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We know how much you love your pets. Now you can send us photos, drawings and letters especially for this page! You can also send questions about your pet to our NG KIDS vet.


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Central Kalimantan, borneo Siswi the orang-utan would make a dentist proud. The 34-year-old ape has been spotted scrubbing her teeth with a toothbrush! “She doesn’t brush regularly,” says Biruté Mary Galdikas, president of Orangutan Foundation International, which works to protect Tanjung Puting National Park where Siswi lives. “But if someone hands her a toothbrush and she’s in the mood, she’ll start cleaning her mouth.” Does Siswi scrub her chompers to prevent cavities? Not exactly. Orang-utans sometimes use their fingers to clean their teeth but they’re also very good at imitating actions they see. Siswi has watched many humans living in the area brush their teeth at a nearby river. “When she brushes, she’s copying them,” Biruté says. The orang-utan may also enjoy the minty taste of toothpaste. Another reason why the animal cleans her teeth: she’s getting ready to pose for the camera. “Siswi’s much more likely to start brushing if someone’s about to take a picture,” Biruté says. “She’s a bit of a diva.” – John Micklos, Jr

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Buckinghamshire, England When Trifle the hedgehog injured three of his legs, he received a lot of TLC – and some fancy footwear. To help the prickly animal recover, veterinarians at Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital fitted his legs with miniature blue casts. Trifle had been rushed to the hospital after he was found limping badly. An X-ray showed the hedgehog’s front leg was broken and his two back legs were fractured. Vets wrapped the limbs in bandages and plaster, just like casts made for humans. Soon Trifle was on the move again. “This little guy had so much energy, even casts couldn’t stop him from running around,” head nurse Clare Campbell says. “And they positioned his bones so they could heal more quickly.” After a couple of months, Trifle’s casts came off and the hedgehog was set free in the hospital’s garden so vets could keep an eye on him. “Trifle is coping very well without the casts,” Clare says. “He doesn’t miss them – even though they did make him look pretty stylish!” – John Micklos, Jr.

Trifle Siswi wonder d if i’ll fin t n ie c n a an y. chew to

Migaloo

dog BEcomEs arcHaEologist Brisbane, australia Migaloo the dog has a real nose for history. She’s the world’s first canine archaeologist, using her powerful sniffer to find buried ancient remains. “The work is like a game to Migaloo,” owner Gary Jackson says. “When she arrives at an archaeological site, she immediately begins smelling the soil for bones.” The four-year-old pooch trained for six months to prepare for her job and was rewarded with a game of fetch whenever she made a discovery. Now Migaloo regularly joins excavation teams to search for remains of Australia’s first inhabitants, the Aborigine. The pup’s coolest find? Bones that were 600 years old and buried two metres underground! “Dogs have at least 125 million receptors in their noses that pick up scents – humans only have 5 to 10 million,” dog expert Stewart Hilliard says. “This super sensitive snout makes dogs like Migaloo great for archaeological work.” Migaloo also has some cool moves. “When she makes a find, she does a shimmy,” Gary says. “It’s her victory dance.” – April Capochino Myers

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e know you love exploring. So why not take a picture to show the world? From 21 to 29 September 2013 people all over the planet will be sharing awesome outdoor photos as part of the Great Nature Project. It is a worldwide celebration encouraging people of all ages to appreciate nature by taking a snapshot of a plant or an animal and sharing it. Together we’ll create a global snapshot of the diverse life on our planet – and every animal picture will help set a Guinness World Record Title.

o by chuck kennedy (mrs. Obama and bO, bOth); selena gOmez (baylOr); MICHAEL N / natiOnal geOgraPhic creative (sQuirrel); JOsePh m. arseneau / shutterstOck (frOg); nancy bauer / shutterstOck (butterfly); tOny camPbell / shutterstOck (bird); NA N (bird, flOWer)

All photos must incorporate a plant or an animal but only the animal ones will go towards the Guinness World Record Title.

