Last Chance To See
By: Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Map Master #1:
1.) In 1985, he was sent to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine from a journalistic accident to look for an almost extinct form of lemur also known as aye-aye.
I highlighted this point because it tells you about the setting and the characters.
2.) The aye-aye is a nocturnal lemur.
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3.) Everything that lives on Madagascar doesn't exist anywhere else on Earth.
I highlighted this point because it tells you what existed on Madagascar, but not on Earth.
4.) Madagascar had a major evolutionary change from the arrival of the monkeys.
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5.) Fifteen hundred years ago, the monkeys finally arrived or the monkeys' descendants, us.
I highlighted this point because it tells you how long ago the monkeys and human beings arrived.
I like point 3 because it shows that the environment effects the ways organisms develop. Some animals in Madagascar can't be found anywhere else because of the different environment the animal had to adapt to.
ReplyDeletePoint 4 also makes it clear that monkeys had a immense impact on the habitats of Madagascar.