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Perhaps the best answer is that they lick to get your attention. If you laugh because you think it’s cute, they are likely to do it again.

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Welcome Bay, New Zealand When Annette Swoffer went to investigate some odd noises coming from her kitchen, she got a big THE SEAL surprise: a wild fur seal had sneaked into her house GETS COMFY. through the cat door.

The creature waddled past Annette and had a friendly nose-to-nose sniff with her dog. It then shuffled to the enclosed porch, pulled itself onto the sofa and curled up for a nap.

As the seal rested, Annette called to alert officials about her flippered guest.

“Many fur seals come into town from the nearby harbour,” says Chris Clark of the New Zealand Department of Conservation. “Often they’re just looking for company.”

Annette thinks the seal followed her cat into the house. She didn’t mind hosting the uninvited guest until Chris could fetch it. “The seal was funny,” she says. “I just wish it had knocked first!” © Tui De Roy / Minden Pictures (fur seal, big); © D. Hurst / Alamy (sofa); stephanie clark (fur seal, small); © Oregon Zoo / Photo

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Portland, America Aldo the black bear cub is definitely cute. But when he was playing with his plush beaver toy, he was truly adorable. “He’d make a fuss if you ever moved it,” says zoo keeper Michelle Schireman, who used to take care of Aldo.

The orphaned cub was brought to the zoo after being found alone in the woods. Soon the exhausted and hungry bear was healthy again and very energetic. “He played with every object in sight, including my shoes,” Michelle says. “We decided to get him his own toy.”

The cub immediately bonded with the fluffy beaver. He loved belly-flopping on to the stuffed animal and wrestling playfully with it.

He’d drag the soft toy around and nuzzle it before going to sleep.

“Like people, bear cubs can feel comforted by warm and fuzzy things, including stuffed animals,” says Carmen Murach, an animal curator at the zoo Aldo was moved to. Aldo is older now and has outgrown his need for a stuffed animal.

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Instead, the brainy animal scored himself an umbrella!

The primate had been roaming around his open area at the Dudley Zoological Gardens one drizzly morning when he saw a woman with an open umbrella.

Getting close, he tapped on her leg. The startled visitor dropped her rain gear and Yoda plucked it off the ground. He twirled it around by the handle and reached up to touch the umbrella’s smooth fabric canopy. Then he dashed away, holding the umbrella over his head. Yoda only dropped it when a gust of wind nearly knocked him down.

Although Yoda avoided getting soaked by snagging the gear, staying dry may not have been his main goal. “Lemurs don’t mind getting a little wet,” senior curator Derek Grove says. In fact, he may just have been curious and playful. “Rain or shine, Yoda likes to have fun,” says Derek.

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It’s easy to tell male and femal e house sparrow s apart, as the females are paler and have pink legs.

Sizing Up the house sparrow 14 to 15 centimetres length favourite Seeds. In the breeding food: season they switch to insects, which is what their hungry chicks want.

The best muffins are on the corner of Kloof and River road.

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mall, brown and everywhere you look. This streetwise little bird likes living near humans. You’ll find them bathing in a gutter after rain and picking up crumbs as people eat their lunchtime sandwiches in the sun.

Because it’s not as flashy as some of their cousins, the common old house sparrow can easily be overlooked by bird lovers.

Mohammed Dilawar of the Nature Forever Society in India realised that sparrows from his home town were disappearing. He decided 20 March would be World Sparrow Day and 2013 is the third year of his campaign. It turns out house sparrow numbers have been dropping in some Indian cities. The Indian capital Delhi has even adopted the house sparrow as its state bird to create awareness before it’s too late.

This little bird is struggling to live in modern cities. It prefers nesting in old-fashioned eaves rather than high, glass and concrete buildings. It struggles to find enough food when

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gardens are sprayed with pesticide or paved over and grains are processed in factories instead of in the open air.