Go wild! In South Africa we are lucky to have lots of wildlife and an amazing variety of plants, but photographs taken in your backyard will do. Close-up pics are better than faraway shots. Readers! Get your parents, uncles and aunts and grandparents involved. Don’t forget your teachers. Adults can upload their pictures to Instagram, Flickr and Twitter using the hashtag #greatnature. To take part in the record add #animal to any photo of an animal.

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Take a picture of an animal – a butterfly, a squirrel, even your pet outside.(The animal must be a major part of the photo, which must be at least 300 by 300 pixels.) Grab a parent and upload your photo to ngkidsmyshot.com. Hashtag the photo #GreatNature and #animal. Go take more photos! You can upload as many as you want, as long as they’re all different. 17 17 17 17 Go online for more information 18 about the Great nature Project: 18 18 18 kids.nationalgeographic.com/Greatnature 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20 21 21 21 21 22 22 22 22 23 23 23 23

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Jack and the Flumflum Tree

Set sail with Jack and his crew of two to the Isle of Blowyernose. Can they get the flumflum fruit they need to cure Granny’s mozzles?

I’m Dougal Trump and It’s Not My Fault! Dougal, a soccermad kid, is afraid of a mysterious creature living in the family’s garden shed. Nobody believes him, so he’s blamed for all that goes wrong.

Waarvoor is seerowers bang?

Everyone knows pirates are brave and fearless, but Sanmarie uncovers the ONE thing they are really, really scared of!

Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet

A story of friendship, bravery and a courageous fight for freedom.

Cats Ahoy!

Fancy Nancy loses out to another ballerina as the star mermaid in the school ballet and she’s a little sad about it. Instead she gets to play a little tree. It sounds dull, but can she make it fun?

Alfonso the cat hears there’s a trawler on its way to the harbour carrying loads of fish so he hatches a brave, bold plan that involves cats – lots of cats.

The Unforgotten Coat

Two Mongolian refugee brothers, Chingis and Nergui Tuul, make an unforgettable impression on their school teacher, Julie. Then they suddenly disappear. When she tracks them down many years later, Julie uncovers the truth.

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y b a b s lp e h s u m a t o p A hippo . r e iv r g in g a r a s s o r c animals By Karen de Seve

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t is rush hour in africa. every October thousands of wildebeest and zebras gather along the banks of the Mara river. They wait to cross the deep, rushing waters as part of their seasonal journey from the Masai Mara national reserve in Kenya to the Serengeti national Park in Tanzania. The river flows so fast that full-grown animals struggle to swim to the other side. “When the river is full, lots of animals drown trying to cross,” says Tom yule, who runs the nearby Lemala Mara safari camp. Watching from the river’s edge, Tom sees a wildebeest calf and later a zebra foal jump into the water. But he doesn’t expect what happens next.

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The little wildebeest tries to paddle across the river but is swept away by the strong current. The calf tries to keep its head above water while floating downstream. Suddenly something rises out of the water: a large, dark head followed by the hulking body of a hippopotamus. “The hippo had been lying in the water near where the animals jump in and immediately went after the calf,” Tom says. Hippos can be aggressive and even deadly when defending territory, so he wonders if the hippo will attack the young wildebeest.

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The strong hippo defies the current and uses its body to stop the wildebeest calf’s scary ride downstream. Like a tugboat guiding a ship filled with precious cargo, the hippo shepherds the little beast to the other side of the river. Tom and other bystanders watch in disbelief. “I had never witnessed anything like that,” he says. The wildebeest reaches the opposite bank and runs back upstream to rejoin the herd.

