Storybook Room #448 - Chameleon

0:00Ah, Nito! There is a spider on that branch. I'll just cut my eye-oil bone and look at him carefully with each eye. Good! I've got all eight legs sighted perfectly in my rangefinder. Now, I'll pull the trigger. Pooch-choo! Catch ya, catch ya, spider! Welcome to NatureCore Mrs. Camillean! Thank you! Uncle Bob, I'm glad to be here. Hey, sounds like that spider was good! Super yummy, mate! Super yummy! Hey, a lot of my friends have never seen a Camillean. Would you explain what you look like? Yeah, I'm a lizard with green, beady skin, and I can change color to match my surroundings. And you're about what? Eight inches long? Right, from the tip of my nose to the end of my tail. This is Camillean, if you don't mind me saying this. Your eyes are very different. Yes, they don't move together like yours. Yeah, one moves this way, while the other one moves that way, it kind of cross-eyed. They move independently, Uncle Bob.

1:02Where did you get your name, Camillean? The ancient Greeks name me the Camillean. Oh, really? What does it mean in Greek? Well, Camille means ground in Greek. Leon means lion. Oh, so you're a ground lion? Right, they said I acted like a lion the way I attacked insects. So they name me the Camillean or the Camillean, as you said. Mrs. Camillean, tell me how you snag your insect. Oh, man, this is heavy, I mean heavy, heavy. Okay, that's what I like. I like to hear about fantastic engineering inside a critter. Well, you hear about it in today's story, Uncle Bob. Okay, teach me about your tricky insect weapon. First, my eyes, and who are they important? No, is that why each eye moves by itself independently? Yeah, with the special eyes, my creator gave me, I am able to measure exactly how far away the spider is. Okay, I see. They're like a rangefinder on a camera. One eye looks at the spider from one angle, the other eye looks at it from a different angle. Yeah, and my brain focuses the two eyes together and figures in an instant how far away the spider is.

2:04I noticed that when you're figuring the distance, you're moving your head back and forth a lot, Mrs. Camillean. Well, that helps me to measure the distance of the spider, Uncle Bob. See, I'm using my rangefinder. When you do that, one eye goes this way and the other goes that way, and you look so cross-eyed. Exact description, exact. A Camillean looks very cross-eyed, but on purpose, see, we're designed that way. Right on. And now that you have the spider in your sights, what do you do next, Mrs. Camillean? I cock my high-oid bone. Where's that? In my mouth. Okay, high-oid, H-Y-O-I-D-U. What does this high-oid bone do? It acts exactly like the handle of a sling shot. Oh, really? Well, this must have something to do with your tongue, then. Yes, indeed. My tongue is like the shot or whatever you put in a sling shot, see. Interesting. Your tongue gets shot at the spider. Now, Mrs. Camillean, we all know sling shots have a tough rubber band that stretches and slings the shot. My great designer built two rubber bands for me. No kidding. Tell me about them.

3:05They're muscles. Very tough, springy muscles that act like rubber bands. They are operated by my electrical brain. Super interesting. These muscles must work together, then. Yeah, in fact, the two muscles are attached to the high-oid bone just like the rubber band is attached to each side of a sling shot. Only it works quite a bit different. I've got an idea that one muscle must cock the bone back into firing position, is that right? Yes, it does. That's exactly what happens Uncle Bob. And what does the other high-oid muscle do? When the special rubbery muscle lets go of the bone, it shoots it forward in my mouth. Okay, Mrs. Camillean, so one muscle pulls the bone back into firing position, kind of like a firing pin. And when your brain tells that muscle to go off, the other muscle helps to shoot the bone forward. You've got it now, Uncle Bob. No, you said your tongue is attached to this bone. All right. So when your brain fires the sling shot, your tongue comes flying out of your mouth at lightning speed, is that? So fast that I have caught the insect and brought it back into my mouth

4:07in less than one half a second. Jumpen, lizards. Needle, you're created in a bang-up job on you. But really, I need to tell you something else about my tongue. Okay, you didn't tell us that it's every bit as long as your entire body, did you? No, I didn't. That's right. But it is. My body is eight inches long, and so is my tongue. Now of course, some Camillean's are much bigger, and some are much smaller. Some as long as two feet, and some as long as only an inch or two. But your tongue doesn't really look that long, Mrs. Camillean. I know what, yeah, it's only eight inches long when it's stretched out. Oh, your tongue stretches. Sure, like a rubber band. When it's in my mouth, it's only an inch and a half long. But it's fat then, isn't it? Yeah, it needs to be Uncle Bob, because then it can stretch out. Mrs. Camillean, that's why you look like you have a lot of chewing gum in your mouth when you open your jaw, huh? Right. So really, your tongue can stretch about six times its length, if it's shot out of your mouth really fast? Yeah, and that's what actually happens, Uncle Bob, when my two muscles and highway bone shoots my thick tongue out of my mouth real fast,

