Descriptive Text on Fauna for Grade 8 Semester 1

Level: English for Junior High School
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Text 1

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.

Text 2

Sea Eagle

There is an eagle nesting on the tree top near my grandparent's house in Pangandaran. It is a sea eagle.

The color of its feathers is light brown. It has a strong and sharp yellowish beak. Its claws are very sharp. It hunts for fish in the sea but sometimes it hunts chicken and small birds.

Eagle has many sizes, shapes, and colors, but the sea eagle is easy to recognize because it has a strong and streamlined, sharp beak and a stream - line body.
Its forelimbs (or arms) serve as wings. This means that they are of little use of anything except flying. It walks on two legs and has a very flexible neck and strong beak to handle foods, to care of its feathers, and for many other jobs that non-flying animals do with paws, claws, or hands on their forelimbs.

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