Answer — Exercise 9

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