The house sparrow occurs naturally in Europe and parts of Asia but was introduced to Australia, Africa and North and South America. Workers from India brought the bird with them to Durban in the 1880s and 1890s when they settled in South Africa. From there the bird spread into other parts of southern Africa and as far as Malawi and Zambia.

Sparrows don’t seem to be disappearing from South Africa but some research shows they are moving out of cities like Cape Town to the countryside.

The European house sparrow is also in trouble. It has disappeared from central London in England where it was once very common. Some researchers are saying simple things like leaving grass to seed in winter rather than cutting it would help. Seems like modern cities are too tidy for this bird!

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SAILBOAT ON LAND SO MANY YO-YOS! “Around the World” is probably a super-easy trick for this yo-yo master. Ben McPhee can spin 16 yo-yos simultaneously, the most on record. He starts by spinning ten yo-yos and hanging them on hooks. The others? Two hang from each hand, two from each ear, and two are clenched between his teeth.

Let’s hope he doesn’t get tied up in all that string.

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Racing at 201,8 kilometres per hour across a Nevada desert, this cool wind-powered contraption became the fastest land yacht ever.

Called the Ecotricity Greenbird, it seems to sail like a boat on water.

But if the driver doesn’t catch the wind of 50 kilometres per hour just right, the land yacht might bite the dust ... – Molly Marcot

Wearing a dress costing R48 000, Baby Hope Diamond the dog wasn’t just a bride. She was a bride in a pet wedding valued at R1 265 498, the most expensive on record. Dog guests wore tuxedos and evening gowns, dined on a special dog chow buffet and listened to an orchestra that cost R200 000.

Although the wedding expenses were donated, human guests paid up to R2 000 to attend, raising money for the Humane Society of New York. That’s something that the groom, Chilly the dog, can really wag his tail about.

– Angela Modany

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Snowy owls are birds of prey.

They’re built to survive winter in the Arctic, where they are top predators.

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Stealthy Hunters How these birds of prey stay on the move to survive in cold climates A snowy owl can reach a top speed of 80 kilometres per hour.

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he winter wind blows across the open landscape. Short grasses and bushes struggle to stay upright, but a snowy owl hovers effortlessly in mid-air. His powerful wings, with a total span of 1,5 metres, defies the wind and allows him to hang nearly motionless with his eyes fixed on a small rodent. The owl is shooting forward to grab a rat when… whoosh! Aeroplane engines blast overhead, breaking the bird’s concentration and scaring the rat back underground.

The young male owl began life in the Arctic about five months ago. This winter he flew hundreds of kilometres south to

Logan International Airport near the city of Boston in America. Perched on a fence at the airport border, he turns his head upside down to clean his downy coat.

His white feathers are tipped with brown stripes. When he’s mature, he’ll be almost all white.

He hears something, spins his head to look behind him and launches. Like a stealth plane he glides silently for three kilometres until his keen eyes find a target at the water’s edge. He manoeuvres gracefully, stretches out his talons and snatches an unsuspecting duck. His sensitive feet tell him he killed it on impact. Dinner is served.

Raptors on the Move

Snowy owls are nomads that migrate to and from their Arctic breeding grounds each spring and autumn in a quest for food. The airport is a popular winter destination in the northeast of America.

“The habitat here is like the tundra, with short grass and rolling hills,” says Norman Smith, a raptor biologist and director of the Blue Hills Trailside Museum. “There are lots of rodents and the airport is surrounded by water, so there are ducks and other waterfowl.”

Snowy owls show up at the airport between November and April each year, the Northern Hemisphere winter. Norman has caught and released about 450 owls national Geographic KIDS

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at Logan since 1981. He captures the birds in a net trap, examines them and puts a metal band on one leg for future identification. Then he releases them away from aeroplane and car traffic. Sometimes he equips an owl with an electronic beacon so he can track where the bird goes. The beacons help researchers find out where snowy owls go when they’re not nesting on the Arctic tundra.

