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DEPARTMENTS
6 Pet Friends Forever
10 Incredible Animal
Friends
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Storm
Dear Fiona
I love my pet Storm! He is a golden
Labrador and loves to play. His mums
name was Holly and he was born in a
litter of ten. My friend Megan has a
golden retriever named Lilly and she is
two months older than Storm.
Storms first birthday will be on
16 July 2013, which is also my aunts
birthday.
We got him in September 2012, so he is
still quite young (but he is very big!).
I love that you put in a Pet Friends
Forever page. It just adds something
nice to the magazine.
I have attached two pictures of Storm
to this e-mail. Its a picture of him in his
doggie pool and a picture of him with a
bandanna.
If you could put this in the July or
September issue that would be great!!
I hope you get my message!
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How can you tell that Dina the yellow baboon and Bushy the bushbaby are best
friends? They give each other bear hugs even when theyre on the move. Bushy
often wraps her arms around the baboons tummy and holds on upside down as
Dina crawls around their enclosure at the Nairobi Animal Orphanage.
The animals bonded after arriving at the reserve as infants. Now Dina acts
as Bushys mum, says Edward Kariuki, a vet who works at the orphanage. The
baboon protects her pal from other animals and makes sure Bushy eats enough.
Bushbabies, also known as galagos, are nocturnal in the wild. Baboons are
active during the day. Bushy changed her sleeping schedule so she can be awake
at the same time as Dina. Luckily, the motherly baboon doesnt scold Bushy
for staying up past her bedtime. The friendship is rare, says primate expert
Barbara Smuts, but the animals are great for each other.
Yellow BABooN
Habitat Savannah
and woodlands of Africa
WeigHt Adults can
weigh 23 to 32 kilograms.
tHe Name game
yellow baboons are
named for their
yellow-brown fur.
opeN Wide if these
monkeys feel threatened
by a rival, they might
yawn to show the other
animal their teeth.
BUSHBABY
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Answer on page 50
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across.
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REAL OR FAKE?
CAN yOU BELIEvE EvERytHINg yOU READ?
Not always!
Especially when what youre reading is on the Internet. Sometimes its hard to tell whats for
real and whats just a joke online and some people are trying to trick you on purpose. Two of
these stories are Internet hoaxes. Can you guess which are real and which are fake?
ANSWErS oN pAgE 50
ELECtED
MAyOR!
DUDE BUILDS
house
OHRIGSTAD, SOUTH AFRICA
A giant piece of footwear served as an unusual home for
some South Africans. Artist ron van Zyl built the twostorey house, complete with a patchwork
quilt bed, to resemble the one from the
nursery rhyme The old Woman Who
Lived in a Shoe. Today the shoe is
part of a complex made up of a
restaurant, a pool, cave tours and
hiking trails. Inside the shoe is a
museum featuring rons wood
carvings. Wonder if theres a
giant sock somewhere to match?
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J U ly 2 0 1 3
MAN FALLS
FROM SPACE
THE EDGE OF OUTER SPACE, EARTH
Felix Baumgartner put on a pressurised
suit like the one astronauts wear, plunged
more than 38 kilometres to Earth and
survived. Fearless Felix started his
journey in the New Mexico desert in a
capsule that was lifted to the edge of outer
space by a huge helium balloon. He faced
dangers like oxygen starvation and his
blood boiling as he stepped off his platform
40 kilometres above Earths surface. Thanks
to him astronauts may soon be wearing
his spacesuit to survive the extreme
conditions in space. Now thats one giant
leap for mankind.
TREE
OCTOPUS
DISCOVERED
LAMBS
SOLD
AS DOGS
SAPPORO, JAPAN
In a scam that may have fooled as
many as 2 000 people, hundreds
of lambs were sold as poodles to
wealthy pet owners. Paying R10 000
or more, people snapped up what
they thought was a bargain. Poodles
can cost twice as much in some
ED
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Dolphin
Volunteers help captive dolphins go free.
der
nstead of the enormous deep sea
where they were born to swim,
two bottlenose dolphins see only
the concrete walls of the pool that
imprisons them. For months the male
dolphins, named Tom and Misha, have
been attractions near the coast of
Turkey. Tourists pay to swim with the
2,7-metre-long dolphins in a small pool
only four metres deep.
The business owner neglects the dolphins
and the pool isnt cleaned. A thick layer of
dolphin waste and rotting fish builds up on
the bottom, creating a terrible stench. The
contaminated water makes the dolphins
sick and the pair rapidly lose weight. The
stressed, cooped-up dolphins fight each
other. Theyre only weeks from dying.
