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Objetivos: Fazer leitura instrumental.
Topico: Urso Panda
Interdisiclinaridade: Ciencias
THE PANDA BEAR
In China the government
is fighting to save a national symbol - the giant panda. There are a few
pandas today and they are running a big risk of extinction. Why are those
beautiful animals disappearing?
Pandas are vegetarian, they
live in the mountains of central China, in forests of pine trees and bamboo.
Pandas eat flowers, grass, and sometimes small animals and honey. But bamboo is
their principal food. and they need a lot of bamboo. Because their digestive
tracks extract little nutritive value from the plant, they consume enormous
amounts of bamboo, spending 50 to 75 percent of the day eating. A giant panda
needs 20 kilos of bamboo a day, and he eats for about 15 hours!
But bamboo has a strange
lyfe cycle. The plant grows for about 100 years. Then suddenly it flowers, drops
its seeds and dies. All the bamboos in one place flower, and die, at the same
time. When the bamboo dies there is no place for the pandas to go, so they die
too.
Scientists are making a
special study of the panda, its way of life, habitation, and food. They are also
trying to beed pandas in new zoos, and to grow different kinds of bamboo in
special natural rerserves for pandas. Man, the principal problem for animals, is
starting to work with nature. But there isn´t much time. Are we doing
sufficiently to save wild animals?
(Adapted
from Discovering Life on Earth, David Attenborough.)
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