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    Animals in The City

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    Wild animals such as baboons, pigs, and dogs sometimes enter cities to search for food. In Cape Town, baboons enter suburbs and eat fruit from gardens, posing a risk to children. A team works to return baboons to the countryside for their safety and health. In Berlin, wild pigs damage gardens while searching for food and have caused traffic accidents. Authorities are trying to stop pigs from entering the city. In Moscow, there are thousands of stray dogs that live in parks and buildings. Some were abandoned pets while others were born on the streets. People help the dogs by feeding them and providing shelter during cold winters. 1. True 2.

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    Wild animals such as baboons, pigs, and dogs sometimes enter cities to search for food. In Cape Town, baboons enter suburbs and eat fruit from gardens, posing a risk to children. A team works to return baboons to the countryside for their safety and health. In Berlin, wild pigs damage gardens while searching for food and have caused traffic accidents. Authorities are trying to stop pigs from entering the city. In Moscow, there are thousands of stray dogs that live in parks and buildings. Some were abandoned pets while others were born on the streets. People help the dogs by feeding them and providing shelter during cold winters. 1. True 2.

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    Wild animals such as baboons, pigs, and dogs sometimes enter cities to search for food. In Cape Town, baboons enter suburbs and eat fruit from gardens, posing a risk to children. A team works to return baboons to the countryside for their safety and health. In Berlin, wild pigs damage gardens while searching for food and have caused traffic accidents. Authorities are trying to stop pigs from entering the city. In Moscow, there are thousands of stray dogs that live in parks and buildings. Some were abandoned pets while others were born on the streets. People help the dogs by feeding them and providing shelter during cold winters. 1. True 2.

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    Animals in The City

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    Wild animals such as baboons, pigs, and dogs sometimes enter cities to search for food. In Cape Town, baboons enter suburbs and eat fruit from gardens, posing a risk to children. A team works to return baboons to the countryside for their safety and health. In Berlin, wild pigs damage gardens while searching for food and have caused traffic accidents. Authorities are trying to stop pigs from entering the city. In Moscow, there are thousands of stray dogs that live in parks and buildings. Some were abandoned pets while others were born on the streets. People help the dogs by feeding them and providing shelter during cold winters. 1. True 2.

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    Recently, there have been many reports in newspapers and on TV about big animals coming
    into towns and cities. There have been bears in Vancouver parks, leopards on the streets of
    Mumbai and wild pigs in gardens in Berlin. What happens when big animals come into our
    cities? Is it a good thing or is it dangerous for us and the animals?

    Wild animals usually come into cities to look for food. In Cape Town, South Africa, baboons
    sometimes come into the suburbs. They eat fruit from gardens and go into people's kitchens
    and take food from cupboards and fridges! Baboons are strong animals and sometimes they
    scare children and fight with pet dogs. Many people do not like them, but the city can be
    dangerous for baboons too. Sometimes, baboons are hurt in car accidents and the sugar in
    human food can be very bad for their teeth. The city council in Cape Town has a team of
    Baboon Monitors. Their job is to find baboons in the city and take them back to the
    countryside. This makes the city safer for people and it is healthier for the baboons. The
    problem is that a lot of baboons will come back to the city to find food again.

    In Berlin in Germany, groups of wild pigs sometimes come into the city to look for food. Pigs
    have come into the city for hundreds of years, but now the winters are warmer, there are
    more pigs than in the past. Pigs eat flowers and plants and dig in gardens and parks in the
    city. They also walk in the street and cause traffic accidents. Some city residents like the pigs
    and give them food. But the city council is worried about the traffic accidents. They have told
    people to stop giving the pigs food and have put up fences to stop the pigs entering the
    city.

    In Moscow in Russia, there are 35,000 wild dogs. They live in parks, empty houses, markets
    and train stations. Some of the dogs were pets that people did not want so they left them on
    the streets. Others were born on the streets and have always lived there. Some dogs live
    alone and others live in packs (a pack is the name for a group of dogs). In 2010, scientists
    studied the dogs. They found some very interesting facts:

    • Packs have leaders. The leaders are the most intelligent dogs and not the biggest or
    strongest ones.

    • Dogs know that it is safer to cross the street with people and some dogs understand
    traffic lights.

    • Dogs have learnt that people give more food to small, cute dogs than to big ones.
    The cutest dogs in a pack wait on the street for people to give them food. When they
    have got some food, they share it with the other dogs in the pack.

    • Some dogs have started travelling on the Moscow underground trains.

    What do the people in Moscow think of the dogs? A lot of people like them and are used to
    seeing them on the streets. They give the dogs food and water to drink. The winter in
    Moscow is very cold with lots of snow and temperatures of -10 ºC. It can be hard for dogs to
    survive but some city residents have built small huts for the dogs to live in during the winter.

    Mice, squirrels and birds often live in cities and survive. Some bigger animals like the dogs in
    Moscow can survive in the city too, with a little help from their human friends. For many big
    animals, cities are dangerous places and they need our help to return to the countryside.
    Put the sentences in the correct group.

    Are the sentences true or false?


    1. Human food is bad for baboons’ teeth.
    2. The Baboon Monitors feed the baboons.
    3. There are more pigs in Berlin now because people give them food.
    4. The dogs in Moscow always live in packs.
    5. Baboons and pigs sometimes cause traffic accidents.
    6. People are more generous to big dogs.

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