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Shut up, Sid. OK.

Stop singing, Sid.

Sid, I’m going to fall on you again and this time I will kill you.

OK, someone doesnt like the classics.

What if you’re right?

What if I am the last mammoth?

But Manny, look at the bright side, you have us.

Not your most persuasive argument, Sid.

Mammoths? I knew I couldn’t be the last one.

I felt it in my gut.

Extinct? Come on.

He’s up by a couple of fifths, ahead by a tusk.

And he’s beating Diego as Diego’s coming round the corner.

Sorry. My stomach hates me.

Well, don’t that put the stink in extinction?

Nasty.

Manny.

I need to be alone for a while.

You go on ahead. I’ll catch up.

One truly is the loneliest number.

These work great.

Cool.

Missed me, now you gotta kiss me. I’ll get em.

Which end is up? I’d hide that face too.

Hey, ugly. I gotta sit on that.

Gotcha.

OK, I’m going in.

Sid. What?

Nice miss. Cover your side.

I felt some breeze in that one. Smile.

Out of my way. Hello.

Over here.

Surrender? Never.

Cool.

Smoke them.

If anyone asks, there were 50 of em and they were rattlesnakes.

Here, kitty, kitty. Big mistake, you miscreants.

Miscreants?

Diego, they’re possums.

Retreat.

I guess its just you and me now.

I knew it. I knew I wasn’t the only one.

Everyone falls out of the tree now and then. They just don’t admit it.

Wait. What?

Some of us have a tough time holding on to branches.

Its not like were bats or something. We don’t have wings to keep us up.

And you were in the tree because.?

I was looking for my brothers. They are always in trouble.

Brothers? You mean theres more?

Sure.

Theres lots of us. Where?

Everywhere. Under rocks. In holes in the ground.

Usually we come out at night so birds don’t carry us off.

Help! Help!

Help!

Well, shave me down and call me a mole rat. You found another mammoth.

Where? Wait a minute. I thought mammoths were extinct.

What are you looking at me for? I don’t know. Because you’re a mammoth.

Me? Don’t be ridiculous. I’m not a mammoth. I’m a possum.

Right. I’m a newt. This is my friend, the badger.

And my other friend, the platypus.

Why do I gotta be the platypus? Make him the platypus.

This guy giving you trouble, sis? Sis?

Thats right. These are my brothers. Possum, possum, possum.

I dont think her tree goes all the way to the top branch.

Manny, brink of extinctions a bad time to be picky.

Hey, she should come with us.

Are you insane? No way.

OK.

Manny wants me to ask you if youd like to escape the flood with us.

Id rather be road kill. That can be arranged.

Funny. Let me have a little word with my brothers.

Ellie, are you crazy? Were not going with them.

Look, well never make it in time if we only travel at night.

These guys can protect us out in the open. What do you say?

Why did you invite them?

Cos you might be the only two mammoths left on Earth.

He has a point.

Sorry, when did I join this dating service?

My brothers and I would be delighted to come with you.

If you treat us nicely.

See that? That’s the total opposite of nice.

Maybe well have a snack before we hit the road.

You want a piece of us? Lets go.

Banzai!

I got em. Back! Back!

You know the best part? Were carrying diseases.

OK, thanks to Sid, were now travelling together.

And like it or not, were going to be one big, happy family.

I’ll be the daddy, Ellie will be the mommy.

And Diego will be the uncle who eats the kids who get on my nerves.

Now, lets move it before the ground falls out from under our feet.

I thought fat guys were supposed to be jolly.

I’m not fat. Its this fur, it makes me look big.

Its poofy. OK.

Hes fat.