Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2020 i National Geographic Kids

About A BILLION BACTERIA could be in your mouth right now. MEN get the HICCUPS more often than WOMEN do. Crocodiles have been around for about 200 MILLION YEARS. SMOOTH PEANUT BUTTER is more popular on the East Coast of the United States; CHUNKY rules on the West Coast. One of the world’s MOST EXPENSIVE TREE HOUSES, located in Scotland, cost about $4 MILLION to build. Thomas Jefferson’s recipe for VANILLA ICE CREAM is in the Library of Congress.  Scientists believe that SATURN’S RINGS will eventually disappear. Between 1912 and 1918, you could take your money to Washington, D.C., to be WASHED and IRONED. Some fish can change from FEMALE to MALE. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…

1 NIGHT LIGHTS Boca Ciega Bay in St. Petersburg, Florida, comes alive with lighted boats during a floating celebration of the winter holidays. Participants in the annual St. Pete Beach holiday boat parade also donate toys to kids in need. Sounds like a perfect parade! 2 FLOWER POWER For more than a century, fantastic flower-covered floats and marching bands have dazzled crowds at the annual Rose Parade on New Year’s Day. Not a fan of flowers? Stick around for a college football game that follows the parade. 3 BLAZING BOAT The Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Scotland, ends every January in a blaze. Harking back to a Viking ritual, hundreds of torchbearers march through the town’s streets before setting a 30-footlong galley—a type of ship—on fire. 4 COLORFUL RITUAL Millions of people of…

In the new movie Onward, New Mushroomton is full of mythical creatures who’ve lost their magic mojo. Mermaids don’t swim, and sprites ride motorcycles instead of fly. But elf brothers Barley and Ian Lightfoot want to find the old-world magic. Nat Geo Kids goes behind the scenes to see how Mushroomton’s residents measure up against the creatures that real-world humans once believed in. ORIGIN STORY A mythical creature often appears in stories from many different cultures all over the world—but that myth started somewhere! Check out some of the real places where these fantasy figures likely first showed up. Unicorns Unicorns are the pesky city raccoons of New Mushroomton, using their horns to flip lids off garbage cans to grab a meal. In the real world, people thought that the…

1 The new movie Mulan is based on a sixth-century Chinese poem called “The Ballad of Mulan.” In both the poem and the movie, the character Hua Mulan disguises herself as a man to take her sick father’s place in the army. 2 In China, every year is represented by one of 12 animals. 2020 is the year of the rat. 3 China’s Bailong Elevator carries visitors more than a thousand feet up a cliff’s edge. 4 You can buy green-bean-flavored ice pops in this country. 5 In ancient China, soldiers sometimes wore armor made from paper. 6 In 2010, a 2,400-year-old pot of soup was unearthed in Xian, China. 7 Found in northern China, long-eared jerboas have ears that are one-third longer than their heads. 8 People race boats with dragon designs…

1. Fill in the thought balloon. 2. Cut out the entire picture(or make a photocopy of it). 3. Mail it along with your name, address, phone number, and date of birth to Nat Geo Kids, Back Talk, P.O. Box 96000, Washington, DC 20090-6000. Selection for publication in a future issue will be at the discretion of Nat Geo Kids. FROM THE MAY 2019 ISSUE First one to the grass wins! Hannah C., 6 Eugene, Oregon This might take awhile. Austin Z., 11 Middlebury, Indiana Traffic is slow today. Brendan K., 11 Riverside, California The GPS says we’ll be there in a couple of years. Ava R., 10 Portland, Texas This is the 100-millimeter dash! Miyah G., 11 Hershey, Pennsylvania Let’s go to the slow-motion replay! Diesel B., 11 Harrodsburg, Kentucky…

ONE-FINGER PUSH-UPS Tackling 41 push-ups in 30 seconds is impressive. But doing 41 push-ups in 30 seconds on just one finger? That’s mind-boggling. Xie Guizhong of Beijing, China, set the record for the most one-finger push-ups in 30 seconds. Xie also holds the record for the fastest time to push a car 165 feet with one digit. He’s definitely got his fingers all over the record books. SUPER-HIGH SLIDE Tired of taking the stairs? Take the slide instead! That’s what visitors to the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, California, can do. At 918 feet aboveground, the Skyslide is the highest slide on the outside of a building, with its enclosed glass tube sending sliders from the 70th floor to the 69th. Call us when they add a teeter-totter to…

Polka-Dotted Zebra! Masai Mara, Kenya This zebra is easy to spot: The foal’s dark coat is covered in white polka dots! “At first it looked like a different species altogether,” photographer Frank Liu says. The odd pattern is caused by a rare condition called pseudomelanism (pronounced soo-DOH-mel-uh-nih-zum). This means that the cells that create the red, yellow, brown, or black pigment in the mammal’s hair and skin aren’t working like they do in most animals. So instead of the colors running together to form stripes, they form dots. The condition doesn’t hurt the foal, now named Tira after the tour guide who first spotted her. But bugs might bite her more than the other zebras because scientists think that biting flies don’t like landing on striped surfaces. Plus her speckled pattern…

Do your part to help prevent single-use plastic items from reaching the ocean. Check out ideas here, then go online for more. natgeokids.com/KidsVsPlastic WHY? You might use plastic bags for snacks, but for many animals, the plastic bag is the snack! The glint of a plastic goodie bag floating in the water can look like a fish. As the plastic fills the animal’s stomach, it blocks food from traveling through its intestines, causing it to starve. In fact, one Cuvier’s beaked whale was recently discovered with more than 88 pounds of plastic—including snack bags, grocery bags, and nylon ropes—in its stomach. So instead, store your treats in reusable containers, then toss them in your backpack for on-the-go grub. Make a difference! Check out how many kids have pledged to reduce…

HARP SEAL If you’re ever in snowy Arctic Russia or Canada, be sure to walk carefully—you might mistake a newborn harp seal for a pile of snow! At about two weeks old, the pup sheds its furry white coat for one that’s gray and smooth, perfect for skimming through the ocean to hunt for small fish. When hunting, harp seals can hold their breath for up to 20 minutes while they dive to depths of 800 feet or more. That’s almost as deep as the Eiffel Tower is tall. DEER Deer often sniff to identify each other or just to say hello. And by now these fawns may need a friendly face—they’ve spent their first few weeks almost completely hidden, their spotted coats blending in with their forest homes. After…

Red-Eyed Tree Frog LIVES IN: Southern Mexico and Central America SCREEN NAME FabFrog FRIENDS START…