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Not all snowy owls migrate that far south.

Some stay in the Arctic and hunt there.

Others, like one lone female, endure the winter in constant darkness. The sun never rises in winter this far north. Sea ice covers the landscape and this owl is 160 kilometres from land. Temperatures can plummet to minus 40 degrees Celsius, but she’s not turning into a bird-sicle. Layers of feathers insulate her. Feathers cover her nostrils and feet, which are padded for warmth.

Her 60-centimetre-tall body is motionless as she conserves energy in the cold. She’s hungry, so she has to eat.

A short flight takes the owl to open water, where she swoops down and grabs an eider – a northern sea duck. She tears it apart with her beak, unaware that she is

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Find out more about snowy owls online at kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals where’s dinner? chicks huddle in their nest.

By May the female sits on top of a raised mound in the treeless tundra. She is keeping warm eight eggs. One by one fuzzy owlets hatch in mid-June. They snuggle under their mother’s wings and against the featherless brood patch on her belly to keep warm in temperature of four degrees. Hunting constantly, their father provides food for the whole family. The chicks grow quickly, each eating about two lemmings a day.

Today the male returns to find the female pretending to be injured, trying to lure away snowy owl researcher Denver Holt, who is examining and banding the chicks.

The parents think he is a predator. The hooting male drops the lemming he’s carrying and it hits Denver on the head.

Then the owl rakes Denver’s back with his sharp talons. The assault continues until the Tundra Life researcher leaves. The angry birds quickly As the springtime sea ice thaws, the become doting parents again. “It’s pretty female migrates overland to find a good intense, but you learn to deal with it and nesting site. She lands on the tundra near duck,” Denver says.

Barrow, Alaska, satisfied that When the owlets are about two months there is a good supply of old, their fluffy grey down gives way to lemmings. These rodents white-and-brown feathers. They are are the summertime The snowy learning to fly. By October, all of the staple of snowy owls. owl is also known chicks are ready to strike out on their Lots of lemmings mean as the great own. They glide silently into the plenty of food, so snowy white owl or the darkness to their winter destinations. owls will lay many eggs. arctic owl. being monitored. When she was nesting this past summer, researchers fitted her with a bird-sized backpack beacon. It sends out a signal with her location via satellite every five days.

Researchers used to think snowy owls always flew south in winter, but this bird’s transmitter has tracked her to the sea ice near Baffin Island in the Canadian High Arctic. “It was a big surprise for us to see them staying north,” says Gilles Gauthier, a professor at Canada’s Laval University.

“Most of the snowy owls we tracked spent one to three months on the ice.” Gilles says the owl knows there are gaps in the ice where seabirds gather. This is a useful guide for a hungry owl.

better left in the wild Harry Potter’s snowy owl, Hedwig, made a good companion on screen. In real life, snowy owls are not good pets. Besides needing a constant supply of whole rodents to eat, these hunters require lots of flying space. Experts sometimes have permits to keep injured birds in captivity if they’d be unable to survive in the wild. Otherwise, it’s illegal to keep snowy owls in captivity.

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“a bicycle built for two�.

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There are about 15 million bicycles that work in South Africa.

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In the Netherlands engineers are working on an airbag that is fitted to the outside of a car to protect cyclists in an accident.

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Heinz Stücke has travelled 600 000 kilometres on a bicycle in the last 50 years. That’s more than anybody else.

with the front of your foot, your leg will be slightly bent.

Some expensive bicycles are made of titanium, the same metal used to make artificial hip joints.

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By robert o’neill AS TOLD TO JULIKA KENNAWAY

PHOTOS JULIKA KENNAWAY

J

ust a while ago I was at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, where I’m treated for cystic fibrosis. One day I was chatting to a lady called Margy. I was telling her about the things I love.

For a start, I like bugs! Black scorpions are my favourite creepy crawlies.

My mum saw one in Namibia and they are very dangerous.

