国家地理:Tornadoes 龙卷风
Call them twisters or tornadoes. They're nature's most violent storms with swirling winds that can top 300 miles per hour. About 800 twisters sweep through the US every year, more than anywhere else in the world. The hardest-hit area is a swath of th
国家地理:Penguin Safari 企鹅远行
Penguins have their own waterproof down survival suits. They replace their feathers each year in one short burst. Indeed, Kings completely replace every single feather. New feathers grow through underneath to push out the old and there is lots of the
国家地理:Jamaican Maroons 牙买加黑人历史
During Jamaica's colonial era, the English capitalized on the island's mild weather and rich soil, planting sugarcane , making Jamaica England's largest supplier. But the riches of the sugarcane came with a price. Thousands of Africans were enslaved
国家地理:Octopus Mating 章鱼交配
OK, we are back in the world of the Cyanea octopus. It's mating time. Here's your potential conquest. She doesn't know you're alive. She's too busy cleaning trash from her house. Now you are the perceptive type. You use your sensitive disks for any s
国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -1
Not too far away is a little girl who has never known a mother, and she's never known a father, and she's never known a big sister. And today she's gonna get out of that. Hi, welcome to Ultimate Explorer, I'm Lisa Ling. Tonight, a story I've been wan
国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -2
And China's population is coming under control, but there are consequences no one intended. Couples often feel they must have a boy. That's because boys traditionally carry on the family name, provide labor and stay with parents in their old age, a k
国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -3
My real biological mother left me in a basket with me and my sister saying that we were twins and she waited to make sure that we were safe and then my mom right now Betsy, she came to get me in China to adopt me and she took me back to America as, a
国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -4
Why is a boy so important? A girl is a person, too. I was angry. I told him, If you want to send me back to Hubei, I can't stop you. You think boys are so important, you can just stay here alone. That's what I told him then. 'If I have a girl, I'll t
国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -5
Chinese officials now say that the gender imbalance poses a major threat to China and could trigger crimes like prostitution, forced marriages and abductions of women. These crimes have already begun. Zhu Wenguang is a private detective who earns his
国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -6
(and I'll be) an orphan. But my mom and dad adopted me and I'm pretty happy. Today was one of the most emotional workdays I've ever had. The anxiety and the anxiousness was just something that I have never witnessed before. This is the moment, you kn
国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -7
(Oh, really?) You just see this inexplicable joy on everyone's face. The feeling makes me get chills just thinking about it right now. It was awesome. I want one. While most of the families are getting to know their new children, I go with Denny Hawl
国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -8
(she is very proud) of Chinese heritage. I feel some disgraced, because all of us, so many Chinese people, and give little help, help to the little, little girl but you can give. We're, we're the lucky ones to have her. In all my years of covering Ch
国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -9
After meeting the foster moms, we all walk to the actual orphanage where Marissa was brought as a baby. We're told there are about 500 children living at this orphanage. There are tens of thousands of children just like them across China. All around
国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -10
Boys and girls are equal, but it could take generations to change centuries of tradition. The abandonment of baby girls isn't the only consequence of the one child policy. When a child doesn't have any brothers and sisters, something else may happen.
国家地理:Is It Real? Wild Children 野孩子
Imagine a baby alone in the woods, how would he eat? Where would he sleep? As humans, we come into this world completely helpless. Mostly, we just know how to breathe and cry. Animals, on the other hand, stagger to their feet within minutes of birth,
