Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2020 i National Geographic Kids

HUGE RACKET You’ll need a really big Ping-Pong ball to play with the world’s largest table-tennis racket. The oversize paddle measures nearly 12 feet tall, or roughly the height of an adult male African elephant. That’s about 20 times bigger than a standard paddle. International Table Tennis Federation rules state that rackets can be any size, so you could use it in competition. But you’d have to be able to lift it first! PIG PERFORMS TRICKS Joy isn’t just a one-trick miniature pig. The swine completed 13 tricks in less than 60 seconds, earning the title of most tricks performed by a pig in one minute. Joy’s showstoppers include playing a toy piano, lifting a ring off its stand, and unrolling a rug. Now that’s some pig. SCOOPS ON SCOOPS Italy is home to the…

Flamingo Says “Save the Earth!” Willemstad, Curaçao Bob the flamingo likes taking dips in his own saltwater pool and getting foot massages on the beach. This hardworking bird deserves all the pampering: He’s teaching kids about conservation. Veterinarian and wildlife sanctuary founder Odette Doest rescued Bob after he flew into a hotel window. After rehabilitating him, she realized he wouldn’t be able to survive in the wild. So Doest decided to keep Bob at her sanctuary and use the friendly bird to help educate people. She often brings Bob to schools to teach kids about plastic pollution, which can harm wildlife when the animals become entangled in fishing gear or mistake discarded balloons as food. Bob helps people understand how a small change in their habits can have a big impact…

A strange eruption creates a dazzling light show. The night is pitch-black. But the dark slopes of a hill inside the crater of Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia, a country in Asia, are lit up like a holiday light show. Tourists flock to the volcano to see what look like glowing blue rivers of lava. But they aren’t rivers of lava. They’re rivers of glowing sulfur. Burning Blue Glowing red lava flowing from an erupting volcano isn’t unusual. Glowing sulfur is. Hot, sulfur-rich gases escape constantly from cracks called fumaroles in Kawah Ijen’s crater. The gases cool when they hit the air. Some condense into liquid sulfur, which flows down the hillside. When the sulfur and leftover gases ignite, they burn bright blue and light up the night sky. Scientists…

Hundreds of Australian sea lions have gathered together along the Australian coast. Some are sprawled out on the beach, sunning themselves. Others bark as they chase each other in the surf. Minus their flippers, these animals could fit right in at a dog park. These marine mammals actually do remind some people of our furry pooch pals. “Sea lions are curious and playful, which is very doglike,” says Deena Weisberg, a researcher who studies human and sea lion interactions in the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. “Even when they’re in the water, they behave very similarly to dogs.” So should sea lions really be called sea dogs instead? Check out these five behaviors to decide. 1 They bark—loudly. Two male Galápagos sea lions stare at each other and begin…

friend’s name and I set sail on the famous pirate ship the adjective animal for our summer vacation. After verb ending in -ing out to sea, Captain color beard gave us a tour. Suddenly the sky turned dark and it started to verb. A bolt of noun streaked across the sky as a large wave filled with noun, plural crashed over the side of the ship. Fish were flying everywhere—one even landed on my body part. The first mate, celebrity, took cover with historical figure. The captain was taking down the sail when a(n) adjective gust of wind sent him flying through the air. He held on to the noun but his trousers flew off the ship, showing color - noun underpants! After he landed back on the deck, we…

THE CODE: FLAG CODE Secret messages can be hidden in real-life objects, including flags. Here, each flag represents the first letter of the country the flag belongs to. For example, the French flag would represent the letter f, and the Argentine flag would represent the letter a. Take a look at these flags from different countries below. CRACK THIS CODE! Using the first letter of each flag’s nation, decode the words below. BREAK MORE CODES! ExplorerAcademy.com…

You always put your old homework paper and plastic bottles into the recycling bin. Go, you! But that’s just the first step for the 67 million tons of waste Americans recycle each year. Take a tour of the first stop for your recyclables: the facility where the materials are sorted. 1 TRUCK STOP A truck cruises to your curbside and workers snag the items from your recycle bin, eventually bringing them to a place called a materials recovery facility, or MRF (pronounced MURF). This is where items will be sorted by material (like paper and aluminum) so they can be sent to other facilities and recycled into new products. 2 PUSHOVER The truck dumps its haul in an area of the MRF called the tipping floor. A tractor pushes the…

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 NOVEMBER 2019 ISSUE Do you think I look cool? Sebastian A., 10 Bellevue, Washington If I stand perfectly still, they won’t see me. Allie P., 10 Covington, Louisiana I’ll dance for seals. Wyatt T., 6 Ottawa, Kansas Ice is nice! Eli O., 8 Matthews, North Carolina I’m gonna melt the ice with these hot moves. Maddox V., 10 Crozet, Virginia I’m ice-zilla! Nicholas P., 8 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York…