How to pronounce “tadpole” in English

It was special. It had a spirit, or it had a vital force, that distinguished it from inanimate objects.The eggs failed to develop into tadpoles and just withered away.

So that went completely south.Then I had this other idea where I wanted to create these little like tadpole-looking things, these three creatures, which were justsupposed to symbolize some form of life.

She'd swallow them. They'd pass into her stomach, which she would convert into a makeshift womb.And then the eggs would hatch, turn into tadpoles, turn into froglets.She could have about 20 in her belly at any one time.

It's about what we will become, says the caterpillar.That's the gift of being a baby, says the tadpole.Isn't it exciting, says the egg again, shaking with excitement.

It was special. It had a spirit, or it had a vital force, that distinguished it from inanimate objects.Now, some of these eggs grew into healthy young tadpoles and successfully developed into adult frogs.

So, they're our distant cousins.And the reason I am mentioning this animal to you is because, when it's in its larvae form, it's juvenile form, it looks sort of like a tadpole.And it swims about and it has two eyes and a brain.

And I wanted to write this piece.And I wanted to write it, you know, I didn't want to just write, and they look like tadpoles.I wanted to kind of get something more out of the scene because it's such an important scene.

What happened was, when he was about 18-- I mean, like most children, in England anyway, and increasingly because of PBS people here, he had beenobsessed with David Attenborough and wildlife, and he had collected birds' eggs and salamanders and newts and tadpoles and frogs and things.But then one day, when he was 17 or 18, he saw beside the road, slung across a fence, the carcass of a fox, which