Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2023 i National Geographic Kids

European rabbits RANGE Native to Europe and northwest Africa; today they’re found on every continent except Antarctica SLIPUP SPOT 0kunoshima, Japan PHOTO FAIL Young rabbits play together by nipping at each other and then hopping backward. These two jumped way back. Galápagos tortoise RANGE Galápagos Islands, Ecuador SLIPUP SPOT Isabela Island PHOTO FAIL This tortoise’s long neck can stretch upward to grab tasty leaves … as long as it doesn’t get all twisted up! Bearded seal RANGE Arctic Ocean SLIPUP SPOT Near Spitsbergen, Norway PHOTO FAIL Bearded seals often rest on stable ice floes before they feed, but it looks like this frozen raft is getting a little off-balance.…

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. What do YOU think this wood duck is thinking? FROM THE NOVEMBER 2022 ISSUE Do you want to go swimming with me? Liam M., 10 Oakland, California Are you my mother? Coby B., 12 New York City, New York I slept on my neck funny! Jailyn W., 11 Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin Watch out! There’s an orca behind you! Shelby C., 9 Mason, Michigan What happened to your beak? Kate D., 9…

GIANT WAVE No wave is too high for this surfer. Maya Gabeira of Brazil holds the record for the largest wave surfed by a woman. Gabeira caught the 73-foot-6-inch wave at Praia do Norte, a beach in Portugal famous for its massive waves. (That’s about the same height as a seven-story building!) Surf’s up—way up. WASHING MACHINE TOSS Maybe this guy just really hates doing laundry. Johan Espenkrona of Sweden set the record for the farthest washing-machine throw after he tossed the nearly hundred-pound appliance almost 15 feet. Espenkrona outflung Kelvin de Ruiter, the record holder for the fastest time to flip a car five times. We’re hoping for a dryer toss next. DOG RUNS BASES OK, so this player can’t hold a bat—but he sure is speedy. Macho the Jack Russell…

MEGAFISH CHECK OUT SOME OF THE MOST SIZABLE SWIMMERS LURKING IN OUR OCEANS, RIVERS, AND LAKES. 1 OPEN WIDE! Although it could swallow you whole with its five-foot-wide mouth, the whale shark would never do that. These gentle giants grow as big as a school bus but feed on plankton and tiny fish—about three to six pounds an hour. 2 ABOUT THAT SNOUT The Mississippi River watershed is home to seven-foot-long paddlefish, sometimes called spoonies. Their long snouts—up to a third of their total body length—have organs that sense electrical fields. That helps the paddlefish find food and map their migration. 3 SOAK UP THE SUNFISH Found worldwide in temperate and tropical oceans, mola can grow up to 14 feet tall, 10 feet long, and nearly 5,000 pounds. That’s as heavy as…

TASTY SECRETS REVEALED! The little bumps all over your tongue are covered with taste buds—special cells that sense flavor. And they’re not just on your tongue: They cover the roof of your mouth and the back of your throat. Some are even inside your nose! These taste buds can sense five basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory. The flavor of food comes from a combination of these tastes, plus the aromas that you smell while you’re eating. (That’s why food tastes less flavorful when you have a stuffy nose.) Your taste buds are what make food yummy. But they also act as a warning system for your body. If your taste buds sense a gross or toxic flavor, they can let your brain know in just .0015 second.…

FIRE SECRETS REVEALED! A waterfall made of flames? This amazing optical illusion is one of the most popular attractions in California’s Yosemite National Park. For 11 and a half months, a small waterfall called Horsetail Fall goes mostly unnoticed. It flows down the side of the rock formation known as El Capitan. But in the last two weeks of February, if the sky is clear and the water is flowing, the setting sun lights up this spot. The waterfall glows bright orange as if it’s on fire! The amazing sight known as a “firefall” attracts visitors and photographers from all around the world.…

THOUSANDS OF GLOWWORMS IN A NEW ZEALAND CAVE LOOK LIKE A STARRY SKY. A BODY OF WATER LIES DEEP BELOW EARTH’S SURFACE—IT’S 3 TIMES LARGER THAN ALL OF EARTH’S OCEANS PUT TOGETHER. THE GREAT BLUE HOLE NEAR BELIZE IS AN UNDERWATER SINKHOLE 480 feet DEEP. YOU CAN RIDE A FERRIS WHEEL UNDERGROUND IN ROMANIA. A CALIFORNIA COUPLE ONCE FOUND $10,000 WORTH OF GOLD IN THEIR BACKYARD. A MOUNTAIN VAULT IN NORWAY STORES 1.1 MILLION SEED SAMPLES. A CHAPEL WAS BUILT 443 feet DEEP IN A POLISH SALT MINE. AFTER A FIRE IN 1889, STREETS IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WERE BUILT UP TO 30 FEET HIGHER. TODAY YOU CAN TOUR PART OF THE OLD CITY UNDERGROUND. OVER 2,000 YEARS AGO, PEOPLE IN CAPPADOCIA, TURKEY, LIVED INSIDE TOWERS OF ROCK. SOME 3,500 PEOPLE LIVE IN…

SPACE SECRETS REVEALED! Got a dusty bookshelf? Consider this: That dusty stuff is made up of teeny pieces of dirt, leaves, dead skin cells (ew), and even material from space. This space dust is made of very small pieces of meteors, debris from ancient comet collisions, and leftovers from the formation of the planets. The star stuff floats through the universe, and some of it ends up in our atmosphere before falling to Earth’s surface. Scientists have known about cosmic dust for a long time, but until 2014, they didn’t know how much of it might be reaching us. By measuring the ingredients in our atmosphere, they came up with a shocking estimate: 60 tons a day—the weight of about five school buses! But don’t get out the dust-cloth just…

GET IN LINE These photographs show close-up and faraway views of objects in rows. Unscramble the letters to identify what’s in each picture. LFUOESWSNR SLYBCCIE ESUHOS ESPA GARCHINM NABD MDOSNEOI ACSR IATNP TSE AUSMTDI ATSES Answers “What in the World?” Top row: sunflowers, peas, cars. Middle row: bicycles, marchingband, paintset. Bottom row: houses, dominoes, stadiumseats.…