HELP ARRIVES
LEARNING TO EAT
getting healthy
Each
bottlenose dolphin
makes a unique
whistling sound
that identifies who
it is to other
dolphins.
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nRescue
WANT MORE?
WANT MORE?
WAtch A viDeo of Dolphins
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WANT MORE?
WANT MORE?
WANT MORE?
Dolphins get
the water
they need
from the fish
they eat.
WANT MORE?
A bottlenose dolphin
can swim up to
35 kilometres
per hour.
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In the
1930s, only about
30 Amur tigers
were left in
the wild.
in the Snow
These wild cats survive
the cold of eastern Russia.
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My th busted!
Scientists once thought
Amur tigers were the
biggest cats in the world
.
But new data show theyr
e
the same size as
Indias Bengal
tigers.
tom & pat leeson / ardea (big picture); image source / corbis
(tiger running); toshiji fukuda / minden pictures (tiger and cubs)
By KAreN De Seve
ilently moving through the trees,
a tigress stalks her prey. Deep
snow covers the ground and with
each step the big cat sinks in to
her belly. She knows the snow will
muffle any sounds, so she can sneak up on a
wild boar that is rooting around for pine nuts.
A few metres away, the tiger pauses, crouches
and then launches her 125-kilogram body
towards her prey. Snow sprays with each leap
as her plate-sized paws prepare to pounce on
the boar.
A powdery cloud fills the air. Then the
snow settles, revealing the metre-long
tail and orange, black and white body. Now
stained red, the tigress grasps the boar in
her mouth.
She carries her catch behind some larch
trees and her two cubs join her from a nearby
hill. Camouflaged among the trees, they were
watching their mother hunt. They practise
their pouncing as they approach their
dinner. These yearlings will start hunting for
themselves in three to six months. For now,
they are content with the meal their mother
provided, followed by some snooze time. The
cats curl up near their dinner scraps and fall
asleep as a night-time chill creeps through
the forest.
These Siberian or Amur tigers live
further north than any other tiger
subspecies.
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In the far eastern reaches of Russia,
winter temperatures can drop to minus
40 degrees Celsius.
Thick fur insulates their bodies as they
sleep in the snow. In summer their coats
cloak the cats against the forest,
making them nearly impossible to see.
One wild boar is a small meal for three
tigers. A single tiger can eat up to
40 kilograms of meat in one meal.
By morning, the three are on the prowl
again. Even though tigers are well adapted
as the top predators in this cold climate,
each day brings new threats. The greatest
danger isnt other tigers competing
against them, but people. Even skilled
tigers can have bad luck and scientists are
trying to keep the odds in favour of
the animals.
Hunger games
HOW YOU CAN HELP Tigers, leopards, lions and other big cats
need protection. Learn more about National Geographics Big Cats Initiative
online at kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/big-cats or ngbigcats.org.
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juniors / superstock (big picture); tom & pat leeson / ardea (scratching); lisa
husar / team husar (drinking); lynn m. stone / nature picture library (amur leopard)
TroUBLeSHooTiNG
New TerriTory
amur leopard
Living side-by-side with Amur tigers
is another big cat, the Amur leopard.
Only about 40 of these leopards exist
in the wild, on the border of Russia,
China and North Korea. Efforts to help
Amur leopards bounce back include
the new Land of the Leopard National
Park, which protects 2 850 square
kilometres of forest.
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Queen Elizabeth II
visited South Africa in 1947
when she was 21.
European
oak from
the 1800s
in 1940 a
ships bell
blew over
in a storm
on 27 June
1994.
lower entrance.
it still announces
working hours.
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birthday
cake to celebrate
the gardens 100th
birthday.
The dark
chocolate
cake represents the
earth.
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There is a GRAvE
at kirstenbosch.
It is for the FIRST
dIREcTOR OF THE
GARdENS. He is
buried under an
ATLAS cEdAR
that came from
MOROccO.
people have
been to the
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Kirstenbosch
has a 450-metre
long self-guided
braille trail that
gives blind people
the chance to
explore indigenous
forest.
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rainfall at Kirstenbosch is
1 500 mm per year.
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Ground
and tree MaMMalS,
froGS and
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cycads are called living fossils.
these plants have not changed
since the time of the dinosaurs.
kirstenbosch has 37 of the
40 species of these plants.
