Wild Kratts
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Cultural Representation
In some episodes, the Wild Kratts talk about certain cultures and practices. In the Pilot ("Polar Bears Don't Dance"), Zach builds a building out of ice.
That's an actual practice in Sweden (it's not exactly the North Pole, but pretty close.
In "Caracal-Minton", Aviva has a birdie made with quetzal feathers, which belonged to her ancestor, Elvira Corcovado, a Hispanic woman who won a sporting game in the 1880s!
(For a female member of minority during the Victorian Era, she went pretty far)
But for the most part, mentions of culture are mostly played as jokes (Aviva panicking in Spanish) or used to disprove common prejudice on creatures (i.e. "A Bat in the Brownies" and "Gila Monster Under My House") or when the villain is capitalizing on a cultural attraction ("Stuck on Sharks" and "Polar Bears Don't Dance")
We never hear characters speak in their native language, or mention their cultural practices that involves animals. Not all practices involve hunting or skinning animals.
Like the honeyguide.
The greater honeyguide (Indicator Indicator) was historically known to use its song to attract humans, specifically the Boran people of East Africa and the Yao people from northern Mozambique
The Boran people even built a whistle called the fuulido to signal the honey-hunt, and using it increased the chances of encountering a honeyguide.