Polly, Tony, Mischief, and Phil the cheetahs recently received a visit from the real Polly and Tony (the people!). It was quite fun to watch Tony cheetah playing with Tony human, and to teach the real Polly and Tony how to tell all four of the cubs apart. When you know the cats, it is very easy to tell them apart, but when you are just meeting them, it can be very difficult to know who is who!
This morning all four cubs were chasing round and round their dirt mound, and then they all climbed on top and sat for some time looking out across the distance. They were looking very cute!
In Sifaka World your avatars get to eat some really great foods, so we thought it would be fun for us to start giving you recipes for some of them here so you can make them at home (with an adult of course!).
At the North Pole my character, Chef Holmes, is handing out some yummy treats, including Hot Chocolate, so this week I got together with some of my real world friends and we made a video for you about how to make hot chocolate. This recipe has a twist to it--we've added cinnamon and a little chili powder to give it a Southwestern flair, but if you're not feeling adventurous you can just leave those things out and you'll still have a really great cup of homemade hot chocolate ready to go in just a few minutes!
Here's the video!
Here's the recipe:
Southwestern Hot Chocolate
4 cups milk (make it skim if you're using whipped cream as a topping) 2 Tablespoons agave syrup 4 ounces dark chocolate, chopped 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon chili powder
Garnish 1/2 cup whipped cream grated milk chocolate
1. Combine milk and agave syrup in a saucepan and heat on the stove (get an adult to help you!)until hot, but not boiling. Remove from heat.
2. Add chopped chocolate and allow it to sit for a minute before stirring.
3. Add cinnamon and chili powder and whisk until the mixture is bubbly.
4. Ladle hot chocolate into mugs and top with a small amount of whipped cream and grated milk chocolate OR marshmallows.
Enjoy!!
Note: If you're not a fan of chili powder just leave it out of the recipe.
Hello everybody! We have chosen the winners for the 6-month membership giveaway! Before I tell you who they are I want to say how amazed and impressed we all were with the number and quality of the entries. Great job, everyone!
It was hard to choose just five out of the entries we received, but we worked together and narrowed it down to the following users whose accounts will be automatically upgraded to full 6 Month Memberships:
Aredrem Botswana OrangePoncho Reenie Karizai
Congratulations!!!
When the five winners log in tomorrow they will see that they have full memberships and will begin receiving Sifaka Cash daily as part of their memberships.
Speaking of Sifaka Cash, as I said, we had so many great entries that it was hard to choose only five. Because of that we have also chosen two runners up who will receive 1,500 in Sifaka Cash in their regular accounts. Those two users are:
Typhor Lemurgink
I wonder what they'll buy with all that Sifaka Cash?!
Thanks for all your hard work, and if you didn’t win this time, don’t despair, we’re going to be offering more giveways in the near future. Hint: If you’re allowed to use Facebook or your parents use Facebook, be sure to become a fan of Sifaka World!!
*****Ending Soon! GET YOUR ENTRY IN NOW! The last day to submit your paragraph about your favorite Sifaka World Character is Monday by midnight Pacific Standard Time*****
Hi everyone!
I’m so excited! Starting today we’re going to be giving away some fabulous Sifaka World prizes!
For this one all you have to do is write a paragraph (or more!) about your favorite Sifaka World animal. We’ll pick our five (5) favorite entries and will be awarding the winners each a free 6-month Animal Lover Membership to Sifaka World! If you've been using a free membership and really want access to everything cool in Sifaka World, now's your chance!!
Here’s what you need to do to win:
1) Write a paragraph about your favorite Sifaka World Character (any animal is fine--think about all the characters around Sifaka World, like Kintana, Tuffy, Fast Eddie, Professor Fizzlesicks, and some of our new characters in the Arctic too! Include the reasons you like that character so much. Is it the way he or she looks? Is it the animal’s personality? Be creative!
2) We’re looking for well-written entries by kids. It’s okay to have a parent type the entry, but it’s YOUR words that we want, not theirs.
3) Submit your entry to the comments section of this blog with your Sifaka World USERNAME. That’s very important because without your username we won’t know who to award the prize to! DO NOT USE YOUR REAL NAME. If you use any personal information to submit your entry it will be disqualified.
4) Tell us how old you are.
5) Submit your entry by February 15th, 2010.
That’s it! That’s all you have to do to win free access to all of Sifaka World’s exciting features for six months.
Prizes will be announced and awarded by February 19th, 2010.
Did you know that we have black rhinos here at the Cheetah Conservation Fund? The black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), also called “hook-lipped” rhinoceros, is an extremely endangered animal. To help the government of Namibia with the conservation of the black rhinoceros, CCF has set up a reserve for a few of these animals.
Although our reserve is home to six black rhinos, there is a young female that keeps escaping! A little while ago, the Namibian government sent their best veterinarians here to catch our escaped rhino. They found her, caught her, and then they returned her to the reserve. She didn’t stay there very long though, because only a few days later she had escaped again!
We think that this young female has set up what is called a “home range” just outside of our reserve. A home range is where an animal spends its time, or the area that an individual animal chooses to live. You can understand home ranges by thinking about the places you often go. Your home range would not include the place that you once visited for holiday, but the common places that you visit like your home, your school, maybe the store, or even your best-friend’s house. For now we are just tracking the young female rhinoceros to make sure that she is staying in the same area. Maybe she just thought that the grass was greener on the other side – the other side of our reserve’s fence that is!
There’s a lot going on behind the scenes here in Sifaka World! I bet you can’t wait to see what’s coming. I know I’m really excited about all of it!
GAMES/ADVENTURES
I’m especially excited about a new adventure that will be released in February, so keep your eyes peeled for that one. It’s going to be a little different from adventures we’ve had in the past. You’ll have to take extra good care of your avatar to make it through this one! Are you wondering what it’s about? GOOD! Keep wondering! If you feel like it, post your thoughts about what it *might* be or what you’re hoping Sifaka World will be adding—even if you’re not right about this one your ideas might find their way into our games at a later date....
SIFAKA PRIZES!!
We're also going to be offering some amazing 6-month gift membership prizes. If you've been wanting a full membership so you can enjoy everything Sifaka World has to offer now's your chance! Sifaka Prizes may be featured here on the blog or on Twitter and Facebook, so if you’re on Twitter and Facebook, be sure to follow us (@sifakachef and @sifakaworld ) Be the first to know when you'll have the chance to win a Sifaka Prize.
There has been a baboon troop in the area lately, and they’re being a bit pesky. We had to put special chemicals in our drinking water not long ago because baboons had pulled off the top of one of our water tanks. This has made our drinking water taste kind of like pool water because it has chlorine in it!
Just yesterday, there was a large baboon playing with our volleyball net. I even had to chase a baboon out of Matti’s garden because it was eating all of his new plants!
Also, a few weeks ago, there was a great deal of commotion coming from outside. I ran out to find a large male baboon inside of Quasar, Phonix, and Soraya’s enclosure! I started yelling and running around trying to grab the three young cheetahs so that they wouldn’t go near the baboon and get hurt, but luckily my yelling scared the baboon and he climbed over the fence and out of the yard. All of the cheetahs were just fine, but baboons can certainly hurt a cheetah if they got into a fight. During the whole episode, I have to admit that my heart was beating super fast!
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About Sifaka World
Sifaka World is fun and safe for all ages. All activities star humorous animal characters based closely on real world animals. You can’t help but learn more about wildlife. For starters, did you know “Sifaka” is the name of an endangered lemur in Madagascar?
So what are you waiting for? Join us!
Leigh Whelpton
Leigh Whelpton is a Conservationist who has always loved animals. When she was eight years old she wrote an entry in her diary that said she would someday work with cheetahs and today she is living in Namibia, Africa doing just that with the Cheetah Conservation Fund!
Polly, Tony, Mischief, and Phil the cheetahs recently received a visit from the real Polly and Tony (the people!). It was quite fun to watch Tony cheetah playing with Tony human, and to teach the real Polly and Tony how to tell all four of the cubs apart. When you know the cats, it is very easy to tell them apart, but when you are just meeting them, it can be very difficult to know who is who!
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