

Production

The WotWots is produced by Pukeko Pictures, a production company founded by filmmaker Richard Taylor and children's author Martin Baynton

Martin Baynton

Martin Baynton is a British Author, Illustrator, Actor and TV producer. He is a children’s book writer, he has also written fiction for adults and a selection of his short stories have been anthologised. He is well known for his children’s book Jane and the Dragon , which has since been adapted...

. The puppet-like WotWots characters are computer-animated

Computer animation

Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The more general term computer generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation only refers to moving images....

 over live-action footage by Weta Workshop

Weta Workshop

Weta Workshop is a special effects and prop company based in Miramar, New Zealand, producing effects for television and film.Founded in 1987 by Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger as RT Effects, Weta Workshop has produced creatures and makeup effects for the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys...

, the visual effects company founded by Taylor, and well-known for its work on the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

The Lord of the Rings is an epic film trilogy consisting of three fantasy adventure films based on the three-volume book of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers and The Return of the King .The films were directed by Peter...

.

The series is filmed on location at several zoos: Auckland Zoo

Auckland Zoo

Auckland Zoo is a zoological garden in Auckland, New Zealand, situated next to Western Springs park not far from Auckland's central business district. It is run by the Auckland City Council with the Auckland Zoological Society as a supporting organisation....

, Wellington Zoo

Wellington Zoo

Wellington Zoo is nestled in the green belt of Wellington, New Zealand. Now over 100 years old, it was the country’s first Zoo and has dedicated to over 100 different species of fauna from across the globe...

 (in New Zealand) and Melbourne Zoo

Melbourne Zoo

The Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens, commonly known as the Melbourne Zoo, contains more than 320 animal species from Australia and around the world. The zoo is north of the centre of Melbourne. It is accessible via Royal Park station on the Upfield railway line, and is also accessible via tram...

 (in Australia).

Co-creator Martin Baynton also narrates the series, interacting with the WotWots by asking them questions and translating their speech for the viewer. In the UK, the narration is performed by Nicholas Parsons

Nicholas Parsons

Nicholas Parsons OBE is a British actor and radio and television presenter.-Early life:...

. Baynton also provides the voice for SpottyWot, while South African actress Nathalie Boltt

Nathalie Boltt

Nathalie Boltt is a South African actress, known in that country for her role as Joey Ortlepp in the SABC 3 soap opera Isidingo from 2001 to 2004....

 voices DottyWot. Janet Roddick voices the WotWot's computer, but her voice is replaced by that of Fiona Lewis

Fiona Lewis

-Selected filmography:* Smoke Over London * Otley * Joanna * Where's Jack? * Villain * A Day at the Beach * Dr. Phibes Rises Again * Blue Blood * Lisztomania...

 in the UK version.

Broadcast details

The WotWots made its debut in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 on 23 March 2009 on the TV2 channel of the TVNZ network.

In Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, the series debuted on ABC1

ABC1

ABC1 was a United Kingdom based television channel from Disney using the branding of the Disney owned American network, ABC.The channel initially launched exclusively on the British digital terrestrial television platform Freeview on 27 September 2004. On 10 December 2004 it was launched on...

 and ABC2

ABC2

ABC2 is a national public television channel in Australia. Launched on 7 March 2005, it is the responsibility of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television division, and is available nationally to digital television viewers in Australia...

, two channels of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

, on 16 April 2009.

In the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, the series began on 8 June on Five.

In Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, the series began on 1 December 2009 on MiniMini

MiniMini

MiniMini+ is a Polish television channel owned and operated by Canal+. Its mainstreaming its programing mainly to 2-7 children....

, as Kitka i Pompon.

In Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, the series began airing on Treehouse TV

Treehouse TV

Treehouse TV is a Canadian English language cable television specialty channel with programming targeted towards preschoolers that was launched on October 17, 1997. Its name comes from YTV's old children's programming block, The Treehouse...

 on 22 February 2010.

In the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, the series aired on the new channel The Hub, a replacement for Discovery Kids

Discovery Kids

Discovery Kids is an American website owned by Discovery Communications, Inc. created for children. Until October 10, 2010, it was an American digital cable specialty channel, owned by Discovery Communications with television programming for education of children. It was launched in October 1996...

.

The show also now screens in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

, Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

, Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 and Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

.