I go searching for every kind of bug like spiders and ladybirds and I make my mum and grandma search too. My grandpa even bought a magnifying glass so I can observe them more closely. Cheetahs are amazing because they can run so fast. I have a toy cheetah that goes to hospital with me.

I also really love owls, because they’re so special.

Margy listened to my dreams and I think she whispered them to someone else.

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MY DREAM DAY

One day my mum and grandma said that I didn’t have to go to school. We were going on a surprise trip. On the journey we met a man called Mark from the Reach for a Dream Foundation. He’s really cool and he took us to a place where I met my first live cheetah. He made my dream come true! I touched a cheetah whose name was Phoenix.

He purred when I touched him and it was awesome!

A cheetah is like me. People don’t understand me, because I’m different. It’s the same with a cheetah. I learnt there are Anatolian dogs that protect sheep and help to prevent cheetahs from being killed. That’s great!

Then Mark took us to Eagle Encounters at Spier, a farm near Cape Town, to see owls. I adore them. Owls are lovely because they are so cute and their eyes are beautiful and full of love. I always observe animals very closely and I noticed that some owls were “clicking”.

If they got hurt, or their legs or wings were broken, I would want to look after them and give them medicine.

When I’m older I want to work in nature conservation and help at animal sanctuaries whenever I can. I want to help all animals, because people don’t always understand them.

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Every few months I go to the Red Cross I was born with weak lungs and tummy Children’s Hospital. Hospital food is not nice problems. I get tired quickly and don’t – I prefer my mum’s. Sometimes I don’t feel feel very well. It’s something called like eating, other times I’m ravenous! I can cystic fibrosis. I take creon pills for my eat anything I want, but I have to take pills stomach to help me digest my food, before I eat. My favourite food is bread or vitamin B drops on my tongue and lots ribs with barbeque sauce. Auntie Vivien , who’s of other vitamins so I can keep strong. the nurse, likes to have competitions with me At night I use a spray for a runny nose. on how much I weigh and I always win. Then I I have a wheezy chest. If I wake up and have to blow to see how my lungs are working, am struggling to breathe, I ask Mum and the doctor looks at how things are going if she can get my “Ferrari”, because I with my body. Many people pray for me. need to be nebulised. It’s a machine with medicine which you inhale. If I FUN TIMES start wheezing, it’s good to do a few Once I’m home again, I play exercises that the physiotherapist with my ball and go for taught me. This makes everything Physiotherapist Brenda Mo rrow say walks with my grandma’s that is stuck in my lungs a bit looser It is important that kidss: dogs. One is called Yster, the and then it’s easier to breathe. I play with CF do a lot of other is called Loopy. I love ball, lift my arms, play with balloons, exercise, as this helps keep them because they’re blow with a straw the lungs healthy. They always happy and look into water and can play sports and shoul in the bath I can to eat like they’re always nt never be left out of gamesd importa s It’ smiling. Loopy is a have loads of fun is lots of food that because of CF! dachshund, while blowing bubbles with s Kid . fat in gh hi Yster is a crossbreed through a pipe. with long hair.

CF don’t absorb fat Physios often play games with us and too well, so they make us laugh. Sometimes they tap on can eat more fat our chests like a drum. This loosens than other kids! the mucus in the lungs. It’s like when you hit a tomato sauce bottle to get the sauce out, my physio says.

WITH CF

If you can’t breathe well, stay calm, ask your mum to give you an inhaler. You musn’t freak out. Just do some physio exercises – it really helps you to breathe!

OSIS? WHAT IS CYSTIC FIBR

I named my cheetah Phoenix after the one I met on my dream day out. I take him to hospital with me.

CF is a condition that affects the lungs, pancreas and digestive system.

A few people are born with it, but you can’t catch it from anyone.

It is caused by a cystic fibrosis gene, which you inherit.

The main symptoms are coughing, wheezing, chest infections, a sore tummy and salty skin.

