Extinct Animals Tell Their Tales

Before reading

Which animals today are in danger of dying out if people don’t save them?

The Woolly Mammoth The Elephant Bird

The Dodo The Quagga

I’m the heaviest bird that ever existed. I was very tall and too heavy to fly. You could make 30 omelettes from one of my eggs. I’ve been extinct for over a thousand years. I lived thousands of years ago during the last Ice Age. Scientists think the weather became warmer, changing our habitat. Vurderingseksemplar

I existed over four hundred years ago. Sailors arrived. They cut down the forests. They brought cats which killed us. We couldn’t fly and didn’t survive. We are still remembered – people often say “as dead as a dodo”. I existed 150 years ago. We were a species of zebra. Hunters killed us and made our skins into bags. Farmers ate us.

The Sea Wolf The Black Rhino

After reading a Which animal had a problem with cats? b Which animal had a problem with climate change? c Which animals were made into footwear and bags? d Why did these animals become extinct? Talk about it! a Which animal would you have liked to see, and why? b What could people have done differently which might have saved some of these animals?

I think that ... because ...

In 2000 there were only ten of us left. Scientists searched for us in our last remaining habitat in Africa, but they didn’t find any of us. Poachers killed us for our horns. People made medicine and daggers from them. We haven’t existed for almost 70 years. We were hunted by explorers, fishermen and hunters who killed and ate us. They made shoes and boots from our skin and used our fat to cook with. extinct utdødd scientists forskere habitat habitat, naturligmiljø didn’t survive overlevde ikke species art explorers oppdagelsesreisende poachers krypskyttereVurderingseksemplarIt is popular to hunt the Big Five, and they may become extinct if we do not protect them.