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Otters
animals

Why do you
Why?
think a dog
wags its tail?

Dogs wag their tails to show how they

are feeling. A dog wagging its tail
might be saying, “I am happy.” How
JEAN-MICHEL LABAT / ARDEA

do you show that you are happy?

September / October 2017

 SORTING

What Is Different?
Look at each picture in the top row.
Find the differences between it and the one below.
(SCARECROW); ETORRES / SHUTTERSTOCK (CUPCAKE)
JAVIER BROSCH / SHUTTERSTOCK (DOG); BRAND X

Find one Find two Find three

difference. differences. differences.
n at i o n a l g e o g r a p h i c 3
 NATURE

That’s Cool!
Meet the hummingbird.

It uses
A hummingbird’s its long beak
wings move so to drink from
fast that they flowers.
make a humming
sound.

This bird can

ONDREJ PROSICKY / SHUTTERSTOCK

fly backward,
sideways, and
upside down.
4 september / october 2017
 TOP ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT): STOCKBYTE / GETTY IMAGES; LI KIM GOH / GETTY IMAGES; DMZ / SHUTTERSTOCK. MIDDLE
ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT); DEX IMAGE / ALAMY; WILDLIFE GMBH / ALAMY; LEW ROBERTSON / STOCKFOOD. BOTTOM ROW
(LEFT TO RIGHT): AMI PARIKH / SHUTTERSTOCK; AFRICA STUDIO / SHUTTERSTOCK; AMINART / GETTY IMAGES.

—RAYON

—LOWER
—EA STAR
NAMING

—ROG
—EAVES

—ASKETBALL
—ARROTS
—OLDFISH

—UTTERFLY

n at i o n a l g e o g r a p h i c
NAME SOME OTHER THINGS THAT ARE ORANGE.
What in theWorld AreThese?

5
 ANIMALS

6 september / october 2017

 RIVER
OTTERS Busy otters scamper
by the stream.They are
Asian small-clawed otters.

Thick fur
helps keep the
otter’s skin
warm and dry
in water.

GORDON MILLS / ALAMY n at i o n a l g e o g r a p h i c 7

 Family
members take
turns babysitting
while the rest
of the otters
hunt.

A baby
otter is called
a cub, kit,
or pup. PUP

A small-clawed otter family has

a mom, dad, babies, and older
brothers and sisters. They hunt in
rivers, ponds, streams, and swamps.
JURGEN AND CHRISTINE SOHNS / MINDEN PICTURES (FIVE OTTERS);
© THIEBAUD GONTARD / BIOSPHOTO (PUP); SJALLENPHOTOGRAPHY / GETTY
8 september / october 2017 IMAGES (WEBBED PAW); TERRY WHITTAKER / SCIENCE SOURCE (CRACKING SHELL)
The otters use their webbed paws
to f ind food hiding in the mud
and under rocks. They eat
crabs, f ish, insects,
and snails.
Asian
small-clawed
otters also use
their long whiskers
to feel for
food.

WEBBED PAW

Found one! The

otter cracks open
the shell with its
SHELL
strong teeth.Yum.
n at i o n a l g e o g r a p h i c 9
 SENSES

QUIET AND
Some animals are quiet. Some are loud. Count all
the loud animals. Point to all the quiet animals.
MOUSE
When
are you
quiet?

B TTER

ELEPHANT

10 september / october 2017

LOUD WOLF

What
animals do
you hear
where you
live?
CLOWNFISH

LE
LION

When
are you
loud?

ROOSTE
ER
R

MICHAEL ZYSMAN / SHUTTERSTOCK (BUTTERFLY); SZASZ-FABIAN JOZSEF / SHUTTERSTOCK

(MOUSE); KLETR / SHUTTERSTOCK (FISH); ERIC BACCEGA / AGE FOTOSTOCK / ALAMY
(WOLF); GERRY ELLIS / MINDEN PICTURES (ELEPHANT); LIFE ON WHITE / ALAMY (LION);
LEPAS /SHUTTERSTOCK (TURTLE); WONG YU LIANG / SHUTTERSTOCK (ROOSTER) n at i o n a l g e o g r a p h i c 11
 ANIMALS

JOEY

FRANS LANTING / NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE (BIG PICTURE);

12 september / october 2017 SEBASTIAN KENNERKNECHT / MINDEN PICTURES (EATING GRASS)
 ND BABY
MOM A

KA OS
Peekaboo! The baby kangaroo
watches the world from its
mother’s pouch.
A baby kangaroo is called
a joey. It lives inside Mom’s
pouch while she hops, eats,
and sleeps.

A joey
learns where
to find grass to
eat and water
to drink from
Mom.

JOEY 13
Soon the joey is old enough
to leave the pouch. Sometimes
it f lips over to get out.

JOEY

The young
kangaroo stays
close to Mom.
Someday it
will be a fast
hopper like her.