5:11it causes the tongue to stretch out about eight inches long. And you snag the spider? Yeah, because my sling shot is deadly accurate. And the moment your tongue hits the spider? It sticks to him, and instantly my tongue springs back into my mouth with the creepy crawler. And all of this happens at less than one half a second? Yeah, scientists time me once Uncle Bob. It took my tongue exactly one-sixteenth of a second to shoot out and hit the spider eight inches away. And another quarter of a second for my tongue to spring back into my mouth with the spider. Boy, you said a mouthful, and you got a mouthful to Mrs. Camillean. What a super engineering job you're marvelously made. I'll give the credit to my intelligent maker, and I don't mean evolution either. Uh-huh, right on. How does your tongue hang on to the spider? Two things. It has sticky saliva. And the tip end actually wraps around the insect when I hit it. You know, it's almost like a tentacle of an octopus. And all of this happens at less than one half a second? Yes.

6:11Oh boy, what a creator. Hey, I notice you have to anchor your body firmly to the limb of the tree when you shoot out your tongue. I know, my tail is pre-hensal. That means it wraps around things easily and hangs on. It acts like another hand, Uncle Bob. I hang on with it, plus my four legs are of great help too. And they anchor me down when I shoot with my tongue. Mrs. Camillean, thank you so much. What an exciting story. Thanks for having me and Uncle Bob, I appreciate it. I'll see you again sometime. Oh, you're welcome. I'll be looking forward to that. The creator of the Camillean is the Lord Jesus Christ. Just think how intelligent He is to build a little critter like this. Works every time. Today, a lot of people will try to make it on their own as long as they can before they call on Jesus Christ for help.

7:13You'll find that especially true in today's Bible story. Jesus and His disciples are talking now. There's a lot here. There's a lot here. Master, you've had a busy, busy day. Yes, Thomas. We all have. You look tired, Jesus. I am Philip. I'd like to take a nap. I think we all would, Master. That's right, my family. And then let's get in the ship and go across the lake. So Jesus and His disciples boarded the ship and set out across Lake Galilee. Man, I'm tired. Come to take a nap. Peter, do you have a pillow? Yeah, there's one right over here under the deck. Jesus, just a second, I'll get it for you. There, there. Here, catch. Thank you, Peter. And I think I'll go to sleep when you men sail across. Mark 438 tells us the Lord Jesus fell asleep on a pillow in the stern section of the boat. This showed that Jesus Christ was a real man.

8:15He got tired just like anybody else. It was evening and when the ship left, the sea was so peaceful. It's been a great day, hasn't it, John? Oh, sure, it's Peter. Wasn't it something the way the Master taught the people a lot of those parables? And then he didn't even get impatient when we asked him what they meant. Boy, look at him. He's fast asleep. He's really tired. I know it. He worked hard today. It's a beautiful night for sailing. He sure is, Thomas. A full moon and all. I haven't seen the lake this peaceful and a long time. Hey, what's that? We're on the whippers, Peter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Looks like one of those quick storms that sweeps down over the Golan High. Yeah, we heard that. Shuttle, man. Maybe better get better than Baal. Turn to the lakes of the sea. Dr. Luke tells us a storm hit the lake.

9:18It was one of those sudden ones so common on Lake Galilee. What are we going to do, man? For all the panic, don't panic, James. We've handled storms like this before. Yeah, we can take out this baby egg. Roll a little hard over here. Death is on that sail, man. We're gonna be mad. Man, man, man, we had trouble. The ship is still in up with water. Hey, oh man. Hey, oh man. Come on, hey, you can do it. We've done it before. All right, Thomas. Give me a bucket of juice. Give me your ship is full of water. It is safe. Master, Jesus, Jesus, wake up! Don't you care if we perish, mister! Ah, a storm peed out of the boats from the water. Do something, Jesus. Say I'm to you, storm. Peace be still. And instantly, the gigantic waves fell silent and the wind stopped.

10:19The storm was over. What kind of a man is this? Just commands and the winds and the waves stopped. Yeah, yeah. So I'm wondering the same thing too. Jesus proved he was a real man by showing he got tired. But he proved he was God by telling the storm to stop. You know, today a lot of people try to make it on their own as long as they can before calling on Jesus Christ for help. Kind of like the disciples on the stormy sea. Say, why not call on him first? Why wait? Why try to do it yourself? I'm sure you'll have smoother sailing.

11:20He's all I need. He's all I need. All I need. Jesus is all I need. Jesus is all I need. Today's true adventure came from Mark chapter 4, verses 35 to 41.

12:20Take my life, be it for or be it grant, let me live it by your hand. Shake it with your hand. As I am, I come to thee without one being. Only that light saving God was shed for me. All of me through the ages yet to be. I surrender Lord to thee. I surrender. I surrender all of me.

13:31We'll say good friend we're all out of time for storybook room today. It's been good having you stop in. How about next time? Okay, till then Uncle Bob saying cheerio.