Merchandise

Playskool

Playskool

Playskool is an American company that produces educational toys and games for children. It is a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., and is headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.-History:...

, a toy brand of Hasbro

Hasbro

Hasbro is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States...

, is licensed to produce the WotWots toy range, and the toys were launched on 2 September 2009.

List of The WotWots Episodes

Epidose No.	Episode Title	Summary	Animal	Zoo
SERIES ONE (2009)
01	Scary Sucky Noise	In the first episode, the Wotwots learn about elephants.	Elephant Elephant Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct...	Auckland
02	Fruity Loopies	The Wotwots have fruity loopies for breaking and learn how giraffes use the necks as drinking straws.	Giraffe Giraffe The giraffe is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of all extant land-living animal species, and the largest ruminant...	Wellington
03	Lanky Landing Legs	The Wotwots find a pair of pink legs in the zoo and learn how beautiful and fascinating flamingoes are.	Flamingo Flamingo Flamingos or flamingoes are gregarious wading birds in the genus Phoenicopterus , the only genus in the family Phoenicopteridae...	Auckland
04	Spot a Dottywot	Spottywot plays hide and seek with his sister but finds a human wearing a hat with something looking like tufty flufties and also hears a growling sound of another animal with something that seems like a big tufty flufty. It eventually turns out to be a lion's tail and the Wotwots learn how lions are good hiders.	Lion Lion The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger...	Wellington
05	Stripe a Lotty Wotty	The Wotwots looks at shadows and find a zebra with fascinating stripes. Spottywot gets out extraordinarily long crayons to paint himself with shadowed stripes.	Zebra Zebra Zebras are several species of African equids united by their distinctive black and white stripes. Their stripes come in different patterns unique to each individual. They are generally social animals that live in small harems to large herds...	Wellington
06	Plodda Lotty	Spottywot is in a speedy mood and his sister isn't and learns about how tortoises do everything slowly.	Tortoise Tortoise Tortoises are a family of land-dwelling reptiles of the order of turtles . Like their marine cousins, the sea turtles, tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell. The top part of the shell is the carapace, the underside is the plastron, and the two are connected by the bridge. The tortoise...	Melbourne
07	Drowsy DottyWot	It is a hot day and all the animals are snoozing about and the Wotwots intend to do the same and they learn about pelicans.	Pelican Pelican A pelican, derived from the Greek word πελεκυς pelekys is a large water bird with a large throat pouch, belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae....	Wellington
08	Top and Tail	Spottywot's chair runs out of fruity juice and leaves him hanging on the ship's railings but Dottywot manages to put in apple fuel and while out finding an animal Dottywot's chair runs out of fruity juice as well. The Wotwot's learn how monkeys hang about the place with its long monkey tail.	Monkey Monkey A monkey is a primate, either an Old World monkey or a New World monkey. There are about 260 known living species of monkey. Many are arboreal, although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons. Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent. Unlike apes, monkeys...
09	Fluffy Puffies	The Wotwot's look at the different cloud shapes drifting in the sky and see a polar bear who has white fluffy fur like a cloud.	Polar Bear Polar Bear The polar bear is a bear native largely within the Arctic Circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the world's largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the omnivorous Kodiak Bear, which is approximately the same size...
10	Coughy Wot	Spottywot's chair coughs and sneezes giving him a hard ride and making it hard for him to draw. The Wotwots eventually learn how Seals bark like coughing and sneezing.	Seal Pinniped Pinnipeds or fin-footed mammals are a widely distributed and diverse group of semiaquatic marine mammals comprising the families Odobenidae , Otariidae , and Phocidae .-Overview: Pinnipeds are typically sleek-bodied and barrel-shaped...	Auckland
11	Stretch and Grow	Dottywot and Spottywot do stretching exercises and learn that are the same size. They even learn how Meerkats stretch and grow.	Meerkat Meerkat The meerkat or suricate, Suricata suricatta, is a small mammal belonging to the mongoose family. Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa. A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan"...	Wellington
