Innholdsfortegnelse for June/July 2024 i National Geographic Kids

SMELLING good scents while SLEEPING might give you HAPPY DREAMS. Some MONKEYS in THAILAND TEACH their young to FLOSS. There are SOLID GOLD pizza-size Canadian coins worth ONE MILLION Canadian dollars. A BEAVER has a SET OF LIPS behind its FRONT TEETH. AN EARTHQUAKE in CHILE shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 MICROSECONDS. Some ARTISTS use CHEWING GUM to make PAINTINGS. The SOUND of waves CRASHING comes mostly from AIR BUBBLES. APPLES FLOAT, but PEARS TYPICALLY SINK. A SAILFISH can LEAP through the air at 68miles an hour. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…

1 Sloths and armadillos see in black-and-white. 2 A scallop has up to 200 tiny eyes under the edge of its shell. 3 A cat’s glowy eyes reflect light to help it see better in the dark. 4 Fan worms have eyes on their tentacles to detect motion from nearby predators. 5 An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. 6 Human eyes move about 14,400 times during an hour of reading.…

THE SCIENTIST Keneiloe Molopyane COOL JOB Archaeologist and biological anthropologist THE LOCATION Rising Star cave system, South Africa Tight Spot “To get to one of my research sites—where I search for fossils of an early human ancestor—I have to climb up and down a really narrow shaft in the cave system. This means squeezing through an opening only 10 inches wide. “One day, I was exhausted and my mind was swirling. This is a bad way to enter a cave. I was so busy thinking about other things that I forgot the ‘dance’ I needed to do to move through the system. All of a sudden, I was stuck! And I had a group of less experienced teammates right behind me. “I was so frustrated with myself, but I turned…

Mountain gorilla RANGE Mountains of Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo SLIPUP SPOT Virunga National Park, the Democratic Republic of the Congo PHOTO FAIL Scientists aren’t sure why some primates—including gorillas, chimps, aye-ayes, and humans—pick their noses. But it seems like only humans are embarrassed about it. Cheetahs RANGE Parts of Africa and Asia SLIPUP SPOT Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya PHOTO FAIL Eight-week-old cheetah cubs are too young to hunt on their own—but not too young to practice on Mom. Antarctic fur seal and king penguins RANGE Southern Ocean SLIPUP SPOT Right Whale Bay, island of South Georgia PHOTO FAIL Each year, king penguins shed their feathers to grow a fresh, waterproof coat. Maybe this Antarctic fur seal wanted a new coat, too.…

ELEPHANT-STAGRAM Check out the winning entry plus some of the runners-up for the 2024 Almanac Challenge: creating a pretend social media profile for an elephant. These facts came from the entrants, not Nat Geo Kids. ALMANAC CHALLENGE: ME-OLOGY It’s a thousand years from now, and a scientist has discovered your house. What would this researcher learn about you? Gather five items that you think could help people of the future learn about who you are, then ask a parent or guardian to take a photo of your collection. Your photo could be featured in the Nat Geo Kids Almanac 2026. natgeokids.com/almanac PARENTS! GO ONLINE FOR A CHANCE TO WIN THIS BOOK FOR YOUR KID. natgeokids.com/giveaways NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Begins on 5/20/24 at 8 a.m. ET and ends on 5/27/24 at…

ORYX A The word “oryx” refers to the animals’ horns. TRUE. “Oryx” is from a Greek word that means pickax. Oryx horns are two to five feet long. B They use their horns to impale prey. FALSE. Oryx are plant-eaters. They use their horns as protection from predators such as leopards, cheetahs, and hyenas. C Oryx can sense rain miles away. TRUE. They head toward faraway rain to find the freshest plant growth—grasses, leaves, buds, fruits, and roots—to eat. D To stay cool in its desert home, an oryx lowers its body temperature. FALSE. It raises its body temperature—to over 113°F. By matching its temperature to its environment, it stays cooler, doesn’t sweat, and needs less water. E These animals live in South America. FALSE. They live in parts of…

BRILLIANT BUNNY Taawi the bunny really jumped into the record books. He completed 20 stunts in a row, the most tricks performed by a rabbit in one minute. The showstoppers included jumping over an obstacle (left), high-fiving his owner, and pulling a card from his owner’s hand with his teeth. What’s next, playing hop-scotch? TREMENDOUS T-SHIRT Water bottles went from plastic to pullover to create the world’s largest T-shirt. Bigger than a football field, the shirt was made from 500,000 bottles that were recycled into cloth. Then for a month, volunteers stitched the T-shirt together. Organizers plan to make 12,000 normal-size shirts out of the record holder for people in need. That’s the kind of fashion trend we can really buy into. HIGH-RISE HOUSE OF CARDS This house is all decked out … with…

