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HI, KiDS
Did you notice during
president Barack Obama’s

visit to

South Africa in June
that he signed the guest book on Robben
Island with his left hand? It’s just the kind of thing I would notice.
As I know that NG KIDS readers like
weird but true facts:
did you know that 13 percent of people are left-handed and that
International Left-handers Day is celebrated on 13 August? The
president and his family were visiting the prison on
Robben Island
where
Nelson Mandela
spent 18 of his
27 years
of
imprisonment. While on the island and on several
other occasions during his 36-hour visit to South Africa,
president Obama paid tribute to Nelson Mandela as
the world was waiting anxiously for news of his health.
He clearly has huge admiration for our former leader
and called him a
“personal hero”.
He also
said Nelson’s work had been a beacon of
light to all who wished to see a better South
Africa. He had a strong message for the
young people of Africa, saying the
future

of the
continent
is in the
hands of the
youth.
Let me know what Nelson Mandela
means to you and what you think he has
done for
South Africa.
Dare to Explore!
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• World Rangers Family Day – at
Johannesburg Zoo ,Sunday 4 August
from 11 a.m.
• Game rangers protect our natural
heritage. Their work is often dangerous,
difficult and unrecognised.
• Support our rangers on World Ranger
Day and show them you care.
• Meet the game rangers, zoo
curators and Miss Earth at various
animal cages. Enjoy the wonderful
surroundings at the zoo. Go to
www.gameranger.org for more
information.
• Prepaid tickets are available at
Webtickets (www.webtickets.co.za).
August’s subscriber of the month is Desiré Duvenhage, 9, from
Rustenburg. She has won* family combo tickets (two adults and two
children) worth

R188 to the Johannesburg Zoo AND a voucher
worth
R562 for a family meal at the restaurant.
*
Terms and conditions on page 49
WRITE TO US!
Send us your letters, pictures and
comments. Let us know when it is your
birthday. We want to hear from you!
• Write to us at: The Editor, NG KIDS,
PO Box 1802, Cape Town 8000.
• Send an e-mail to or
SMS* a letter to “NGK Letters” at 33970.
* SMSs cost R1,50. Free SMSs do not
apply. See www.ngkids.co.za for terms
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A KUDU
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SWEET
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PS WE HAVE TWO
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DEAR FIONA
MY NAME IS CHRISTIE CLARK, I AM
NINE YEARS OLD AND LIVE IN HARARE,
ZIMBABWE. LAST APRIL I WENT TO WILD IS
LIFE FOR MY BIRTHDAY. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL
WILDLIFE SANCTUARY FOR INJURED,
RESCUED AND ORPHANED ANIMALS. WE
WATCHED LIONS BEING FED AND VERVET
MONKEYS CLIMBED ON MY BACK. I ALSO
FED A BABY DUIKER WITH A BOTTLE OF
MILK. MY MUM PUTS ALL THE NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINES IN HER CAR SO
I CAN READ THEM WHILE WE ARE DRIVING.
MY BEST FRIENDS CAMILLA AND BEX
ALSO ENJOY READING THEM WHEN WE
ARE GIVING THEM LIFTS TO BALLET. OUR
FAVOURITE PARTS OF THE MAGAZINES
ARE THE FUNNY FILL-IN, FIND THE HIDDEN
ANIMALS AND JOKES. I WAIT EVERY MONTH
FOR MY MUM TO BUY THE NEW MAGAZINE.
MY FAVOURITE ANIMALS ARE PENGUINS,
POLAR BEARS AND DUIKERS. MY MUM SAYS
I CAN’T HAVE A BABY PENGUIN. THANK YOU
FOR ALL THE GREAT MAGAZINES. I LOVE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC!
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How to
Photograph
your pet
Allow your pet to
get used to the
noise the camera
makes.
He can give
it a sniff if he likes.
Photographs
of the month
Photographs
of the month
Turn off the flash. Unless you have a
studio,
you’ll get better results
in natural sunlight.
To avoid hard
shadows shoot in the early morning
or evening or on an overcast day.
Get
down
to your
pet’s
level.
Pick
the background

carefully
. Make sure, for instance,
that it’s not the
same
colour as your dog, or he’ll

disappear.
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How to
photograph
your pet
Give your pet a
taste of the celebrity
lifestyle. Win
a professional
photoshoot for your pet, which will
feature as the NG KIDS poster!
WAYS TO ENTER
Fill in the entry form below and check

page 49 for the terms and conditions.
ELECTRONIC: E-mail your entry to
Remember to write
“NG KIDS PFF” in the subject line and
add your photo, information about your
pet and your contact details.
POST: NG KIDS Pet Friends Forever,
PO Box 1802, Cape Town 8000

