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By SCOTT ELDER
PHOTOGRAPHS By RICHARD T. NOWITZ
W
alking his beat at the
Honolulu International
Airport in Hawaii, Taylor
stops to observe two
women waiting for a
flight to the US mainland.
Taylor’s partner, Inspector Edna Tanaid,
has no reason to believe the women might
be smugglers, but Taylor smells trouble.
He’s a skilled, no-nonsense detective that
works for the federal government. There’s
only one thing Taylor likes more than
busting smugglers – the mouthwatering
flavour of meaty dog treats. Taylor is a
beagle mix. you’re in trouble if he sits
down next to you and wags his tail so hard
it looks ready to fly off.
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busted by a dog
“Where are your fruits?” Edna asks.
“We aren’t carrying any,” the women
reply. Taylor excitedly wags, pants and
aims his sensitive nose back and forth
at the pockets of the women's jackets.
Sure enough, they have mangoes in their
pockets. Edna seizes the contraband, or
illegal goods, and gives Taylor some extra
petting along with his meaty reward.
Sniffing around may sound like fun –
and it is for Taylor. But it is important
work, too. Mangoes could contain the
larvae of the Mediterranean fruit fly,
a variety that lives in Hawaii but not in
the continental United States. If these
fruit flies reach the mainland, they could
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devastate American crops, causing a loss
of billions of dollars.
Taylor was born with his great nose,
but before putting it to work, he and his
canine colleagues get about three months
of training at the National Detector Dog
Training Center in Georgia. There the
new recruits learn the basic scent of
contraband and how to find it in bags,
boxes and pockets – an advanced game
of hide-and-seek.
canines at Work
Right now the graduate detector dogs
and handlers from the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service and the US
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are
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sniffing out dangerous contraband at
airports, border crossings and seaports
across the country.
In addition to sniffing around travellers
and baggage, dog teams also examine
American and international post, which is
a huge job. “It's probably 3 000 parcels per
day,” says CBP handler Janelle Michalesko,
who checks out arriving cargo and post
with her canine partner, Khaz, at JFK
Airport in New York. Khaz is equal parts
Chesapeake Bay and Labrador retriever,
a big energetic mix that makes him
perfect for patrolling long warehouses and
inspecting big boxes. “Khaz is always ready
to search another warehouse – I call him
my supervisor,” Janelle jokes. “We have a
really good time together.”
good job
Along with fruits and vegetables, Khaz
and Janelle regularly find posted meat
products that could carry diseases. The
handler guesses it would take her a full day
to search a warehouse that Khaz can clear
in 15 minutes. Other breeds do different
jobs. Tiny, fearless Jack Russell terriers,
for instance, are perfect for finding brown
tree snakes in cargo leaving Guam, an
American island in the Pacific Ocean. If
stowaway snakes spread to Hawaii, it could
doom the state’s rare birds.
snacks. “It’s not all foods – she
won’t alert us to fish, cheese or
butter,” Andrew says.
You might think a dog as
valuable as Cayenne was raised
in a special kennel and trained
from birth. “She was found on the
side of a highway,” Andrew says.
All detector dogs that deal with
agricultural items were adopted.
Many, like Cayenne, are found
at animal shelters. Others are
donated by owners or breeders.
“I couldn’t for the life of
me figure out why somebody
would give away a dog that’s
so handsome,” says handler dogs
search
Jonathan Saito about his stocky cars an
beagle partner, Bruno, a former pound luggaged
dog. “He’s an incredible dog to work .
with. We say ‘work,’ but it’s a game for
the dogs.”
Edna agrees. “Taking in one of these
dogs and giving it a second chance doing
an important public service is great. And
the dogs love it.”
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at airports, beagles are the ideal breed.
“They’re very friendly and people usually
aren’t intimidated by them,” says
Andrew Bateman, a CBP handler who,
with pup partner Cayenne, guards
the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport. Detector
dogs don’t just smell well;
they’re trained to smell
the difference between
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C
hloe the pug rarely barks. She only acts
excited when she wants a carrot snack.
Then she spins like a top and points towards
the refrigerator. But one freezing cold
morning this normally quiet pup goes berserk.
Owner Amanda Bjelland of Billings in America is
dressing for work when Chloe asks to go out. No sooner
does Amanda close the door than Chloe barks to come
in. Yapping loudly, she follows her owner from room to
room. Amanda is frustrated. “What do you want?” she
asks and lets the dog out again.
This time Chloe runs
straight to their backyard
pond. She spins and sits.
“Then I knew something was
wrong,” Amanda says. She
races to the pond.
Her Siamese cat, Willow, has
fallen through the ice! Bjelland
rescues the half-frozen kitty and
wraps her in blankets. For two
days the pug stays by Willow’s
side. “It’s amazing,” Amanda says.
“I never would have known if it
hadn’t been for Chloe.”

