Wilder Places for Wild Things

What do the chimps at this zoo work for?

• Their food

• Their drink

• Their sleep

Read lines 9-11. What is a rarity among captives?

• Mating a family

• Mating and forming a family

• Forming a family

Read lines 13-14. "The role of zoos gets larger" means

• Zoos are getting bigger

• Zoos are becoming more important

• Wild places are getting smaller

Read lines 26-28. Where do the realistic sounds in the zoos come from?

• The jungle

• The animals

• The speakers

What does regardless of mean?

• in spite of

• instead of

• in addition to

What word is a synonym for pachyderms?

• Elephants

• Horse

• Rabit

• Crocodile

Read lines 86-87. "Zoos are trying to oblige them" means that zoos

• Want to return animals to their natural environment

• Want to keep the animals in captivity

• Are trying to get the animals to reproduce

Read lines 96-98. What are dwindled and proliferated?

• Numbers

• Synonyms

• Antonyms

Read lines 104 and 105. This sentence means that when the animal natural environment disappears

• the animals will reproduce

• the animals will disappear, too

• the animals will prefer to live in zoos

Beavers reproduce in most zoos.

• True

• False