DELIVERY: NG KIDS Office, Media 24,
18
th
floor, ABSA Building, 4 Adderley
Street, Cape Town 8001
ONLINE: Ask your parent to visit the
National Geographic Kids SA fan page
on Facebook (www.facebook.com/
NationalGeographicKidsSA) and click
on the Pet Friends Forever
Competition tab.
The winning
pet will be
judged on
personality,
appearance
and grooming.
WHAT TO DO
Send in photographs and tell us about your pet. Include
your pet’s name, age, breed or description, when he
or she came to live with you and what makes your pet

special. Give your photograph a caption.
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Child’s name:
Pet’s Name:
Guardian’s name:
Pet Type:
Postal address:
Pet’s Birthdate:
Telephone numbers (Home and guardian’s cell):
Postal code:
DESCRIBE YOUR PET IN 100 TO 150 WORDS (please attach description and photograph separately)
I give permission to NG KIDS to publish or display the
photograph entered by
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COMPETITION
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31 JULY 2013
AND CLOSES
27 AUGUST
2013
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The litter of boar piglets living at the Lehnitz Animal Sanctuary love trying
to get piggyback rides from their best buddy, Baby the French bulldog.
“Sometimes when the animals romp around, one of the boars will try to
scramble onto Baby’s back,” says Norbert Damm, who works at the sanctuary.
“Baby will then playfully shake the piglet off.”
The boars are the size of a rugby ball and arrived at the sanctuary after

they were found alone and freezing in a nearby forest. When the pooch saw the
shivering newborns, she ran right over. “Baby cuddled with them, just as
their mum would’ve done,” Norbert says. The pup has stuck close to the pigs
ever since.
Eventually the boars will move to a nature reserve. But for now the fuzzy
crew enjoys dashing around the garden together, play-hunting and snuggling up
for naps. “The animals just love hanging out,” Norbert says.
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i knew
pigging
out would
make them
sleepy!
pup babysits piglets
WILD BOAR
WEIGHT Adults can
weigh between 50 and
350 kilograms.
RANGE Originally
Europe, Asia and North
Africa. Later introduced
worldwide.
PIG DIG Females dig nests
in grass to hide newborns.
TUSK-TUSK A wild boar
can have tusks that are
7 to 12 centimetres long.
FRENCH BULLDOG
WEIGHT 3,5 to 5 kilograms
ORIGIN Most experts

believe England
EXTREME POOCH These
dogs can switch direction
in mid-air.
GET AN EARFUL French
bulldog ears are often
called “bat ears” because
of their appearance.
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outrageous facts.
Check out these
outrageous facts.
BY MICHELLE HARRIS AND JULIE BEER
Check out
the book
National
Geographic
Kids Weird
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Weird But
True app.
SOME
WASPS USE
PEBBLES AS
HAMMERS
TO POUND
SOIL INTO

THEIR NESTS.
IT TAKES
ABOUT 100,000
YEARS
FOR LIGHT TO
TRAVEL FROM THE
SUN’S CORE TO ITS
SURFACE.
IT TAKES
ABOUT 100,000
YEARS
FOR LIGHT TO
TRAVEL FROM THE
SUN’S CORE TO ITS
SURFACE.
IT TAKES
ABOUT
100 000
YEARS
FOR LIGHT TO
TRAVEL FROM THE
SUN’S CORE TO ITS
SURFACE.
Bulgarians
say “cabbage”
instead of
“cheese”
when their
photo is taken.
Ripe bananas

appeaR blue
undeR a
black
light.
DAIRY COWS may
produce more milk
while listening to
CLASSICAL
MUSIC.
DAIRY COWS may
produce more milk
while listening to
CLASSICAL
MUSIC.
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DARE