eline defeats robber

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H
omer the blind cat weighs less than two kilograms. Gwen
Cooper adopted the stray in Miami, America, when he was
three weeks old. Because of an eye infection that left him
blind, he would have been euthanised if she hadn’t taken
him. Homer never lets blindness stop him.“He’s a bold little
adventurer,” Gwen says.“He’s fearless.” The cat proves this one
night when his growling wakes up his owner. He’s never growled
before. Surprised, Gwen opens her eyes. A burglar is standing at
the foot of her bed! She reaches for her phone to call the
emergency services.“Don’t do that!” the intruder says. The sound
of his voice pinpoints his location and blind Homer leaps. No match
for a snarling cat with extended claws, the would-be robber flees.

© john daniels / ardea (big picture, dog), klein-hubert / kimball stock (big picture, cat), © ralf kraft /
dreamstime (big picture, capes), © threeart / dreamstime (earth), image digitally composed by lee stokes;
© rolf kopfle / ardea (siamese); © falcon 1708 / dreamstime (pug); jessica hills (homer)
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Blood Sugar

M
onty the orange tabby cat doesn’t appeal to Patricia Peter
at first. She really wants a kitten. But all the kittens at the
Edmonton Humane Society in Alberta, Canada, are gone. The
Siamese she likes, ignores her. So Patricia adopts Monty.
Six months later she’s asleep when Monty bites her hand. “It was the
hand I poke to test my blood sugar level,” she says. Patricia has diabetes,
a serious disease that requires frequent blood testing. Wanting to sleep,
Patricia pushes the cat away. Monty only bites harder. Finally Patricia
gets up. Monty leads her to the kitchen and jumps on the counter beside
her testing kit.
Guess what? Patricia does the test and finds her
sugar level is dangerously low. She pops some
sugar tablets and her level returns to normal.
Her doctor says Monty knew something was
wrong by smelling her breath and tasting her
skin. “He’s my guardian angel,” Patricia says.
Chances are Monty feels the same about her.

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from tru

G
eo the German shepherd mix follows
ten-year-old Charlie Riley everywhere.
When Charlie plays on his trampoline,
Geo scrambles up a rock and jumps
beside him. When Charlie sits on the couch, Geo
beside
cuddles close. Naturally the pup goes along on
family walks.
One day Charlie, his mum and two younger
brothers are standing at a street corner. Geo
is sitting at Charlie’s side. Suddenly the family
hears a roar. A van is out of control and runs
on to the pavement. It is heading straight
for Charlie!
geo is Geo makes a flying leap. “He hit me so
bandaged hard that I fell over,” Charlie says. The speeding
in this
photo, but truck slams into Geo instead, knocking him out
today he’s of his harness. The driver keeps going, but two
just fine. bystanders run over to help. They rush Geo
to the animal hospital, where vets perform
emergency surgery.
“My dog could have died,” Charlie says.
And her son could have, too, his mother
knows. But he didn’t – thanks to Geo.

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seizures

Z
oe the pit bull mix is
Gretchen Jett’s best
gift ever. Born deaf, the
11-year-old girl from
Las Vegas in America also has
epilepsy, a disorder that
causes seizures. Because of
this she usually has to play
indoors. So her dad gets a
dog to keep his daughter
company.
Two nights later Zoe bursts
into the bedroom where
Gretchen’s parents are
sleeping. “She was acting
strangely,” Gretchen’s dad
says. “I got up, thinking she
needed to go outside.” Instead,
Zoe runs in a circle and bolts straight into Gretchen’s
room. She’s having a bad seizure. Circling and running become
Zoe’s signals. “When she does that we know something is wrong
with Gretchen,” her dad says.
Not bad for an untrained dog that came from a shelter. Zoe’s previous
owner couldn’t keep her because the mutt kept running away. That’s not a
problem now. Zoe knows Gretchen needs her.

pooch
kit ty defends

B
ert the tabby cat and Lili the pug aren’t friends.
“They basically ignore each other,” says owner
Gary Paquette of Rhode Island in America. But
when Lili needs help, it’s the cat that comes to her
aid. It’s still dark outside early one morning when Gary
opens their sliding glass doors to let Lili out. Their yard is
fenced in, so Gary sits down inside to wait.
Soon Bert joins him. But the cat barely gets settled
before he rises up on his hind legs, leans his paws against
the glass and growls.
Gary wonders what’s
going on. He grabs a
torch and steps out on the
deck. In the torch light is a
yellow-eyed coyote standing on
his dog! Gary runs screaming into
the yard. Startled, the coyote
jumps the fence.
Lili needs stitches and
antibiotics but recovers quickly.
It’s lucky for her that Bert’s ears
are so finely tuned. Gary didn’t
hear a thing.