12	Sneaky Squawky	The Wotwots hear a Magpie call outside and find its nest near their ship. Spottywot even finds that his crayons are all gone and Magpies use crayons to decorate their nest but he does get new ones luckily to decorate his bed rather than tidying up.	Magpie Magpie Magpies are passerine birds of the crow family, Corvidae.In Europe, "magpie" is often used by English speakers as a synonym for the European Magpie, as there are no other magpies in Europe outside Iberia...	Wellington
13	Twisty Sticks	One of SpottyWot's Tufty Flufties goes straight and spiky after sleeping on it and DottyWot tries to do the same. The Wotwots learn about how porcupines have straight and spiky quills (or tufty flufties in their case).	Porcupine Porcupine Porcupines are rodents with a coat of sharp spines, or quills, that defend or camouflage them from predators. They are indigenous to the Americas, southern Asia, and Africa. Porcupines are the third largest of the rodents, behind the capybara and the beaver. Most porcupines are about long, with...	Wellington
14	Skip-a-Lotty Wotty	Spottywot loves skipping and bouncing and got to the zoo to see who else bounces like a boy on a bouncy ball and a lady on a pogo stick and even learn that animals like kangaroos like to bounce around as well. They even see how Kangaroos have pouches for their babies and Spottywot pretends to be a mother kangaroo with his teddy bear.	Kangaroo Kangaroo A kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae . In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus, Red Kangaroo, Antilopine Kangaroo, Eastern Grey Kangaroo and Western Grey Kangaroo. Kangaroos are endemic to the country...	Auckland
15	Bubblywots	The Wotwots drinks up their fruity loopies really fast and then hiccup up bubbles. They learn how good hippos are at blowing bubbles.	Hippopotamus Hippopotamus The hippopotamus , or hippo, from the ancient Greek for "river horse" , is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae After the elephant and rhinoceros, the hippopotamus is the third largest land mammal and the heaviest...	Auckland
16	Egg Sighting	The Wotwots see signs about things that are not allowed in the zoo. They find a chicken that lays eggs and learn that they're ship looks like an egg and Spottywot thinks a chicken he sit on it and puts up a sign to keep giant chickens away from their ship.	Bantam hen	Wellington
17	HicHoppity Wot	Spottywot has a terrible case of the hiccups and Dottywot tries to help cure them as it is hard with no noses and six digits on each hand. They find a frog that croaks like it would be hiccuping. At the end of the episode Dottywot starts to Hiccup as well.	Frog Frog Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...
18	Creepalongy Wot	Spottywot tries to pounce up on his sister but Dottywot's tufty flufty sensed him. The Wotwots see how good a big cat called a serval is good at hiding and pouncing because of how they camouflage. When going back to the ship the Wotwots learn how other animals camouflage..	Serval Serval The serval , Leptailurus serval or Caracal serval, known in Afrikaans as Tierboskat, "tiger-forest-cat", is a medium-sized African wild cat. DNA studies have shown that the serval is closely related to the African golden cat and the caracal...
19	Blinky Winky	The Wotwots have a staring contest. Dottywot did a good staring job. They see an owl and try to do the staring game with it. When back at the ship they learn how owls use their eyes.	Owl Owl Owls are a group of birds that belong to the order Strigiformes, constituting 200 bird of prey species. Most are solitary and nocturnal, with some exceptions . Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish...
20	Topsy Turvy Wotty	Spottywot attempts to stunt at the zoo and it looked like he was upside down. Spottywot learns how bats are good at hanging upside down.	Bat Bat Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera "hand" and pteron "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, glide rather than fly,...
21	Go the Greens	Spottywot refuses to eat broccoli soup and Dottywot shows how important it is to eat greens and learn how other animals eat greens. They look at pictures of Rhinos and see how they love to eat greens.	Rhinoceros Rhinoceros Rhinoceros , also known as rhino, is a group of five extant species of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae. Two of these species are native to Africa and three to southern Asia....	Auckland
22	Tickle Toes	Spottywot has an itchy spot on his foot but can't reach it in his hover chair. Dottywot tries to help and learn how chimpanzees scratch each other and how clever they both are.	Chimpanzee Chimpanzee Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus Pan. The Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...
23	HotWots	It is a cold day and the WotWot's try to warm up. They go around the zoo to see animals that don't like the cold. The Wotwots come back to see they left the heater on and it melted Spottywot's crayons. The Wotwot's then notice a sheep and see how its coat keeps it warm in the cold.	Sheep	Auckland