to
EXPLORE
DARE
to
EXPLORE
DARE
to
EXPLORE
DARE
to
EXPLORE
DARE
to
EXPLORE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS
12
The NG KIDS series
“Dare to Explore” helps
celebrate the 125th
anniversary of the
National Geographic
Society, which was
founded in 1888. Grab
a parent and go to
nationalgeographic.
com/125 for more
information.
“O

nce in Bulgaria I came upon two nose-horned vipers – one
of Europe’s deadliest snake species – lying near a field.
I wanted to catch them for a venom sample but didn’t
have my gear. Suddenly the vipers took off. I had to act
quickly, so I grabbed the tails of the snakes. Before they could
strike me, I whisked them into the field where I could catch
them more easily.
“Snakes use venom to kill prey. The venom attacks key
parts of the body like nerves and blood. Because it’s so strong
and acts quickly, we can study it to create medicines that may
help cure diseases affecting these things.
“I’ve been bitten six times, mostly by vipers. It feels like
your skin is punctured by a sizzling nail. It’s quick and painful.
The scariest part is not knowing what will happen next. Will I
have an allergic reaction? Will I die in a few minutes? If a visit
to the hospital is all that follows, I consider myself very lucky.
“During my expeditions I’ve been chased by elephants in
the Congo. I’ve faced pirates in the Philippines and I’ve been
evacuated by helicopter from a war in Laos. But if you don’t
get out there, you’ll never understand how nature works.”
STUDY: Biology and
other natural sciences.
WATCH: Movies that you
make. Use cell phones or
cameras to observe
and document nature.
READ: Snakes: The Evolution
of Mystery in Nature by
Harry W. Greene
WANT TO BE A

HERpETOlOgiST?
Herpetologist Zoltan Takacs, who tracks
dangerous snakes all over the
globe, talks to NG K
IDS about how studying
deadly venom could create
groundbreaking new medicines.
“Follow your dreams, get
a
strong education,
listen to wise people’s
advice
(even if you don’t
follow it) and be open to
facing the unknown.”
ZOLTAN AND
A VENOMOUS
GREEN MAMBA
© Dr. Zoltan takacs (all)
ZOLTAN HOLDS A
DEADLY SEA SNAKE.
Zoltan is a
snake expert.
YOU ARE NOT!
Never approach
any snake in
the wild.
NatioNal GeoGraphic KiDS
13
LAVA PLANET

Y
ou open the door of your spacecraft and step out at the edge of an ocean.
It’s not a normal seashore. The ocean is made of lava. You’re on a planet
489 light years from Earth. A light year is how far light travels in a year, so
that’s far outside your solar system. To explore this lava planet, named CoRoT-7b,
you wear a heatproof spacesuit. It’s 2 200 degrees Celsius here. The heat would
vaporise a human.
Like Earth, CoRoT-7b is made largely of rock. But the lava planet is much
closer to its sun than Earth is to ours, making the planet hot enough to
melt rock. This liquid rock forms a reddish orange lava ocean that
covers almost half the planet.
The intense heat turns the liquid rock into rock gas that
rises above the ocean and forms clouds, just as water does on
Earth. As you stare at the sky, squinting against the bright
sunlight, you see clouds gathering and moving toward you.
Suddenly you hear the plop of a pebble falling from the
cloudy sky into the lava ocean. Then pebbles fall
everywhere. The gas has condensed and now it’s raining
stones! You jump inside your spacecraft. Stones hit your
windscreen as you speed away. This is no place for a holiday!
BY STEPHANIE WARREN
mondolithic (both)
EYE
ON THE
SKY
Watch the night sky for a meteor shower called the Southern
Iota Aquariids. Meteors are space rocks that burn up in Earth’s
atmosphere. This shower will last from 25 July to 15 August and
reach its peak on 3 August. Look south from about
8.30 p.m. for the first “falling stars”. The shower crosses