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pup sav

I
t’s 3 a.m. in West Jordan in
America. A mother and two
children huddle outside in their
pyjamas as firefighters spray their
burning house with water. “Is anybody
inside?” the firemen ask.
The mum says no. She believes her
older son escaped at the back. But
just to be sure, Don Chase and his
partner plunge through the flames
to look.
And what do they find? Teddy
the toy poodle standing by the
door. Don tries to grab him, but
the pup scampers down the stairs
to the basement. Halfway down he stops and waits.
Just as the firemen reach him, he takes off again. “I was irritated,”
Don says. “We were wasting time chasing a dog when we should have been
searching for human victims.”
Then they see him – the older son unconscious on a basement couch.
Grabbing his legs and chest, the astonished firemen haul him to safety
CAT rescues as his devoted dog trots behind.
“That dog risked his life for the kid,” Don says. “If I hadn’t seen it,
COUPLE I wouldn’t have believed it.”

T
iger the stray cat
doesn’t look like a hero.
He shows up scrawny
and full of fleas at Rod
and Michelle Ramsey’s house in
Mount Gilead in America. Unable
to turn away a hungry face, they
take him in.
Three years later the couple
are in bed with bad headaches.
Suddenly Tiger bursts into their
room and howls. “I’ve never
heard such a sound before,”
Michelle says.
When Tiger won’t stop, she
stumbles down the hall and lets
him out. That’s when she sees her
older cat staggering and calls the
vet. Veterinary assistant Julie
Higgins answers the phone.“You
have carbon monoxide poisoning,”
she says when she hears Michelle
slurring her words.“Call emer- BORROW A PET! Do you want a pet but can’t have a
gency and go outside!” Carbon permanent cat or dog? Or maybe you’re not sure which you would enjoy more. You
monoxide is a deadly gas. Invisible may be able to care for a dog or cat as a foster-home family. Ask your parents to
and odourless, it’s leaking out of look at http://www.alley-cats-and-mutts-adoption.com. There you’ll find a list of
the Ramseys’ heating system. pet rescue centres around South Africa. Many of them have the option to foster.
The paramedics arrive. An With foster care you help reduce the time a dog or cat lives in a shelter, free
emergency helicopter airlifts the space for more animals that need help and increase the animal’s chances of being
Ramseys to the hospital. Doctors adopted by preparing it for life with a family. So borrow a pet – it’s a great way to
pump oxygen into their lungs help animals and have fun!
and they both survive, thanks to
a cat no one else wanted.

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november 2013 © ron kimball / kimball stock (borrow a pet).

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controls the speed with a wireless remote and skids to a
stop using heel brakes. But just because the skates are
motorised, doesn’t mean you get a free ride. “You need to
use muscles to balance and steer,” spnKiX inventor Peter
Treadway says. “You’ll still sweat.”

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places
Wish you could attend a concert or catch a movie from
the comfort of your bed? Call on the Double. This roving
robot will serve as your eyes and ears in distant places.
boat In a box
This will totally float your boat. The Oru Kayak is
The android consists of an iPad tablet or iPhone attached a three-metre-long vessel that folds down into
ComPoseD; oru kayak, inC. (kayak, CarryinG Case)

to an adjustable stand that’s mounted on motorised
wheels. Make a video call to the bot from your own tablet.
Once you’re connected, the Double will stream live video
of its surroundings to you. Your own face pops up on the
Double’s screen. You can move the Double around with
controls on your tablet and interact with anyone you
meet. Next time you go to a museum to see a cool new
exhibition, it could be in your pyjamas!
a carrying case not much bigger than a pizza
box. What makes it so portable? The kayak’s thin
plastic frame contains several creases that
allow you to bend it into a compact shape in
about five minutes. The boat’s seat cushion and
footrest fit snugly into the folded Oru. At just
about 11 kilograms, it’s probably the only boat
you can get inside a car!

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EXTREME BY KAY BOATNER

WE IRDNESS we
ird-o-meter

we
ird-o-meter WATER TAP
FLOATS!
What Suspended
PHONE water tap
GROWS BRAIN WheRe Ypres,
Belgium
What Brain-shaped
(FAUCET); REUTERS / ANDREW WONG (UNICYCLE); REUTERS / ANDREW WINNING (HAT)
YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP / GETTY IMAGES (BRAIN PHONE); © ALISTAIR SCOTT / ALAMY

phone booth detaIls What’s the

WheRe São Paulo,
Brazil
detaIls Need a little
extra brainpower? This
brain-shaped phone
booth was part of a
design competition.
A hundred designs –
including a disco ball, NoW that’s
a ladybird, an ear and a smaRt
a clown – were fitted
on public telephones
in Brazil’s largest city.
Cell phones have never
seemed so boring.
trick to this floating
TAP? A clear pipe
inside the falling
water creates the
illusion. The pipe
carries water from
a pool on the ground
to the rear of the
tap. The water loops
around and pours
back into the pool.
That’s why it looks
phoNe.
like an unending flow
of water. Feeling
thirsty yet?
ird-o-meter
we somebody get
ird-o-meter the bubble-
we bath soap!

