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
Lesser sooty owl Lesser sooty owl The lesser sooty owl ("Tyto multipunctata") is an owl that lives in the wet tropics region of Australia. It is sometimes considered conspecific with the greater sooty owl, "Tyto tenebricosa", by some authors. The birds are then together commonly referred to as sooty owl. Like other birds of prey, the female () is bigger than the male (). The lesser sooty owl is part of the masked group of owls: an important part of the environment because they are efficient predators that keep down rodent populations. They feed mostly on animals like bandicoots and rodents such as