Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2022 i Click Science and Discovery Magazine for Preschoolers and Young Children

Some tongues are tricky A blue-tongued skink opens its mouth and sticks out its tongue when it feels scared. The bright blue tongue in the skink’s pink mouth surprises enemies so much that the skink has time to get away. The alligator snapping turtle fools fish with a wiggly bit on the end of its tongue. Fish think it’s a yummy worm and swim closer. But the turtle eats them instead. And some tongues are licky. Little barbs on a cat’s rough tongue work like the teeth on a comb. Kitty uses them to smooth out messy fur. An okapi’s tongue is long and extra bendy. It can lick its whole face clean with its tongue—even its eyes and ears. Some tongues stretch Sphinx moths have tongues that are longer…

1. Cows don’t have long, skinny, fly-catching tongues. 2. A snake has sharp fangs for teeth, not sturdy, gnawing teeth. 3. Unlike a gecko, a squirrel can’t clean its eye with its tongue. 4. Dogs don’t have tusks. 5. A snake has a forked tongue with two tips, not a rounded one. 6. This zebra has a snake’s tongue. 7. People wear braces to straighten their teeth. Alligators don’t. 8. People don’t have a mouth full of sharp teeth shaped like triangles. 9. A narwhal has a long, spiral tooth, but a bear does not. 10. Birds don’t have teeth. 11. A goat doesn’t suck nectar from a flower with its tongue (or even with a straw). A butterfly does. 12. Fish don’t brush their teeth. 13. Some animals do…

Different teeth do different jobs.…

Slice and Stab Look at those razor-sharp teeth! A vampire bat uses them to slice open the skin of a sleeping cow or deer. Then it laps up the blood that flows out of the cut. A cheetah’s front teeth are deadly weapons. The wild cat charges its prey at top speed. Then it trips the victim, bites its throat, and holds on tight. It’s an easy kill. A bush viper’s front teeth are called fangs. After a quick stabbing bite, they inject deadly venom. Fangs are perfect for catching prey. They also help snakes fight off their enemies. Tusks Are Teeth How would you like to have teeth that are 3 feet long? That’s what walruses have! They use their tusks to pull themselves up onto the ice. At…

You brush your teeth to keep them clean. You might brush your pet’s teeth to keep them clean too. But what about wild animals? Do they clean their teeth? Some big animals get their teeth cleaned by smaller animals. But most animals don’t need to clean their teeth. Unlike people, they do not usually eat sugary foods that can rot teeth. And many of the foods they do eat—like rough grasses, bark, or bones—work to scrape the teeth clean.…

The cards on these pages show 10 different animals and their teeth. The cards for each animal and its teeth are edged in the same color. You can play a memory game with the cards by finding the matching pairs of cards: the zebra and the zebra teeth, for example. First, cut out all 20 cards on the black lines. Then turn all the cards facedown, so that you can’t see the pictures. The first player turns over any two cards. If the two cards go together, the player can keep that pair and take another turn. If the two cards don’t go together, the player turns the two cards facedown again after all the other players have seen them. Then it’s another player’s turn. The player who collects the…