ONE-WHEELED
WONDER HAT FOR BREAKFAST
What Extra large What English
unicycle breakfast hat

WheRe Beijing, WheRe Ascot,

China England

detaIls Don’t lose detaIls Some people

your balance! Inventor
Li Yongli does just
that when he rides
this two-metre-high
unicycle. He calls the
pedal-powered cycle
– one of many he has
built – the number one
vehicle in the world.
It’s definitely one of
the most interesting!
wear their pride on
their sleeve but this
fashionable woman
wears hers on her hat.
British patriotism is big
at Royal Ascot, an
English horse racing
event held every June.
Among the hats worn by
the crowd was this
English breakfast of
bacon, sausages, eggs,
tomatoes, mushrooms
and beans. Wonder if
she’s willing to share.

excuse me,
madam. you’ve
got somethINg
look, mum, IN youR haIR.
No tRaININg
Wheels.

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Animals
Y
By KITSon JAzynKA

S iL L
specianl

6 t Trick
editio

s Pe
CAT
1 wAlks ON
BAll
ChiCago, ameriCa
Why won’t you see Jax the cat’s paw
prints on the floor? Because the kitty can
move from place to place on a large rolling ball!
The feline propels the ball forward by walking on top
of it. “Jax has always loved perching on narrow surfaces,
including my shoulder,” owner Samantha Martin says. “I
thought she’d like even cooler balancing acts.” To prepare
for the trick, Jax practised standing on a smaller ball set in
a bowl so it couldn’t move. Then Samantha placed her on a
bigger ball at one end of a short track. At the other end
were cat treats. The clever kitty quickly figured out that
if she carefully stepped backwards on the ball, she could
move it down the track – and get her reward. Although
Jax is now an expert at the trick, she’ll only do ArOuNd
it if she’s in the mood. “Sometimes Jax just 1876 iN liÈge,
wants to roll around on the floor or run Belgium, CATs
after toys,” Samantha says. “She were TrAiNed
has a lot of energy.” TO deliver
mAil.

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Goat
coasts oN
skateboard
Florida, ameriCa
2 Goats
bleat wIth
dIffereNt
acceNts IN
dIffereNt
eNvIroNMeNts.

She jumps on her skateboard and

zips down driveways and cruises along
pavements. Happie the goat first showed
her zeal for wheels when she tried to leap on
a bicycle that owner Melody Cooke was riding.
Melody decided to get the goat her own
skateboard and train her to ride. after a lot of
practice and goodies, Happie could stand on
the board, give a big push-off with her hind leg
and roll forward. “Sometimes Happie became
unsteady and had to jump off,” Melody says.
“But she always got back on.” now Happie
can coast for more than 30 metres
without stopping. Talk about
being on a roll.

3
Macaw
takes UP
skIING
Cannes,FranCe
Luna the hyacinth macaw loves
to fly – down a ski slope! Owner Mark
Steiger knew the eight-year-old bird would be
a natural skier. “Hyacinth macaws like Luna have
strong legs,” he says. Luna practised walking while
clutching handles on tiny skis with her claws. Then
Mark taught her to slide down a custom-made slope
that is 1,2 metres tall, rewarding the bird with treats
at the bottom. The macaw even learned to take a
“ski lift” up her slope. With her hardy beak, she
the
grasps a metal ring and Mark pulls her up the hyacINth
slide. Just before Luna whooshes back down, Macaw’s
she leans forward like a competitive skier. wINGsPaN caN
“She picked that up herself,” Mark says. be Nearly as
“Luna is a total professional.” loNG as aN
eIGht-year-
old Is tall.

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Animals
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PIGS MAy

PIG JAMS ON
“SING” tO theIr
yOuNG whIle
NurSING

Colorado, ameriCa hOrNS

Mudslinger the pig is a real hog when it
theM.

comes to music. He enjoys creating tunes

with horns and once he gets started he doesn’t
want to stop. Trainer John Vincent introduced
the pig to the horns by tooting some in front of
him. After watching his owner, the curious pig tried
squeezing the instruments with his mouth to make
noise. When the pig kept going, John fed him grapes
to motivate him. “Now Mudslinger comes up with
his own songs,” he says. Whenever the curly-tailed
rock star jams on his horns, he’ll toot them in
a different order to create a new pattern of
sounds. “His favourite horn in the set is
the deepest, loudest one,” John says.
“He likes to end with it.”

