


Hoovey that Whoville was badly damaged when the clover was dropped.

Horton searches frantically through the field, eventually finding his clover, and learns from Dr. Horton pursues McWoff across the mountains below, but the eagle drops the clover into a large field of clovers and leaves Horton to find it. They give the clover to the black-bottomed eagle Whizzer McWoff, who flies away with it. Thinking Horton's behavior is a problem, Jane sends the Wickersham Brothers to take the clover with the speck from him. The other animals in the jungle - particularly the cynical Jane Kangaroo - think he is crazy, and do not believe in the existence of the Whos (mainly due to believing that anything which cannot be seen or heard is nonexistent). Horton promises to protect Whoville from harm, feeling that "a person's a person, no matter how small". Hoovey's intelligence, and do not believe his views. The other Whos, however, are confused by and jealous of Dr. Hoovey (replacing the Mayor), communicates with Horton through a device he built to see other worlds outside of the speck.

Setting it on top of a clover, he discovers it is home to a tiny town called Whoville, home to the microscopic Whos. He hears a call for help coming from the dust speck and, thinking someone is living on it, saves it from going over a waterfall. In the Jungle of Nool, Horton the Elephant bathes in the watering hole, when he sees a small dust speck floating by. The special contains songs with lyrics by Seuss and music by Eugene Poddany, who previously wrote songs for Seuss' book, The Cat in the Hat Song Book. Seuss book of the same name, Horton Hears a Who! It was produced and directed by Chuck Jones who previously produced the Seuss special How the Grinch Stole Christmas! for MGM Television and first broadcast Maon CBS. Horton Hears a Who! is a 1970 American animated television special based on the 1954 Dr.
