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INSIDE
VOLUME 8 ISSUE 5
Published by the National Wildlife Federation ®
RANGER RICK JR. STAFF
editor-in-chief Lori Collins
art director Cindy Olson
photo editor Chris Conway
NWF CHIEF EXECUTIVE
president & ceo Collin O’Mara
CHILDREN’S ADVISORY BOARD
ON THE COVER
Amelia Boekelheide, age 4 Rachel Johnson, age 6
Gemma Bovaird, age 5 Rose Johnson, age 6
Jessica Bullock, age 5 Nicholas Keefer, age 4
Lauren Bullock, age 7
Corrina Cabrejos, age 7
Heidi Klaus, age 5
Leonard Machi, age 6
A baby grebe catches a ride on its mother’s back.
Victor Cantrell, age 6
Hailey Carlin, age 7
Curtis Mani, age 6
Benjamin Nussbaum, age 6
Turn to page 6 to see how other
Ava Chanpong, age 5
Artie Christman, age 5
Ethan Paney, age 6
Brecken Pazaruski, age 7
baby animals get from here to there.
Hank Dalheim, age 5 Matthew Raby, age 6 PHOTO BY CATHY & GORDON ILLG
Lowell Davison, age 4 Valentino Shainis, age 5
Dylan DeBruin, age 7 Declan Snow, age 5
Ben Durkee, age 7
Jackson Falk, age 6
Michael Flaherty, age 7
Noah Stewart, age 7
Noah Taylor, age 7
Avery Wilcox, age 5
4 That’s Wild! 23 The Adventures of
Connor Florio, age 6 Jeannine Wu, age 5
Bonnie & Chester
6 Catch a Ride
Eliot Garner, age 6 Caleb Wungluck, age 6
Abram Janssen, age 5
> PHOTO TAKEN UNDER CONTROLLED CONDITIONS
< PHOTO RETOUCHED 24 Animal Fun
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26 Australian Animals
16 Look Who’s
from our readers, and we review every one carefully. We wish we had room to
Guessing Game
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22 Ever Wonder?
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There are hippos on pages 2 and 4. Let’s play a game!
Try to find me 4 more
Answer to Back Cover Question:
25
There are 12 beavers.
beavers can you count?
Look again. How many
times in this issue!
Find seven things that are silly.
What’s going on at this beaver pond?
ILLUSTRATIONS BY MICHAEL SLACK
“Animal Fun” Answers, pages 24–25
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this magazine?
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CHIMPANZEE: ANUP SHAH / NPL; MARINE IGUANA: TUI DE ROY;
HIPPO: BENCE MATE / NPL; ELEPHANT: D. PARER & E. PARER-COOK;
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SHARK: DOUG PERRINE / NPL; FLAMINGO: JÜRGEN & CHRISTINE SOHNS / FLPA
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discover how
baby animals
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need to go.
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Baby ducklings climb on
Mom’s back to cross the pond.
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Let’s Read
DUNCAN USHER / MINDEN PICTURES >
A baby gorilla clings to Mom’s arm
when she goes for a walk. 7
ANDY ROUSE / NATUREPL
A baby lion gets carried in Mom’s mouth
when they move to a new den.
8
A baby kangaroo
rides in a cozy pouch
on Mom’s belly.
JÜRGEN & CHRISTINE SOHNS / FLPA / AGE FOTOSTOCK
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Baby scorpions
ride piggyback
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Baby frogs climb
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onto Dad’s back so
he can carry them
to water.
A baby sea otter stays warm
and dry riding on Mom’s chest.
DONALD M. JONES
10JEAN-LOUIS KLEIN & MARIE-LUCE HUBERT
A baby penguin sits on Dad’s feet
when he goes for a walk.
How did your parents help
you get from place to place
when you were a baby?k y
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P STORY BY KATHY KRANKING ÷ ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHRISTIAN SLADE
Ricky Raccoon was feeling jumpy. He “Hi, Bizzie! What are you doing?”
had been cooped up inside all morning. Ricky asked.
“I think I’ll walk over to Clear Lake “Mm! Mm mm-mm mmmm,” Bizzie
and see what Bizzie Beaver is doing,” answered.
he said to himself.
“What?” Ricky asked.
When Ricky got to Clear Lake, he saw
Bizzie took the stick out of his mouth.
Bizzie. The beaver was carrying a big
“I’m adding sticks to my lodge,” he said.
stick in his mouth.
12Ricky followed Bizzie to the edge of “Put some sticks in the muddy bank,”
the water. There, a big mound of sticks explained Bizzie. “Then put more sticks
poked out of the water. It was Bizzie’s on top. Fill in the gaps with mud.”
lodge. To get in, Bizzie would swim
Ricky put the sticks into the bank.
underwater and climb up inside it.
Then he added more sticks and a big
“It must be fun to live in a lodge,” Ricky scoop of mud. Ricky worked for a long
said. “I wish I could do that.” time. Then he stepped back to admire
his work. “What do you think, Bizzie?”
“You can use some of my sticks to build
asked Ricky.
one if you want,” said Bizzie.
