Ranger Rick articles from April 1999

Ranger Rick archives from April 1999

GO FLY A KITE.
April 1, 1999... Megabite is the name of the biggest kite ever flown. It looks like a huge, toothy monster, and it's the size of a football field! If you're lucky, you might see it at a festival near you. WHOOSH! From monsters to butterflies, creature...

DEAR RANGER RICK.
April 1, 1999... Last September, I asked you Rangers what your lives would be like if you carried your homes on your backs, just like animals that live in shells. Here's what you said. NOT WET If it rained, all I'd have to do is go inside my shell. ...

THE GREAT AFRICAN PANCAKE HUNT.(African tortoise)
April 1, 1999... Pancakes aren't just something you might find on your breakfast plate. The ones I was looking for each had four legs, a head, and a tail! I'm a turtle scientist. The "pancake" I went to Africa to search for is actually a tortoise. Its name...

KEEP THE WILD ALIVE.(games)
April 1, 1999... Grab a pencil and turn on your brain. Then check out the games on the next pages about some endangered animals that people are helping. The animals are so glad that people care about them that they're ready to celebrate with games--and riddles...

GREENZINE.(nature information)
April 1, 1999... April 22 is Earth Day. But these kids help the Earth every day: Kids CAN! Students at Fredstrom Elementary School in Lincoln, Nebraska, are helping monarch butterflies. The school's fourth and fifth graders raise monarchs in two...

HURRY, HURRY, HARRY'S HUNGRY.(harpy eagles)
April 1, 1999... High up in a rainforest in South America, a harpy eagle chick is growing up fast! photos by Neil Rettig Productions, inc Swooping down through the treetops, a powerful hunter zeroes in on its prey. SCREECH! The jungle echoes with a...

QUICK BITS: AYE-AYE.(African animal)
April 1, 1999... A night shadow leaps from tree to tree in the rainforest. It's an aye- aye--one of the rarest and weirdest animals in the world. MADE FROM SPARE PARTS For more than a hundred years, scientists thought the aye-aye (EYE-eye) was an odd...

WALKING WEATHER.(children's poetry)
April 1, 1999... When you are walking to . . . or . . . from, I wonder whether You notice the weather. When you go walking from here . . . to . . . there, Are you aware? There's more to walking than getting somewhere! When you walk in the...

CAN YOU TELL TAILS?(animals' tails)
April 1, 1999... There's a whole world of wonderful tails out there. What do they look like? What do they do? The whale of a tail below happens to be the tail of a whale--a sperm whale to be exact. The whale is flipping it out of the water just before...

RANGER RICK'S CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?(nature facts)
April 1, 1999... Wild facts to amaze your brain. HOW MANY CANDLES? An adult mayfly lives only a few hours. But one kind of clam can live to be more than a hundred years old. WEIGHING IN At 350 pounds (160 kg), the ostrich is the biggest bird...