Innholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2017 i Click Science and Discovery Magazine for Preschoolers and Young Children

Giant pandas once roamed throughout the bamboo forests of China. They spent almost all day eating, filling their round bellies with bamboo. There was enough land for wandering, and plenty to eat. But as forests were cut down to make way for houses and roads, pandas had fewer places to live. Pandas eat only bamboo, and they eat a lot. Without big bamboo forests, pandas couldn’t find enough food. The number of wild pandas shrank. The roly-poly black-and-white bears were in danger of disappearing forever. text © 2017 by Rachel Young How could people help pandas? They began by saving old forests and planting new ones. They set up protected wild spaces called nature reserves, where no roads or houses could be built. Pandas and other animals were free to…

A dog came to live with us when I was four. For a minute or two she sat next to me. Then she climbed right over my back and nuzzled my hand with her cold, wet nose. Sophie had been living at an animal shelter. Now she had her own home—with us. We had prepared everything for our new dog: a cozy bed and blankets, bowls for food and water, a toy to sleep with and one to chew, a ball, a leash, and a collar. We fit her collar and felt it with our fingers to make sure it wasn’t too tight. It had a metal tag on it that jingled as she walked. Sophie was nervous around my father at first, so he was careful not to look…

The keepers at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya in East Africa have a very special job. They take care of orphaned baby elephants. How do you do that? Elephants in the wild live in big family groups, where babies are lovingly raised by their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, big sisters, and cousins. The babies need almost constant care until they are two years old, and they continue to depend on older relatives until they’re 20 or older. The keepers must take the place of a baby elephant’s lost family. They stay with the baby every hour of every day. They even sleep with the baby. Baby elephants need to be fed every three hours, day and night. The keepers mix gallons and gallons of a special milk recipe for…