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Numerals and words in captions, labels, diagrams, charts, and sidebars are not included.Animals from Ghe Past by Keiko Hirami Table of Contents Chapter | Animals of the Past Chapter 2 The Woolly Mammoth Chapter 3 The Dodo Chapter 4 The Tasmanian Tiger Chapter 5 Save Animals Today Glossary/Index Comprehension CheckChapter I Animals of the Past Have you ever seen a living dinosaur? Of course not! Dinosaurs are extinct. They are not living anymore. Around 65 million years ago, all the dinosaurs died. Some scientists think it was because Earth’s climate changed. Danguage They: They has the th sound. Find three more A DETECTIVE words with the th sound in this chapter.Many other animals are extinct, too. Some became extinct in ancient times. Other animals became extinct less than 100 years ago. Let’s learn about some of them.Chapter 2 The Woolly Mammoth The woolly mammoth looked like an elephant. But woolly mammoths were even bigger! Like elephants, woolly mammoths had tusks and a trunk. Unlike elephants, they had long hair all over their bodies. tusks: very long teeth ©The woolly mammoths had rounder tusks than the elephants’ tusks. oatWoolly mammoths lived during the Ice Age. Their long hair kept them warm. They used their tusks to get ice and snow off the plants they ate. Prehistoric people hunted mammoths for food. They also used their bones to make huts, tools, and jewelry. Ice Age: a time when ice covered most of Earth@ Prehistoric people painted pictures. of mammoths on cave walls. You can still see them today. Woolly mammoths became extinct around 10,000 years ago. Maybe this happened because Earth’s climate changed. Scientists think another valid theory is that too many people were hunting woolly mammoths.Chapter 3 The Dodo Have you ever heard anyone say, “Dead as a dodo”? People say this because the dodo is extinct. Dodos were big birds that lived on the island of Mauritius. They became extinct more than 400 years ago. island: land with water all around it © This map shows where dodos lived. MALDIVES; ser LANKA SEYCHELLES Mahé Island + Diego Garcia ‘comonos we INDIAN OCEAN \Dodos had large legs, short wings, and very big beaks. Each dodo bird was the size of a large turkey. Dodos laid their eggs on the ground. Dodos were unable to fly or run. They were easy to catch. People killed dodos for food. (Danguage Unable: Unable has the un- prefix. Find DETECTIVE ih word with the un- prefix on pageG Today, the only dodos i] we can see are J models: in museums. But hungry people were only part of the problem. In 1644, people brought cats, dogs, and pigs to Mauritius. These animals ate the dodos and their eggs. By 1690, the dodo bird was extinct.Chapter 4 The Tasmanian tiger had stripes like a tiger. But it wasn’t a tiger. Its real name was thylacine. It looked like a dog.This map shows where the Tasmanian ‘tiger Northern 2 Territory iy Queensland AUSTRALIA South Australia 2 ntThousands of years ago thylacines lived in Australia. But wild dogs called dingoes took the thylacines’ habitat. Soon there were no thylacines in Australia. There were no dingoes on the island of Tasmania. So thylacines survived there for many more years. survived: lived A dingo is a'wild-dog D that is still in Australia. It hunts many Other wild animals.0 This was the last living thylacine at a zoo in Tasmania. But then people took the thylacines’ habitat. They also hunted the thylacines. Farmers thought thylacines killed their farm animals for food. The last thylacine died in Tasmania in 1936. That is less than 100 years ago! anguage Hunted: Hunted has the -ed ending. Find three A DETECTIVE more words with the -ed ending in this chapter.Chapter 5 Save Animals Today Scientists confirm that more animals may become extinct soon. Once animals are extinct, they do not come back. Some scientists are hopeful. They believe that if we care for our Earth, all living creatures will have a better life. creatures: animalsGlossary climate the usual weather of a place in a year (page 2) extinct not living (page 2) habitat the natural place where a plant or animal lives (page 12) prehistoric a time before history was written down (page 5) theory an idea that tells why or how something happens (page 6) Index dingo, /2 Tasmanian tiger (thylacine), /0-I3 dinosaur, 2-3 woolly mammoth, 4-6 dodo, 7-9 Mauritius, 7-9Comprehension Check Retell Beginning Complete the Summarize Chart with your class. Then retell the information in this book. Middle Think and Compare . Look at page 5. Why did people hunt woolly mammoths? (Summarize) 2. Which animal in this book was most interesting to you? Why? (Evaluate) 3. How can people help take care of wild animals and the places they live? (Synthesize)Gone Forever Pretend you are in Mauritius 500 years ago. Write about the strange bird you see. Y Extinct Animals Today Pick an extinct animal. You can use an extinct animal from this book. Tell about how that animal's life would be different if it was living today.2.3 Week 3 Macmillan McGraw-Hill