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Endangered Animals 6 Articles ARTICLE-A-DAY Endangered Animals 6 Articles Check articles you have read: Leaping Lemurs! 233 words Panda Power! 292 words Elephant Tales 466 words Reefs at Risk 237 words Reef Rescue 466 words America's Bird Soars 335 words Trouble in the Ocean 329 words Deadly or Dead?: Animals in Lake Turkana 209 words Endangered Animals at a Glance 337 words Bear Care 914 words © 2020 ReadWorks®, Inc. All rights reserved. Page 1 of 21 Leaping Lemurs! Leaping Lemurs! Robert Zingg A new Lemur has scientists jumping. Scientists are thrilled about some tiny, furry finds. They have discovered two new species of lemurs on Madagascar, an island located off the southeast coast of Africa. The endangered animals are found only in Madagascar and a few of the country's nearby islands. Madagascar is home to some of the world's most exotic, or unusual, plants and animals. Lemurs live mainly in forest trees and are nocturnal, or active at night. One of the newly discovered creatures has wide eyes, is small enough to fit in a hand, and bounces from tree branch to tree branch in the dark. Its name in Malagasy means "good man." Malagasy is the official language of Madagascar. The animal was named after scientist Steve Goodman. He has been studying the tiny creatures in Madagascar for 20 years. It is truly an honor to have an animal named after me," says Goodman. The other species is a giant mouse lemur with a bushy tail. It was named in honor of Madagascar's children. Its name in Malagasy means "child." The scientists chose that name to remind Madagascar's children to care for the many plants and animals in their country. Finding a new lemur species is rare because many of the tiny creatures have become extinct. The recent find means that there are now 49 known species of lemurs in the wild. ReadWorks.org Copyright © 2009 Weekly Reader Corporation. All rights reserved. Used by permission.Weekly Reader is a registered trademark of Weekly Reader Corporation. Page 2 of 21 Panda Power! Panda Power! Note: This article was first published in 2009. Scientists put on their detective hats in search of giant pandas. World Almanac for Kids Giant Panda Scientists were on the case! They collected clues. The scientists saw paw prints in the mud and fur on the bark of trees. What were they doing? Counting giant pandas! After four years, the detective work is done. During that time, scientists figured out how many pandas live in China. All wild giant pandas live in that country. ReadWorks.org Copyright © 2009 Weekly Reader Corporation. All rights reserved. Used by permission.Weekly Reader is a registered trademark of Weekly Reader Corporation. Page 3 of 21 Panda Power! "Pandas are very hard to see in the wild," scientist Colby Loucks told Weekly Reader. "They hide in the thick bamboo forests." That is why scientists used clues to do the count. The result of the panda count was a surprise to scientists. They learned that hundreds more pandas exist than experts once thought! "We found pandas living in areas we didn't know had any," said Loucks. Protecting Pandas Although the news is good, pandas remain endangered. That means they are in danger of dying out. Panda Fun Facts · A panda spends 14 hours a day eating up to 83 pounds of bamboo. · A newborn panda weighs 3 to 4 ounces. That is about the weight of a hamster. · A panda's front paws have a wrist bone. The bone works like a thumb. The panda uses it to grasp bamboo. The main threat to pandas is habitat loss. A habitat is a place in nature where an animal lives. Panda habitat is lost when people cut down parts of the forest for wood and farming. Currently, China has more than 40 giant panda nature centers. People are not allowed to cut down trees there. Scientists want to create more nature centers to give pandas a better chance for survival. ReadWorks.org Copyright © 2009 Weekly Reader Corporation. All rights reserved. Used by permission.Weekly Reader is a registered trademark of Weekly Reader Corporation. Page 4 of 21 Elephant Tales Elephant Tales Note: This article was first published in 2009. NOAA.gov Scientists are trying to find out how elephants communicate. Shirley, a 4-ton elephant, has something to say. She opens her mouth and gurgles. The nearby elephants understand the sound, but it's just noise to me. What exactly is Shirley saying? Scientists are not sure, but they are trying to find out how elephants like Shirley communicate. I visited Shirley at the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee. A sanctuary is an area in nature where wildlife is protected. The sanctuary is home to Shirley and five other elephants-Bunny, Jenny, Sissy, Tarra, and Winkie. All six