Взгляд на экологию

Reading for Understanding

1. 
   The best known sabre-toothed cat was the Smilidon.
   
2. 
   These prehistoric cats were distant cousins of modern tigers.
   
3. 
   Sabre-toothed cats survived even after they had been wounded.
   
4. 
   About 40 million years ago sabre-toohted cats lived on the Earth and were extinct due to the changed environment.
   

1. 
   The sabre-toothed cat was found in Australia and Antarctica.
   
2. 
   The Smilidon’s remains have been found in California.
   
3. 
   The Smilidon probably lived in the forests of North and South America.
   
4. 
   The sabre-toothed cats were distant cousins of modern lions.
   
5. 
   Their long sharp front teeth were used for stabbing their prey.
   
6. 
   They were very light animals, which made them quite quick.
   
7. 
   They could run very fast and very far.
   
8. 
   Sabre-toothed cats often survived even after they had been badly wounded.
   
9. 
   At the end of the last Ice Age the climate slowly got colder.
   
10. 
    Scientists believe that the cats’ prey couldn’t live in this new environment.
    

1. 
   They became extinct because people hunted them for food.
   
2. 
   They were hunted until they were extinct because they attacked farm animals.
   
3. 
   The climate changed and they couldn’t live in the new conditions.
   
4. 
   The weather became hotter and other kinds of plants started growing, so the animals they used to feed on died.
   

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  The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature.
  
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  It’s a bold mouse that nestles in the cat’s ear.
  
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  A cursed cow has short horns.
  
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  A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.
  
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  You cannot sell the cow and drink the milk