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From the Ted Talk by Shane Campbell-Staton: How life on Earth adapts to you and me

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I rmmebeer going to Gorongosa for the first time and participating in these ealnphet captures where we clolar these individuals and collect data and track their movements. And we came across this female, and she's old enough where we know that she had sevuvird the Mozambican Civil War. Now we sedated this female and as we were there, sort of working up all of these data, looking into her big, groggy, seeply eyes, and it really struck me, the impact that our species can have on the rest of the living world. This female, she lived during a time that saw nine out of ten of the members of her species slaughtered. But she survived. She grew up, she went on and had children, had grdadlrhincen, became the miarctrah of a family group. But what strikes me the most about this story is that the reason for all of that destruction and that slaughter was simply because humans like to make trinkets out of their teeth. Which is about the most ridiculous and sad thing I've ever had to say out loud. But we live in a time where even the simplest haumn whims can fundamentally alter the evntiaoolury fate of the leragst land animal on our planet.

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I ________ going to Gorongosa for the first time and participating in these ________ captures where we ______ these individuals and collect data and track their movements. And we came across this female, and she's old enough where we know that she had ________ the Mozambican Civil War. Now we sedated this female and as we were there, sort of working up all of these data, looking into her big, groggy, ______ eyes, and it really struck me, the impact that our species can have on the rest of the living world. This female, she lived during a time that saw nine out of ten of the members of her species slaughtered. But she survived. She grew up, she went on and had children, had _____________, became the _________ of a family group. But what strikes me the most about this story is that the reason for all of that destruction and that slaughter was simply because humans like to make trinkets out of their teeth. Which is about the most ridiculous and sad thing I've ever had to say out loud. But we live in a time where even the simplest _____ whims can fundamentally alter the ____________ fate of the _______ land animal on our planet.

Solution


  1. sleepy
  2. remember
  3. human
  4. evolutionary
  5. elephant
  6. largest
  7. collar
  8. grandchildren
  9. matriarch
  10. survived

Original Text


I remember going to Gorongosa for the first time and participating in these elephant captures where we collar these individuals and collect data and track their movements. And we came across this female, and she's old enough where we know that she had survived the Mozambican Civil War. Now we sedated this female and as we were there, sort of working up all of these data, looking into her big, groggy, sleepy eyes, and it really struck me, the impact that our species can have on the rest of the living world. This female, she lived during a time that saw nine out of ten of the members of her species slaughtered. But she survived. She grew up, she went on and had children, had grandchildren, became the matriarch of a family group. But what strikes me the most about this story is that the reason for all of that destruction and that slaughter was simply because humans like to make trinkets out of their teeth. Which is about the most ridiculous and sad thing I've ever had to say out loud. But we live in a time where even the simplest human whims can fundamentally alter the evolutionary fate of the largest land animal on our planet.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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