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LOOK INSIDE:
ANIMAL CARDS!

Cuddle
Up,
Koala!
 Why?
ANIMALS

Why do
you think
this bug LEGS

looks like HEAD

a stick?
Stick insects
look like
twigs and
leaves. They
LEGS are hiding
INSECT from hungry
animals
looking for
bugs to eat.
Some even
PHILIPPE CLEMENT / NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY

LEGS
sway to look
TAIL
like plants
STICK moving in
the wind.
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 SORTING

What Is Different?
Look at each picture in the top row.
Find the differences between it and the one below.
(BLUE FEATHER); © D. HURST / ALAMY (PAINT SET); © ERIK DE GRAAF / DREAMSTIME
© JOSE MANUEL GELPI DIAZ / DREAMSTIME (BIRDS); © ELNUR / SHUTTERSTOCK

(FERRIS WHEEL); © NAKPHOTOS / ISTOCKPHOTO (PURPLE BOOT)

Find one Find two Find three

difference. differences. differences.
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NATURE
That’s Cool!
Meet the Malayan tapir.
Malayan
tapirs live
in forests. A baby tapir
stays close
to its mom
for food and
protection.

BABY

A tapir
can grab leaves
(BIG IMAGE); SUZI ESZTERHAS / MINDEN PICTURES (INSET)
NOSE JAN WOITAS / PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES
and fruit with
its long, bendy
Their colors
nose.
help them hide
in shadows made
by trees.

EATING

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 TOP ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT): SARAH2 / SHUTTERSTOCK; PZAXE / SHUTTERSTOCK; AOPSAN / SHUTTERSTOCK. MIDDLE ROW (LEFT
TO RIGHT): ROMAN SAMOKHIN / SHUTTERSTOCK; MATTHEW W KEEFE / SHUTTERSTOCK; VALENTYN VOLKOV / SHUTTERSTOCK.
BOTTOM ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT): SNOW HANA / SHUTTERSTOCK; APERTURESOUND / SHUTTERSTOCK; AFRICA STUDIO / SHUTTERSTOCK.

—IME
—UTTONS
NAMING

—ATERPILLAR
—AT
—REE

—NAKE

Name some other green things.

—ENT
—IPPER

—REEN BEANS

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What in the World Are These?
 ANIMALS

KOALA
IN A POUCH
A newborn koala crawls
inside its mother’s
pouch as soon as
it is born. The MOM

baby, called a
joey, grows safely JOEY
inside for six months.
When the joey finally peeks out,
it sees Mom for the first time!

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JOEY
Hang on! The joey clings to Mom
with strong arms, hands, and feet
while she explores the trees.

Koalas have
fingerprints,
just like you!

HAND

Koalas are not bears.

They are marsupials—
animals with a pouch.
(Say mar-SOO-pee-uhls.)

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 The joey watches
and learns what
to eat. The little
koala sniffs and
tastes to find
the leaves that
will not make
it sick.
Koalas
sleep 20 hours
a day. That is as
many hours
as you sleep in
two nights.

Soon the joey

will be too big
to fit inside
the pouch.
For now, it is
a perfect fit!
KONMESA / SHUTTERSTOCK (PAW); © SUZI ESZTERHAS / MINDEN
PICTURES (CLIMBING, EATING); ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES (SLEEPING) N AT I O N A L G E O G R A P H I C 9
 SORTING

FINGERTIP
Follow the instructions below to test your color
and finger skills. Be sure to take your fingers off
the dots before starting the next action.
Use your fingers to play!

Touch two red dots. Use one finger to hop

across the board touching
Touch three blue dots. only yellow dots.

Cover all the yellow dots. Cover all the blue dots.
Did you use one or
Touch the pink dot with two hands?
one hand. Use the other
hand to touch all the Using only one hand,
purple dots. touch one purple dot with
your thumb and another
Use two fingers to walk with your pinkie.
across the board touching
only green dots. On the top row, touch
all the red dots with one
Cover the orange dots. How hand. Use the other hand
many fingers did you use? to cover the rest.

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FUN

If you counted all the dots, how many would you have?

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ANIMALS

GO LDE N
LION
TAM A RIN S
BILL COSTER / FLPA / MINDEN PICTURES (BIG IMAGE); FABIO
COLOMBINI MEDEIROS / AGE FOTOSTOCK (CLOSE-UP FACE)
Golden lion
tamarins live in
trees. They eat,
play, and sleep
in trees. Tamarins
are even born
in trees. The golden
lion tamarin got
its name because
the fluffy orange
hair around its face
reminded people
of lions.

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 The mother
carries her
newborns
as she climbs
from branch
to branch.

Tamarins eat
fruit, insects,
bird eggs, frogs,
and lizards.

A tamarin’s
long fingers
help it climb
and grab
food.
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 MEET THE
TAMARINS

EMPEROR TAMARIN

There are 19
different kinds BLACK-FACED
LION TAMARIN
of tamarins. Here
are just a few.

