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Get a pencil and use the grid below to draw the jaguar as shown. The grids will help you to line everything up. Keep practicing and having fun! It’s a out there By Erika Enigk Lion Country Safari More Content Now

hat is your favorite kind of animal? Have you ever seen one up W close? Whatever kind of animal you love, you probably can find it in one of these cool .

Bears

Bears are big, strong and power- ful — and a little scary if you meet one in the woods. But if you visit Cherokee Bear Zoo in North Caro- lina or Bear Country USA in South Reptiland Dakota, you can see all kinds of bears up close. At Bear Country Bear Country USA USA, there’s even a special section where you can see baby animals.

Reptiles

Snakes, lizards and alligators can be a little creepy, but it’s fun to see them in action. At Gatorland in Florida, you can see all kinds of alligators, including a very rare white alliga- tor, as well as other reptiles. At Clyde Peel- ing’s Reptiland in Pennsylvania, you can see all sorts of snakes, turtles and other reptiles and walk through a birdhouse where parakeets will land right on your shoulder. Reptiland also has a special dinosaur exhibit through Zoo scavenger hunt! Watch Drawing with Mark! fall — but don’t worry, the dinos aren’t real. 8 Here’s a fun idea the next time you are at the zoo — • Check your local listings at Giraffes and other African animals have a scavenger hunt! Grab a map of the zoo when www.DrawingwithMark.com you arrive and cross off each animal as you find it. • Find the award-winning “Drawing with Mark” Want to go on an African safari? You can Some other ways to play are looking for animals that DVD episodes at Amazon.com. travel to for that. At you start with a certain letter or come from a specific can drive through the park and see animals like country or continent. giraffes, antelopes, cheetahs and hyenas. You can even sleep in a tent right in the middle of the park! If lions are more your speed, check out Island in Virginia. If you visit in July, you Word find Lion Country Safari in Florida. There’s a whole can bid on a pony of your very own. section dedicated to the King of the Jungle. Zoo Antelopes Birds and fish Animal Cheetahs Horses and deer Bears Pigs Do your favorite animals fly? If so, you Reptiles Vultures Maybe exotic animals aren’t for you. If might want to visit the World Bird Sanctu- Giraffes Alligators you’d rather see animals you might check out ary in Missouri where you can see eagles, in your own backyard, visit Smoky Mountain owls, vultures and all sorts of other birds. Deer Farm in Tennessee. You can take a pony You can learn about flying mammals by visit- ride or get close to animals like pot-bellied ing with their fruit bats. If you’d rather meet pigs, reindeer, and mini-donkeys in the pet- some water dwellers, visit the Monterey ting zoo. If you’d like to see ponies in a wild Bay Aquarium in California, which was the setting instead of a zoo, visit Assateague inspiration for the movie “.”

Angels from the attic

By Mark Marderosian