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130 hectares
10 kirstenbosch receives
kirstenbosch
won a Gold
medal at this
years chelsea
flower show,
making it a
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open-air MovieS
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herbarium
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visitors include
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the dalai lama.
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WANT TO BE A
MOUNTAIN CLIMBER?
STUDY:
Geography, geology and
meteorology
WATCH: Nat Geo Adventures
six-part series First Ascent
READ: Climbing Everest: Tales
of Triumph and Tragedy
on the Worlds Highest
Mountain by Audrey
Salkeld
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kNOW?
Sixty years ago,
on 29 May 1953, the
first successful summit
of Mount Everest was
achieved by Edmund
Hillary and Tenzing
Norgay.
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Arctic Fox
Your brain
generates enough
electricity
to power a
light bulb.
Each
minute
about 750
millilitres of
bloodtravel
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through thebrain.
That would fill two
cooldrink cans.
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Eating
chocolate
releases chemicals
in the brain that
make us happy.
the brain
Exercise can
make your brain
more active.
5 It would take
close to
3000 years
3
to count the
neurons,
or nerve cells,
in your brain.
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tongue to the
roof of your
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FRUIT
COLOURING
Sliced strawberries often have
bright white insides that dont
photograph well. To make the
fruit camera-ready, stylists brush
red food colouring over the white
areas with a small paintbrush.
White spots on a strawberrys
skin can be coloured with
dabs of lipstick.
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By AndREA SilEn
our tummy may be rumbling, but if you sink your teeth into
these treats, youll get a surprise. These breakfast items are
filled with dish soap, pins, cardboard and other things you
would never eat.
Even an amazing dish will start to look bad or lose shape if left out
for too long. So food stylists and photographers have some pretty
unappetising techniques to make food appear tasty for things such
as advertisements and cookbooks. A rolled-up wrap might be glued
so it doesnt unfold during a shoot or lemon juice could be added to
a banana to keep it from turning brown. Feast your eyes on more
secrets of food styling.
GOt GLUe?
This bowl isnt really
brimming with cereal. A
circular piece of cardboard was
fitted inside the dish near the rim.
That way cereal pieces couldnt sink
to the bottom. A thin layer of glue
and flakes were placed on the
cardboard. Why glue? Unlike
milk, glue wont make
flakes soggy.
SIZZLING
SYRUP
SHAPIN BACON
To give bacon a wavy shape,
stylists first mould a sheet
of tinfoil into rows of ridges
and place the strips of raw
meat over the foil. Then they
roast the bacon in an oven.
As the meat cooks, it
hardens in this
shape.
tOOLS OF tHe
Carpenters carry
hammers and drills. Food
stylists have their own
tools. Here are a few.
HAIRSPRAY
Stylists use this product
to attach extra salt
grains to pretzels.
DROPPeR
A dropper dots fruit
with tiny drops of water
for a freshly sprayed
look.
POweR PAINt StRIPPeR
Resembling a
supercharged hairdryer,
this tool is most often
used to peel paint. Food
stylists use it to quickly
melt chocolate chips in
a cookie as if they were
just out of the oven.
eYeLINeR
The make-up is great for
creating fake grill marks
on veggies.
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Old-Schoo
Youll be surprised at how much fun you have
making and playing these games.
Dro
aughts
Step by step
1. Paint the cardboard red. Fold the cardboard in half.
2. Use the ruler and felt-tip pen to
draw a grid of 4x8 squares on
each of the white sheets of
paper. The squares should
be 4,5x4,5 cm.
3. Colour every other square
black using the felt-tip pen.
4. Glue the two pieces of squared paper on to the red
cardboard so they meet at the fold in the middle.
5. Use the bottle tops as your draughts.
How to play
Each player takes their turn by moving a piece. Pieces
are always moved diagonally and can be moved in the
following ways:
Diagonally in the forward direction (towards the opponent)
to the next dark square.
If your piece is next to an opponents piece with an open
space on its other side, you can jump over the piece and take
it off the board. You can do multiple jumps as long as youre
moving forward.
Note: if you have a jump, you have no choice but to take it.
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maroon) Thin paintbrush Ruler and pencil Old coffee cup
Step by step
Drop all the sticks except the maroon stick into a big heap.
Each player takes a turn to try to remove sticks from the pile,
one by one, using the maroon stick to help.
If any sticks move while you are removing a stick, your turn is over.
The player with the most sticks is the winner.
Another fun way to play the game is to make each colour
worth a number of points. The winner is the person with
the highest score.
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