24	Copy Copy Wotty	The Wotwots make animal sounds and hear something copy their Wotty speeches thinking it is another Wotwot and it eventually turns out to be a colourful parrot called a macaw that can copy sounds.	Macaw Macaw Macaws are small to large, often colourful New World parrots. Of the many different Psittacidae genera, six are classified as macaws: Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Primolius, Orthopsittaca, and Diopsittaca...
25	WetWots	It is raining and the Wotwots can't go anywhere after seeing a dinosaur. Spottywot draws his own monster out of many animals. They learn about the Tuatara which was around longer than the dinosaurs and learn that there's even one in the zoo and see it and eventually change the moose antlers in Spottywot's drawing to Tuatara scales.	Tuatara Tuatara The tuatara is a reptile endemic to New Zealand which, though it resembles most lizards, is actually part of a distinct lineage, order Sphenodontia. The two species of tuatara are the only surviving members of its order, which flourished around 200 million years ago. Their most recent common...	Auckland
26	Slurpy Lurpy Lips	It is a hot day and everyone in the zoo is asleep except Spottywot who wants to play ball with someone and gets frustrated that Dottywot wouldn't play. He Then decides play by himself but tosses it too far and losses it but then it gets thrown back meaning that someone wants to play with him but it later doesn't get thown back. The Wotwots eventually learn that it is an Orangutan that throws stuff around and out of its exhibit.	Orangutan Orangutan Orangutans are the only exclusively Asian genus of extant great ape. The largest living arboreal animals, they have proportionally longer arms than the other, more terrestrial, great apes. They are among the most intelligent primates and use a variety of sophisticated tools, also making sleeping...	Auckland
27	Spring Wotty	DottyWot is disappointed to lose a jumping competition. She goes to find an animal with a bouncy name, a springbok and learns how good at jumping they are.	Springbok Springbok Springbok can have the following meanings:* Springbok , a small antelope inhabiting southern and western Africa.* South Africa national rugby union team, known as the Springboks....	Auckland
28	Socket Sprocket Pocket	DottyWot’s chair needs fixing but her brother keeps losing his spanner. One of the zoo's cutest residents shows how to keep important things like how koalas always carry their babies with them.	Koala Koala The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae....	Wellington
29	Sir SpottyWot	DottyWot reads a book about knights and dragons. SpottyWot decides he will be a knight and he sets tochair to have a mind of its own like a dragon and sets off to find hi own dragon in the zoo and eventually does find a large komodo dragon.	Komodo Dragon Komodo dragon The Komodo dragon , also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang and Gili Dasami. A member of the monitor lizard family , it is the largest living species of lizard, growing to a maximum length of in rare cases...
30	Floppy Flufties	The WotWots are playing a guessing game with their tufty flufties, will they be up or will they be down? They find a rabbit and see how rabbits have similar games with their ears.	Rabbit Rabbit Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world...	Auckland
31	Peak-a-Beak	The WotWots play at drawing pictures in the dark. It’s very hard to do and they are surprised to learn there are animals like the kiwi bird that can see well in the dark.	Kiwi Kiwi Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand, in the genus Apteryx and family Apterygidae.At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites and lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world...	Auckland
32	The Digger They Are	The Wotwots find a Digger outside their ship and learn that Wombat's and all sorts of animals are good diggers as well.	Wombat Wombat Wombats are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular quadrupeds, approximately in length with a short, stubby tail. They are adaptable in their habitat tolerances, and are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania, as well as...	Melbourne
33	Laugh a Lotty	The Wotwot's pull faces and learn how good the laughing Kookaburra's are.	Kookaburra Kookaburra Kookaburras are terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea. They are large to very large, with a total length of . The name is a loanword from Wiradjuri guuguubarra, and is onomatopoeic of its call...
34	Double Bumpies	Spottywot thinks he saw an animal with 2 heads but it turns out to be a human with her baby. The Wotwot's learn how animals take care of their babies. Note: The Wotwots don't find any animal in this episode.	Humans	N/A
35	Ready to Roar	SpottyWot's attempt to scare his sister with a loud roar isn’t very scary. So the WotWots head out to find an animal with a terrifying roar that SpottyWot can copy and they eventually get surprisec after seeing a tiger's roar.	Tiger Tiger The tiger is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to and weighing up to . Their most recognizable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with lighter underparts...	Melbourne