animals were once in zoos or circuses. Now they roam freely on 2,700 acres of grassland and woods. A Noisy Group Not all the elephants at the sanctuary gurgle like Shirley. Tarra barks like a sea lion when she is happy. Bunny speaks in squeaks. I soon got used to hearing the different "voices" of the ReadWorks.org Copyright © 2003 Weekly Reader Corporation. All rights reserved. Used by permission.Weekly Reader is a registered trademark of Weekly Reader Corporation. Page 5 of 21 Elephant Tales elephants. When one gray giant came close to me, I wondered which elephant it was. Then I heard the thwap sound of her trunk slapping the floor. "Aha!" I said to myself. "That's Sissy clapping." I also learned that the elephants share a special language of screeches, rumbles, and trumpet-like sounds. Elephants also communicate in a way that people cannot hear. Infrasound is a sound that is too low in pitch for the human ear to pick up. Scientists believe that elephant infrasound can travel for miles. Elephants in a herd use it to keep in touch when they become separated. Old Friends U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Asian elephants are endangered. The elephants speak to one another for the same reasons people talk. Sometimes they even shout with excitement. When Shirley first came to the sanctuary, Jenny looked at her and ReadWorks.org Copyright © 2003 Weekly Reader Corporation. All rights reserved. Used by permission.Weekly Reader is a registered trademark of Weekly Reader Corporation. Page 6 of 21 Elephant Tales began to roar. Shirley roared back. At first, the animal keepers had no idea what the fuss was about. Later, they discovered that Shirley and Jenny had crossed paths 20 years earlier in a circus. The elephants' roars meant they still recognized each other. They had a lot of catching up to do! Elephants at Risk There are two species, or kinds, of elephants-Asian and African. In the wild, both species are endangered. Animals are endangered when so few exist that the species may die out. In 1970, almost 2 million Asian elephants lived in the wild in Southeast Asia. Now only 25,600 to 32,750 live there. Their habitat, or home, is being gradually destroyed. As the population grows, humans are building on more of the land. In Africa, only half as many wild elephants exist today as lived there 20 years ago. Humans have illegally killed the animals for their tusks. Tusks are the long, curved front teeth of elephants. ReadWorks.org Copyright © 2003 Weekly Reader Corporation. All rights reserved. Used by permission.Weekly Reader is a registered trademark of Weekly Reader Corporation. Page 7 of 21 Reefs at Risk Reefs at Risk Hundreds of clownfish dart in and out of the gaps in coral reefs. The reefs are home to thousands of ocean plants and animals. Along with fish, those animals include crabs, turtles, and sea horses. Those ocean creatures may have no place to live in the future. Many coral reefs around the world have been destroyed, and many more are being destroyed. Some scientists say more than half of the world's reefs may be gone by the year 2030. What is causing coral reefs to disappear? Scientists say people are largely to blame. Ships and fishing nets often damage the reefs. Other threats include pollution, storms, and disease. It's Alive! NOAA Coral reefs may look like rocks, but they are actually living Coral reefs are home to thousands of ocean plants and animals. structures. They are made up of tiny sea animals. Those tiny creatures are called coral polyps. The polyps build hard shells around themselves. When a polyp dies, it leaves behind its shell. Young polyps attach themselves to the old shells. Over many years, the polyps form a coral reef. Saving the Reefs Scientists are working hard to protect coral reefs. They are mapping and studying the reefs. Many protected areas are being widened. Fishing is not allowed in those areas. Solving the coral reef problem is a challenge, said one scientist. "It requires us to understand what's going on much better than we do." ReadWorks.org Copyright © 2009 Weekly Reader Corporation. All rights reserved. Used by permission.Weekly Reader is a registered trademark of Weekly Reader Corporation. Page 8 of 21 Reef Rescue Reef Rescue Leigh Haeger Australia is often called "the land down under." That's because it lies in the Southern Hemisphere. The hit movie Finding Nemo follows a clownfish that is scooped up from the Great Barrier Reef. In real life, clownfish are among the thousands of colorful sea creatures that call the Great Barrier Reef home. Stretching 1,250 miles along Australia's northeastern coast, the Great Barrier Reef is the longest coral reef in the world.
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