zebra in trouble

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Tom thinks the drama is over when suddenly the river grabs hold of a small zebra foal. He watches as the tiny striped head dips underwater and then resurfaces. Just when it looks as if the zebra won’t make it, the hippo suddenly appears. Again the huge hippo helps the baby across to the shallow water on the other side. The exhausted youngster can barely stand. The hippo gently nudges the zebra into a safe nook between two large rocks. “The hippo got out of the water and started to nuzzle the foal with its great jaws,” Tom says. “And then it coaxed the zebra to cross a small channel and climb up the slope of the opposite bank to its mum.”

safe on land

4 WANT MORE? WANT MORE? Go online for a video of a hippo cleaninG station at kids.nationalgeographic.com/videos/

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© tony heald / npl / minden pictures (big picture); tom yule (three insets)

WANT MORE? Tom thinks the hippo will be too exhausted for any more

superhero moments. But it settles back into the river to keep a watchful eye. There are other accounts of hippos comforting baby animals after saving them from near death, including from a crocodile. “Animals are unpredictable and each one has its own personality,” Tom says. “This hippo’s instincts are to help those that need it. It’s just like protective people who help others.”

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elieve it or not, vultures are obsessed with hygiene. They clean up carcasses of animals that have died of natural causes or predator attacks. Special acids in their digestive systems destroy bacteria like anthrax, cholera and rabies, preventing the spread of life-threatening diseases. Vultures also bath regularly! After feeding, they wash in water pools and rest in the sun to dry. Most vulture species share some features but each one has a specific job in nature’s recycling squad. Special tasks need special tools, so let’s find out what makes a few of South Africa’s vultures the best birds in the cleaning business.

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Whiteheaded vuLture [the earLy bird]

If there is a carcass to be cleaned up, this colourful fellow will be the first at the e, it is scene. Being a smaller vulturrely on thermals as much. light and agile and does not thers are signals for fea Its striking black and white higher. They keep an r the bigger species that soa ture and when it swoops eye on the white-headed vulearly bird suits this down, they follow. Being the uchy nature. Once other vulture’s shy and slightly gro e bits of meat and tak species arrive, it prefers to m the crowd. fro ay aw ce tan dis e feed som

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Lappet-faced vuLture [the boss]

The lappet-faced vulture is called the “King of Vultur es” because it is so big, strong and bossy. Its wingspan measu res almost three metres and it is a grumpy, aggressive character. But these are not the only reasons for other species to step back when the boss arrives. Its big, curved beak allows it to tear tough hide. If an animal has died of natural causes, other vultures often cannot feed until it has opened up the carcass. Most of them prefer soft meat but that suits the lappe t-faced vulture. Its favourite bits are hide, tendons and sinew which are all too tough for the rest. Even if it does arrive last, it will always have plenty to eat.

uRe’s Recyclers

how vultures keep the veld clean and healthy

By RENÉE DE WET

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hooded vulture [the polisher]

The hooded vulture is smaller than the other members of nature’s cleaning team, so it is usually pushed aside by bigger species. But its long, narrow beak helps it to make the most of leftovers by picking out morsels between bones. If it is still hungry, it is quite happy to snack on bird eggs, insects and small animals. Hooded vultures are also less nervous around humans and have earned the nickname “ garbage collectors” from scavenging at rubbish dumps.

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White-backed vulture [the mop mobster]

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What a mess!

All our vultures are in trouble. Accidentally colliding with high tension wires can kill or badly injure them. Less wildlife roaming free means less food and many have to eat insects and small animals. This food isn’t nutritious enough to prevent deformities and illness. Farmers sometimes poison carcasses to kill predators but end up killing vultures instead. Even some livestock medicines can harm them. Vultures can help farmers. When they draw attention to dead livestock, disease outbreaks can be stopped in time. Vultures also get rid of carcasses that are not fit for humans to eat.

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Dr Gerhard Verdoorn, Director of the Griffon Poison Information Centre, explains that disease would spread like wildfire from game parks and conservation areas to farms without vultures. “It would be a disaster,” he says. “Vultures are at the top of the food chain and losing them would have a serious impact

on the whole ecology.” Vultures only raise one chick at a time and out of 100 hatchlings only five survive to adulthood. Vulture populations cannot keep up with the big losses they are suffering now.

a DaY FOR VuLtuRes!

