1Passage 4① We sometimes hear of animals thathave become extinct. Plants, too, run the riskof becoming extinct in certain areas. Whena rare plant is found, botanists are so eagerto get a sample of it that sometimes not asingle plant is left. And animals are not sointelligent as to pr...
Many animals have become extinct (绝的) because of humans. These animals used to live happily, but people changed that.The dodo was a big bird, but it couldn't fly. It had gray feathers(灰色的 ). It lived on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean. Dodos liked to look around fores...
The South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) is a subspecies of thetiger. It is believed to be the major tiger from which other subspecies descended. However, that would not matter anymore if it goes extinct—which could be soon. Only 24 are estimated to remain in the world. The Sou...
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(5)So many animals that might have become extinct are now still alive. If I had thought about it when I first went to see a zoo, I would have been unhappy about animals in cages, and I now think that is wrong. (6)But some of the wildlife parks in various countries in the ...
Governmentsaround the world have begun toprotect endangered animals that could become extinct. In the UnitedStates, the Fish and Wildlife Service is responsible(负责)for endangered animals. It has printed a list of nearly 200endangered species in North America. ...
What causes animals to become extinct? Too much hunting is one cause; pollution is another. Governments around the world have begun to protect endangered animals that could become extinct. In the United States, the Fish and Wildlife Service is responsible (负责) for endangered animals. It has ...
"There's a group that's restricted to high elevations, and the white lemuroid possum (pictured), which is among this group, has not been seen since 2005, and it's believed to be the first mammal driven extinct by climate change," she says. Next:American Pika 8/13 Credit American Pika...
阅读理解 In the past 300 years,more than 130 species of animals have become extinct.One of these extinct species is the passenger pigeon(旅鸽).At one time there were millions of these birds in North America,but now there are none.The last o
Here are 15 majestic species that succumbed to anthropogenic extinction in the past 10,000 years due to hunting or habitat destruction, with information on when and why each went extinct.