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THE DODO
If it seems strange to you that a whole type of animal life can become
extinct, remember what happened 300 years ago to the dodo.
These kindly, gentle, fightless birds became extinct simply because they were
so friendly and trusting. They lived only on the island of Mauritius, in the Indian
Ocean, and when sailors landed on the island, the dodos flocked around them.
But the sailors were looking for food after their long voyages, and it wasn't
long before they found that the dodos were good to eat, so the friendly birds
soon ended up in the cooking post.
So the dodo vanished, leaving behind It the saying: «As dead as the dodo»!
Notes:
dodo дронт
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HELP FOR THE DOLPHINS
People love dolphins. But they love tuna fish, too, and that's been causing
some problems. Yellow fin tuna, the kind most people eat, have a habit of
swimming beneath schools of certain kinds of dolphins. The tuna fishermen know
this, во to find the tuna the;,' simply look for schools of dolphins. When they see a,
school, they set out their nets to catch the tuna. But they end up catching some of
the dolphins too. Since dolphins are mammals, they need to breatheair. And since
the dolphins are held under water when caught in the nets, they drown. Over the
past few years, many thousands of dolphins have been killed In this way.
But there 'в some good news, thanks to people working to help the
dolphins. A law now says that only a certain number of dolphins may be killed.
So most of the fishermen are being more careful. They try their best to chase the
dolphins out of the nets before they pull them tight around the tuna. They also
are trying new nets which allow the dolphins to escape more easily.
Someone now has an even better idea - make decoy dolphins out of
fiberglass to fool the tuna. Tuna fishermen would pull the fake dolphins behind
their boats to attract the tuna. They would then net the tuna, and no dolphins
would be killed: What a great trick! I hope it works, and I know you do too.
Notes:
tuna тунец
yellow fin tuna желтоперый тунец
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