Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 231 i National Geographic Kids (UK)

Hey Kids! It's party time this issue, as we meet six cheeky creatures that like to have fun – or so it seems! We're also celebrating the work of seven award-winning conservationists who've come up with amazing ideas to save the animals they love – meet them on page 16. Want to do your own bit to help look after our wonderful world? Then turn to page 32 to find some simple planet-saving tips. Check out some cool fire-fighting technology on page 36, then give your brain a workout with our puzzle pages. Plus there are the usual posters and crafts, too – so get stuck in! See you next month, Editor Tim and the Nat Geo Kids team…

Love cheese? Well, imagine being so head over heels with the stu? that you'd risk life and limb chasing after it! That's what happened last month at the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling event in Gloucestershire, when contestants charged down a super-steep slope after a 3.5kg round of Double Gloucester! The silly ‘sport’ has taken place since the 1800s, with the first person passing the finish line winning the cheese (no one ever catches it as the wheel reaches speeds of up to 100kmph!). Abby Lamp won this year's women's race, while Tom, Dylan and Josh tumbled to victory in the men's events. It's not known why the tradition began, but while it might not be very, er, mature, it's grate fun. Brie-lliant!…

Lost and Found Someone has accidentally left their guidebook at the top of Italy's Tower of Pisa. Using the clues below, can you work out which person the guidebook belongs to? ANSWER ON PAGE 49 The guidebook belongs to a person who… ❏ is wearing glasses ❏ is not wearing a hat ❏ has brown hair ❏ is wearing a wat ❏ is wearing a short-sleeved shirt ❏ is wearing red shoes Can you find any of the following? ■ Someone in a ‘Viva Italia’ T-shirt ■ An artist at work ■ A kid who ‘s dropped their hat ■ A baby in a buggy ■ An old man with a pigeon on his hand…

SENSATIONAL STRIPES These photographs show close-up views of stripes in the animal kingdom. Unscramble the letters to identify each creature. Bonus: Use the yellow letters to help you answer the joke below. Answers on page 49…

Dr. Orangutan! Wild animals can't call a doctor or pop to the chemist's if they're sick. But one clever ape has been spotted making a medicine from plants! The wild Sumatran orangutan, named Rakus by researchers, chewed up the leaves from a vine called akar kuning, creating a paste which he carefully applied to a nasty injury on his cheek. Within four days, the wound had closed without infection! Scientists found that the leaves are antibacterial and reduce pain, and are used by local people to treat illnesses like malaria. But this is the? rst time researchers have ever seen a wild animal using a plant to treat an injury. They now want to learn how he figured out the technique – and whether other orangutans do it, too! Robo…

Fennec foxes have hairy footpads that protect them from the hot North African desert sand. Six cool stories about playful creatures… Ever watched animals interacting and thought: ‘That looks fun!’? Well, plenty of creatures certainly seem to be playful – from cats chasing lasers to dogs enjoying rough and tumble. Some scientists describe animal play as a thing that's repeated, joyful and done simply to have fun. And a truly playful animal is also one that's in good health and is not stressed out. So do the following stories show that animals know how to party? Read on to decide for yourself! 1 BOAT BUMPERS Water laps against a sailing boat in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain. Suddenly, a pod of orcas breaks the surface and swims towards…

The Whitley Award prize money will help these conservationists do even more important work! Around 2,500 endangered Gee's golden langurs live in Bhutan. Kuenzang's work means local women and children no longer have to guard crop fields. Instead, they can go to school! Kuenzang Dorji is conserving GEE'S GOLDEN LANGURS in Bhutan! “In Bhutan, an encounter with a Gee's golden langur is a sign of prosperity and success! When I first met them, aged 16, I was fascinated by their golden colour and expressive eyes. But their numbers are decreasing. Habitat loss and climate change have damaged their food supply, forcing them to raid crops. Many are killed by angry farmers, hit by cars or electrocuted by powerlines. My solution? I use model tigers to keep the monkeys out of…

Many scientists believe that warming temperatures caused by climate change are creating more frequent, stronger wildfires. Here are some of the reasons… When an insect's habitat becomes warmer, more of them can survive the winter, boosting their numbers. That can affect the ecosystem. For instance, increased temperatures in parts of Canada caused a population explosion of tree-eating bark beetles. That resulted in too many hungry beetles, which killed more trees, and dead trees are more flammable. Warming temperatures cause snow to melt all at once instead of slowly throughout the year. That means forests that used to depend on a steady source of water from melting snow will be drier during the wildfire season. Warmer air holds more moisture, which causes more thunderstorms. That leads to more lightning strikes, a…