36	Fill Bill	DottyWot spots a duck bill on the zoo pond. When the whole animal is revealed the WotWots are surprised to find the bill doesn’t really belong to a duck after all it was a platypus tht has a bill like a duck.	Platypus Platypus The platypus is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young...
37	Stingy Thingy	The WotWots are out smelling flowers when SpottyWot starts to play with a bee only to get stung. He learns that some creatures have a painful way of telling you they don’t want to play like how Snakes bite.	Bee Bee Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila...  / Snake Snake Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...
38	Looky Looky	SpottyWot spots a creature with hundreds of eyes and hurries to tell his sister. DottyWot is very surprised and they set out to find the mythical multi eyed monster but it then turns out to be the beautiful feathers of a peacock.	Peacock
39	Wot a Ploppy	SpottyWot is learning to track animals by recognizing their droppings. He sets out to track down the animal that has made an impressively big pile of droppings and eventually finds a moose.	Moose Moose The moose or Eurasian elk is the largest extant species in the deer family. Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a dendritic configuration...	Wellington
40	Prickly Prints	The WotWots spot some interesting footprints and track down who made them. SpottyWot decides he can make some interesting paw prints of his own and sees how fascinating a spiny echidnas are.	Echidna Echidna Echidnas , also known as spiny anteaters, belong to the family Tachyglossidae in the monotreme order of egg-laying mammals. There are four extant species, which, together with the platypus, are the only surviving members of that order and are the only extant mammals that lay eggs...	Melbourne
41	True Blue	The Wotwots find a blue animal in the zoo that they find out to be a fascinating colour and learn about penguins that would normally be black.	Penguin Penguin Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become flippers...
42	Beat-Boppy Wots	The Wotwots do some dance steps and learn that Ostriches are good dancers like the flamingoes from earlier on.	Ostrich Ostrich The Ostrich is one or two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member of the genus Struthio. Some analyses indicate that the Somali Ostrich may be better considered a full species apart from the Common Ostrich, but most taxonomists consider it to be a...	Wellington
43	Picture Puzzle	Spottywot plays a puzzle game for his sister to find 3 animals. One that lives in water, one with stripes and one that has a pocket for its babies. Dottywot also learns that there are animals besides kangaroos like possums that have pouches.	Possum Possum A possum is any of about 70 small to medium-sized arboreal marsupial species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi .Possums are quadrupedal diprotodont marsupials with long tails...
44	Colour Conundrums	The Wotwots learn about colours and learn about how Chameleon's change colours.	Chameleon Chameleon Chameleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a...
45	Lumpy Bumpies	Spottywot does a lumpy bumpy sketching on a tree and the Wotwots then find an animal in the water an animal with lumpy bumpy scales which is a crocodile.	Crocodile Crocodile A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia: i.e...
46	Over the Rainbow	The Wotwots see a rainbow and see the great big smile on a Sun Bear's fur.	Sun Bear Sun Bear The sun bear , sometimes known as the honey bear, is a bear found primarily in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia; North-East India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Southern China, Peninsular Malaysia, and the islands of Sumatra and Borneo.-Description:The sun bear...	Wellington
47	Trail Tail	The Wotwots find a slimy trail in the Zoo and find it was made by a snail.	Snail Snail Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
48	Ready to Rumble	The Wotwots learn how Dingoes make their own den and Spottywot decides to make himself a den.	Dingo Dingo The Australian Dingo or Warrigal is a free-roaming wild dog unique to the continent of Australia, mainly found in the outback. Its original ancestors are thought to have arrived with humans from southeast Asia thousands of years ago, when dogs were still relatively undomesticated and closer to...	Wellington
49	Wotter Otter	Spottywot develops a remote control for his chair and uses it to find his spanner in an animal's exhibit belonging to an otter.	Otter Otter The Otters are twelve species of semi-aquatic mammals which feed on fish and shellfish, and also other invertebrates, amphibians, birds and small mammals....
