Where can you shoot wild animals, but only with a camera? And where can
you see a colony of cats? Where can turtles live more than 100 years?
And where is a fortress for Barbary apes? Where do birds fly inside dark
caves? And where do dogs save lives in the mountains?
On the next few pages, you will find out where.
“SHOOTING” ANIMALS
Would you go hunting ferocious lions, wild elephants, and fierce rhinoceroses without a gun? That’s just what a lot of people do every year when they go on safari in national parks in Africa. Instead…
GO TO THE GALAPAGOS
A giant tortoise eats leaves on the shore of the Pacific Ocean on one of the Galapagos Islands. Can you imagine a tortoise that weighs 500 pounds (225 kilograms) and is 4 feet (1.2 meters) long?…
WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE . .
Almost 50,000 people roar as fighters called gladiators enter the huge arena. “We who are about to die salute you!’ the gladiators shout to the person staging the show. The gladiators face each…
MONKEY BUSINESS
What would you do if a band of monkeys stole your dessert? What would you do if the monkeys came day after day to steal vegetables from your garden? Such things used to happen to people living in a…
