The Song of the Cloud Forest originally aired as the second half
of episode 107 of The Jim Henson Hour on July 16, 1989. When it
appeared on the Odyssey Network, it was edited into its own
half-hour stand-alone special. The special was released on DVD
in 2010 as The Song of the Cloud Forest and Other Earth Stories.
Milton, a golden toad, is desperately searching a mate, yet no
female answers his call. He is lonely and begins to fear that
his call will never attract a mate. As the animals begin to fill
the rainforest with their "beautiful music", two humans (which
the animals call "Uprights") enter the rainforest. These
scientists are in search of a male golden toad and hope to
capture a male of the endangered species in hopes of preserving
it from extinction. But when the forest creatures learn about
the fate of Milton's species they all begin to worry about his
fate as well. The "uprights" continue their quest to capture a
male golden toad, in hope to take him back to the lab. They use
a female, locked in a