International Vulture Day is on 7 September 2013. It started when Birds of Prey Programme in South Africa and the Hawk Conservancy Trust in England decided to work together and turn their project into an international event. Populations of many species are under threat and some are facing extinction. Here are some of the local groups taking part in this day: Bearded Vulture Task Force, Maluti Drakensberg Vulture Project and Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife. Go to www.vultureday.org to find out more.

Let’s cLean It up!

We depend on vultures to do what they do best – clean up and work together. We can follow their

How vultures are perfectly designed for recycling

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Long necks allow them to get into the nooks and crannies of a carcass to do a proper cleaning job. Bald heads are easier to keep clean and this protects them from disease. They also keep vultures cool in the sun, but it can get a bit chilly when they soar a few kilometres above the ground. Not to worry – they have built-in scarves! While they soar, they pull their heads into the ruff of feathers around the base of their necks to keep warm.

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Many species roost in tall trees or on high cliffs so that they can take off more easily but they must wait for the sun to warm the ground. This creates thermals, or rising pockets of hot air, which the vultures use to keep them soaring

without burning much energy as they scan the ground for food.

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They are big birds, so they can eat quickly and easily. Vultures eat up to 10 percent of their weight in one meal. That’s like you eating 25 hamburgers in one go.

example by teaming up to wipe out wrong ideas about these amazing birds. Organisations like VulPro are doing it already. At its educational and rehabilitation centre in Hartbeespoort injured vultures get treatment and people get a chance to learn about and even interact with them.

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The first vulture restaurant was created in the Giant’s Castle Nature Reserve in the 1960s, but this successful plan for saving vultures only became popular in the 1990s. Now there are 149 vulture restaurants in South Africa. VulPro’s research helps to ensure that the birds get safe food and that everyone from the vultures to landowners and from farmers to kids benefit from this amazing conservation effort. “Vultures are indicators of the health of our environment,” says Kerri Wolter, the founder and manager of VulPro. “We should protect them for the sake of our own ecosystem and our planet.”

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ecording what you learn is an important part of a scientist’s job. When you are in the field it’s good to keep your camera handy and even better if photography is your hobby. Meet four animal conservationists who love taking photographs of the animals they love. Name: Michael Adams Conservationist, Reptile Park, National Zoological Gardens of South Africa my work: I’m part of a team caring for the reptiles and amphibians at the zoo. I take particular pride in caring for the endangered Pickersgill’s reed frogs we got as part of a collaborative programme.

my photograph: This is a picture of the Pickersgill’s reed frog that is endemic to the KwaZulu-Natal coast. The species is critically endangered and the zoo is taking part in a captive breeding programme. It is only three centimetres long, so it requires a special lens to get the right picture.

pickersgill’s reed frog

Name: Marine Drouilly Conservation biologist, University of Cape Town my work: Every day is full of discoveries and adventure. I study how animals interact with one another, their environment and with people. This is the science called ecology. this photograph was taken in July 2010 on Kodiak Island, Alaska, in the extreme northwest of America. That is more than 16 000 kilometres from South Africa! We were researching what climate change does to the main food resources of Kodiak bears, the biggest brown bears in the world. These three cubs were watching their mother fishing salmons and learning her tricks. The sow (the female bear) had a GPS collar that we used to follow her so we could find out what she ate.

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Name: Lauren de Vos Researcher, Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town my Work: As a scientist I’m devoted to protecting our vulnerable oceans. I use BRUV (Baited Underwater Video) which I edit into clips that show people what my work is about. my photograph: This is a roman, a brightly coloured fish that lives on the reef and is often caught by fishermen. The roman lives long and defends its territory fiercely! The photo was taken in False Bay in the Western Cape. In the background you can see a leopard catshark. Taking photos and video helps me to figure out how many fish live in an area, what different species can be found and where they live. The cameras allow me to do this without disturbing the sea creatures. I use the information to help protect our oceans.