BONUS VIDEO!
Go online to watch a video of Amos the
horse, Jax the cat, Luna the macaw, and
Happie the goat doing supercool tricks:
kids.nationalgeographic.com/videos/

SOMe eArly
MINIAture
hOrSeS were
6
bred AS PetS
fOr kINGS ANd
queeNS.

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dog does
handstand

5
Las Vegas,aMeRICa
You’ve got to hand it to Sid the Aussie
cattle dog – she can perform a handstand
on her owner’s palm! According to Lou Mack,
the talented pup will try just about any trick if it
means getting to play with her favourite toy
afterwards. “Sid’s a real Frisbee nut,” Lou says. To
conquer the handstand, Sid was positioned upside
down with her front paws in Lou’s hand and her hind
paws pressed against a wall. Soon the dog’s leg and
back muscles became so strong, she could hold
herself in the handstand without support.
“For Sid this is just fun,” Lou

horse says. “She looks happy

all the time – even
upside down.”

plays

6
b-ball about
9 million
pet dogs live
in south africa
BoCa Raton, aMeRICa –that’s one for
Before he makes a slam dunk, Amos every four
the miniature horse looks around to see people.
if people are watching. “Amos definitely likes
an audience,” owner Shelly Mizrahi says. To teach
him to “play” basketball, Shelly gave Amos carrot
slices each time he touched his nose to a hoop set on
a short stand. Later Amos learned to pick up a small
ball with his teeth and place it in the hoop. Scoring
WANT MORE?
baskets has become the horse’s all-time favourite Check out
Check out the
the
National
National
activity. The hoofed athlete once dunked the ball a Geographic Kids
Geographic
hundred times in a row. “Amos can also paint and book
book
play a xylophone with a mallet,” Shelly says. Animal
Animal
“But if I place a paintbrush, an instrument Superstars!
Superstars!
and a basketball in front of him, he
always goes for the ball.”

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After a storm, two chicks are returned
to their parents by clever volunteers.
By Kitson JazynKa
B
lown out of their nest on a windy
night, two baby owls the size of
pineapples huddle at the base of a
towering redwood tree. it’s
a cold spring morning at a vineyard in
napa Valley, California, in america.
as much as they snuggle together,
the tiny great horned owlets can’t
stay warm without their mother’s have a wingspan
body heat. these little raptors, or
hunting birds, need help soon.
a landscaper arrives to work in
the vineyard. He notices the owlets
and calls for help. on the telephone,
angela Cistone asks him to stay with
the vulnerable chicks until she and her
husband, Chad zierenberg, both raptor
specialists, get there. she worries that the
fragile owlets might end up as breakfast
for a hungry coyote or fox.
angela and Chad arrive on the scene
quickly. “the babies made a clicking noise
to scare us away,” angela says. she scoops
up the two-week-old chicks, all fuzzy
feathers and gray beaks, and places them
into a warm carrier.
TINY AND HELPLESS
Rescu
Chad spots the mother owl watching
from a branch above. He climbs ten metres A NEW NEST
into the huge tree to see what’s left of the By lunchtime the same day angela and
nest. He doesn’t find much. “the sooner we Chad return the babies to the vineyard.
could get the babies back to her, the Chad climbs back up the tree. He secures
better,” he says. But first they must the new nest, hoists the owlets up in a box
adult great make sure the owlets are fine and and puts them in the basket. He gets out of
horned owls replace their nest. the tree quickly to minimise their stress.
now they have to wait and see if the
as wide as CHICK CHECK-UP parents come back. they check the site
1,5 metres. at the Wildlife Rescue Center of again at dusk.
napa County, angela finds the Chad and angela look up into the tree.
babies have no injuries after their they see two feathery horns and a mum’s
three-storey fall. the larger owlet is yellow eyes peering over the side of the
alert and wide-eyed. the smaller one, laundry basket. she has accepted the
probably a few days younger, doesn’t move chicks. “that was one of the most joyful
much. His eyes are closed. angela gives the moments of my life,” Chad says.
chicks fluids and they rest in an incubator. the couple visit the owl family
after an hour the smal one begins to revive. every day. after six weeks they notice the
these babies are lucky. they still have a babies are hopping from branch to branch
chance to be put back into their nest near their nest, flapping their
and raised by their parents. wings to strengthen muscles as
sometimes the centre has to Great horned they wait for their parents to
take care of orphaned owlets. owls can be over deliver delicious rodents. they
after a few hours at the centre 60 centimetres tall no longer whistle softly to
the vineyard babies make soft and weigh as much say they are hungry. now they
whistling noises and open their as 2,5 kilograms. shriek, glaring with
beaks to say “Feed me!” piercing yellow eyes. they have
“We wanted the owlets hungry
so they would call to their parents
more than doubled in size, and
almost all of their brown flight
when we returned them to the nest,” feathers have grown in. Chad and angela
angela says. Chad has come up observe the family of owls out for a
with a solution for a new nest: hunting lesson, soaring around their
a plastic laundry basket that redwood tree together.
he will secure in the same “it’s a great feeling to
spot as the original nest. place an animal back in
they line the basket with the wild,” Chad says.
a sheet, as well as “now these owls have
redwood branches from a second chance at
the original nest to living a long and
make it feel like home. happy life.”
angela cistone (small pictures, both);
© donald m. Jones / minden pictures (big picture)
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cue who,
who!
who?
you!

