Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 11

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8 - The animal kingdom for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

With the same partner, decide if the sentences refer to one or other of the animals - or both. Then look back at the texts and check your answers.

Answer

  1. Aye-aye (habitat is being destroyed)
  2. Both (camels travel vast distances, aye-aye may cover over four kilometres a night)
  3. Camel (drought and famine)
  4. Aye-aye (believed to be evil)
  5. Camel (they are heavily hunted ... where there is competition for water from domestic herds)
  6. Camel (still unknown how it processes salt water)
  7. Aye-aye (only one other animal uses the same technique)
  8. Both (captive breeding programmes)
  9. Camel (lives in a herd)
  10. Camel (interbreeding with domestic Bactrians leads them to lose the capability to drink salt water)