Make your mark and take part

The National Geographic Society, to which NG KIDS belongs, has its headquarters in Washington in America. It is a non-profit organisation devoted to the conservation of the world’s cultural, historical and natural resources. Its purpose is to inspire people to care about their planet. This year the Society celebrates its 125th anniversary. One birthday event is to create an enormous collection of photographs to celebrate biodiversity. National Geographic is famous for its amazing photography. Now it’s your turn. Find out on page 12 how you can take part in the Great Nature Project. Name: Ross Wanless Researcher, Percy Fitzpatrick Institute for African Ornothology my Work: I’ve got the coolest job: making sure seabirds such as albatrosses and penguins don’t become extinct. my photograph. Part of my work involves studying the Tristan albatross, which breeds only at Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Their huge wings are used to catch the wind. With the right winds they can fly more than 100 kilometres (that would be from Johannesburg to Pretoria and back) without flapping their wings once. They are listed as Critically Endangered, which means there are very few of them left, and their numbers are going down every year. I use photography to create awareness of their plight.

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hair stands straiGht UP This is one hair-raising guy! Kazuhiro watanabe of Japan holds the record for the tallest Mohawk, measuring more than 106 centimetres tall. Three cans of hair spray – plus lots of hair gel – help sculpt the masterpiece. Kazuhiro usually wears his hair in a ponytail since his Mohawk creates challenges such as ducking through doorways. Another challenge? Small dogs often bark at him.

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MOVING t is your toilet running? edd China’s is! The world’s fastest bathroom can travel up to 68 kilometres per hour. The contraption is a motorcycle underneath bathroom fixtures that don’t work. edd sits on a toilet and steers the vehicle with controls in the sink. Passengers can ride in a bathtub on top of the motorcycle’s sidecar and there’s even a laundry basket for dirty clothes.

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These are some small shoes to fill – horseshoes, that is. with a shoulder height of 63 centimetres Charly is the smallest living stallion. That’s shorter than a cricket bat. Charly is tiny, but there’s an even tinier mare: Thumbelina, who’s 19 centimetres shorter.

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WANT TO BE A BiOlOGiCAl OCEANOGRApHER? STUDY: atics, physics hem Mat and marine biology WATCH: The documentary film Oceans READ: 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Biological oceanographer Kakani Katija studies the motions of marine animals. She tells NG KIDS about a night dive in a nearly pitch-black sea swarming with jellyfish.

y team and I plunged into the water. We couldn’t turn on any bright lights until we reached our destination nearly 30 metres down, or the jellies would be scared off. So we dived through the sea in darkness. Finally we made it to our site. I switched on an underwater lamp and panned it around me. Jellyfish were everywhere! Whenever a light beam hit one, the animal would start to glow. It was incredible. “My job is to watch how marine animals move through the water – many glide along with amazing efficiency. Then I think about designing underwater vehicles that move in the same way. This may help us invent submarines that whisk you to the deepest parts of the ocean. I also investigate how swimming marine animals affect the movement of ocean water. Even groups of tiny sea creatures like five-centimetre-long krill affect their environment in a big way. “The work can be tiring. We study nocturnal animals and often dive at night. You don’t sleep much! But I love being in the field. Our oceans are important and we’ve explored only a sliver of them. There’s much more to see.”

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. Coming next month: Pilot Barrington Irving jets around the world.

“Never stop learning. Learn as much as you can and never close yourself off to any opportunity.”

Kakani is a jellyfish expert and understands how they behave. You DoN’t! Never approach or attempt to handle any kind of jellyfish.