LOST AND FOUND (page 42–43) BOOST YOUR BRAIN! (page 44–45) DINO SEARCH 1-D; 2-B. SECRET LETTERS BOWLING. FEATHERY FIT CREEPY CRAWLIES 1-ANT; 2-BEETLE; 3-EARWIG; 4-SPIDER; 5-TERMITE; 6-COCKROACH; 7-CENTIPEDE; 8-LADYBIRD. PICTURE CLUES MEERKAT. ANIMAL LOLS 1-D; 2-F; 3-A; 4-E; 5-C; 6-B. WEATHER WATCH Sunny-3; Rain-4; Snow-2; Windy-2; Cloudy-1; Fog-3; Hail-2. DOLPHIN DIVE 3 and 6 spell ‘DOLPHIN’. SPACE SPOT! 3 and 9 are only shown once. MEGA CROSSWORD (page 46) SPOT THE DIFFERENCE (page 47) WHAT IN THE WORLD? (page 48) TOP ROW: TIGER, OCTOPUS, BUTTERFLY. MIDDLE ROW: JELLYFISH, SNAIL, CHAMELEON. BOTTOM ROW: TERRAPIN, RACOON, ZEBRA. BONUS: SO THEY AREN'T SPOTTED! REVEAL THE SECRET MESSAGE (page 49) DARK MAGIC, BEWARE! THE LAST LAUGH Q. What did the dog say when it sat on sandpaper? A. “Rough!”…

Sci-fi scarecrows! The sleepy Lancashire village of Wray has held a spring scarecrow festival for more than 30 years, attracting visitors from far and wide. But this year, Wray's residents decided to give the event a science-fiction theme, building Daleks, aliens like E.T. and even a scarecrow resembling Princess Leia from Star Wars! Cool car-sket! Ghanaian artist Paa Joe has been making coffins since the 1960s. His designs are inspired by each owner's interests, job or personality. But not all the coffins he creates are buried. Some, like this yellow New York taxi, are art pieces. What a way to ride to the other side! Swirly sculptures We love these abstract animals, created by South Korean artist Lee Sangsoo! After sketching the creatures’ shape and ‘flow’ on paper, Lee then…

1 1 Ultraviolet light makes some rare blue diamonds glow red. 2 2 Ancient Greeks believed that diamonds were broken pieces of falling stars. 3 3 Diamonds often form about 150km below Earth's surface. 4 4 Visitors to the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, USA, can keep any diamonds they find. 5 5 Miners in Russia discovered a tiny diamond inside a bigger one. 6 6 The oldest diamonds formed over 3 billion years ago. 7 7 A ‘diamond’ that was actually just a worthless piece of glass fooled staff at the Prague National Museum for 50 years.…

CHECK OUT BOOK! Some MONKEYS in THAILAND TEACH their young to FLOSS their teeth. There are SOLID GOLD pizza-sized Canadian coins worth ONE MILLION Canadian dollars (roughly £600,000). I'm totally gnawsome! A BEAVER has a PAIR OF LIPS behind its FRONT TEETH. AN EARTHQUAKE in CHILE shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 MICROSECONDS. Some ARTISTS use CHEWING GUM to make PAINTINGS. The SOUND of waves CRASHING comes mostly from AIR BUBBLES. APPLES FLOAT, but PEARS USUALLY SINK. A SAILFISH can LEAP through the air at 110kmph.…

SUPER POOTER Make a cool device to help you explore the fascinating world of insects! What you'll need ● Clear plastic food tub with a resealable lid, such as a hummus container (clean!) ● Two? exible biodegradable straws ● Sticky tape ● Old nylon tights (clean!) ● Sticky tack Start here! 1 The ‘pooter’ you're making will let you safely suck up bugs, so first make a filter to stop any accidentally going in your mouth! Cut a small piece of the nylon tights to cover the hole at the bendy end of one straw. Fasten it at the sides with tape. 2 Next, make a small hole in the middle of the tub's side using a sharp point – such as a compass. Insert a pencil into the hole…