🎬 The Lion's Roar (狮吼之声)
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Maybe you already know that lions are big cats weighing up to 500 pounds and growing up也许您已经知道狮子是一种重达 500 磅且正在成长的大型猫科动物
to 10 feet long. Lions are the second largest members of the cat family after tigers.至 10 英尺长。狮子是猫科动物中仅次于老虎的第二大成员。
But here are some things you probably didn't know about them. Lions have extremely loud但这里有一些您可能不知道的事情。狮子的声音非常大
roars. A lion's roar can be heard up to 5 miles or 8 kilometers away. It can be咆哮。狮子的吼声可在 5 英里或 8 公里外听到。它可以是
as loud as thunder. Lions begin to vocalize or make sounds as soon as they are born.响亮如雷。狮子一出生就开始发声或发出声音。
But the sounds they make turn into roars at about one year old.但到了大约一岁的时候，它们发出的声音就会变成咆哮声。
Roaring allows lions to communicate. Lions roar to tell others to stay away from their咆哮可以让狮子进行交流。狮子咆哮告诉其他人远离他们
territory. They also roar to communicate with other lions in their family.领土。它们还通过吼叫来与家族中的其他狮子交流。
Lions are the only cats that regularly live in social groups called prides. These prides狮子是唯一经常生活在被称为“狮群”的社会群体中的猫科动物。这些骄傲
are family units. A pride can have a skew as 3 and as many as 40 lions. Usually, one dominant是家庭单位。一个狮群最多可以有 3 只狮子，最多可以有 40 只狮子。通常，一个占主导地位
male lion leads each pride. But sometimes there can be more than one male lion leading the family.雄狮领导着每个狮群。但有时可能有不止一只雄狮领导这个家庭。
The rest of the prides adult members are females. Lionesses. They work together to catch food狮群的其余成年成员都是雌性。母狮们。他们一起努力捕捉食物
for the pride and to feed their cubs. Lions were once scattered worldwide. About 124,000 years为了骄傲并喂养他们的幼崽。狮子曾经分散在世界各地。约124,000年
ago, many different species of lions lived all over the planet. This included the American以前，地球上生活着许多不同种类的狮子。这其中包括了美国
lions of North America and cave lions that lived throughout Asia and Europe. Unfortunately,北美的狮子和生活在亚洲和欧洲的洞狮。很遗憾，
these lions became extinct by 8,000 BC. Today, we have just two types of lion. The African这些狮子在公元前 8000 年就灭绝了。今天，我们只有两种狮子。非洲人
lion from sub-Saharan Africa and the Asianic lions of India. The numbers of these lions来自撒哈拉以南非洲的狮子和来自印度的亚洲狮。这些狮子的数量
have declined due to poaching, habitat loss, and disease. Only 20,000 African lions remain in the由于偷猎、栖息地丧失和疾病而减少。非洲狮仅存2万头
wild and only 500 Asianic lions. Leaving us all to wonder what the future is for the king of beasts.野生亚洲狮仅有500只。让我们所有人都想知道兽王的未来是什么。
Before You Watch
thunder · dominant · territory
While You Watch
Critical Thinking · Synthesizing Information. Imagine you are a scientist who studies animal communication. Which animal would you most like to study? What would you like to find out about it?
Vocabulary Review
Reading A: 10 Target Words
Reading B: 10 Target Words
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