Why do cubs die after shipping?

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ПРИ ВЫПОЛНЕНИИ ЗАДАНИЙ НЕОБХОДИМО НЕ ПРОСТО ДАТЬ ОТВЕТ, НО И НАЙТИ В ТЕКСТАХ ВСЕХ ТРЕХ ЗАДАНИЙ ПРЕДