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Once your seed germinates and grows into a healthy mango plant, get ready for a lot more waiting, watering and

watching. Take care that your plant doesn't get eaten up by insects or animals, or get stepped on by someone. If
all this waiting is making you feel bored, read a few books, sing some songs, and plant some more plants!

After a few years, as you grow taller, your mango plant will grow tall with you, until it becomes a big tree that you
can climb and picnic under. This is when the real fun begins. By now, your tree will have started making its own
mangoes, which you and your friends can eat. Even better, those mangoes will soon start attracting other mango-

loving creatures to your tree: birds, ants, squirrels, bats, monkeys, spiders and lots more.

Some of these creatures will come to eat the fruit, some will come to feed on the tree's sap, some to drink nectar
from its flowers, and some creatures will even come to eat some of the other creatures hanging around the tree.

But it's not all about eating. Some creatures may come just to rest in your tree's shade, or to take a nap in its
branches. Your tree has many different uses for every different creature!

Spend some time every day watching who visits your mango tree, at which time of the day they come, and what
they do. Write down what you see in your notebook. Also draw pictures of what you see.

See how much you've done and learned with just one mango seed? Isn't tree-planting fun? Now imagine how

much fun Jadav must have had planting his entire forest full of trees!

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