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Endangered Animals

6606 Darcy 林奕澄

I like to watch TV in my spare time. My favorite

channel is "Discovery". I watched a program about

endangered animals. They introduced black

rhinoceroses. Black rhinos are endangered animals.

They are about 3 meters long and usually weigh about

800 to 1400 kilograms. In the dry season, black rhinos

can survive up to 5 days without water. They mainly live

in the African savannah and tropical jungles. In the 20th

century, black rhinos was once the most abundant of all

rhinos.

There are two main reasons that black rhinos are

becoming endangered animals. The first reason is

because their habitat is gone. Habitat loss is a major

threat to rhino populations. The second reason is

people over hunt them. If we do not protect that black