Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2025, Issue 127 i Eco Kids Planet Magazine

It’s me – Wanda the Warthog! Yes, these tusks are fabulous, thank you for noticing. I live on the open savannah, where it’s dusty, grassy and just right for raising a rowdy bunch of piglets. Life out here might look calm, but between mud wallows, munching and dodging danger, there’s never a dull moment. When trouble shows up – say, a lion looking for lunch – I dash off on my surprisingly speedy trotters. (Seriously – we can run up to 48 km an hour. Eat my dust!) Now, let’s address the tusk in the room. Humans think warthogs are grumpy, clumsy or just plain odd-looking. But I say we’re wildly wonderful. Our tusks might not be the prettiest – more like gardening tools than unicorn horns – but they’re…

This month, we challenge you to dream up your own nature potion – inspired by the wild smells, sights and sounds of spring! If you could bottle up a little piece of nature, what would be inside? A raindrop caught on a spiderweb? Crushed wild mint and dandelion fluff? Dusty pollen, moss or moonlight? Would your potion help animals grow, make flowers glow or give you the power to speak to bees? Step outside to explore! Take a walk in your garden, park or forest. Look closely, breathe deeply – and collect ideas. You could even write down or carefully collect wild ingredients as you go. Then, use your discoveries to create your magical potion recipe. You can draw it like a recipe card or potion bottle, and include imaginative…

Aren’t you glad you have incisors (say “insize-ers”)? They’re your four middle teeth at the top and four middle teeth at the bottom. They help you bite into food and chew it up. Handy! But what if those top teeth never stopped growing? Eventually, they’d stick right out of your mouth – even when your lips were closed. They wouldn’t be much use for munching any more. (You might also get a few funny looks.) Well, that’s exactly what an elephant’s tusks are: super-sized, continuously growing incisors! In wild pigs and walruses, it’s the canines – those pointy teeth next to your incisors – that grow and grow and grow. Tusks usually grow in pairs and are often curved. They’re made of a tough material called dentine and don’t have…

Just see which of the statements in the boxes below describe you. Put a tick if you agree or a cross if you disagree in the box next to each statement, and see which box has the most ticks at the end. Then turn to page 34 to see which tusked animal you’d be. (If you have an equal number of ticks in more than one box, go back and only keep the ones that 100% scream you.) Make sure you don’t see that answer page before you do the quiz, though, or you’ll spoil the surprise. Then try it out on the people you know and see which of you has the biggest tusks, if you’d be animal friends or have tusky tussles, or would never meet in the…

If there’s one thing I love doing, it’s conducting detailed investigations to find the cleverest creatures with mind-blowing skills. To me, the most awe-inspiring animals on the whole of planet Earth live UNDERWATER – and I’ll prove it! The sea is truly the place to be. But only if you have very special abilities to swim, survive and thrive. That’s right, most creatures who take to the water have developed incredible abilities and body parts to defend themselves, eat, sleep and ultimately live their best sub-aquatic life. Some have mind-fizzing flippers, others have shockingly strong shells or spiny, scary spikes, and then there are the ones with tip-top TUSKS! Ready for a deep dive in submarine dentistry? THE TEENY TINY HARLEQUIN TUSKFISH This little fish is beautiful with its bands…

Charlie: I’m in Hudson Bay, a large inland sea that’s part of the Canadian Arctic. It’s summer, so it’s no longer frozen over. That makes it easier to sail on and meet one of the narwhals that migrate here – but it’s still cold! A narwhal is a small toothed whale. I don’t mean the tooth is small – just the whale. The tooth can grow up to three metres long. Imagine having a tooth that’s longer than a tall adult human! Oh, great. A narwhal is swimming my way. Hey, I’m Charlie! I was just admiring your tooth. It’s a lovely spiral corkscrew shape. Narwhal: One of my teeth, you mean. Charlie: You have more than one? Narwhal: I have two, but only the left one grows into a long…

You will need: • A cardboard tube• Paper• Paint• Scraps of felt, fake fur and yarn• Scissors• Glue• Paper tape• A pen or pencil• A ruler or measuring tape Set-by-step Instructions 1. Measure the circumference of the tube. 2. Use this measurement as a guide when drawing out the template on a sheet of paper. 3. Cut the template out and place it on to the cardboard tube. 4. Draw around the template and cut it out. 5. Bend the trunk down slightly. Fold down the back flaps and use paper tape to secure them to the sides of the mammoth. Leave the tail free. 6. Paint the model all over and leave it to dry. 7. Cut some sections of yarn in different shades of brown. Tie them in the middle to make…