Everyone with CF must take pills (enzymes) and do exercises every day to stay healthy.

People with CF can have fun, become parents, have careers and lead active, productive lives.

The good news is that the treatment for CF is constantly improving and doctors all over the world are working hard to find a cure.

Find out more at www.sacfa.org.za, the South African Cystic Fibrosis Association (S.A.C.F.A.).

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Ocean explorer James Cameron, who also directed movies such as Avatar and Titanic, tells about diving 11 kilometres to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean.

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he Deepsea Challenger descends fast, about 150 metres per minute. As I dropped down from the surface, it got dark very quickly. I was in complete blackness in about two or three minutes. But with the sub’s lights I could see little jellyfish and some plankton.

Because the sub was going through the water so fast, they were racing through the light. If you’ve ever driven a car in a snowstorm at night, that’s exactly what it looked like.

“Imagine six or seven SUVs sitting on top of your thumbnail. That’s the pressure outside the sub. If the Deepsea Challenger sprung a leak down there, the water would squirt in like a laser, cutting right through everything inside the sub, including me. The sub would collapse like a cooldrink can that has a bank vault dropped onto it.

“I always knew I wanted to explore. Follow your dreams, follow your passions. There is still a tremendous amount left to explore on this planet.”

The new NG KIDS series “Dare to Explore” helps celebrate the 125th anniversary of the National Geographic Society, which was founded in 1888.

With a parent’s permission, go to nationalgeographic.com/125 for more information. Coming next month: Herpetologist Brady Barr goes face-to-face with crocodiles, pythons, and more.

“Be defenders and warriors on behalf of the ocean, because

the f ish can’t speak for themselves.”

DEEPSEA CHALLENGER UNDERWATER

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meet ou THANKS to an incredible response from our readers the NG KIDS YOUNG photographers competition has been a roaring success AGAIN. The photographs we received showed the initiative, perseverance, imagination and skill of our readers. conGratulations TO ALL! Turn to page 35 to find out who our winner IS. WOW!

I LOVE SOUTH AFRICA

Khalil Gibran Hassam, 10, Johannesburg Title: Somewhere over the rainbow there is hope for the children of our land About the Photographer: After a typical Highveld downpour the sun came out and created a rainbow. Khalil noticed his cousin in the foreground and saw the opportunity for a good shot. He took out his cellphone and captured a great shot.

ANIMALS

What the Judges said: Sometimes clichés work. We do live in the hope for a beautiful future for our country. It is well composed and it shows that a cellphone can take a decent pic. Notice the men playing football far below. They look like ants!

PEOPLE

Pieter Ross Gloy, 9, Sasolburg THAT’S FUNNY Title: “Stop by die zebrastrepe” About the Photographer: Ross (that’s what everyone calls him) was on holiday with his family at the Dikhololo game reserve in North West. He noticed the girls waiting for a herd of zebras to pass and climbed on to the roof of the vehicle for a better view.

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What the judges said: A classic African story. The title is a clever play on the idea of a zebra crossing.

r FinaliStS! Samuel Freeman, 12, Johannesburg title: Spider, spider burning bright About the photographer: Samuel and his family found this spider in their house. They carefully placed it outside and before it ran away, Samuel lit it with a flashlight and took a picture of it.

Lisa Taberner, 14, Western Cape

What the judges said: An incredible close-up picture, beautifully lit. Taking a picture like this requires quick thinking and a steady hand.

Always be careful when photographing animals!

TitlE: I love South Africa so please reduce, reuse and recycle

AWESOME!

About the photographer: Lisa was on a visit to a recycling plant when she spotted the milk cartons. She loved the patterns and colours that the squashed cartons made.

What the judges said: An amazing graphic image. A whole lot of packaging from South Africa bunched for recycling. Because she cropped the pic, there is no scale for reference and you’re not sure right away what you’re seeing. At first it looks almost like stained glass.