50	Tufty Tops	The Wotwots are fascinated by their Tufty Flufties and search for fascinating horns, crests and hair of animals and find a fascinating Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Sulphur-crested Cockatoo The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua galerita, is a relatively large white cockatoo found in wooded habitats in Australia and New Guinea. They can be locally very numerous, leading to them sometimes being considered pests... .	Cockatoo Cockatoo A cockatoo is any of the 21 species belonging to the bird family Cacatuidae. Along with the Psittacidae and the Strigopidae , they make up the parrot order Psittaciformes . Placement of the cockatoos as a separate family is fairly undisputed, although many aspects of the other living lineages of...	Wellington
51	Speedy Spots	Spottywot and Dottywot have a race with their chairs around the Zoo. Spottywot learns how cheetahs run really fast and thinks it is the spots that make it fast.	Cheetah Cheetah The cheetah is a large-sized feline inhabiting most of Africa and parts of the Middle East. The cheetah is the only extant member of the genus Acinonyx, most notable for modifications in the species' paws...
52	Ready or Notty	The Wotwots discover that lots of animals have bright red feathers, scales and fur like Red Pandas.	Red Panda Red Panda The red panda , is a small arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It is the only species of the genus Ailurus. Slightly larger than a domestic cat, it has reddish-brown fur, a long, shaggy tail, and a waddling gait due to its shorter front legs...	Wellington
SERIES TWO (2011)
53	Wotties of Steel	DottyWot is fascinated to discover a colony of ants on the farm. SpottyWot is completely unimpressed by such tiny creatures - until he finds out just how strong they can be.	Ant Ant Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago and diversified after the rise of flowering plants. More than...
54	Nibble Notty	SpottyWot is enjoying a loopy-fruity breakfast in the ship when someone eats his picture he was painting outside. The WotWots go in search of the culprit.	Goat Goat The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of...
55	Wot Plants	After witnessing a farmer planting seeds in the ground, the WotWots learn how seeds can grow. Then SpottyWot decides to plant himself and try to grow a SpottyWot tree.	Seeds SEEDS SEEDS is a voluntary organisation registered under the Societies Act of India....
56	Wot's New Pussycat	The WotWots get up one morning to find some favourite toys have been nibbled in the night. SpottyWot goes off in search of the farm cat to see if it can help them with their problem.	Cat Cat The cat , also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felids and felines, is a small, usually furry, domesticated, carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests...  / Mouse Mouse A mouse is a small mammal belonging to the order of rodents. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse . It is also a popular pet. In some places, certain kinds of field mice are also common. This rodent is eaten by large birds such as hawks and eagles...
57	The TrottyWot	DottyWot is exploring the farm when she sees a girl grooming and riding a beautiful pony. DottyWot thinks it would be wonderful to have her very own pony to ride – if she could just find someone to be that pony.	Pony Pony A pony is a small horse . Depending on context, a pony may be a horse that is under an approximate or exact height at the withers, or a small horse with a specific conformation and temperament. There are many different breeds...
58	Swan Lake	The WotWots are sailing paper boats when SpottyWot’s boat lets in water and sinks. He catches a glimpse of the sea monster responsible and sets out to unmask it.	Swan Swan Swans, genus Cygnus, are birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae...
59	Wheelie Wots	SpottyWot decides the spaceship needs a new set of wheels and he sets off to find some replacements. He comes across the perfect wheels, but what will the ship think of them?	Donkey Donkey The donkey or ass, Equus africanus asinus, is a domesticated member of the Equidae or horse family. The wild ancestor of the donkey is the African Wild Ass, E...
60	Wormy Tale	The WotWots spot an unusual creature through the Sneak-a-Peak Periscope. SpottyWot thinks it might be a tail that has fallen off another animal. Maybe it’s a WotWot tail?	Worm
61	Milky Moo	The WotWots can’t decide what to mix for their breakfast loopy drinks. Through the Sneak-a-Peak Periscope they see a cow being milked. Maybe milk would make a tasty breakfast drink?	Cow
62	Alpaca Sad	The WotWots draw imaginary animals with mixed up heads, bodies and legs. They are very excited to discover that one of their make-believe creature might really exist.	Alpaca Alpaca An alpaca is a domesticated species of South American camelid. It resembles a small llama in appearance.Alpacas are kept in herds that graze on the level heights of the Andes of southern Peru, northern Bolivia, Ecuador, and northern Chile at an altitude of to above sea level, throughout the year...
