Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2020 i National Geographic Kids

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Tucked away in a densely covered forest, Budi sits on a wooden platform with his fellow baby orangutan classmates. Today’s lesson: how to build a nest. In front of each tiny primate is a pile of leaf-covered branches. Budi (pronounced BOOdee) picks up a stick and examines it. Unsure what to do next, he plops the branch on his head. In the wild, an orangutan mother would show her baby how to use these branches and leaves to build a new bed each night. But Budi was separated from his mom shortly after he was born. When conservationists from the International Animal Rescue (IAR) found the sick orang living as someone’s pet, they rushed him to IAR’s orangutan rehabilitation center on Borneo, an Indonesian island, for medical care. After three…

SNOOPY BLINGS OUT Good grief. A Chinese jeweler made the most expensive Snoopy memorabilia, worth roughly $371,000, for the beagle’s 60th birthday. The figure of the famous pup is covered with 9,917 diamonds, 783 black diamonds, and 415 ruby gemstones. Woodstock would love it. PIE-NORMOUS! You’d better leave a lot of room for your holiday dessert! The largest pumpkin pie weighed 3,699 pounds and was 20 feet wide. What did it take to make this delish dish? Ingredients included more than 1,200 pounds of canned pumpkin, almost 2,800 eggs, and 1,400 teaspoons of cinnamon. That calls for a supersize dollop of whipped cream. HOP ALONG, PLEASE This guy really bounced his way into the record books. The tallest usable pogo stick towers at more than nine and a half feet…

If you chomped into this mouthwatering Thanksgiving meal, your taste buds would never trust you again. Why? You’d get a mouthful of paper towels, cotton balls, and dish soap. Food stylists and photographers use many tricks to make food look delicious for cookbooks and advertisements. For instance, milk on cereal might be replaced with white glue. That way the cereal doesn’t get soggy. Or lemon juice might be added to a banana to keep it from turning brown. “Food is basically like cut flowers,” food stylist Lisa Cherkasky says. “It’s amazing how fast it dries up and shrinks.” Nat Geo Kids takes you on the set to check out the secrets of food styling. Just make sure that it’s only your eyes that do the feasting! SOAPY MILK To make…

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NAME: Boots the cat FAVORITE ACTIVITY: Getting massages from the dog FAVORITE TOY: Tooth-shaped head scratcher PET PEEVE: Dog breath NAME: Louie FAVORITE ACTIVITY: Taking a bath FAVORITE TOY: Bubbles PET PEEVE: Birds NAME: Muffy FAVORITE ACTIVITY: Pretending she’s a human FAVORITE TOY: Mini-kitchen play set PET PEEVE: Large furniture NAME: Riley FAVORITE ACTIVITY: Seeing how many times he can roll over on the ironing board FAVORITE TOY: Rolled-up socks PET PEEVE: Dry cleaners…

Three orange-and-black-striped fuzz balls tumble out of a rocky hiding place, watching as their mom slowly pads toward them after a long day of hunting. The tired mom lays down to rest, but the nearly two-month-old cubs have been alone all day—it’s playtime! One youngster nibbles her ear. Another bites her tail. The third cub tumbles down her back. Swat! Unable to snooze, the mom gently bats the cubs with her nearly five-inch-wide paws. They slink away … but not for long. Soon they start the game all over again. More than a year earlier, a team of researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Pacific Geographical Institute, and the Sikhote-Alin Reserve had placed a GPS tracking device around the neck of this Siberian tiger named Varvara so they could…

It looks like a mysterious alien hideaway, with crystal structures about the height of a three-story building crisscrossing overhead. But Mexico’s Cave of Crystals is a real cave. And scientists had never seen anything like it. SECRET WORLD In 2000, miners found a hidden gallery of giant icicle-like crystals almost a thousand feet below the Earth’s surface. Some measure up to 33 feet tall. The sparkling crystals aren’t the only things that make this cave unique. Most caves stay around 60°F. But this one rests atop what was once bubbling magma (hot, liquid rock). The leftover embers can make the mine hotter than the Sahara and wetter than a rainforest. “As soon as I entered the cave I was dripping with sweat,” says crystal expert Juan Manuel García-Ruiz of 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 MARCH 2020 ISSUE I think we see eye-to-eye. Kyrie A., 7 Clermont, Florida I’m going to sneeze! Jeremy S., 6 Hockessin, Delaware My camouflage is on point. Zoë C., 12 East Lansing, Michigan I’m not sure this butterfly nose what he’s doing. Xavier K., 9 Honolulu, Hawaii You blinked! I win! Jamie C., 12 Great Falls, Virginia Hey, you’re blocking my view. Dylan K., 8 New York, New…