1 HAIRY SITUATION Sundew attracts, traps, and digests its prey with sticky goop secreted by glands at the end of its long tentacles. A stuck insect is doomed within minutes, but the hairy-looking carnivorous plant can take up to a few weeks to digest it. 2 TOWERING STINK True to its nickname, the “corpse flower” emits a smell like rotting flesh that helps attract pollinators—like dung and carrion beetles. In its native tropical rainforest habitat, titan arum can grow to be 12 feet tall and weigh as much as 170 pounds. 3 CAT PLUS BAT The black bat flower earned its creepy common name because of its bat-shaped purplish black flowers. Native to Southeast Asia, this plant—sometimes called devil flower—sports long, catlike “whiskers” that drop down from the flower. 4 GROSS…

FLAG FRENZY These photographs show close-up views of flags from countries around the world. Unscramble the letters to identify what’s in each picture. EDNUIT TSTESA DIINA EERECG ARZBLI TSOHU ORKAE HUOTS FACRAI EHT HAAMBSA LIARAGE IPASN “What in the World?” Top row: United States, Brazil, the Bahamas. Middle row: India, South Korea, Algeria. Bottom row: Greece, South Africa, Spain.…

COPYRIGHT © 2024 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PARTNERS, LLC GREAT HORNED OWL A A great horned owl can have a frog in its throat. TRUE. Wading into water, owls sometimes hunt frogs. They usually hunt from a perch or while gliding in air. B Crows pester owls while they rest during the day. TRUE. But the owls hunt crows at night. C You can hear an owl only if it’s in the tree above you. FALSE. A male great horned owl’s hoot If you’re sending one D Feather “horns” help the owls hear. FALSE. The feather “horns” don’t help the owl hear, but other special feathers around its ears funnel sound to help the owl pinpoint exactly where prey is located. E Great horned owls recycle other birds’ nests. TRUE. They use…

PROBOSCIS MONKEYS A Proboscis monkeys avoid water. FALSE. They sleep in trees near rivers, often in branches over water. If threatened by a clouded leopard or other predator, they’ll dive from as high as five stories. B These monkeys eat fish. FALSE. They eat leaves, fruits, and sometimes insects. They gobble up so much at a time that often a quarter of their body weight is undigested leaves. C A male proboscis monkey has to move his nose to eat. TRUE. These monkeys have noses that are larger than any other primate. D Proboscis monkeys swim by dog-paddling. TRUE. They also swim quietly, up to 65 feet underwater, to avoid giving themselves away to crocodiles. E Newborns have blue faces. TRUE. Babies’ faces are blue for a few months.…

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Each night in oceans around the world, deep-sea predators rise to the surface. They’ve come to gobble up zooplankton—tiny, alienlike creatures that have also drifted toward the surface to feast on microscopic plants. Check out four of these creepy-cool creatures. BIGFIN REEF SQUID Found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, bigfin reef squid have special skin cells called chromatophores that they use to change their body color and pattern. Also called oval squid or glitter squid, these creatures use the cells to communicate with other squid about nearby prey and predators. They also use the cells to show other squid who’s in charge. RABBITFISH The large, empty-looking green eyes that give this fish the nickname “ghost shark” help it absorb as much light as possible in the deep, dark waters…

ATLANTIC GHOST CRAB SCREEN NAME: BeachComber LIVES IN: Beaches along the eastern coasts of North, Central, and South America FRIENDS COQUINA CLAM Clammy SNOWY PLOVER SandBird LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE SeaSurfer START 8 p.m. BeachComber Whoa, @Clammy! You startled me coming up out of the sand like that! Clammy Yeah, my colony and I just got done eating tiny algae under the wet sand. Now we’re ready to ride the next wave to a different part of the beach. #BodySurfers SandBird Ack! A wave! #NoWetWings SeaSurfer It’s impressive how @Clammy only needs one foot to burrow into the sand. I needed all four flippers to dig my nest. 3 a.m. BeachComber Speaking of nests … anybody know where @SeaSurfer buried her eggs? Clammy Too late—they already hatched and scurried into the…

CARACAL A The caracal’s ear tufts help it find food. TRUE. Tufts may help detect sound waves. Tufts are about the same length as the i in KIDS on the cover of this magazine. B Caracals cannot catch birds in flight. FALSE. Jumping more than nine feet straight up, caracals swat birds out of the air. They also hunt rodents, hares, and small antelopes. C A newborn caracal weighs as much as a grapefruit. TRUE. And a large adult weighs about as much as a hundred grapefruits. D You eat more for lunch than a caracal eats all day. FALSE. Large caracals eat 17 ounces of food a day. That’s the equivalent of about 14 peanut butter sandwiches. E Caracals munch on penguins. TRUE. African penguins of southern Africa need…