The Extinct Animal 已灭绝的动物.ppt

EnglishReport;;The Extinct Animal;Golden toad（金蟾蜍 ） ;The golden toad was once abundant in a small region of high-altitude tropical forests. They were first described in 1966 by the herpetologist(爬虫学者 ) Jay Savage.Since 15 May 1989, not a single golden toad is reported to have been seen anywhere in the world.;It is classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as an extinct species.Its sudden extinction might have been caused by chytrid fungus （壶菌）and extensive habitat loss.;Aurochs (原牛，欧洲野牛);The aurochs ，the ancestor of domestic（家养的） cattle, is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa; they survived in Europe Before it became extinct,the right to hunt large animals on any land was restricted first to noblesand then, gradually, to only the royal householdsAs the population of aurochs declined, hunting ceased, and poaching aurochs was punishable by death. ; The last recorded live aurochs, a female, died in 1627 in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland, from natural causes. The causes of extinction were hunting, a narrowing of habitat due to the development of farming, and diseases transmitted by domestic cattle.;thefossil of Aurochs ;Thylacine (袋狼);The thylacine resembled a large, short-haired dog with a stiff tail which smoothly extended from the body in a way similar to that of a kangaroo;;Dodo(渡渡鸟 );Subfossil remains show the Dodo was about one metre tall and may have weighed 10–18?kg in the wild. This famous bird became extinct because hunting and animals which plundered(掠夺 ) Dodo nests.At the same time, humans destroyed the Dodo‘s forest habitat. The impact of these introduced (引进的)animals, especially the pigs and macaques, on the Dodo population is currently considered more severe than that of hunting. ;qestion;Meybe we couldn’t do any thing ,but we could remember why they became extinct ,and it our duty to don’t make falt again Meybe it’s the best way to pertect them.;THE END