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The medical staff is startled by the severity of his wounds. “When I first saw him, I wondered how he could still be alive,” says veterinarian Amber Gillett. Shaving off Lewis’s thick fur reveals deep bites near his throat and on his legs and abdomen. Amber must perform surgery on the koala’s belly to check for injuries that could kill him. Luckily the koala passes the check. Amber cleans Lewis’s badly infected bite wounds. Medical staff give Lewis strong antibiotics, close his wounds with dozens of stitches and bandage him almost from head to toe. Most injured koalas treated by the hospital are either hit by cars or mauled by dogs. Amber believes as suburbs continue to overtake the koalas’ dwindling forest habitat – nearly two-thirds have been cut down – people should be more responsible about their pets. “There are all sorts of Dr. Amber Gillett (All)

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Lewis is taken to the area where he was rescued, then carried in a cage deep into the bush – far from private property and dogs. After a half-hour hike the release team finds an ideal tree and open the cage. “He was a bit hesitant,” Amber says. “He looked around as if wondering what he was doing there.” But Lewis gets a good grip on the bark and knows just what to do. He climbs straight up the tree, finds a comfy spot and starts eating. Amber is thrilled with her patient’s progress. “It was amazing to see him come from the sick little animal at death’s door to being back up a tree again, looking happy and healthy,” she says. national GeoGraphic KiDS

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yrenee ou’re on your way to meet a friend for a movie at the newest mall in town. Your friend lives on the 40th floor of this high-tech building that just opened and the cinema is on the 15th. You turn the corner, expecting to see a skyscraper, but it’s not there. Are you lost? Studying the directions, you notice it says 15th floor down. Glancing past your feet, you realise you’re standing on a clear surface. Looking down, you see an atrium stretching 65 floors below. Inside are terraces with green parks and walking paths. Welcome to Earthscraper. Still on the drawing board, the building is a pyramid-shaped skyscraper built upside down. It’s designed to create

The size of almost four soccer fields, the Zócalo is a huge, central plaza in Mexico City used for concerts and other gatherings. The concrete plaza would become a transparent glass surface to form the roof of Earthscraper.

AT THE TOP

more living and working space in the historic part of Mexico City, where skyscrapers are forbidden in an effort to preserve the area’s architectural heritage. “The city has been growing fast,” says Emelio Barjau of BNKR Arquitectura, the firm that designed Earthscraper. “We need more housing, office space and cultural centres but we don’t have space.” He hopes Earthscraper will revitalise the city centre so less people will move to the suburbs, which will slow down urban sprawl. Some say building so far underground is crazy, but Emelio says it can be done. Check out what this underground town will have.

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An efficient system of lifts, hanging platforms, stairs and escalators will make moving around Earthscraper quick and easy. Enclosed platforms hanging from a giant crane will transport people up and down to key floors. Preprogrammed lifts will zip passengers to designated floors and travellers can finish their trip using stairs or escalators.

MOVING AROUND

Sunlight will light the atrium and long, transparent glass fibres will channel the light into hallways, offices and flats. At night Earthscraper’s lights will turn on and illuminate the Zócalo as well.

LIGHT IT UP

This is the centrepiece of Earthscraper. The open space creates an outside-in experience. Instead of facing outside, windows will open toward the terraces and greenery of the atrium. There will be gardens and parks with fields for ball games on every tenth floor.

THE ATRIUM

Will Earthscraper be built? Leonard Joseph, a structural engineer, is not convinced. “Asking people to live underground is a stretch unless there’s a really good reason,” he says. But Emelio thinks building down is a way to prevent future problems with energy supplies and overcrowding. “The technology will have to be invented for it,” he says. “We proposed something to get people thinking and talking about buildings for the future.”

COMING TO A HOLE NEAR YOU?

Earthscraper’s first ten floors will be a historical and cultural museum (above), including any artifacts discovered during the digging. Below that will be a shopping mall, restaurants and a cinema. The rest of the floors will have offices and flats.

LIVE, WORK, PLAY

Recycled wastewater from sinks, showers and toilets will provide clean water for people and plants in Earthscraper.

