Sooty puppet's name. He would later be joined by other puppet glove characters, including Sweep (a dog who communicates by a saxophone reed type squeak), Soo (a shy and sweetly spoken panda), Kipper (a cat), Butch (another dog who occasionally plays the part of a villain), Ramsbottom (a snake), 'Enry the Robot, Cousin Scampi (another bear, who is Sooty's cousin), Miki (another cat - this time Brazilian) and Maggie Mouse. Like Sooty, Scampi appears to talk only in a very light whisper which can be heard only when someone puts their ear close to his mouth. Matthew Corbett, the son of
Sooty grunter diet can be far more varied when river flows and water levels fall, and then can include water weeds and falling figs and "Pandanus" nuts. The specific name "fuliginosus", from the Latin word "fuligo", "soot", refers to the sooty coloration of the species. Sooty grunter The sooty grunter ("Hephaestus fuliginosus"), also known by the name black bream, is a species of fish which inhabits coastal and inland freshwater creeks and rivers of northern Australia: from the upper Burdekin River in Queensland to the Daly River in the Northern Territory (records from New Guinea are a similar, but undescribed species). Sooty