A wild Siberian tiger that appeared in a village in Mishan, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, and hurt a villager has been caught and sent to the China Hengdaohezi Feline (猫科的)Breeding Center in Hengdaohezi township of Mudanjiang city, Science and Technology Daily reported on Saturday.
At about 6 am on Friday, April 23, 2021, local police received a report that a tiger was found in a residential house that was no longer used in Linhu village in Mishan and had hurt a female villager working at the farmland. A group of police officers immediately arrived at the village to secure the scene and evacuate (疏散) the crowd.
Soon after getting the news, wildlife experts and Cui Yan, an expert from the Heilongjiang Endangered Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, set out from Yichun for the village. After arriving at about 7 pm, the experts successfully caught the tiger into a cage by using an anesthetic (麻醉剂).
“If we find a wild Siberian tiger in the wild, we just drive it into the mountains,” Cui told Science and Technology Daily. “But this tiger wandered away from where it was supposed to be into the village and might hurt more people, so we had to catch it.” “It was estimated to weigh over 200 kilograms,” he said “We strictly followed anesthetic procedure and finally caught it successfully.” “The tiger has no injury and can move quickly,” Cui said. “We judged that it was not from neighboring Russia because it wasn't wearing a collar. It may have come from the nearby administrative region of the China Tiger and Leopard National Park.”
Experts have collected the blood of the tiger for DNA provenance (出处) identification. On Saturday at noon, the tiger was transported to the China Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding Center for medical examination and health monitoring.
The injured villager had to undergo surgery at Mishan People's Hospital on Friday.
“She suffered some muscle damage and now is in stable condition,” said a nurse from the hospital.
【小题1】How did the experts deal with the wild tiger?A.They caught it by using a cage. | B.They drove it into the mountains. |
C.They caught it by using a trap. | D.They used an anesthetic to catch it. |
A.The tiger might be from neighboring Russia. |
B.The tiger was found in a field in Linhu village. |
C.The tiger is in Yichun for medical examination and health monitoring. |
D.The tiger is likely to have come from the China Tiger and Leopard National Park. |
A.Experience. | B.Reflect. |
C.Claim. | D.Assist. |
A.Wild Siberian tiger appearing in village in Mishan, Heilongjiang |
B.Wild Siberian tiger captured in NE China village after injuring woman |
C.Wild Siberian tiger sent to the China Hengdaohezi Feline Breeding Center |
D.Wild Siberian tiger's blood collected for DNA provenance identification |
The early life of the green sea turtle (海龟) is full of danger. Only one in 1,000 baby sea turtles survive to adulthood. From its home in the sand, it breaks its egg with an egg tooth. Its mother is not there to help it. Instead, it is greeted by crabs, coyotes, and dogs waiting to eat it for dinner. To survive, the baby turtle must hide in the sand until night. There, it moves slowly to the sea.
The small turtle must swim hard to reach the ocean waters. In the sea, it tries hard to find food. It must also keep itself from being food for fish.
As dangerous as the sea turtle’s life is in the natural world, its most dangerous enemies are humans. The rubbish left by humans in the ocean causes problems for the small green sea turtle. A little turtle might eat a piece of plastic in the sea. It might also eat oil on the ocean’s surface. Young turtles also get caught in fishing nets. There are laws against hunting sea turtles. Still, many are hunted, both for their meat and for their shells (壳). All of these dangers must be prevented.
Sea turtles that do survive to grow into adulthood go through many changes. For example, adult green sea turtles weigh about 500 pounds. They stop eating jellyfish and other meat and eat only plants. And they may plan a trip to go back home again. A mother sea turtle goes back to the beach where she was born. This is the only place where she will lay eggs. Even if it has been forty years since she was a baby, she always knows her way back home.
【小题1】Why do baby turtles move to the sea at night?A.They dislike sunshine. | B.They need to avoid enemies. |
C.They can find food easily then. | D.They prefer lower temperatures. |
A.Interesting. | B.Careless. | C.Poor. | D.Puzzled. |
A.They mainly feed on fish and meat. |
B.They can live for around forty years. |
C.They visit their beach homes several times a year. |
D.Mother turtles always produce eggs at their birth places. |
A.The homes of green sea turtles. |
B.How sea turtles find their food. |
C.The danger faced by sea turtles. |
D.How young turtles became adults. |
There are many reasons why some cats are bad-tempered. It’s commonly believed that their temperament can be influenced by the way they are born or raised.
Changes in a cat’s behaviour can often be explained by a health problem. Pain can cause cats to behave differently. It’s easy to mistake a problem as behavioural, which in fact is medical. Should you observe a significant change in your cat’s behaviour, then a visit to the vet is the best place to start.
It pays to remember that cats don’t like to share or queue. Sharing of ‘resources’ such as litter trays and foodbowls can cause stress and anxiety for many cats. It’s always a good idea to provide each cat with their own litter box, food, water bowls and bed. A lack of space to hide from or avoid other cats, competition for territory and lack of individual attention can also add to household friction.
Moving to a new house, the arrival of a new baby, new pets and other types of change can seriously impact cat behaviour. Cats are creatures of habit and tend to be territorial.
A.Some cats simply do not like being touched and handled. |
B.Watch out for changes in eating, drinking or litter-box habits. |
C.When your cat seems lonely, you can hold it gently in your arms. |
D.If so, offering the cat a high place to sit, such as a climbing tree, can be helpful. |
E.So a change in routine may cause them to react, including withdrawal or aggression. |
F.Don’t forget their incredible sense of smell, which is a useful tool of communication. |
G.In fact, even the sweetest cats can suddenly become bad-tempered and behave out of character. |
Overuse of land and warming temperatures are putting insect diversity in danger in some parts of the world, scientists reported Wednesday.
The study, published in the journal Nature, confirmed for the first time a clear and alarming link between warming temperatures and large-scale agriculture and showed that where there are more farmlands, there is a greater decrease in insects.
“These findings lead to huge concerns,” said Charlotte Outhwaite, the lead author of the study and researcher at the University College London, adding that losing insects could threaten human health and food supply.
“Three quarters of our crops depend on insect pollinators(授粉),” Dave Goulson, a professor of biology at the University of Sussex in the UK, previously told CNN. “Without insects, crops will die. We won’t have things like strawberries. We can’t feed 8 billion people.”
Outhwaite said their findings “may only show the tip of the iceberg(冰山一角),"because of the limited amount of evidence in some areas. “But I think there are also a lot of results that we probably don’t really know because there are so many different kinds of insects.” Outhwaite told CNN.
Scientists say, overuse of land has a link with warming temperatures. Destroying natural habitats for agriculture can make the temperature rise sharply. Researchers found great decreases in insect populations in areas of the world that are much warmer. They concluded that in areas with small-scale agriculture, less temperature warming, and more natural habitats, insects only dropped by 7%, compared to the 63% decrease in areas with large-scale agriculture, more temperature warming and less natural habitats. So what can we do to help prevent this?
【小题1】What did the study find?A.More farmlands lead to a greater decrease in insects. |
B.Three quarters of our crops depend on insect pollinators. |
C.Overuse of land is threatening insect diversity all over the world. |
D.There is little link between warming temperatures and large-scale agriculture. |
A.To suggest solutions to people’s concerns. | B.To explain the process of insect pollinators. |
C.To prove the importance of insects to humans. | D.To provide evidence for the decrease in insects. |
A.Insect pollinators | B.Overuse of land |
C.Warming temperatures | D.Less natural habitats |
A.His opinions of the study. | B.Studies of natural habitat. |
C.The ways to stop the decrease. | D.The causes of warming temperatures. |
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