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IT'S INTERESTING TO KNOW
Man has developed mechanical contraptions to help him travel quickly, but
Nature has equipped some of her creatures with built-in speed. Some land
animals can travel as fast as most cars do. A jack rabbit can build up a speed of
about forty-five miles an hour when a hound is close behind it. A good race
horse can make that same speed. The white-tailed deer can do almost fifty miles
an hour when it needs to, and a long-legged ostrich can tiptoe over the ground at
nearly a mile a minute. Some water animals aren't slow either. Many of the
large fishes in the ocean can keep up with the fastest ocean liners man has made.
There is one fish, the wahoo, that can scoot along at seventy miles an hour. The
really speedy animals, though, are the animals of the air. Many birds can fly
along at fifty and sixty miles an hour; a few can make eighty. A fast bird may
even reach a speed of a hundred miles an hour in a power dive, about the speed
of some airplanes.
Notes:
hound гончая
ostrich страус
wahoo акантоцибиум
Text 25
ANIMAL THAT FACES EXTINCTION
An animal that faces extinction is vicuna, a gentle, llama-like creature
which lives In the Andes mountain* of South America. Years ago, when vicunas
were numerous, the Indians hunted them for their wool.
Nowadays that wool fetches a very high price and, although the hunting of
vicunas has been prohibited in Peru, poachers who kill them and smuggle their
wool abroad have so depleted their numbers that there are said to be only 10,000
of the animals left in Peru.
So, unless something is done quickly, they will be wiped out!
Notes:
vicuna вигонь, викунья
llama лама
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