Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2018 i National Geographic Kids

IF YOU TRAVELED 1 LIGHT-YEAR, YOU WOULD GO ALMOST 6 TRILLION MILES. A man walked on his hands from Vienna, Austria, to Paris, France. The trip took 55 days! A porcupine can have more than 30,000 quills. SOME PLANTS CONSUME INSECTS, FROGS, AND BIRDS FOR FOOD. A NEWBORN GIRAFFE FALLS 6 FEET TO THE GROUND WHEN IT’S BORN. THE GROOVE BETWEEN YOUR NOSE AND UPPER LIP IS CALLED THE PHILTRUM. THE LARGEST KNOWN STARS ARE ABOUT 2,000 TIMES LARGER THAN THE SUN. GET MORE! Book and App YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT 45 ,000 WORDS WITH AN AVERAGE PENCIL.…

1 WAIT YOUR TURN Meals are a rough-and-tumble affair, so it’s best to hang back until everyone else is done eating before digging in. Let Dad go first, then Mom—that means you’re last. 2 USE YOUR NOSE Lost? Take a whiff of the nearest shrub. Older males in your pride mark the plants around your home by leaving their scent on them. The familiar smells mean your family is close by. Don’t recognize the odor? Some other lions might be trying to claim your territory. So get away—fast! 3 MAKE TIME FOR PLAYTIME Your siblings and parents really don’t mind when you jump on their backs and bite their necks. That’s also good practice for when you hunt on your own. Just be sure to play early in the morning…

1 SUPERNOVA REMNANTS This mosaic of six images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows an area of the Veil Nebula about two light-years across. (A light-year is the distance light travels in one year.) The whole Veil Nebula is 110 light-years across. The wispy gas trails are all that’s left of an ancient star that was once 20 times more massive than our sun. 2 DWARF PLANET NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of Pluto (in the foreground) and its moon Charon. The colors here are made by combining three different images, and though the relative sizes are close to accurate, the relative distance apart is not to scale. 3 TELESCOPE POWER Two dwarf galaxies known as the Magellanic Clouds can be seen above the Paranal Observatory in the…

1 The official mascot of the 2018 Winter Olympics is a white tiger Soohorang named . 2 More than 80 percent of the country’s population lives in cities. 3 A 20-mile bike path is located in the middle of a highway connecting the cities of Daejeon and Sejong. 4 About 90 percent of a duck species called Baikal teals spend their winters in the Geumgang estuary. 5 The number four is regarded as unlucky in traditional South Korean culture. 6 The Siberian flying squirrel glides instead of flies. 7 The oldest Buddhist canon— a book of sacred texts—is found in this country. 8 Held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the 2018 Olympic Games are only the third ever Winter Olympics to be held in Asia. 9 The Asiatic black bear is…

BIG-MOUTH DOG! Augie the golden retriever didn’t just fetch his tennis balls. He crammed five of them into his mouth, the most on record for a dog! Owner Laurel Miller says as a puppy Augie would chase tennis balls and then refuse to give them back. But soon Miller could simply place the balls on the ground and Augie would scoop them all into his mouth. At least he wasn’t barking with his mouth full! GLOBE MADE OF SOAP! This is one way to keep Earth clean! The world’s largest soap sculpture represents a globe held by two hands; it’s nearly seven feet wide and about nine feet tall. Guess it’s not such a small world after all. WORLD’S TALLEST MAN! Who needs a ladder when this dude is your…

CAT HAS COOL EYES Budapest, Hungary It’s hard to look away from Pam Pam, a white exotic shorthair cat. The kitty’s peepers aren’t just, well, eye-catching—they’re also pretty rare. Pam Pam has iridis, an eye condition that means one eye is blue and the other is a different color—yellow in Pam Pam’s case. Iridis occurs when a gene prevents an equal amount of melanin—a pigment that determines the color of your hair, skin, and eyes—from reaching both eyes. This leaves the blue eye with less melanin. The feline form of iridis is unusual and can happen in any breed. “Luckily, iridis doesn’t cause any pain or vision problems,” veterinarian Seth Cohen says. The hypnotizing look can also be found in humans and other animals, such as dogs and horses. Even…

Two male lions prowl through the savanna of Tanzania, a country in Africa. They’re looking for a pride of females and a territory to call their own. Suddenly they stop. In their sight is another pair of male lions, their manes clearly visible. The intruders size up their opponents, then back off. They’ll battle for turf somewhere else. Male lions are the only cats that grow manes. But for years, scientists were uncertain why. A tiger’s stripes or a leopard’s spots provide camouflage, but manes don’t have an obvious purpose. If anything, having a mop of hair in the warm African climate would seem like a disadvantage. Why make life harder by growing a hot scarf to wrap around your head? One theory was that males’ long locks attracted females,…

HEART-TO-HEART These photos show close-up and faraway views of things that are heart-shaped. Unscramble the letters to identify what’s in each picture. Feel the love? ANSWERS ON PAGE 34 CHECK OUT THIS BOOK!…