Flora and Fauna

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Descriptive Text on Fauna 

Salsa - Elephant

This is Salsa. Salsa is an Indian elephant, but now it lives in the National Zoo in Washington D.C.

Salsa is young. It is 20 years old. It weighs up to 2500 kg and 2.1 m high at the shoulder. It may consume up to 200 kg of grass a day. It is fond of banana plants, gingers, and leaves of various plants.

Salsa doesn’t have sweat glands so it likes to cool off by rolling in a pond in the zoo. The mud that dries on its skin protects it from the sun. Salsa also likes taking a bath. It makes her fresh and relaxed. Mike, the zookeeper, helps Salsa take a bath. Mike does it every day. He also feeds and talks to Salsa. Salsa likes this guy very much.

Descriptive Text on Flora

Giant Sequoia - the Ancient Tree in Danger

Just like its name, Giant Sequoia is indeed big. Its height can reach 66 meters. It can have a truck as wide as eight meters at the base. The biggest tree today is 83 meters in height and 12.1 meters in diameter.

Giant Sequoia is also a very ancient tree. This tree, for instance, is about 5100 years old. Ecologist says the tree can live that long because of its resistance to climate, disease or insects.

But recently, their species are in danger. Fire attacked the Giant Sequoia national monument last month. Millions of firefighters struggled to put up the fire.

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