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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.
6. There are more than 1,000
stripes
mountain gorillas today.

THE MOUNTAIN
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GORILLA

tusk
There are many animals on the endangered
species list: the Sumatran elephant, the
trunk
black rhino and the Asian tiger are just
a few. They have become endangered for

4 different reasons but mostly because of
hunting and because people destroy their
natural habitats.

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

5 A male gorilla can be as tall as 1.67 m and weigh
about 200 kg but the female is much smaller
and not as heavy.

They eat leaves, fruit and
insects and sleep high in
fur
the trees. A gorilla can live
about thirty-five years in
6 the wild.
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