the sky towards the west and ends around 5.30 a.m.
SPACE
DESTINATION
SPACE
DESTINATION
SPACESPACE
DESTINATION
SPACE
DESTINATION
SPACE
Destination
The planet CoRoT-7b
Location
The constellation Monoceros
Distance
489 light years from Earth
Travel time
13,3 million years
Weather
Sunny and 2 200 degrees with a
chance of stone showers
Half the planet
always faces away
from its sun.
One half of the
planet always
faces its sun.
Scientists
have discovered
three other

lava planets like
CoRoT-7b.
The lava
ocean on
CoRoT-7b is
45 kilometres
deep.
NatioNal GeoGraphic KiDS
13
Is your dish the
go-to snack
at a party?
Then
you’re
who we’re
looking for!
The
NG KIDS Young Chefs Competition
is back
and we are excited to see what
all of you
young chefs
have
in store
for us this year!

Send us your
favourite recipe and win!
BRAIN AND BODY FUEL
Do you have a recipe for a healthy meal

that will make you a sports star or keep
your mind sharp? It could be a salad,
smoothie or a main meal.

WEIRD BUT TRUE SANDWICH
Invent your own awesome combination
for a wrap or make up your own wacky
sandwich filling. Go wild with cream
cheese, herbs or maybe vegetables.
PARTY SNACKS
What do you think would be the best
savoury or sweet snack to have at your
next party?
PERFECT PADKOS
OR OUTDOOR FOOD
If you know how to cook in a can, on a
stick over a fire or have a favourite braai
treat, send us your recipe!
PRIZE SPONSOR
Send us your recipe with
a photograph in any of the
following categories:
Choose your category and make your
favourite dish (or dishes).
Give your dish an original title!
Write down your recipe and take a photo of
your fab food. Remember to send in only
ONE recipe per category!
Post to: NG KIDS Young Chefs Competition,
PO Box 1802, Cape Town 8001. Don’t forget

to include the entry form on page 49*!
E-mail to: Include all the
information on the entry form in your e-mail.
Deliver to: NG KIDS Office, Media24, 18th floor,
ABSA Building, 4 Adderley Street, Cape Town
Enter online: Visit the NG KIDS SA fan page on
Facebook and click on the Young Chefs
Competition tab at www.facebook.com/
NationalGeographicKidsSA.
*Turn To page 49 for THe enTrY forM anD
TerMs anD conDiTions.
WHAT YOU DO
HOW TO ENTER
PANCAKE KIT
CAKE KIT
COOKIE KIT
COOKING APRON
KIDCHEN
CONCEPTS

This fun and innovative culinary
programme teaches children aged
3 to 12 the importance of good
nutrition and healthy eating habits.
Through the development of our own
Cooking Range and Educational
Programme, we introduce young
cheflings to the joy and social
dimensions of food preparation,
dining and interactive

education.
Put on your chef
jacket and hat and get cooking!
The cooking kits are designed
with little hands in mind, made of
silicone that resists heat and is
cool to the touch. Each kit contains
essential tools and recipes that
will get you baking in no time!
www.kidchenconcepts.co.za
COOKIE KIT
ENTRIES WILL BE
JUDGED ON TASTE
(40 PERCENT),
CREATIVITY
(30 PERCENT) AND
PRESENTATION
(30 PERCENT). THE
JUDGES’ DECISION
IS FINAL.
Y
O
U
R

K
IT
OPEN TO ALL
KIDS FROM THE
AGE OF 6 TO 14.

CHEF JACKET AND HAT
HOT PLATE
GINGERBREAD KIT
G
R
A
N
D
P
RI
Z
E
The winner in each of the four
categories will get a hamper valued
at R5 000 which includes separate
kits for a cake, cookies, gingerbread
and pancake. They will also win a
membership to Kidchen Concepts as
well as an apron, chef jacket and hat
PLUS The Snappy Chef Induction
Stove, mini oven and a cooking
supplies hamper.
COMPETITION
OPENS 31 JULY
2013 AND CLOSES
24 SEPTEMBER
2013
SEA TURTLE
A
young loggerhead turtle, alone