TOILET WATER

You can walk or ride the subway into Earthscraper but you can’t drive into it and park. The designers want to encourage mass transit to avoid adding to the traffic jams on the surface.

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NOTHING BEATS

A FAMILY BRAAI! CELEBRATE

NATIONAL BRAAI DAY WITH

NG KIDS AND WIN A CADAC PATIO

ENTERTAINER SUPREME, PLUS THREE COPIES OF JAN BRAAI’S NEW RECIPE BOOK, RED HOT.

Heritage Day on 24 September is now also known as National Braai Day. Did you know that there is an anthem for Braai Day? Check it out at

Always ask an adult for help in the kitchen when using a stove or any sharp object.

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RUNNERS-UP: THREE copies of Red Hot by Jan Braai

Red Hot* is packed with delicious African, Eastern and European meals. There are even recipes for desserts you can make on the grill. This book will also teach you how to make simple South African braai treats “lekker” and fun. Every braai master should have a copy! * Some recipes include alcohol or pork but these can easily be substituted.

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recipe for each category per entrant will be accepted and each entry must include a separate copy of the entry form. • All entries remain the property of NG KIDS and we regret that we cannot return recipes or photographs. • The National Geographic Society (NGS) and Media24 (Ltd) accept no responsibility for loss or damage. • Please supply a residential rather than a postal address. • NG KIDS and the NGS retain the right to use all recipes and photographs in post-competition publicity throughout the world. • We reserve the right to display recipes and photographs with a credit to the entrant. • Winners may decline to have their name used in advertising or listed publicly. • In this instance NG KIDS/NGS reserves the right to publish the recipe and photograph without credit and by entering into this competition they accept this. •The winners will be notified telephonically at the end of November 2013 and their names will appear in the December 2013 issue of NG KIDS magazine. • Prizes cannot be exchanged and no cash alternative will be offered. • Allow two months from announcement of the winners for delivery of prizes. • A panel will judge the entries based on taste (40 percent), creativity (30 percent) and presentation (30 percent). • The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into. • Employees of Media24 (Ltd), sponsors and their agents or any company associated with the competition and their immediate families are not eligible to enter. • Digital entries must be 5MB or smaller and must be in JPEG format. • The competition is open to entrants living in southern Africa; those outside South Africa but within southern Africa (Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique) accept that postage or courier costs will be incurred if they win a prize. • Four winners will each win a Kidchen Concepts hamper valued at R5 000 which includes separate kits for a cake, cookie, gingerbread and pancake. They will also win a membership to Kidchen Concepts as well an apron, chef jacket and hat. PLUS The Snappy Chef Induction Stove, Mini oven and a cooking supplies hamper. • The entrant accepts that entry to the competition does not constitute a contract or any form of legal commitment between the entrant and NG KIDS. • NG KIDS/Media24 (Ltd) or the NGS shall not assume liability for any ambiguity, error, oversight or omission whether negligent or otherwise which may be committed by any employee of NG KIDS, their agents or associates in respect of this competition. • See full terms and conditions for all competitions and giveaways in NG KIDS.• Entry signifies acceptance of the rules.

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La Quinceañera is the _____ birthday of a Mexican girl that is widely celebrated. A. 16th B. 18th C. 13th D. 15th

How long does it take for fawns to start walking after they’ve been born? A. One minute B. One hour C. One day D. One week

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These photographs show close-up views of national flowers of the world. Unscramble the letters to identify what’s in each picture. Bonus: Use the highlighted letters to solve the puzzle below. answers on page 50

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The Invis-Maker

Charis Bedderson, 10, Plumstead

Pizza in a tube

Linel Engelbrecht, 9, Mossel Bay

Weird Alien

Ilan Hassall, 8, Cape Town

FlowerLion

Sara Hassall, 12, Cape Town

Save the rhinos

Emilie Alexander, 11, Constantia Hills

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