Презентация на тему Rare animals

only in the mountain forests of central China, where

it grows only food - bamboo. Bamboo is not very nutritious, so the panda eats 10 - 12 hours a day. In very rare panda cubs are born, so their number is low.

the only representative of the species living in the

snow. Now in Russia there are more than 450 species.

Crane is listed in the Red Book of Russia

and the International list of rare and endangered species. In the late 90's cranes in the country had no more than three pairs. In the photo: white cranes raised in Oka State Nature Biosphere Reserve.

spirit of the mountains - the only resident highland

areas. He lives in the 13th state, some of whom are Russia. Because of the inaccessibility of habitat and the small number of animals are poorly studied.

animal habitat was reduced to a few countries. Animals

inhabit the underwater holes in the flood waters. They often fall into the network, and easily killed.

largest predator on the planet. With the impressive dimensions

of the animal is moving well in the water, can swim in the sea for tens of kilometers.

for Columbus caught  one of these "sea maidens"  and

put in a pond:she lived for 26 yearsand sail to the call of the people.But then it became clearthat manatee meat is tasty.Church declared him a fish,  that the meat could beis not only in ordinary days,but in fasting Friday.  So began the extermination of manatees. And in these days of the rare animals and a few  populations are often killed in collisions with ships.

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a good example is the story of passenger pigeon.

Once upon millions flock of birds flying in the skies of North America. Pigeons were very good in taste. Therefore, destruction of pigeons turned into fun. In one of the novels of James Fenimore Cooper's very well described as approaching flocks of pigeons all urban residents poured into the streets, armed with slingshots, guns, sometimes with guns. Killed as many pigeons as they could kill. Pigeons laid in the cellar refrigerated, ready to fight, feed the dog, or just thrown away. Efforts have even shooting competition pigeon. The last passenger pigeon, named Martha, died at the zoo in 1914.

fly a bird, formerly belong to the family of

pigeons. Lived on the island of Mauritius. He nest on the ground, where he was in complete safety. However, he not only lost the ability to fly, but completely forgot how to recognize the enemy and fear him. European colonists slaughtered because of its tasty meat, and brought sailors cleaned goat ate bush served dodo shelter, dogs and cats chased and caught the old birds, pigs devour the eggs and chicks, and after picking them sneaking rat remains of the feast. One of the skeletons is isolated in the Darwin Museum in Moscow. In the second half of the XX century, the dodo became a symbol of the struggle for the protection and conservation of rare species.

much like the manatee and dugong, but it was

much bigger than them. Large herds of these animals were swimming at the surface of the water, feeding on seaweed (kelp), because of the animal and was called the sea cow. Its meat, which was very tasty and did not smell of fish, was used extensively in the food, so Steller's cow was completely wiped out in 30 years, despite the impressive size of the population.

hunters. Such a strong prosecution explained the harm caused

by these parrots fields and fruit trees. Last parrot died in a zoo in 1918.