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Most reptiles are strangely silent, but not so with crocs and gators. When
hatching they crip and yap until freed from the! covered nest. As they grow, they
make many sounds, from soft hisses to mighty bellows. The roar of a big
alligator is one of the loudest sounds in all of the animal kingdom. It sounds like
thunder, a foghorn or even a train rumbling by. It is so powerful that it may
shake the ground!
Notes
gators = alligator аллигатор
croc = crocodile крокодил
crocodilian крокодиловый
reaccon енот
otter выдра
wading bird болотная птица
snake змея
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LIZARDS OF KOMODO
On the small island of Komodo in Indonesia live some most remarkable
animals - the Komodo monitors. They the world's largest lizards. They weigh as
much as an American black bear - up to 365 pounds and some of them are over ten
feet long. Most American lizards are во email that you can hold one in your hand.
These giant lizards are often called Komodo dragons. It is odd that animals
looking so much like fairy-tale monsters really exist. But they do, and they are
almost as fierce as real dragons would be. They are dangerous hunters, that
attack and eat deer and even such tough animals as water buffaloes. Water
buffaloes can take on tigers, but a Komodo Monitor can easily bring down a
water buffalo and eat it. People on the islands, have to watch out for-these
lizards
Komodo monitors are only found on the island of Komodo and a few
smaller islands near it. No one in Europe knew of these lizards until 1912,
although the Dutch had been in the region since the sixteenth century. It is
surprising that such an animal could have escaped the attention of explorers and
naturalists for so long. When it was found, it caused a sensation among
scientists.
Notes:
monitor варан
bear медведь
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