in the ocean, gasps for air and
struggles to keep his head above the
water. A diving boat called the Jolly Roger
glides nearby and drops anchor. Soon a
snorkeller on board notices the turtle. The
a round ball with spikes, which might
put off predators.
It didn’t put off the turtle and now he’s
suffocating. Someone on board calls the
Turtle Hospital in Marathon for help.
“The hospital has never seen a sea
turtle choking on a pufferfish,” says Gunnar
Zollinger, a turtle rehabilitation
specialist. The hospital calls the
local Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commissionto get emergency
permission for Bonnie to load the
endangered turtle on the boat.
Bonnie and the turtle bob in the
ocean, waiting. “I just hoped he’d keep
trying to take one difficult breath at a
time,” she says.
Permission finally comes, but with a
warning: The turtle’s beak could crush
Bonnie’s hands. She and the crew manage to
get the 45-kilogram loggerhead on to the
deck for the ride to shore.
help on the boat
On the deck Bonnie can take a closer look.
The turtle seems dead. She puts the rubber

handle of a screwdriver in the corner of his
mouth to hold open his beak. Captain Greg
Carey grips a pair of pliers. The pufferfish is
stuck head first in the turtle’s throat. Greg
pops the fish. It deflates and Bonnie pulls
it out.
Everyone on board is eager to rush the
turtle to the marina where the turtle
ambulance is waiting. During the 15-minute
voyage Bonnie covers the limp turtle with
a T-shirt and keeps him cool and wet by
pouring seawater on him.
Eventually the turtle opens his eyes and
lifts his head. Everyone cheers when he
moves his flippers, trying to escape.
turtle hospital
The turtle is named Puffer. The
Turtle Hospital veterinarian
finds that the inside of his
mouth is swollen and lacerated.
He’s treated with fluids for
dehydration and antibiotics for
his wounds. His thick neck tells
hospital staff that he’s had
no trouble finding food in the wild.
Maybe he’ll stay away from pufferfish
from now on.
The vet’s treatment plan for Puffer
includes rest in a tank and meals of
squid. But the wild young turtle wants

nothing to do with the tank or the food.
“He wanted to get out from the minute
we put him in there,” Gunnar says. This is
a good sign. Puffer doesn’t eat much. He
saves his appetite for the hard-shelled
invertebrates like crab, lobster and clams
that he eats in the sea.
Two weeks later Puffer catches another
ride on one of Captain Hook’s diving boats.
He’s returned to the spot where he was
found, near a coral reef in the shallow
waters off the Florida Keys. With a flap
of his flippers and a splash off the boat’s
stern, the healthy turtle disappears into
the blue-green water.
A loggerhead is saved after
choking on
a pufferfish.
BY KITSON JAZYNKA
© michael patrick o’neill / oceanwide images (big picture); courtesy of the
turtle hospital, marathon, florida keys (choking, removing fish, back to
sea); © katsutoshi ito / nature production / minden pictures (pufferfish)
boat floats closer to the loggerhead. Bonnie
Clydesdale, a boat captain for Captain
Hook’s Marina and Dive Center in Marathon,
Florida, wonders why the turtle doesn’t
swim away. She looks closer and sees that
he’s in trouble. She pulls on her mask and
snorkel and jumps in.
“He was almost lifeless,” she says.

Someone on board throws her a life vest.
Treading water, she pushes the flotation
device under the exhausted turtle’s front
legs. He opens his beak and tries to breathe.
The snorkeller who first noticed the
turtle sees an inflated pufferfish about
the size of a cricket ball stuck in the
turtle’s throat. When a pufferfish feels
threatened, it sucks water into its
stomach. The puffer ends up looking like
choking
removing fish

A loggerhead
sea turtle may
live more than
50 years.
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AUGUST 2013
R e s c u e
SEA TURTLE
my advice:
choose
sushi
wisely.
Mature female
loggerheads often
return to the area
where they hatched to
lay their own eggs.