63	Whistle Wots	The WotWots watch as a sheepdog rounds up a group of sheep. SpottyWot is inspired, but is he inspired enough to herd up the huge mess he made a little earlier?	Sheep Dog Sheep dog - Animals :*Livestock guardian dog, a dog used to guard sheep and other livestock*Herding dog, a dog used to herd sheep and other livestock- Computer science :*Sheepdog a distributed storage system for QEMU/KVM - Songs :...
64	Tough Crowd	DottyWot is having a great day on the farm impersonating animals. But then she find a scarecrow who doesn’t get her jokes. Will the WotWots be able to make him laugh?	Scarecrow Scarecrow A scarecrow is, essentially, a decoy, though traditionally, a human figure dressed in old clothes and placed in fields by farmers to discourage birds such as crows or sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops.-History:In Kojiki, the oldest surviving book in Japan...
65	Sleepless in the Cattle	The WotWots can’t sleep. The animals on the farm keep them awake at night. SpottyWot tries to quieten the animals down but he can’t. Maybe it’s time to leave the farm?	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
66	Fronds Like These	While SpottyWot sleeps on the beach, DottyWot explores a nearby rock pool. She finds some sea anemones and wants to learn all about these amazing creatures.	Anemone Anemone Anemone , is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae in the north and south temperate zones...
67	Moons & Moats	When the WotWots build a sandcastle on the beach, a tide comes and washes it away. So the WotWots build a second castle and learn how to protect it from the next tide.	Sandcastle SandCastle Sandcastle is a documentation generator from Microsoft that automatically produces MSDN style reference documentation out of reflection information of .NET assemblies and XML documentation comments found in the source code of these assemblies...  / Tides
68	Crabby WotWot	To SpottyWot’s horror, the spaceship has run out of bananas for his loopy fruity drink. He goes in search of a giant yellow banana and discovers something altogether more exciting.	Paddle Crab
69	Footprints in the Sand	The WotWots come across some mysterious foot prints on the beach. They track them across the sand and come to a bird’s nest in the long grass. And the nest has eggs in it!	Pukeko (Moorhen)
70	Wot a Racket	The WotWots discover a large shell on the beach which sounds like it has a very large ocean inside it. SpottyWot doesn’t want his sister to bring it into the ship in case they get flooded.	Conch Shell
71	Gnome Sweet Gnome	The WotWots find pictures of mythical mermaids and other creatures on the ship’s computer. They are convinced these creatures are real and go out in search for them on the beach.	Gnomes
72	Wind Wotty	The WotWots see a kite flying in the wind. They are fascinated and try to find out what else can be pushed and pulled by the wind. Perhaps the wind can even pull them along.	Wind Wind Wind is the flow of gases on a large scale. On Earth, wind consists of the bulk movement of air. In outer space, solar wind is the movement of gases or charged particles from the sun through space, while planetary wind is the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space...
73	Tinkle Winkle	The WotWots are exploring the beach and find a starfish washed up on the sand. They want to send it home but first they have to find out where it come from.	Starfish
74	Wot Wot Bottle Wot	SpottyWot is building a beach sculpture out of driftwood when he comes across a message in a bottle. The WotWots decide to send their very own message in a bottle.	Message in a bottle Message in a bottle A message in a bottle is a form of communication whereby a message is sealed in a container and released into the sea or ocean...
75	Wot a Grommet	The WotWots spy some surfers riding the waves. SpottyWot is enthralled but a little worried by the size of the waves. If only there was a way to ride a surf board without the surf.	Surfing Surfing Surfing' is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore...
76	Wotty Hermit	DottyWot makes a picture out of shells on the beach. When she goes to show it to her brother she finds that some of the shells have moved! Can the shells be moving themselves?	Hermit Crab Hermit crab Hermit crabs are decapod crustaceans of the superfamily Paguroidea. Most of the 1100 species possess an asymmetrical abdomen which is concealed in an empty gastropod shell that is carried around by the hermit crab.-Description:...
77	Shiver Me WotWots	SpottyWot draws a pirate’s treasure map and goes out digging on the beach in search of his treasure. He doesn’t have much luck until DottyWot helps by making a small addition to the map.	Pirates
78	Gulls Gulls Gulls	The WotWots spot a seagull diving down into the sea in search of fish. SpottyWot thinks this is a wonderful idea and wants to take their spaceship on an underwater adventure.	Seagull

Song Time With the Wotwots

• Kangaroo
• With the Wotwots
• Stripes, Spekles and Spots
• Stretchy Skin

External links

• The WotWots official website
• "The WotWots" announced on Weta Workshop's website