IN A NEW NEST TUNE IN!

Great horned owls are predators – they hunt mice and
other small creatures. With a parent’s permission, watch
Secret Life of Predators on Nat Geo WILD. Check
schedules for the date and time. natgeowild.com

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ON !ANIMALS HAVING FUN

AT THE ZOO
By KITSON JAZyNKA

A
bored polar bear at the zoo is no good for
the animal – or for the visitors who come
to see it. That’s why zookeepers all over
the world invent activities to keep the
creatures in their care entertained,
healthy and happy. Zoo animals that were born
to hunt, enjoy activities that challenge them
to go wild. Based on their natural behaviour,
the fun and games help keep the creatures
mentally and physically fit.
“The games also teach our visitors
about the animals as they show off their
amazing abilities,” says animal keeper
Devon Sabo of the Columbus Zoo in
America. Check out these stories about
the antics of zoo animals.

T O Y
S T O R Y
San Diego Zoo, California
In the wild, otters like to play with sticks, rocks and sometimes even a turtle hiding in its shell.
But for Jo Jo the spot-necked otter nothing is more amusing than a mini-pumpkin.
Each October when Jo Jo’s keepers give him his seasonal treat, the six-year-old otter swims
around with his pumpkin all day, tucking the toy under one foreleg and paddling with his other
three legs. On land he runs around like a short, three-legged rugby player. “He’s hunched over
and ready to crash through a tackle,” says San Diego Zoo ambassador Rick Schwartz.
Jo Jo curls up to sleep with his beloved squash. When he’s awake, he sometimes stashes it
in a cave or his bedding. Only if he’s distracted by delicious trout for lunch does Jo Jo forget
his favourite toy. “But as soon as he realises he’s without it, he fetches the pumpkin even
before finishing his meal,” Rick says.
Eventually the pumpkin gets bruised and punctured(but never eaten). After a week or so
his keepers find Jo Jo’s toy sqaushed on the sand in his enclosure.
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Columbus Zoo and aquarium, ohio, ameriCa
Aurora the polar bear loves snacking on fresh fish. To keep the
225-kilogram bear active, keepers stock her pool with live
trout. She catches her meals just like in the wild. But even in
a zoo it’s hard work to grab those slippery snacks. This brainy
bear has taken what her keepers started to a new level.
When they toss fish food into the pool to feed the trout,
six-year-old Aurora comes running and dives into the cold
water. Standing upright and shoulder-deep in the water, she
uses her shaggy white arms to corral the floating nuggets
close to her body. When a daring fish pops up to eat, Aurora
snags it with her sharp teeth. Before eating her dinner, she
shows off with her catch, flinging and shaking the fish for
visitors to admire.
Recently Aurora has been perfecting her technique. She
tempts the trout with fish food inside her massive jaws, which
she holds open in the water. “I haven’t seen her catch a fish
this way yet,” Devon says.“But she’s working on it.”

> RS UL LI ED SE
Columbus Zoo and aquarium, ohio, ameriCa
Jerry the bonobo has always felt the need for speed. Once he
experimented with his bedding on the slide in his indoor
playground to see if it would make him go faster. It didn’t.
One day keepers gave the bonobos huge sheets of paper to
play with. While the other bonobos were busy crunching their
sheets of paper or rolling them up to use as noisemakers,
Jerry tried out his paper on the slide. Did it give him a speedier
ride? Yes, definitely!
He starts by swinging on the monkey bars above the slide,
holding the paper in his mouth. Then he swings on to the top
platform, drops the paper on the slide and dives down face first
on to it.“He has a great time,” zookeeper Katrina McCauley says.
“He goes down the slide with a big grin on his face.”
When Jerry gets to the bottom, the five-year-old leaps up
and does it all over again.“He’s completely in his own world, just
having a ball and doing his crazy bonobo thing,” Katrina says.

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DAR to BY C.M. TOMLIN

EXPLORE
Photographer Joel Sartore treks
across the globe to capture images of
endangered species and habitats.
He talks about photography, conservation
and encounters with grumpy animals.

