Look at the pictures and say which of these animals you know, which of them still live in the wild and which ones have disappeared forever

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Australia  /ɒs`treɪ.li.ə/ a large country in the  Pacific Ocean

Tasmania  /tæz`meɪ.ni.ə/ an Australian island  and state whose capital city is Hobart. It is located 240 kilometers south of the eastern side of the continent

Mauritius   /mə`rɪʃ.əs/  острів Маврикій. an island country in the Indian Ocean. Officially it is the Respublic of Mauritius. It is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar /,mæd.ə`ɡæs.kər/ 

 Santa Cruz Island  is the largest privately  /`praɪ.vət.li/  owned island off the continental United States. The island is a part of the northern group of the Channel Islands  of California and the largest of the eight islands in the chain. Santa Cruz Island is located within /wɪ`ðɪn/ у межах Santa Barbara County  /`kaʊn.ti/ округ, California

 Charles Darvin  was an English naturalist  /`nætʃ.ər.əl.ɪst/ geologist and biologist

Pinta Island is an island located in the Galápagos Islands group, Ecuador(/`ek.wə.dɔ:r/-a country in South America) It has an area of 60 km2 (23 sq mi) Pinta was the original home to Lonesome George, perhaps the most famous tortoise in the Galápagos Islands. He was the last known representative of the giant tortoises.

The Thylacine /`θaɪ.lə.si;n/ = Tasmanian wolf, Tasmanian tiger= a striped, meat-eating Australian mammal about the size of a large dog. It is believed to have become extinct /ɪk`stɪŋkt/  in the 20th century (= it no longer exists).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqCCI1ZF7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu1rNBmBL_w

 

Dodo /`dəʊ.dəʊ/ a large bird, unable to fly, that no longer exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw5Ux9oAPIc

 

The Barbary lion was a local group of lions which are now extinct in the wild . The Barbary lion was also called the atlas lion and the nubian lion. It used to live in North Africa, from Morocco to Egypt.

The Barbary lion was large and heavy. Males weighed about 190 to 230 kilograms and females weighed about 150 to 190 kilograms These lions did not live in prides. These lions lived alone, or in pairs

 mane /meɪn/ the long, thick hair that grows along the top of a horse's neck or around the face and neck of a lion- грива

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcSxfXUFiRk

 

 Lonesome George  is a giant tortoise from the island of Pinta The Pinta tortoise was thought to be extinct in the early part of the 20th century. Then in 1971 a Hungarian scientist studying snails on Pinta saw a tortoise on the island – Lonesome George. and in the spring of 1972, Galapagos National Park rangers brought the tortoise to the Tortoise Center on Santa Cruz for its protection. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuwVhrJrFCg

Snow leopard /`lep.əd/   is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTlveCrymV8

 

Blue whale  /weɪl/- a very large sea mammal that breathes air through a hole at the top of its head

Mammal  /`mæm.əl/

any animal of which the female feeds her young on milk from her own body. Most mammals give birth to live young, not eggs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pjI2XkmoL0

 

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