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A GROUP OF GIRAFFES IS CALLED A TOWER. HONEYBEES HAVE TWO STOMACHS. In Japan, you can buy doughnuts stuffed with ramen noodles. A HEXAGON-SHAPED HURRICANE HAS HOVERED OVER SATURN’S NORTH POLE FOR AT LEAST 30 YEARS. AN ATLANTIC PUFFIN CAN HOLD AS MANY AS A DOZEN SMALL FISH BILL IN ITS AT ONE TIME. The first baseball caps were made from straw. Most sharks would sink in freshwater. COLLECT BADGES! Go online to earn your Shark badge. natgeokids.com/badges…
OFFICER CAMEL Deputy Bert the camel may never be awarded a medal for bravery, but he does hold one honor: the record for the world’s highest-ranking camel. Bert doesn’t round up criminals, though. Sure, he wears an official badge from the Los Angeles Sheriff ’s Department in California while sporting a blanket with a hole for his hump. But his main “job” is to help represent the department at school safety programs and other community events. Sometimes, though, Bert does behave like a bad guy. He allows local horses to get close to him, then roars loudly. “He thinks scaring the horses is hilarious ” handler Nance Fite says. TWO-WHEEL DRIVING Talk about throwing your weight around. Michele Pilia holds the record for the longest distance traveled by an automobile…
OWL DOTES ON DOG PAL Remscheid, Germany Poldi the little owl seems to think that he’s a bodyguard to a Belgian Malinois named Ingo. Trouble is, the dog is over 150 times the owl’s size! The bird, which weighs less than a cup of sugar, can be quite protective of his 60-pound pooch pal. Once during a stroll in the forest with owner Tanja Brandt, another owl shrieked overhead. Poldi flew from his perch on Brandt’s arm, landed on the dog’s head, and shrieked right back. “It was as if he were saying, ‘Back off my friend,’” Brandt says. The owl and dog met two years ago after Brandt adopted the bird and brought him to live in an aviary next to her home. (Brandt is a falconer, or a…
Cliff Hotel AESCHER MOUNTAIN GUESTHOUSE WHERE Appenzell, Switzerland HOW MUCH $45 a night WHY IT’S COOL If you want your next vacation to be a real cliff-hanger, check out this spot. The 170-year-old inn and restaurant is built against a cliff face in the Swiss Alps almost 4,800 feet above sea level. Visitors can climb up the peak to get to the inn. Or, if an extreme mountain trek isn’t your thing, you can catch a cable car to the top instead. Once there, guests walk along a footpath that takes them through a prehistoric cave straight to the hotel’s doorstep. When visitors aren’t hanging out in the hotel’s rustic dorm rooms, they can hike around the lodge or dine at the restaurant perched on the edge of the bluff.…
1 VISITORS NOT WELCOME On their own, sea salps like this one are pretty harmless. But large numbers of them can wreak havoc. A power plant on California’s coast once had to be temporarily shut down after a mass of slimy salps clogged the screens used to keep out marine life. 2 TRANSPARENT SQUID You can find the balloon-shaped, big-eyed glass squid in the deep waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean. The squid’s eyes and arms contain light-emitting organs known as photophores, which may attract mates. 3 FLAPPING MARVEL The transparent wings of glasswing butterflies barely reflect any light. And without light bouncing off the insects’ bodies, it’s much harder for enemies such as birds to spot them. This allows the butterflies to fly under the radar of most predators.…
1 From Earth you always look at the same side of the moon. 2 A lightning storm on Saturn was nearly big enough to cover the entire United States. 3 Astronauts have grown potatoes on the space shuttle. 4 The Milky Way is made up of some 100 billion stars. 5 Chimpanzees, monkeys, dogs, mice, and a guinea pig have all traveled into space. 6 The north pole of Uranus doesn’t get sunlight for almost 42 years at a time. WIN THE BOOK! TRY ONLINE JULY 13-20. natgeokids.com/august…