This sea turtle
can swim in
bursts of up
to 25 kilometres
per hour.
pufferfish
back to sea
national GeoGraphic KiDS
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SPONGE
sponges
aren’t just
for washing
dishes, you
know.
nature / uig / getty images (big picture); © hugh pearson / nature picture
library (dolphin with sponge); © andy rouse / nature picture library (chimps)
SPONGE NOSE
Bingo the young bottlenosed dolphin
bursts out of the waves. Stuck on the
end of his beak is a large sea sponge.
“He just took off, swimming fast, with
his mother right on his tail,” says Janet
Mann, a psychologist and biologist. “You
could almost hear her yelling ‘Give me
back that sponge, you little squirt!’”
Instead, Bingo dived and his mother
followed. When the two of them finally
resurfaced, Mum had her
sponge back. Bingo had to

find his own.
Only 55 dolphins in the world
are known to be “spongers”
and they all hang out in Shark Bay,
Australia. What do they use the sponges
for? Janet thinks it’s to protect their
beaks when probing for food in the
gritty sand on the ocean floor. Young
dolphins like Bingo
learn the skill by
copying their parents.
“Most dolphins don’t
need tools,” Janet says.
But these dolphins may have
discovered something that allows
them to hunt more comfortably. If
you’re a dolphin in Shark Bay, being a
copycat is smart.
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AUGUST 2013
BY ALINE ALEXANDER NEWMAN
6 incredible stories of animals learning from one another
COPYC ATS
Both are false, and this is why.
Scientists used to believe that animals acted
by pure instinct – that they were programmed
at birth to behave in certain ways. But now
researchers know better. All orangutans do not
behave exactly the same. Neither do chimps.

It’s true of you, too. You might cut your sand-
wich straight across, but your friend cuts hers
diagonally. Both of you probably do it whichever
way your mum or dad taught you.
It’s called social learning and you’ll find it in
nature as well. Certain orangutans, for instance,
catch and eat fish, while only chimps in Bossou,
Guinea, use stones as hammers. They’re learning
behaviour by watching others, then teaching
friends and family.
Keep reading for other fun stories about ani-
mals that are copycats.
CHIMP HERO
Foaf the chimpanzee is leading other chimps through an African forest
in Bossou, Guinea. Suddenly he stops and grips a stick. Foaf’s stick
looks like a hundred other sticks littering the forest floor, except
this one is tied to a wire loop hidden in the brush. If Foaf
touches the loop, it will spring a trap and the vicious wire
will grab his leg.
African forests are infested with traps. Poachers
set them to catch cane rats, but the snares often
kill or injure chimps instead. Not in Bossou, where
chimps have taught one another how to avoid
getting caught.
Standing upright, Foaf repeatedly
shakes the stick. Finally the snare breaks.
Primatologist Tetsuro Matsuzawa from
Japan’s Kyoto University smiles. “What
bright chimps we have,” he says. Tetsuro
is even happier minutes later, when a

half-grown chimp examines the broken
snare. “Chimps are self-motivated,” the
scientist says. “This young one wants
to learn how to break traps himself.”
Thanks to Foaf’s excellent example, he
will some day.
1
2
Orangutans eat only fruit.
All chimpanzees use stones to crack open nuts.
True or false?
2
national GeoGraphic KiDS
19
simon
says
“Walk on all
fours”.
i am
as cute
as i am
smart.

hut,
two, three,
four!
james a. sugar / national geographic stock (penguins, both); courtesy of the
orangutan land trust (orangutan); © robert harding world imagery / alamy
(meerkat); © life on white / alamy (dog); courtesy of gregor brougham (dog in car)
Fancy Feast

When Alma the rescued orangutan doesn’t
feel well, she hangs out at the house of Lone
Droscher-Nielsen, founder of the Nyaru
Menteng Orangutan Project. Alma plays in the
kitchen at her home. She stuffs towels into
pots and stacks cans on the floor. Sometimes
she brings Lone cans of veggies to admire.
“Very nice,” Lone says. “Now put them back.”
One day the ape discovers a can opener
and brings it to Lone. “It’s like she was asking
‘What’s this?’” executive director Michelle
Desilets says.
To answer Alma’s curiosity, Lone takes the
tool and demonstrates opening a can.
Weeks pass. Alma is back at the house.
She brings Lone the can opener again,
along with a can of beans. “Alma found
the one utensil that works to open a can,”
Michelle says. The ape remembers what
the tool is for.
And that’s not all. This ape has learned
to act like humans when she’s with
humans. Alma and Lone eat beans for
lunch.
Pool Party
At the San Francisco Zoo in California, America, 46
Magellanic penguins waddle, preen and gorge
themselves. But do they swim? No. These
feathered couch potatoes can’t be bothered
to get their “tuxedos” wet.

