Photo Pik: August 2020
From cute puppies to monkeys to classic monuments, our teen photographers show off their photography skills in the Photo Pik column of the August 2020 issue.
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monkey
Silent strength
If you travelled the world in search of this handsome wild monkey, you would be forced to come right back to the evergreen forests of south-west India’s Western Ghats to breathe the air it breathes.
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Bigger brains mean longer yawns
Researchers realised that brain weight and the number of neurons in the outer layer of the brain, called the cortex, can reliably predict yawn length. Humans, with about 12000 million cortical neurons, had the longest average yawn, lasting a little more than 6 seconds.
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