14
 MORE
MAR PIALS
Kangaroos are
KOALA
marsupials. Most
marsupials have
pouches. Here are
four other kinds
of marsupials. TASMANIAN DEVIL

WOMBAT
QUOLL

CYRIL RUOSO / MINDEN PICTURES (STANDING JOEY); YVA MOMATIUK AND

JOHN EASTCOTT / MINDEN PICTURES (LEAVING POUCH); SUZI ESZTERHAS /
MINDEN PICTURES (KOALA); FLASH-KA / SHUTTERSTOCK (TASMANIAN
DEVIL); SEAN CRANE / MINDEN PICTURES (WOMBAT); DAVE WATTS / NPL /
MINDEN PICTURES (QUOLL) 15
 PATTERNS

WHAT COM EASY

A pattern is something that repeats.
The insects make a different pattern
in each row in this game. Can you
say which insect comes next in the
pattern in each row?
WE G

HARDER

GOLIATH BEETLE GRASSHOPPER BUTTERFLY GOLIATH BEETLE

HARDEST

LADYBUG DRAGONFLY DRAGONFLY LADYBUG

16 SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2017

ES NEXT?
?
BULLDOG ANT WE G BULLDOG ANT

?
GRASSHOPPER BUTTERFLY GOLIATH BEETLE

LADYBUG
?
DRAGONFLY DRAGONFLY

ARVIND BALARAMAN / AGE FOTOSTOCK (JEWEL BUG); NIC VAN OUDTSHOORN / ALAMY
(ANT); F. TEIGLER / AGE FOTOSTOCK (BEETLE); DR. TORSTEN HEYDENREICH / IMAGEBROKER /
ALAMY (GRASSHOPPER); DOBERMARANER / SHUTTERSTOCK (BUTTERFLY); CHRISTIAN MUSAT /
SHUTTERSTOCK (LADYBUG); BONNIE TAYLOR BAR / SHUTTERSTOCK (DRAGONFLY) n at i o n a l g e o g r a p h i c 17
 Nature

A SNAKE SHEDS
As you grow taller, your skin grows with you.
But a snake grows too large for its skin.
1
When a new layer of SKIN

skin is ready, the snake

sheds its old skin. First
it rubs its nose against
something hard, like
a rock.

2
The snake wriggles
out of its old skin
and leaves it behind.
The old skin looks
SKIN
like an empty tube.

18 September / October 2017

ITS SKIN

3
Now the snake has new skin. It looks shiny
and bright.

JOHN CANCALOSI / ARDEA.COM (1); MIKELANE45 /

GETTY IMAGES (2); M. WATSON / ARDEA.COM (3) n at i o n a l g e o g r a p h i c 19
 Paleontology

Dinosaur
Ouranosaurus lived in a rainy place
where the land often f looded.
FACTS The dinosaur had plenty
FOOD
plants of plants to eat. But
SIZE when the land f looded,
This shows how big
Ouranosaurus was. Ouranosaurus had to
watch out for gigantic
crocodiles, which lived
FIVE-YEAR-OLD in the time of dinosaurs.
FRANCO TEMPESTA (ART)

SAY MY NAME: oo-RAHN-oh-SORE-us

20 september / October 2017

 The big
crest along this
dinosaur’s back
looked a
bit like the sail
on a sailboat.

FROM THE
PAGESOF

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IDENTIFYING

PUMPKIN
Look at the animal carving in
each pumpkin. Then look at each
animal. Draw a line with your
finger from the pumpkin to the
animal photo it matches.

SPIDER

Which
two animals
can fly?

BAT

OWL

22 SEPTEMBER / october 2017

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a wolf?

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wild cards

JAPANESE MACAQUE
 Japanese
macaque
FUN FACTs
Japanese macaques are a kind of
monkey. They live in the wild
only in the country of Japan.

© YUKIHIRO FUKUDA / MINDEN PICTURES

 wild cards

PRONGHORN
 pronghorn
FUN FACTs
The only animal that can run
faster than a pronghorn is a
cheetah. A baby pronghorn can
run when it’s only a few days old.

© TOM & PAT LEESON / KIMBALLSTOCK

wild cards

RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER
 red-bellied
woodpecker
FUN FACTs
This woodpecker has a long
tongue and sticky spit. The bird
pokes its tongue into holes in
trees to capture insects to eat.

© KITCHIN & HURST / KIMBALLSTOCK

wild cards

ARCTIC WOLF
 arctic wolf
FUN FACTs
Arctic wolves live in the far north,
called the Arctic. It is usually cold
there. The wolves’ fur is long and
thick to keep them warm.

© TOM & PAT LEESON / KIMBALLSTOCK

wild cards

SPRING PEEPER
 spring
peeper
FUN FACTs
Spring peepers are frogs. At
egg-laying time, hundreds gather
around ponds. The calls they
make can sound like sleigh bells.

© KITCHIN & HURST / KIMBALLSTOCK

wild cards

HARLEQUIN GHOST PIPEFISH

 harlequin
ghost pipefish
FUN FACTs
This fish lives in the ocean.
It uses its long nose like
a straw to suck tiny creatures
from the water to eat.

© CHRIS NEWBERT / MINDEN PICTURES

 OBSERVATION

Critter Corner What do you think these

blue-footed boobies are doing?

A. Tap dancing B. Standing on a rock C. Walking to school TUI DE ROY / MINDEN PICTURES

Answer: B

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