James Robinson, 10, Johannesburg Title: Leopard’s lunch About the photographer: James loves spending time in the bush. He and his family regularly visit game reserves and he enjoys taking photographs. He chose this photo of a leopard as it had all the right elements for a great pic.

What the judges said: This is a picture with a lot of impact. The leopard looks as if he is warning other animals to stay away. He doesn’t want to share his lunch!

IT WASN’T ME!

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Anika Carmen Meyer, 14, Pretoria Ttitle: Stripes About the Photographer: Anika took this picture at the Mabalingwe reserve in Bela Bela.

Although she has a zoom on her camera, she was close enough not to use it too much. It was only after she took the picture that she realised how much she liked the pattern of the grasses against the stripes.

What the judges said: Getting in close, particularly when the animal is so recognisable, makes for a picture with great impact.

AMAZING!

Ashleigh Baker, 13, Somerset West title: Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing About the Photographer: Ashleigh takes loads of photographs. She chose this one of her friend laughing because it was more natural than many of the others.

What the judges said: Ashleigh chose a good one, particularly as it is so natural.

Setting the subject of the photograph just off-centre is also effective.

LOL!

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Adam Dugmore, 13, Plettenberg Bay Title: Top of Formosa ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Adam carted his tripod up to the top of Peak Formosa. He set his camera on self-timer and experimented with settings.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID: A beautiful, atmospheric shot.

To catch the soft light at sunset without blurring requires a tripod – even if it means carrying it to the top of a mountain.

COOL!

Amike ammerding, 14, Pretoria Title: Breathtaking ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Amike is a keen photographer and loves taking pictures of her friends.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID: The sparkles in the water and the small detail like the girl gently touching the surface of the water gives this shot a magical feel.

IT’S SO SHINY!

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Kelechi Nwokeyi, 11, Johannesburg Title: What happens at school ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Kelechi set this shot up with two of his friends.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID: This is a very creative photo that is cleverly composed.

WHAT’S The ANSWER?

Anjoleen Wepener, 11, PRETORIA

Marinel Wegman, 13, Bellville

Title: There is a meerkat on my stoep

Title: “Wat ‘n grap”

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Anjoleen was on holiday with my family when she noticed a meerkat sitting on the stoep. She grabbed her camera because he looked so funny.

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Marinel was at a donkey sanctuary in McGregor in the Western Cape when she saw this donkey. She loves taking photographs and saved up her pocket money for a long time to buy a good camera.

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID: Sometimes the simple shots work the best!

WHAT THE JUDGES SAID: This shows why you should always have your camera handy ready to take amusing pictures like this one.

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The winner of the International Photography Contest for Kids is 11-year-old Isabella Barbaro of London for her rainy day image in the People category.

The overall winner can capture amazing pictures with a fantastic Nikon D3100 Twin Lens Kit (18 – 55mm VR + 55 – 200mm VR) worth R7 000 and free camera training, a special SanDisk hamper valued at R1 499, as well as a family holiday for four (two adults and two children up to the age of 15) at the Bush Lodge, courtesy of Sabi Sabi. Airlink is sponsoring return flights for the winner (two adults and two children) from Cape Town, Durban or Johannesburg to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport. The holiday is valued at R37 100.

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eep in an African rainforest a young chimpanzee called Oscar lives with mum Isha in a troop led by the smart and sensible Freddy. Along with the other small chimps, Oscar spends his days playing and learning the skills he’ll need in the jungle.

It’s all fun and games until a rival band of chimpanzees arrive. They attack and suddenly Oscar is separated from his mum. It seems he’ll have to look after himself, but then he’s adopted by Freddy. This is an amazing twist in a very special true story.

NG KIDS went behind the scenes of the new movie Chimpanzee to find out more about the life of this plucky little primate.

Oscar didn’t like to take an afternoon nap with the adults and preferred to play in the trees.