COTTON-TOPPED
TAMARIN

JUAN CARLOS MUÑOZ / AGE

FOTOSTOCK / ALAMY (MOM AND
BABY); © CHRISTIAN HÜTTER /
ALAMY (EATING); THOMAS
MARENT / MINDEN PICTURES
(EMPEROR, BLACK-FACED LION);
© THOMAS MARENT / ARDE / AGE
FOTOSTOCK (COTTON-TOPPED)
 MATCHING

H IS FOR
HUNGRY
The names of the
animals in the circles
start with the letter
h. Each one eats a
different kind of
food. Draw a line HAWK

with your finger

from the hungry
animal to its food.

WORM WILDEBEEST FLOWER

© TONY HEALD / NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY (HIPPO); © KLEIN & HUBERT / NATURE PICTURE
LIBRARY (HEDGEHOG); © ALAN MURPHY / BIA / MINDEN PICTURES (HAWK); © GERRIT VYN /
16 J U LY / AU G U S T 2 0 2 2 NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY (HUMMINGBIRD); © ANUP SHAH / NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY (HYENA);
 HEDGEHOG

HIPPOPOTAMUS

HYENA

HUMMINGBIRD

ANSWERS: HIPPOPOTAMUS: GRASS; HEDGEHOG: WORM; HAWK:

DEER MOUSE; HUMMINGBIRD: FLOWER; HYENA: WILDEBEEST.

What food
do you like to
eat for breakfast?
How about for
dinner?
DEER MOUSE GRASS

© COLIN VARNDELL / NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY (WORM); © WINFRIED WISNIEWSKI / MINDEN

PICTURES (WILDEBEEST); © TIM FITZHARRIS / MINDEN PICTURES (FLOWER); © SHATTIL &
ROZINSKI / NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY (DEER MOUSE); ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES (GRASS) N AT I O N A L G E O G R A P H I C 17
 NATURE

A HUMPBACK
A hungry
humpback
whale swims
in the ocean.
It sees a big
school of tiny
fish and swims
below them.

Open wide!
The whale fills
its mouth with
the water and
tiny fish. Then
it stretches its
mouth even
wider to catch
more food.

© DOUG PERRINE / NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY (1): © STEVE BLOOM IMAGES / ALAMY (2);
18 J U LY / AU G U S T 2 0 2 2 © FLIP NICKLIN / MINDEN PICTURES (3, INSET); © CHASE DEKKER / MINDEN PICTURES (4)
WHALE EATS BALEEN

The whale has

a secret trap in 3
its mouth! It is
called baleen.
The baleen
hangs from its
upper jaw. Water
flows out of the
whale’s mouth,
but the fish are
trapped inside. BALEEN

4
Yum! The whale’s
tummy is full. Time
for a good splash!

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GEOGRAPHY

WHERE IS THE
LONGEST RIVER?
Some scientists think the longest
river in the world is the Nile River.
It flows through 11 countries
on the continent of Africa.
Others think the longest
river is the Amazon
River. It flows
through six The Amazon
River is the biggest
countries on river in one way:
It carries more
the continent water than any
other river!
of South America.
MICHAEL D. KOCK / GETTY IMAGES (NILE);
20 J U LY / AU G U S T 2 0 2 2 VICTOR SOTORILLI VIEIRA / GETTY IMAGES (AMAZON)
 UNITED
The Nile River
STATES
ATLANTIC flows through
OCEAN
AFRICA
11 countries before
PACIFIC
reaching the
SOUTH
OCEAN
AMERICA Mediterranean
Sea.

NILE
RIVER

AMAZON
RIVER

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FINDING

WIND POWER
Look at each picture. Use your finger to draw a w
on the things that need the wind to move them.

SLIDE

KITE

WINDMILL

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SNOWY OWL

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 snowy owl
FUN FACTs
Snowy owls nest on the
ground. In winter, their white
feathers help them hide
in their snowy home.

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MANATEE
 manatee

FUN FACTs
Manatees live underwater,
but they must come to the
surface to breathe.

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ANTEATER
 anteater

FUN FACTs
An anteater catches ants,
bees, and termites using its
long, sticky tongue.

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STRIPED SKUNK
 striped
skunk
FUN FACTs
A skunk first warns an enemy
to stay away by stamping its feet.
Then it might use its smelly spray.

© ROLF NUSSBAUMER / NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY

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MOUNTAIN LION
 mountain
lion
FUN FACTs
Mountain lions purr,
mew, scream, and spit.
But they never roar.

© GABRIEL ROJO / NPL / MINDEN PICTURES

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SWALLOWTAIL CATERPILLAR
 swallowtail
caterpillar
FUN FACTs
This hungry caterpillar eats
and grows for about a month after
it hatches. Then it will turn into
a pretty yellow butterfly.

© BERNARD CASTELEIN / NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY

OBSERVATION

Hide-and-Seek
Can you find the wallaby in this picture?

© DAVE WATTS / NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY

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