A pony is a small, but full-grown, horse. The smallest ponies of all are the ones called Shetland ponies. Many of these tiny horses are less than three feet (90 centimeters) high. Shetland ponies...
GREAT ST. BERNARD HOSPICE
The towering snow-capped Alps form a giant barrier between many countries in Europe. For thousands of years, the only way to get across the mountains was by means of passes. Travelers faced many...
WERE THE CANARY ISLANDS NAMED FOR CANARIES?
You might think that islands swarming with wild canaries and called the Canary Islands were named for those birds. But you would be wrong. The Canary Islands are near the coast of Morocco, a...
MONKEY BUSINESS
What would you do if a band of monkeys stole your dessert? What would you do if the monkeys came day after day to steal vegetables from your garden? Such things used to happen to people living in a...
WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE . .
Almost 50,000 people roar as fighters called gladiators enter the huge arena. "We who are about to die salute you!' the gladiators shout to the person staging the show. The gladiators face each...
GO TO THE GALAPAGOS
A giant tortoise eats leaves on the shore of the Pacific Ocean on one of the Galapagos Islands. Can you imagine a tortoise that weighs 500 pounds (225 kilograms) and is 4 feet (1.2 meters) long?...
“SHOOTING” ANIMALS
Would you go hunting ferocious lions, wild elephants, and fierce rhinoceroses without a gun? That's just what a lot of people do every year when they go on safari in national parks in Africa. Instead...
WHERE ANIMALS ARE FAMOUS
Where can you shoot wild animals, but only with a camera? And where can you see a colony of cats? Where can turtles live more than 100 years? And where is a fortress for Barbary apes? Where do birds...
HIGHWAY OF ALL THE AMERICAS
With all its roads, the Pan American Highway system is longer than the distance around the middle of the earth. The letters \"pan before a word mean "all,' so "Pan American Highway means "highway of...
LIVE UNDERWATER?
> These men lived in Starfish House at the bottom of the Bed Sea. You'd be surprised to look out your window and see a parrot fish, a jellyfish, or a mackerel swim by. But seeing fish outside his...