Finding stars

“Making a film about chimps for the big screen was an exciting challenge, because nobody had really done it before,” says director Alastair Fothergill. To find “stars” for the film the crew had to go deep into the Taï rainforest in the Ivory Coast Republic. That’s where the directors found Oscar in March 2008. “We got incredibly lucky when we started filming,”says Alistair. “First we found Oscar, who was adorable. Then these extraordinary events overtook him and the group.”

did you know?

The big song on the movie’s soundtrack is Rise, which was written and sung by China Ann McClain, the 13-year-old star of the TV series A.N.T. Farm.

Filming in a Forest

The crew spent three years making the movie.

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Before they could go near the chimps, the crew had to spend eight days in quarantine. That was to make sure they didn’t bring in human diseases.

The Taï Forest National Park is ten hours from the nearest city. In the park they had to drive four hours on a dirt road and then walk for an hour on a trail. “Believe it or not,” says director Mark Linfield, “even rainforests have a rainy season.” The roads become mud pits and cars get stuck for days. The humidity is so high that cameras are easily ruined.

other problems

One night millions of driver ants marched through the film crew’s camp and over their beds. They stopped the attack by pouring generator fuel around the camp. The smell put the insects off.

Then the crew members were attacked by bees and got up to 50 stings each. That same night a tree next to their tents was struck by lightning, which then travelled underground and electrocuted them.

Luckily nobody was hurt.

The leader of the rival group was an older male known as Scar.

AN AMAZING TWIST

You can rely on a human cast t0 turn up on time on set, but directors of nature movies often have to wait hours for their “stars” to turn up.

Events took a dramatic turn when a group of rival chimps arrived who seemed determined to drive out Freddy and his troop. When Oscar’s mum went missing, it looked like the filming was over.

But then Freddy let Oscar climb aboard his back and before long the alpha male, who would not normally care for young chimps, was cracking nuts for him, sharing his nest and grooming the baby just like his mum did.

Lights, camera ... WAIT

You can’t control the environment or audition wild animal actors like you can on a movie set in a studio. Nature film crews might spend days Oscar attemps to crack a nut – looking for a “cast”. he gets it right eventually.

Chimpanzees live in leafy, dark forests that get a lot of rain. Not all chimps dream of fame, either. When some see the cameras, they * Wild chimpanzees live only turn around and sit with their back to the in Africa. They’re found in forests and lenses. However, the crew caught amazing grasslands in about 20 countries. They are scenes. Some of the action has never sociable and live in groups of 15 to 150 members. been filmed before. Chimpanzees are * A male can be a metre tall, weigh 35 to 65 kilograms known to crack nuts using wooden and and live between 40 and 50 years. stone hammers. Chimps cracking nuts * Fruit makes up as much as two thirds of a chimpanzee’s and carrying their tools through the diet. They also eat pith (the spongy tissue in plants), forest have rarely been caught on film blossoms, eggs, honey, nuts, insects and meat. and the scenes show their incredible * Chimps use rocks to crack nuts, sticks to fish out ants or intelligence. termites and leaves to scoop water from streams.

“One of the funniest things about * There are fewer than 100 000 chimps left in the wild. the nut-cracking scene is watching They are threatened by poachers who shoot the adults little ones like Oscar trying to learn and for meat and sell the youngsters as pets, by people getting it wrong,” says Alastair. mining or logging in the forests where they live, It took three years to make the film, or by human diseases they can’t fight. but for him it was a dream come true. He has always wanted to make a movie about real chimpanzees, because he thinks they’re the most fascinating of all wild animals. “They can be playful and tender, cunning, loving, competitive, curious and simply full of fun,” he says. “They’re just like us, or we’re just like them.

I think we will have done our job if people not only have a great time watching Chimpanzee, but also start to think about how chimps deserve our protection.”

Chimp Facts

“It was amazing and touching to see this big, gruff male pour his love and devotion into caring for Oscar,” Says Director MARK LINFIELD. National Geographic KIDS

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