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5d Animals in danger

1 Vocabulary  2 Read 

Label the animals with the words in the box. A. How much do you know about
Then listen and check your answers. mountain gorillas? Read the sentences
below and guess whether they are
elephant tiger gorilla rhino True (T) or False (F). Then listen, read
zebra cheetah panda and check your answers.
1. Mountain gorillas are an
endangered species.
2. They live in Asia.
3. Female gorillas are bigger
spots
than male gorillas.
1 4. They sleep on grass.
2 5. They can live for over 100

years in the wild.
stripes 6. There are about 1,000 mountain
gorillas today.

The MounTain
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Gorilla

tusk
There are many animals on the endangered

trunk species list: the elephant, the black rhino
and the Asian tiger are just a few. They have
become endangered for different reasons
4 but mostly because of hunting and because
people destroy their natural habitats.

The mountain gorilla of Central East Africa
horn
is one of the world’s most endangered
species. Hunters kill them for their fur.
They live in groups in the tropical forests of

5 the Virunga Mountains. A male gorilla can
be as tall as 1.65 m and weigh about
180 kg but the female
is much smaller
and not as heavy.
fur
They eat leaves,
fruit and insects
6 and sleep high in the
7 trees.

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