Hello there and welcome to Goop Tales.

I'm Maria Kalinchini, the founder, writer, and narrator behind these original audio stories.

Goop Tales is a storytelling podcast for children, created to ignite your imagination,

broaden your horizons, and introduce you to different cultures and exotic animals,

while also sparking important conversations about character traits.

Now, today's story, which is episode 111,

Excusia and the scarred Jaguarer of the Manu National Park,

was inspired by Alex.

Alex, I want to thank you so much.

Alex wrote in and said,

Excusia is the name.

She gets sucked into a tiny tornado and a sloth can help her.

She gets chased by a jaguar named Scardino.

So thank you, Alex.

I took a lot of your suggestions, took a few liberties,

and created this episode. So thanks for using your imagination and thinking of Excusia. And if you want to see the real photos from

the Manu National Park and you want to see the drawing of Excusia, just go to goptails.com forward

slash episode one, one, one one and you can also download a

coloring page.

Now in our last episode of goophtales we met Bob Pothesis, a brainy goop, who loves to create science experiments.

While working with sarcasta during science class, Bob Pothesis spilt hydrochloric acid on himself, which sent him all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco,

where he met a helpful seagull and a golden retriever who told him that he must get to the

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