“O
ne day in Alaska I took a helicopter to a tiny island to
photograph two bull musk oxen that lived there. I knew
I was in trouble as soon as the helicopter dropped me
off and flew away. The oxen spotted me and charged.
These animals are huge, shaggy and sport very sharp horns
– you don’t mess with them! I took off running but they kept The NG KIDS series “Dare to
coming. Finally I waded into the water and climbed on a rock. Explore” helps celebrate the
I stayed there until the helicopter returned later that day. 125th anniversary of the National
“Even during dangerous moments, I love my job. My goal is Geographic Society, which was
to inform the public about threatened species through founded in 1888. Grab a parent
photography. I once took pictures of a Rabb’s fringe-limbed and go to nationalgeographic
tree frog, the last of its kind. It’s amazing and sad to know .com/125 for more information.
when this one is gone, its species will be extinct. Capturing the Coming next month: Geologist
frog’s image is like giving it a voice. Once people see an animal Kenneth Sims descends into
and hear its story, they want to help.” sizzling volcanoes.

WANT TO BE A
pHOTOGRApHER?

STUDY: Any topic

that interests you and
inspires you to snap pictures
WATCH: March of the
Penguins and the National
Geographic show Great Migrations “Saving threatened animal species will help JOel’S
Stunni
READ: Rare: Portraits of imageS ng
America’s Endangered preserve the future for humans as well.”
Species by Joel
Sartore

JOEL SARTORE / NATiONAL GEOGRAphiC

pROfiLE, TREE fROG); © JOEL SARTORE
CREATivE (SARTORE ANd pENGuiN,
(bEAR, buTTERfLiES)

Penguin
PHOtO
SHOOt!

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Check out these

outrageous facts.
NASCAR
DRIVERS liKe many
CAN LOSE
2 to 4 i’m all
ears.
frogs,
KILOGRAMS OF SWEAT
DURING ONE RACE. african
Bullfrogs
A restaurant
on a Spanish
island uses a

volcano
vent
as a grill. WITH ITS
GIANT
In EARS, eat their
Japan,
the A FENNEC sKin
“OK” CAN HEAR
hand
signal
TINY INSECTS
MOVING
after
means shedding.
“pay me”. UNDERGROUND.

A
COCONUT
IS A FRUIT,
NOT A NUT.

© Gerard Lacz ImaGes / superstock (fox); © rvLsoft / shutterstock (coconut); © trIff /

shutterstock (unIverse); martIn harvey / GaLLo ImaGes / Getty ImaGes (buLLfroGs)
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By RENÉE SkEltoN

NOVEMBER 2013
Fiery hot lava flows down a Hawaiian mountainside like
dark, thick syrup. When it reaches the sea, it Hawaii’s
MaunaLoa
istheworld’s
hisses and explodes in scalding jets of steam. largestactive
Further up the slope, volcanologist ken Hon picks his way slowly across the rough volcano.
surface. the hot lava is slippery. “It’s like walking on ice,” ken says. “But the soles of your
boots start to melt a little. If you fall, you’ll get burned.”
ken plants his feet carefully and slowly. He is collecting data on the lava flowing out Morethan
of kilauea(kee-luh-WAy-uh, shown here), a volcano that has been erupting since 1983.
If experts know how the lava will move, they could save lives on the slopes below. But ken 1500
must be careful. New waves of lava are flowing down towards him. Every few minutes he volcanoes
looks up to see where the streams are and to make sure the moving lava hasn’t cut off onEarthare
his escape route. “It’s searingly hot out there – like the heat from an oven,” ken says. active.
“Up close, you have to wear firefighters’ gear so your clothes don’t catch fire or melt.”

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canbeashotas
SLow FLow
Earth’s interior is so hot that rock softens and flows. Volcanoes form where liquid rock, 1000
or magma, pushes through cracks. It oozes out as lava, the name for magma that has degrees
reached the surface. Ash also shoots from the crater and forms volcanic mountains. Celsius.
Some volcanoes, such as kilauea, typically erupt gently. But they can pour out rivers of
lava that engulf everything in their path. “Back in 1990, lava entered the town of
kalapana. It moved slowly but steadily,” ken says. “We had to evacuate people from
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about 150 homes. the lava moved forward slowly and consumed all the houses.” Everyone
escaped, but today kalapana is buried under ten metres of lava.
Volcanoes aren’t scary to ken. they’re fascinating and exciting. “My favourite thing is
to camp out at the edge of a lava lake. Sometimes I have to sleep with a gas mask on.”
ken knows how to keep safe – and knows when the lava is too
close. “All of a sudden, it gets really bright inside your tent!”
he says, laughing. But the danger is worth it. the more
ken and other scientists learn about volcanoes, the
safer they can keep the people who live around
these powerful forces of nature.
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Green Scene
JEFF HENDRICKS AND VIKTORIYA TSOY (PLAN IT GREEN CITY); JAMES YAMASAKI (LITTER, BINS)

mayor of this busy city.

