Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2022 i National Geographic Kids

On a nighttime search for eucalyptus leaves, a mama koala and her joey wander into a backyard in south-eastern Australia. A pet dog attacks the pair, defending its territory against the intruders. The mom doesn’t make it, but the six-month-old youngster escapes up a gum tree. In the morning, the dog’s owner can hear the joey squeaking for its mom: At this age, baby koalas still spend time in their mother’s pouch and on her back. The homeowner brings the frightened joey to a local veterinarian, who checks it for injuries. The youngster isn’t hurt, but the motherless koala won’t survive without care. So a volunteer drives the joey to Mosswood Wildlife, a rescue and rehabilitation center in Victoria, Australia. The day before, the vet had brought an eight-month-old joey…

Animals often blend in with their environment to hide. Find each animal listed below in the pictures, then write the letter of the correct photo next to each animal’s name. 1. spider crab _____ 2. monkey grasshopper _____ 3. Indian grass mantis _____ 4. echo parakeets _____ 5. yellow-footed tortoise _____ “Find the Hidden Animals” 1. C, 2. A, 3. D, 4. E, 5. B.…

MORE MASHED POTATOES, PLEASE! Think he saved room for dessert? André Ortolf holds the record for the most mashed potatoes eaten in one minute, scarfing down more than two pounds of the stuff. (That’s about six typical portions.) But Ortolf isn’t a picky eater—he also holds records for the most jelly eaten with chopsticks and the most baby food eaten in one minute. Someone pass the napkins. LOOONG BEAVER DAM Critters might need a map when entering this dam. Located in Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park, the longest beaver dam is nearly 3,000 feet long. That’s more than twice the length of the Colorado River’s Hoover Dam located on the Nevada-Arizona border. SUPER-FAST TRASH CAN Quick—catch that … trash can? Andy Jennings holds the record for the fastest trash can,…

A year on MOUNT EVEREST lasts 15 MICROSECONDS longer than a year at SEA LEVEL. So an astronaut who spends 10 YEARS on the International Space Station will be 0.1 SECONDS YOUNGER when they return. But HIGH UP in space, astronauts AGE MORE SLOWLY than people on Earth. That’s because there’s LESS GRAVITY in space to slow you down. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…

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 2021 ISSUE You’re grr-eat at cleaning my fur! Audrey M., 9 Greer, South Carolina A little close for my comfort! Joshua S., 12 Wilmore, Kentucky Are you reading my mind? Ava J., 12 Winter Garden, Florida Mane-tain some social distancing! Cole K., 10 Mays Landing, New Jersey Ah, that’s the spot! Thanks! Hadley V., 9 Crozet, Virginia I like you, too! Callan S., 9 Wayne, Nebraska Do…

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MONKEY DOTES ON IGUANA Krefeld‚ Germany This white-faced saki rarely scaled back her affection for her green iguana bestie. The saki, a type of monkey, loved petting and snuggling her reptile pal as they lounged together on tree branches at the Krefeld Zoo. The saki and iguana met after they were placed in the zoo’s Rain Forest House, a tree-filled enclosure that’s home to 40 different types of animals from tropical areas. “Both green iguanas and white-faced sakis spend most of their time in treetops,” zoo spokesperson Petra Schwinn says. “One day these two crossed paths.” The curious saki examined the reptile, patting its skin with her long fingers. The pals continued to have hangout sessions, eating together at the enclosure’s feeding station. But most of their “playdates” were in the trees…

Comeback Critters: City Seals London, England In the past, the Thames River was basically a sewer where people dumped human, animal, and factory waste. The water was so polluted that in 1957, scientists at the Natural History Museum in London declared parts of the river to be biologically dead. “Fish couldn’t live in large stretches of the river,” marine conservationist Alison Debney says. But some people had hope. Engineers created real sewers for the human waste, and scientists worked with companies to treat their wastewater before it entered the river. And last year, a report from the Zoological Society of London found that the river—which is a mix of freshwater and salt water—is by some measures cleaner than it’s been in 150 years. Today, harbor and gray seals, short-snouted and…

1 TOMB FOUND! It was a mystery: British archaeologist Howard Carter had found artifacts stamped with the name of a pharaoh who didn’t seem to have a tomb. One day, an Egyptian on his team uncovered stairs in the sand that led to a sealed doorway. The name on the entrance? Tutankhamun. On November 26, 1922, Carter chiseled a hole into the door to peek inside King Tut’s tomb. He’d spend the next 10 years exploring its chambers and cataloging the items inside. 2 GOLDEN GOODS Most pharaohs had many rooms inside their tombs to hold all their treasures from when they were alive, as well as things they’d need in the afterlife. The four rooms of Tut’s tomb were packed with more than 5,000 objects, including fancy chariots, a…

A 240-foot-tall wall of bright blue ice gleams in the sun, looking like a structure from Narnia or Middle Earth. Suddenly, a deafening crack fills the air. Ice chunks the size of small cars tumble into the water below, creating splashes 30 feet high. This is Perito Moreno (pair-EE-toh muh-RAY-noh), a 20-mile-long glacier located in Los Glaciares National Park in southwestern Argentina. And this odd piece of ice is about the coolest thing ever. GLACIER ON THE GO A glacier is a giant body of slow-moving ice. It forms after fallen snow compresses into sheets of ice over hundreds of years. As the glacier grows bigger, it moves across the land. Perito Moreno is one of nearly 50 glaciers that are fed by the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, a stretch…