In this post I'm going to talk about the extinct and endangered animals.
The dodo (extinct from 1681)The dodo lived on the island of Mauritius.
It was a bird but it didn't fly or swim.
It lived on the ground and ate fruit.
People came from Europe to live on the island.
They ate the dodo but ... it tasted terrible!So they brought pigs to the island for food.
But the pigs ate the dodos' fruit and the dodos had nothing to eat.
In the end all the dodos died.
The sea cow (extinct from 1768)
It was about the size of a minibus and it lived in the freezing water near Alaska.
It didn't have any teeth and it ate very small plants.
People hunted it for food and to make shoes from its skin.
The tiger wolf was a very strange and beautiful animal.
It had a head like a wolf, stripes on its back like a tiger, and a pouch for its babies like a kangaroo!
It lived in Australia, on the island of Tasmania.
It ate small animals.
People hunted and killed the tiger wolf.
They eat bamboo.
An adult panda needs to consume 14 kg per day.
The cause of their disappearance is poaching and habitat destruction.
During the 80's lots of bamboo forests in China disappeared with 150 beautiful bears pandas.
The tiger.
There are now only 7000 tigers in the jungle, of the 100,000 that were a century ago.
Their fur is yellow with dark bands.
When the British conquered India, thousands of tigers were killed as a sport in Asia and were killed leading to extinction by poachers, to Chinese medicine, traditional or exotic.
The rhino has short legs and strong. It has two horns on the front of the nose.
It is dark grey and the only remaining rhinos now live in Africa, but still endangered.
In fact the black rhino extinct faster than any land animal.
It weighs about a ton and can be unexpectedly aggressive.
It has a limited vision and relies on his senses of smell and hearing to remove the intruders.
The rhino is used to meet the demand for medical and horn handle dagger.
The Otter.
It measured up to 180 cm, of which 30 to 40 belong to the tail.
His prized skin has led to almost extinction.
Anything and otters dive to perfection.
It lives in groups more or less numerous, on the Pacific coast of Asia and the U.S. coast from Alaska to California.
It feeds on fish and sea urchins, crabs and even a variety of molluscs.
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