Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2019 i National Geographic Kids

MONEY TIP! ASK FOR YOUR STORE CHANGE OR ALLOWANCE IN LARGE BILLS. RESEARCH SHOWS PEOPLE ARE LESS LIKELY TO SPEND LARGE BILLS THAN SMALL ONES.…

Samburu National Reserve, Kenya Kamuniak the lioness was supposed to love baby oryx—as lunch meat. Instead she tried to mother multiple African antelopes. Kamuniak (kuhmoo-NYACK) chased off the mother oryx and protected her “babies” from other predators like leopards and cheetahs. But Kamuniak didn’t exactly deserve Mother’s Day cards from appreciative animals: The young oryx didn’t fare well with a lion “mom.” Two of them even managed to escape to their real mothers. Kamuniak’s odd behavior puzzled game wardens and scientists. Lion expert Craig Packer believes she was like a house cat toying with a mouse. “Kamuniak was playful,” Packer says. “But I think she got carried away with her game.” Others think Kamuniak had so much love to give that any baby would do!…

FIND THE SPY! Dangerous villains are following Cruz. Use the clues below and the Academy campus map to find this mysterious spy. “Find the Spy!” D = 12 S = 3,100,000 N = 31,100 O = 400 B = 11,200 A = 211 P = 1,001,000 R = 40 Y = 211,001 O = 100,003 ANSWER: SPY ONBOARD CLUES 1 The spy is hiding somewhere northward of the Franklin Library. 2 The spy is hiding somewhere northeast of Bingham Auditorium. 3 The spy is hiding in a building that is smaller than the CAVE. 4 The spy is hiding in a building that has a curved side. 5 The spy is hiding in a building that is bordered by more than one tree. The spy is hiding in ANSWER THE EXPLORER…

HUGEST DOG EVER A dog drinking from the kitchen sink might sound weird—unless you’re Zeus, the tallest dog ever. About the height of an average five-year-old kid, Zeus needed a lot of water to wash down all his food. Every day the gentle giant ate about 12 cups of dry and two cans of wet dog food, plus chicken or scrambled eggs. If all that food made him sleepy, he just headed to a bedroom to snooze on his own full-size mattress. FLYING MAN This is no bird or plane. Fraser Corsan holds the record for the fastest speed in a wingsuit: 246.6 miles an hour! That’s faster than some helicopters. A wingsuit has extra material between the arms and legs that increases a skydiver’s lift, enabling the daredevil to…

BEHIND THE BILLIONS More than 7 billion people live on Earth. That sounds like a big number, but just how big is it? Put it in perspective with these crazy comparisons.…

A serval sits patiently in a grassy field, swiveling its head back and forth like a watchful owl. The predator is scanning the savanna for a meal not with its eyes, but with its oversize ears. An unseen rodent stirs under the thick brush, and the wild cat tenses. It crouches on its legs and feet before launching itself up and over the tall grass. Guided only by sound, the serval lands directly on the once-invisible rat. Thanks to its extra-long legs, stretched-out neck, and huge ears, the serval is sometimes called the “cat of spare parts.” The wild cat might look weird to some people. “But put together, their bizarre looking body parts make them really successful hunters,” says Christine Thiel-Bender, a biologist who studies servals in their African…

Thirsk, England Most pigs love wallowing in the mud. But not Cinders. As a piglet, she refused to walk in mud, sometimes even shaking with fear if she couldn’t find a way around a puddle. The solution? Boots! Owner Andrew Keeble found that doll-size boots were a perfect fit for Cinders. Each day, she’d run to have them put on, then trot happily through the mud. The boots solved the problem but didn’t explain her strange actions. Veterinarian Bruce Lawhorn thinks it might have been a behavioral response. “If Cinders had sore hoof pads while walking in mud, she might have associated the pain with the mud,” he says. Eventually Cinders outgrew her boots and began to brave the mud bare-hoofed. But she never wanted to roll around in in…

DIAMONDS OR DUDS? People used to believe that diamonds were made by bolts of lightning! That sounds really cool—but it’s not true: Diamonds actually develop deep in the ground under great pressure. The gems are the crystalline form of carbon. A cubic zirconia—sometimes called a CZ—is another form of crystalline material that happens to look like a diamond. But it’s worth a lot less. The easiest way to tell a diamond from a CZ imposter is with something called the fog test. Here’s how it works: Breathe a puff of air on the diamond in question. If the fog disappears right away, congrats! It’s probably a diamond. But if it takes longer to go away, you might have a CZ on your hands. Fog doesn’t show up on real diamonds…

Cruz dipped his fingertips into the box until he felt something soft. Cold. Squishy. He slid his hand along the slimy surface, just to be sure, then closed the top. “Spaghetti noodles,” he said clearly. He waited. Would something pop up to tell him if he was right or wrong? Hm. The instructions had said if he was right he would get to continue, so either the box would open again for him or it wouldn’t, right? Cruz reached for the lid. It opened. He put his hand inside. “Candy corn.” As he continued, the items got harder to figure out. Popcorn. Sliced olives. Flower petals. He was lifting the lid again when he felt something on his shoulder—a hand. “Don’t move,” said a digitized voice. “O-okay.” “Do not speak…