That changes when six peppy penguins arrive
from another zoo.
Penguin keeper Jane
Tollini plops them
into the pool and
they rocket through
the water. Then
something stranger
happens. “Within ten
minutes all my old
guys dragged themself
into the pool,” Jane
says. It’s like an extreme
game of follow the leader. The penguins don’t stop
swimming for six weeks. The birds become so busy
swimming that they barely stop to eat. Jane stands
next to the pool and tosses fish to them as they zoom
by. When the mysterious marathon suddenly ends, every
bird is fit and trim. Apparently good things happen
when birds of a feather flock, er, swim together.
PenGUIns
sWIMMInG
at tHe Zoo.
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AUGUST 2013
BEEEEEP!
Chopper the French bulldog goes everywhere with
Gregor Brougham of Chaumont in America. He rides

next to Gregor in his pickup truck and when Gregor
has to leave Chopper alone, he shuts him inside with
the windows open.
This works, but the pup hates waiting. One day
he sees Gregor honk the hooter when picking up
a friend, who comes running. This only happens twice.
“But Chopper figures out stuff quickly,” Gregor says.
The next time Gregor goes inside without the dog,
an ear-piercing blast splits the air. Startled, Gregor
runs to his truck. “There was Chopper with his face
against the windscreen, looking straight at me,” he says.
“Both front feet were on the hooter.”
Meerkat See,

Meerkat Do
Lizards, beetles and scorpions are meerkat
food. Young meerkats learn what to eat from
adults, who teach them. “Young meerkats
won’t eat anything they haven’t seen another
meerkat eating,” says biologist Alex Thornton
of the University of Cambridge in England.
One day a baby meerkat gets
confused. The biologist has set up a scale
in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert to weigh
wild meerkats. He scatters egg yolk, which is
part of their usual diet, on the scale to lure
them. But the desert is yellow with flowers,
which blow on to the scale. Seeing an
adult gobbling the food on the scale,
the hungry baby rushes in to eat.

The egg yolk is gone. The clueless
pup chows down on yellow
flower petals that are stuck
to the scale, thinking he’s
just eating what the adult
was eating. Flowers are
definitely not what a
meerkat finds tasty.
Alex laughs. “Animals
that rely on copying can
make mistakes sometimes,”
he says.
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IN NEW YORK.
THE
WEATHER
has been
RECORDED
in Central
Park SINCE
1869.
The FOUR FRIENDS from the FILM
Madagascar
were from CENTRAL PARK ZOO.
4 3
5
NEW YORK
THINGS
ABOUT
THE STATUE
OF LIBERTY
WAS A PRESENT
TO THE PEOPLE OF
AMERICA
FROM THE PEOPLE OF
FRANCE.
NEW YORK
IS MADE
UP OF FIVE
BOROUGHS:
THE BRONX,
BROOKLYN,
MANHATTAN,

QUEENS AND
STATEN ISLAND.
The Dutch were the first
Europeans to settle in the area in
the 1630s and named their village
Breuckelen. Over time the name
evolved to Brooklyn.
INTERNATIONAL
MUSIC STAR
MIRIAM
MAKEBA LIVED IN
NEW YORK FOR TEN
YEARS
DURING HER TIME
IN EXILE FROM SOUTH
AFRICA.
A BIKE-SHARING
SYSTEM WAS LAUNCHED
ON 27 MAY THIS YEAR.
USERS PAY FOR AN
ELECTRONIC KEY
TO HIRE
BIKES.
THERE ARE
BOTANICAL
GARDENS
IN
ALL BOROUGHS
OF
NEW YORK

EXCEPT
MANHATTAN.
New York is
KNOWN as
the BIG
APPLE.
The NEW YORK
CITY MARATHON
is so popular that
runners are picked
in a LOTTERY. Last
year 40 000 WON
and 100 000 more
didn’t get in.
0
3
The One World Trade
Center, completed
in May 2013, is the
first building on the
site destroyed by the
terrorist attack of
11 September 2001.
YOU CAN VISIT
A DIFFERENT
MUSEUM
EVERY DAY
FOR A MONTH AND NOT PAY
AN
ENTRANCE FEE

FOR ANY OF THEM.
MUSICIANS
audition to play in
the NEW YORK

SUBWAY.
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2524
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20
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22
THE EQUIVALENT
OF THE WHOLE
POPULATION
OF SOUTH
AFRICA PASSES
THROUGH JFK
INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT IN NEW
YORK IN A YEAR.
New York
was originally
called
New
Amsterdam.

