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LESSON 4 READ ABOUT A WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER

LETI MOLINA
@LetiM

1 BEFORE YOU READ I read a great interview about a wildlife

rescue center. Now I want to volunteer!
PAIRS Have you ever helped an animal?
Talk about it.
Last year I found a baby bird that had fallen out of its nest …
01-19 VOCABULARY Listen. Then listen and repeat. Do you know these words?

orphaned fascinating an enclosure an environment mimic a natural habitat

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2 READ
PREVIEW Look at the title and the photographs. What do you think this text is about?
Look at the format of the text. What does it tell you?

01-20 Read and listen to the interview. Were your answers correct?

A Place to Get Better

On the southern border of Costa Rica is a very special place where sick and
injured wild animals are safe and cared for. It is the Jaguar Rescue Center.
The center never turns away any wild animal brought to its door. I interviewed
a volunteer, Kathleen, to find out more about this amazing place.
1 So, Kathleen, tell me more about the 4 Where do the howlers live in a sloth
center. What kinds of animals does it help? the center? I know that monkeys
All kinds. Sloths, howler monkeys, porcupines, like to climb…
and more—any sick, injured, or orphaned They eat and sleep in a very large enclosure,
animal. People in town, or sometimes the local which we clean twice a day. The enclosure was created as
police, see the animals in the road or while an environment that closely mimics their natural habitat as
they’re out hiking and bring them to the center. much as possible, so there’s plenty of space to climb, jump,
2 So what kinds of tasks swing, and play.
do you do at the center? 5 Do the animals return to the jungle when they’re
I do a lot of feeding and healthy again?
cleaning up. It’s similar to Yes! The goal is to return the animals to their natural habitat.
having your own pets. We Every afternoon, we take the healthy howlers into the jungle.
feed some of the baby If they don’t come back, it means they are beginning a new
animals with goat milk in life in the wild with a new family.
bottles, and we help out in
a howler monkey 6 It must be difficult to say good-bye to the howlers when
the kitchen to make food
for the older animals. they find their new home.
Yes, but sometimes they come back to say hello. One of the
3 Do you have a favorite kind of animal at
howlers who had been successfully released back into the
the center?
jungle returned one day with a surprise—
My favorite are the howler monkeys. They are a new baby! It’s like she wanted to
so fascinating! Did you know that they are the say “thank you” to the people
loudest land animal? Their vocalizations can who cared for her.
be heard clearly for five kilometers.
a porcupine
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