You’re the newly elected Transform it into the
of bus ine ss?
The first order
. Start by finding
greenest city in the world list below. Then
15 pieces of litt er fro m the
bins to toss the
locate ten blue recycling
rubbish in. car ton
9 egg
1 cardboard box
10 paper bag
2 crumpled paper
3 cooldr ink can 11 banana peel Grab a parent
4 paper cup 12 glass bottle and build your own
13 magazine eco-friendly city
5 phone book
14 takeaway box online by playing
6 cereal box National Geographic’s
15 milk car ton
7 newspapers Plan It Green at:
answers on page 48
8 half-eaten apple nationalgeographic.com/plan-it-green/

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These photographs show close-up
views of things found underground.
Unscramble the letters to identify
what’s in each picture. Bonus: Use
the black letters to solve the puzzle
below. answers on page 48

ta n s otosr IlmdeeIpl
miDDle row (left to right): © mArCin pAwinski / DreAmstime; © DAniel pruDek / DreAmstime; © thi thuy Anh phAm / DreAmstime.
top row (left to right): © tonny AnwAr / DreAmstime; © olenA Chernenko / istoCkphoto; © DAnnyphoto80 / DreAmstime.

Bottom row (left to right): © Denis nikitin / DreAmstime; © mArCio silvA / istoCkphoto; © Jinfeng ZhAng / DreAmstime.

leom eteble a a a r lt n u t

varal slIfso adccIa

HiNT: When Frankenstein’s monster sits on potatoes, you get this.

ANSWER: O N A H T O E S

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S
ON THIS
CuPCakeS! cupcakes were sometimes called
“number cakes” because recipes often called for one cup of
butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour and four eggs.
Today’s cupcakes include much wackier ingredients
– everything from marshmallow to chili!

rAspBerries
were used to treat
sore eyes and throats
– and even In the
to clean teeth. Netherlands
sprinKles are
commonly used
as a topping
on bread.

It can take
up to 400 cocoa
beans to make

REBECCA HALE / NGS STAFF (CUPCAKE); © TOLCHIK / SHUTTERSTOCK (BACKGROUND)

about 500 grams of Ancient
cHocolATe. Greeks may have
offered cAKe to the
moon goddess Artemis.
Candles were added to
make the cakes glow
like the moon.
Before
frosTinG
became the
topping of choice,
cupcakes were
covered with
(gross!) lard.
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Add 2 large eggs Spoon about Repeat step 4
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1 cup of milk and cup so they are cool for 5 minutes
12 muffin cups 1 teaspoon of baking powder, before icing.
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FROZEN 3-D
Anna is fearless and the most optimistic person you’ll
ever meet. She’s the Ice Princess and her sister, Elsa, is
the Snow Queen of Arendelle–a kingdom that is now
trapped in an eternal winter!
The sisters were close until Anna messed up at Elsa’s
coronation. Elsa is admired and respected by everyone
but she has the secret power to create ice and snow.
When she accidentally unleashes a magical secret that
turns the kingdom white, she goes into hiding and Anna
sets off on the epic journey to find her.
Elsa is in an ice palace that she made and is protected
by fierce snowmen. Anna is armed with only her fearless
attitude and her faith in others. She stumbles upon a
mountain man(Kristoff)and his loyal reindeer(Sven).
He is an ice harvester and a loner. His messy
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ZUMBA® KIDS
Kinect for XboX 360, Wii
The funky fitness dance for adults
has been redesigned for kids aged 7 to 12.
There are 30 dance styles, mini games, easy
routines and songs loved by kids.
With the customisable menus you can
show off your personal style and make the
game your own.
Zumba® Kids makes being active fun.
It can help you build confidence and find
rhythm while having a good time.
There are three different game modes:
you do a single dance routine in Quick Play,
choose from 30 preset classes or create
your own in Full Party or earn points and
rewards in My Zumba® . Along the way you
can unlock bonus videos, stickers, buttons
and lifestyle tips.
Two players on a Kinect and four players
on a Wii can have a contest with friends and
family with either salsa, hip-hop, swing or
Tahitian moves. You’ll get easy tips on how
to be active and healthy while having lots of
fun with this interactive game.
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JUST DANCE® 2014
Wii, WiiU, XboX one, X360, PS3 or PS4
It’s party time! Just Dance® 2014 knows
how to get a party going.
Its latest edition has all-new moves with
breakthrough features for every motion
control platform and over 40 popular
tracks and dances.
Own the dance floor with the best moves
for cool tunes by Justin Bieber, Katy Perry,
One Direction, Psy and lots more.
Parents can join in the fun, too, with
legendary songs like “I Will Survive”,
“YMCA” and “Flashdance... What a feeling”.
The new features include World Dance
Floor , where you can dance with anyone
anywhere in the world; Just Dance DJ,
which turns you into a virtual DJ; On Stage
Mode , where you get your own backing
dancers and Just
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