By FIONA THOMSON
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30
NEW YORK
CITY
THE MUSEUM
OF MODERN
ART (MOMA) IN
NEW YORK HAS
THE WORLD’S
LARGEST
COLLECTION
OF MODERN
PAINTING AND
SCULPTURE.
TIMES SQUARE
THERE is a
CHILDREN’S
ZOO in
CENTRAL
PARK.
HAS FEATURED IN MORE
THAN
85 MOVIES.
LOOK OUT FOR THESE
ANIMALS IN NEW YORK

CITY: THE RACCOON,
BROWN RAT AND
OPOSSUM.
Cleopatra’s Needle in Central Park is one of a
pair that were erected in an Egyptian city in
1450 BC. It was brought to New York in 1881.
The other one is in London.
THE FLAGEL, A FLAT
BAGEL, WAS INVENTED IN A
DELI IN
BROOKLYN.
THE NEW YORK YANKEES
BASEBALL TEAM HAVE WON
MORE CHAMPIONSHIPS
THAN ANY OTHER
PRO SPORTS TEAM.
The YELLOW TAXI CAB CO.
in New York is 101 YEARS old.
New York is visited
by
55 million
tourists every year.
The first ST PATRICK’S
DAY parade in New York
was held in
1766 by Irish
soldiers.
THE STATTEN ISLAND FERRY runs
between Staten Island and Lower
Manhattan

all day and every day. Each journey is
FREE OF CHARGE.
About R10 billion was
spent on
BROADWAY
theatre tickets in 2012.
The city hasTEN TIMES as
MANY PEOPLE per SQUARE
KILOMETRE
as the whole of
JOHANNESBURG.
NEW YORK CITY IS
IN THE STATE OF
NEW YORK.
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make your own CHILLI DoG
Get a parent’s help to make your own chilli sauce. (Skip the hot sauces listed below if zing isn’t your thing.)
Cook 350 grams of
beef mince over
medium heat,
breaking it into
small pieces.
Stir in half a can of
tomato sauce,
½ teaspoon of
Worcestershire sauce,
and ¼ teaspoon of
peri-peri sauce.
Simmer at low

heat for 10 to 12
minutes, stirring
occasionally.
Place the cooked
hot dogs into buns.
Spoon ¼ cup of the
chilli sauce over each
hot dog and top with
mustard. Sprinkle
with chopped onions.
Add ½ teaspoon
of chilli powder,
½ teaspoon of salt,
¼ teaspoon of pepper,
and 1 teaspoon of
brown sugar to
the mixture.
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Some people call certain types of
chilli dogs “Coney dogs” after Coney
Island, New York, where hot dogs may have first been served in the
United States. But Michigan may have made Coney-style chilli dogs so
popular. In the 1920s, Greek immigrants in Detroit started selling the
chilli sauce-covered snacks to hungry factory workers. The dish has
been a summer favourite ever since!
CHILLI DoG!
“Chilli queens”

were Mexican

immigrants who sold
CHILLI SAUCE made

with dried red chillies
and beef in San
Antonio,

Texas, in
the 1880s.
Ever seen
anyone cry after
cutting
ONIONS?

The gas that’s

released
and not the smell
makes your eyes
water.
Some 150
million
HOT DOGS
are eaten each
Independence Day –
enough to stretch from
Washington to Los
Angeles more than
five times.
Hot dog
BUNS
may have been
invented to keep diners
from burning their fingers
when eating hot dogs with
their bare hands.
(No wonder they were
called red hots!)
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REBECCA HALE / NGS STAFF (CHILLI DOG);
MAKSIM PASKO / DREAMSTIME (FIREWORKS)
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AUGUST 2013
Ancient
Romans first
turned
MUSTARD
see ds into a paste by
combining them with
grape juice, vinegar,
oil and honey.
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