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Extinct Animals
By: Keiko Hirami
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Many other animalsare also extinct.Some became extinctin ancient times.Other became extinctless than 100 yearsago. Lets learnabout some of them.
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Chapter 2The Woolly
Mammoth
The woollymammoth lookedlike an elephant.But woollymammoths wereeven bigger!
Like elephants,
woolly mammothshad tusks and atrunk. Unlikeelephants, they hadlong, shaggy hair allover their bodies.
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Woolly mammoths livedduring the Ice Age. Theirlong hair kept them warm.They used their tusks to
scrape ice and snow offplants they ate.
Prehistoric people huntedmammoths for food. Theyalso used their bones to
make huts, tools, and jewelry.
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Woolly mammoths becameextinct around 10,000 years
ago. This may have happenedbecause Earths climatechanged. Scientists believeanother valid theory is thattoo many people were huntingwoolly mammoths.
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Chapter 3The Dodo
Have you ever heardthe saying, Dead as a
dodo? People say thisbecause the dodo is
extinct.
Dodos were big birdsthat lived on the island
of Mauritius (MAW-rish-uhs). They becameextinct more than 400 years ago.
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Dodos had large legs,short wings, and verybig beaks. Each onewas the size of a largeturkey. Dodos laid
their eggs on theground.
Dodos were unable tofly or run. This madethem very easy to
catch. People wholanded on Mauritiuskilled Dodos for food.
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But hungry peoplewere only part of theproblem. In 1644,people brought cats,
dogs, and pigs toMauritius. Theseanimals ate the dodosand their eggs. By1690, less than 50 years later, the dodobird was extinct.
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Chapter 4
The Tasmanian Tiger
The animal nicknamedthe Tasmanian hadstripes like a tiger,
but it was not a tiger.Its real name wasthylacine (THY-luh-seen), and it looked abit like a dog.
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Thousands of years agothylacines lived all overAustralia. Then wild dogscalled dingoes took over the
thylacines habitat.Thylacines soon died out in
Australia.
There were no dingoes onthe island of Tasmania. So
thylacines survived there formany more years.
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But then people beganto cut down trees andplants where thylacineslived. They also huntedthem because they
were worried thatthylacines were killingfarm animals.
The last thylacine diedin Tasmania in 1936.That is less than 100 years ago.
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Chapter 5
Save Animals Today
Scientists confirm thatmore animals may besoon extinct. And once
animals are extinct,they are gone forever.
Still, some scientistsare hopeful. Theybelieve that if we care
for our land, water, andanimals in the wild, allliving creatures willhave a better chance atlife.
