Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!

I'm Ryan Drillsma…

And I'm Trevor Tortomasi…

In today's news:

A Filipino celebration in Taipei, can your dog recognize your voice? And Baby Shark gets a movie!

All that and more, coming up next.

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聖嬰和平節在台北上街

Taipei's First Santo Nino Beats for Peace Festival

Can you hear that happy music?

Yes! And look, there's a parade (遊行) of people coming.

Wow, they're all wearing, beautiful, colorful costumes.

I wonder what for?

It's the Santo Nino Beats for Peace Festival!

This year, the Filipino community in Taiwan (在台灣的菲律賓僑胞) took to the street to celebrate Santo Nino de Cebu.

Who is Santo Nino de Cebu?

Santo Nino de Cebu is the Roman Catholic name for baby Jesus. Jesus is the most important figure in the Roman Catholic religion.

Santo Nino de Cebu是羅馬天主教給耶穌童年時的名字。耶穌是天主教的要角。

And lots of people in the Philippines are Roman Catholic.

Oh, right. Hundreds of years ago Spain colonized the Philippines. Back then, most of Spain was Roman Catholic.

幾百年前菲律賓曾經是西班牙的殖民地，當時大部分西班牙人信奉天主教。

Spanish colonizers left behind a statue of the baby Jesus. This was later found by Portuguese explorers and given to a queen of the Philippines.

Now, people in the Philippines hold a celebration (慶祝) of when they first accepted (接受) the Catholic religion.

And they hold one in Taipei, too!

This year there were dance groups, cheerful music, and a competition with an award (獎賞) for the best dancers.

It all happened in central Taipei.

The group than won the dance competition got 30 thousand Taiwanese dollars!

It sounds like a lot of fun. Maybe we can go and watch next year!

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狗狗認得出主人的聲音

Dogs Can Recognize Their Owner's Voices

A new study has found that dogs may be able to recognize (認出) the voices of their owners.

Well, this might not be a surprise to those of you that have dogs.

You probably think, "of course my dog recognizes me!"

But before, it was thought that dogs used other things like sight (視覺) and smell (嗅覺) to recognize their owners.

Recently, scientists in Hungary (匈牙利) invited 28 dogs and owners to play a game of hide and seek (躲貓貓).

In the experiment (實驗), owners hid (躲藏) in one hiding place. Strangers (陌生人) hid in another.

For each dog, the scientists played the sound of its owner from their hiding place. And they played the sound of the stranger from the other.

They wanted to see if the dogs could recognize their owner's voice from a distance.

研究員想觀察狗狗能不能從遠大老遠就認出主人的叫聲。

Well, they found that in 82 percent of games, the dogs could tell which their owner's voice was!

But even from a distance… a dog's sense of smell is very good.

In fact, it's 40 times better than a human's sense of smell.

So the scientists had to think about this.

To make the experiment fair, sometimes they played each dog's owner's voice from the place the stranger was hiding.

為了公平起見，研究員偶爾從陌生人躲避的地方播出主人的聲音。

And…most of the dogs ran to the stranger!

Dogs may be smarter than we think… good boy!

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Baby Shark gets a movie

鯊魚寶寶有電影了！

Who DOESN'T remember the song "Baby Shark"?

The preschool (幼稚園) song which went viral six years ago is about to become a full-length movie (一部完整的電影).

It's also going to be made into a TV show called "Baby Shark's Big Show."

The movie is being produced by American children's entertainment (娛樂) company Nickelodeon and Korea's Pinkfong.

美國的尼克兒童電視頻道跟韓國一家公司合作，準備推出這部電影。

Other than that (除此之外), no details about the film, or the TV show have been released.

This is not the first time Baby Shark is starring in its own film.

An hour-long show called "Pinkfong and Baby Shark's Space Adventure" was released, but you can only catch the show on Netflix.

You can also watch the original two-minute YouTube video which has been downloaded (下載) more than 10 billion times.

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So, in today's News Bites:

This year, the Filipino community in Taiwan took to the street to celebrate Santo Nino de Cebu.

There were dance groups, cheerful music, and a competition with an award for the best dancers.

It all happened in central Taipei.

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And,

A new study has found that dogs may be able to recognize the voices of their owners.

Scientists in Hungary invited 28 dogs and owners to play a game of hide and seek.

They found that in 82 percent of games, dogs could recognize their owner's voice.

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And,

Baby Shark went viral six years ago.

It is about to become a full-length movie!

The movie is being produced by American children's entertainment company Nickelodeon and Korea's Pinkfong.

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And that's today's episode of News Bites!