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The dodo – chapter 2 

The dodo is a type of bird and is related to the pigeon and doves. The dodo was first found around 1600 in Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean. The dodo was extinct around 80 years later. It is believed that the Dutch sailor who discovered them first ate them. With the dodo’s heavy body and little wings this tells us that it could not fly. The dodo was a meter high (three foot) and weighed 23kg.It ate fruit, and lived on the ground in a nest. The dodo usually means “fool” and “crazy” in Portages. It had two left feet. Mauritius has a coat of arms with the dodo on it.

In Mauritius there is two seasons in a year, one wet and one dry, in the wet, the dodo would eat as much as he could and then in the dry season it would starves because of little food. The dodo lived unharmed until the Dutch sailors came. It wasn’t realised to be extinct because it took little time to find it and killing it. The sailors brought their pigs, dog, cats and rats and these animals destroyed the nest and ate the eggs.       

Dolphins – Chapter 2

 Dolphins are one of the most intriguing mammals on earth they are friendly creatures and are very cleaver scientists have for many years been studding how the feed sleep and defend. Themselves  There are 32 different type of dolphins but not all of them are endangered. Dolphins can live for about 25 years. 

Diet  

Dolphins eat small fish squid crabs and small octopus. Many dolphins face starvation  but to over fishing by humans.

Habitat

Obviously dolphins live in water some live in warm water some live in tropical water. We even have some in our cold north sea the most endangered species live in the river around the world

Chapter 2- The panda

Habitat 

This panda is called the panda bear in china it is called the’xiongmao’. It lives in 6 small areas in china this habitat is suitable for the bamboo on which it survives, is a cold damp coniferous forest. They also live in mountains which are surrounded by heavy clouds and rain or a cloudy mist throughout the year. 

What they look like? 

The panda is a large mammal which is about the same size as a black bear. Adult pandas grow to be about 5-6 feet high. They will weigh up to 276 pounds and males 10% to 20% more than females. Giant panda bears have a massive head, heavy body, short tail, rounded ears and giant paws. Giant pandas with their short paws are capable of climbing trees very easily. The head of the panda has developed special molars for chewing plants. The basic fur colour of the panda is white with black eye patches ears, legs, feet, chest and shoulders. The fur of the panda is thick and course to the touch the fur feels thick and oily.

What they eat

Panda bears eat over 15 different kinds of  bamboo. The  Panda must feed for 12-16 hours a day, they can eat 22-40 pounds of bamboo each day. When they eat fresh bamboo shoots they eat about 84 pounds every day. 

Why they are endangered?

The adult giant panda has very few natural enemies of the panda is the snow leopard. At 2 and a half years of age panda weighs about 22.7 kg and generally comes more and more immune to predators. to a lesser degree the bamboo rat which burrows underground, eats the roots of the bamboo which kills the plant leaving one less plant for the panda to eat.

The Tasmanian wolf - Chapter 1

 The Tasmanian wolf as been extinct for over 70 years. It became extinct when the last one died in captivity in 1936.the Tasmanian wolf is not a wolf and not a dog. It is actually a marsupial. A marsupial is a mammal, witch gives birth to it young in a pouch. The Tasmanian wolf name comes from the Latin name-thylacinus, cynocephalus. It is like wombat and a kangaroo. It even has a pouch.The Tasmanian wolf lived in Tasmania; witch is an island off Australia. The island of Tasmania has a coat of arms and on it has two Tasmanian wolves. In Tasmania it has 7 people in each square kilometre. Lots of unpopulated countryside! In the centaury the Tasmanian wolf used to eat livestock on the farms where it habitat was. How the Tasmanian wolf came extinct was because the bounty hunters kept killing it. The Tasmania government paid the bounty hunters for farmers. Bounty hunters that are someone that is damaging home or property.It is also know as the Tasmanian tiger because of the stripes on is back. The Tasmanian wolf also lived in New Guinea. The Tasmanian wolf eats meat so it is a carnivore. Some people still think that it is still alive. The Australian conservations foundation offers $100 just for sighting of the Tasmanian wolves’ tracks. So far there has been none. 

THE CAUSES OF AIR POLLUTION

There are two types of air pollutants-gases and particles found in the air for example in smoke and smog.

One of the most common air pollutants is sulphur dioxide. It is one of the causes of acid rain and it is used to bleach paper.

Air pollution is caused by human sources. Human causes include power

 Plants that burn coal, burning fuel to heat houses and other buildings and to drive vehicles. In the U.S.A motor vehicles produce around 90 percent of the carbon monoxide in city air.

Natural sources include volcanoes, forest fires, lightning bolts and radon from roots. Also, decaying plants and animals produce nitrogen oxide.

Mountain gorillas - Chapter 1

The mountain gorilla is largest of all living primates.

Adult males are called silverbacks and when standing up can be as tall as 5ft 6in.  they have an arm span of 7ft long and can weigh up to 35 ½ stone.  The mountain gorilla has longer and darker hair than other gorilla’s and it moves around by knuckle-walking.

Each gorilla has a different nose print which is unique to the individual, like a humans finger-print.

The mountain gorilla’s are most active during the hours of 6am and 6pm.  They spend most of this time eating only having a break at midday to rest.  

Chapter 1

There are a lot of endangered dolphins. The bottlenose dolphin is very, very endangered. There are hardly any left. You can see very little of them in the south coast of Lossiemouth. Dolphins can make clicking noises; they make the clicking sound if a submarine or a jet boat is in front of them the noise echoes back to them. There is also an other dolphin called a jungle backpack that is quite endangered that there is only 50 left. Dolphin eats sand eels and squid and much different kind of fish. Oil slued poisons the dolphins by chucking lot of rubbish and liquid.