The key answer of exercise 9
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 person who read the same text, do the following.
Answer
Camel
- the animal’s habitat → Gobi desert – extremes of temperature and arid
- its habits → eats snow / drink salt water, hardly sweats or urinates, resistant to disease, eats sharp thorns, travels vast distances
- threats it’s facing → hunted, poisoned from illegal mining, breeding with domestic Bactrians and losing ability to drink salt water
Aye-aye
- the animal’s habitat → Madagascan rain forest
- its habits → nests in a tree, taps, gnaws and pokes to find food, travels a distance for food, solitary apart from mating
- threats it’s facing → habitat being destroyed, hunted