April 7, 2012 at 8:19 am (Kids Club, QUESTIONS AND PUZZLING FACTS)
After a day of heavy rain, this centipede found a safe place on my front door! It was safely removed to the bottom of the garden.
Tell us what you know about centipede’s - two facts or a drawing will earn you a prize!
Send your reply to Di. Kids Clu, Freepost KZN 521, Cascades, 3203
Answers should be in by 30 April 2012
A centipede on my door
October 6, 2011 at 3:20 pm (Kids Club, QUESTIONS AND PUZZLING FACTS)
Log onto www.scholastic.co.uk/zone for eco-tips
KIDS – IF YOU ARE BETWEEN 3 AND 6 YEARS OLD AND BELONG TO THE KIDS CLUB, YOU CAN WIN A BOOK CALLED “Hey! What’s That Nasty Whiff?”
Why should we say NO!!! to POLLUTION?
email DI AT rhinoclub@kznwildlife.com
October 5, 2011 at 8:03 pm (NGOs and Conservation Bodies, Other Organisations, QUESTIONS AND PUZZLING FACTS)
IFAW – Saving animals in crisis around the World – Prevention of Illegal Wildlife Trade
They have recently published a Pocket Manual of Species in Trade (CITES listed species) covering Eastern and Southern Africa 2011, but to find out more about IFAW, visit their website www.ifaw.org
Information below is taken from this Manual
MAMMALS Listed as entering the International Trade illegally in the form of live animal, trophies, skin and leather products or teeth and ivory OR AS EXOTIC PETS:
Bontebok, Lechwe, Bue Duiker, Honey Badger, Hippopotamus
Serval, Caracal, Lion, Aardwolf, African Civet, Grevy’s Zebra, White Rhinoceros, Black Rhinoceros, Blue Monkey, Mandrill, Hamadryas Baboon, Vervet Monkey and relatives, Patas Monkey, Lesser Bushbaby, Common Marmoset, Black-capped Capuchin, Common Squirrel Monkey, Western Gorilla.
BIRDS Listed as entering the International Trade illegally in the form of live birds
Shoebill, Hartlaub’s Turaco, Livingstone’s Turaco, Caribbean/ Greater Flamingo, Tawny Eagle, African White-Backed Vulture, Peregrine Falcon, Black-Crowned Crane, Grey-Crowned Crane, Kori Bustard, Jave Sparrow, Umbrella Cockatoo, Chattering Lori, Rainbow Lorikeet, Fischer’s Lovebird, Masked Lovebird, Blue-fronted Amazon, Red-lored Amazon, Yelow-crowned Amazon, Bkue-and-gold Macaw, Scarlet Macaw, Grren-winged Macaw, Sun Conure, Jandaya Conure, Eclectus Parrot, Eastern Rosella, Jardine’s Parrot, Brown Parrot/ Meyer’s Parrot, Grey Parrot, African Penguin, Barn Owl, Ostrich
Reptiles Listed as entering the International Trade illegally in the form of live animals for the pet trade or leather products
Nile Crocodile, Chameleons, Crag Lizards,/ Girdled Lizards, Rock/ Southern savanna Monitor, Nile Monitor, Hawksbill Turtle, Aldabra Giant Tortoise, African Spurred Tortoise, Bell’s Hinged Tortoise, Pancake Tortoise, Leopard Tortoise/ Mountain Tortoise, Afircan rock Python, East African sand Boa/ Kenyan Sand Boa
Sharks and Bony FishesListed as entering the International Trade illegally in the form of Live animals, teeth and bones or dried bodies
Great White Sharks, Seahorses/ Horsefishes
Other Animals Listed as entering the International Trade illegally
Emporer Scorpion, Stony Corals
Plants Listed as entering the International Trade illegallyin the live form
Elephant trunks (Pachypodium), Hoodia, Cacti, Cycads, Venus Flytrap, Spurge (Euphorbia), Aloes, Orchids, Avonia
September 3, 2011 at 2:46 pm (Kids Club, QUESTIONS AND PUZZLING FACTS)
Can you identify this spoor? We saw it when we went on a Game Drive in Ithala Game Reserve during the Kids Club Star-gazing Excursion! It belongs to a very large animal!!!
A young animal was curious about this warthog hole. What was it?
Answer: AN ELEPHANT
WELL DONE, RICHAAD! YOU HAVE WON A KIDS CLUB T-SHIRT!
June 16, 2011 at 11:45 am (QUESTIONS AND PUZZLING FACTS)
Determining the gender of animals can be fun on a Game drive or at a Water-hole.
Look at this Giraffe. Do you know if it is male or female; young or old?
CLUES for identifying gender:
Look at the intensity of colour – pale or dark
Look at the “horns” – large or smaller, tufted or smooth; knob between them or not
Compare the size of the animals in a herd – males are generally larger than females
Send your answer to kidsclub@kznwildlife.com or rhinoclub@kznwildlife.com
Give your shirt size
June 16, 2011 at 11:11 am (QUESTIONS AND PUZZLING FACTS)
Spotted in Ithala Game Reserve in June 2011
QUESTION: WHICH FRANCOLIN OR SPURFOWL IS THIS?
SEND YOUR ANSWER TO rhinoclub@kznwildlfie.com Give your shirt size
May 8, 2011 at 11:18 am (QUESTIONS AND PUZZLING FACTS)
New young flowers growing out of the branches. Old flowers fall into a scarlet carpet beneath the tree
QUESTION: WHAT SOUTH AFRICAN TREE IS THIS?
CLUE: SUNBIRDS LOVE THE FLOWERS – THE SEEDS ARE CONTAINED IN SMALL, DARK BERRIES
ANSWER:
Please EMAIL YOUR ANSWER to kidsclub@kznwildlife.com
April 25, 2011 at 12:25 pm (QUESTIONS AND PUZZLING FACTS)
Simple bird-feeder for your garden. Birds like to have a quick escape route, so hang it where there are bushes for them to hop into if they feel threatened!
A simple bird-feeding table can be constructed out of a small squre of wood; a long nail; a small nail; approximately 5 metres of nylon string; a small pulley.
Firstly, choose your sturdy tree near a bit of shrubbery, so that the birds feel safe.
1. Cut a square of wood, or use off-cuts to make a platform – make it roughly 25 cm wide
2. Hammer the long nail into the centre of the square, with the point facing skywards
3. Cut 4 pieces of string, each about half a metre in length. Tie these to each corner of the wooden platform.
4. Tie the pulley to a horizontal branch of your chosen tree.
5. Carefully hammer the smaller nail iton the tree trunk, quite low down so that you can reach it easily.
6. Tie those four pieces of secured string together, so that it forms a “pyramid” shape. At the point, tie another single strand (about three metres long) of string and feed it through the pulley. Tie a little loop at the end of this piece of string.
7. Hang the string over the branch and hoist your feeding platform up to the height you want it, then put the loop over the small nail head to keep it stable.
8. Cut a slice out of an apple (or other fruit) and stick the whole apple onto the nail on the platform. You can lie a chunk of ripe banana (do not peel it completely) next to it for all the little fruit-eaters.
April 25, 2011 at 11:47 am (QUESTIONS AND PUZZLING FACTS)
This caterpillar is getting ready to pupate. Do you know which Moths it will hatch out as? It is one of the Emperors.
A second log in deep shade.
Can you identify this fungus? Send in the answer and win a T-shirt (give your size!) or Book (tell us what interests you)
April 22, 2011 at 7:47 pm (QUESTIONS AND PUZZLING FACTS)
Frog found nestled in the leaves of a Clivia plant
Found near the Compost heap
Found on a Gasteria plant!
