What to do:
First you colour in your own
African savannah.
Then colour in and cut out
the animals that live on the
savannah.
If you read the story told by
Zola, the young rhino, you
can get an idea about
which colours to use.
Hello, I am a young White rhino called Zola. I am only half a year old. I live
together with my mother. She takes very good care of me. When I am three
years old, she says I will have to manage on my own, and she will have a new calf
by then.
Just now I am happy that she protects me against any danger. If a lion comes
close I run in front of her. Then she can keep an eye on me. Yesterday, I saw a
group of lionesses catch an old buffalo. Today the lion family rests with full
stomachs in the shade of a tree.
Read carefully and you will
also get an idea about where
to put the animals.
Maybe you want to stick on
other things like something
you found in nature.
You can place the savannah
on a table and move the
animals freely around.
Use your imagination and
remember that white rhinos
love grass and that the black
rhino prefers leaves.
You can also stick the
animals to the savannah,
and hang it on the wall just
like a poster.
Guess which rhino is the
Greater One horned rhino.
It does not live in Africa
and should be placed in
the white box.
Enjoy your work and have fun!
Almost every day my mother and I visit the water hole to drink. Then we meet
a lot of animals. I like the zebras the most. They are so nice to look at. Did you
know each zebra has different stripes? Although I am not so big yet the
antelopes are afraid of me. Sometimes I chase the reddish brown impalas when
they come to drink. That is funny.
There are many big animals here. The giraffes can eat leaves in the top of the
threes! Just now the male is eating in the a far distance but, because he is five
meters tall, I can still see him. The big ostrich cannot fly but they run much
faster than I do. The female can be difficult to see. She is greyish brown just
like the dry grass. The male looks beautiful. He has black and white feathers
and a red neck and legs.
There are two kinds of rhinos in Africa. The other ones are called Black rhinos
but they are also grey. They eat shrubs and leaves. I only eat grass. That is
why we look different. I have a broad lip to cut grass. They have a pointed lip
to pick leaves. In Asia there are three different types of rhinos. The biggest
one is the Greater one-horned rhino. They also have a pointed lip but only one
horn. We African rhinos have two horns. I am proud of my two horns.
I am afraid of people. I have been told they hunt rhinos to get our horns. The
horns are used for medicine made in China. Isn’t that strange? I have just
learned that rhinos are endangered. That means that we might disappear one
day.
I never saw my father. But I know he is living in this area. My mother has told
me about him. Sometimes we find one of the piles of dung where he poohed.
Then I can smell he was there. So I pooh in the same pile just to let him know
that I am here.
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