Bizzie stopped working on his lodge and
“Really?” asked Ricky. “Thanks!” He
came to look. Ricky was muddy from
picked up two sticks. He looked at
head to toe. Poking out of the water was
them. He looked at the water. Then he
a messy pile of sticks. It was covered
looked at Bizzie. “What do I do now?”
with gooey glops of mud.
he asked.“Maybe you’re right,” said Ricky. He
“Uh, that’s good, Ricky,” Bizzie said,
headed for home to get cleaned up.
trying to be nice.
But on the way, he heard a happy song
“Let’s see how sturdy it is,” Ricky said. above his head. He looked up to see his
He stepped onto the lodge. The sticks friend Mrs. Cardinal sitting in her nest.
held for a minute. Then suddenly, the
The bird’s nest was made of twigs, dry
whole thing fell apart. “Yikes!” shouted
grass, and vines. It was shaped like a
Ricky. The next second, he was sitting
cup. And it was very tidy compared to
in the water. The sticks from his broken
Bizzie’s messy-looking lodge.
lodge floated around him.
“Hi, Mrs. C,” Ricky called.
Bizzie rushed over to help Ricky out
of the water. “Maybe you have to be a “Hello, Ricky,” said Mrs. C. “What have
beaver to build a lodge,” said Bizzie. you been doing today?”
14Ricky sighed. “Well, I tried to build a “Not all animals build their homes,”
beaver lodge. I wanted to live in the explained Mrs. C. “Some animals are
water like Bizzie. But I’m not a very good at finding a place to live without
good builder.” Ricky looked at Mrs. C’s having to build it.”
nest. “It would be fun to live in a nest
“Oh, I see,” Ricky said. Then he waved
like yours—only bigger,” he said. “Will
good-bye and headed home to his house
you teach me to make one?”
in the oak tree. When he got inside, he
“Ricky, raccoons don’t build nests. looked around.
And they don’t build lodges,” Mrs. C
“At least my house is cozy and dry,”
explained. “You already live in the very
Ricky said to himself. “Not like a
best home for you—your hollow tree.”
beaver’s lodge. And I always have a roof
“But I didn’t build that. It was already when it rains. Not like a bird’s nest,”
there,” said Ricky. he added. “I guess I really do live in the
very best home for me!”
15LOOK WHO’S
CRABBY
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A hard shell protects Most crabs have
a crab’s soft body. flat bodies.
16 FACTSMeet seven crabs and Let’s Read
find out what makes these
MICHAEL S. NOLAN /
BLUE PLANET ARCHIVE
creatures crabby.
A ghost crab scurries
across the rocky shore
in search of food.
A crab’s eyes sit on top
of stalks on its head.
A crab has ten legs.
The front two are claws.
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An arrow crab
has super skinny legs.
It looks more like
a spider than a crab.
How are the
crabs alike?
WIL MEINDERTS / BUITEN-BEELD / MINDEN PICTURES
How are they
different?
18
eA spiny crab lives deep in the ocean.
Its shell is covered with sharp spines.
MARK CONLIN / BLUE PLANET ARCHIVE
A coconut crab can climb trees.
It uses its big claws to break
open coconuts. This crab is the
largest land crab.
19A tiny pom-pom crab holds stinging sea creatures
called anemones (uh-NEM-uh-neez) in its claws.
The crab uses the anemones to sting its enemies.
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ALEX MUSTARD / NATUREPL
An orangutan crab gets
its name from the orange
hairs that cover its shell.
The hairs look like the fur
on an orangutan.
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¡Hola!
Read the story in Spanish.
RangerRick.org/CrabsSPWONDER
Ever
WONDER
WONDER
Where do
beavers live?
?
Beavers use sticks and mud
to build a home called a lodge.
A beaver enters its lodge
from holes beneath the water.
22 ILLUSTRATION BY VIRGINIA GREENEFooled by
“Are you Feathers
my mother?”
We’ll help
My name is you find your
Cody. I’m looking mother.
for my mother.
Is that
Is this I don’t think bird your
bird your that’s my mother?
mother? mother.
That’s not my
mother either.
Yes, he will
Cody is a grow up to be
My baby! baby swan. a big, white swan.
THE END
ILLUSTRATIONS BY PARKER JACOBSWhat’s going on at this beaver pond?
Find seven things that are silly.
Look again. How many
beavers can you count?ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL SLACK
25We live in ... AUSTRALIA
Australia is an island country that is far, far away from
the United States. Many unusual animals live there.
Koala sits in a tree Kookaburra calls
with her baby. to its family.
Echidna (ih-KID-nuh)
slurps up ants.
26 ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALEXANDER VIDALI live in Australia, too.
Guess who I am.
1
I can hop over
a car in a
single bound.
2
I use my tail as a stool.
3
My baby rides
in a pouch
on my belly.
Turn the page to see who I am.p!
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A kangaroo can hop
farther in one leap
than any other animal.
AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS KOALAJÜRGEN & CHRISTINE SOHNS /
IMAGEBROKER / AGE FOTOSTOCK
KOOKABURRA ECHIDNA KANGAROOLOOK INSIDE
Find two more pages that
have hippos on them.
JEAN-LOUIS KLEIN & MARIE-LUCE HUBERT
Hungry, Hungry Hippo!
Hippos eat grass—lots and lots of grass.
Hippos love to sit in water.
It keeps them cool.You can also read
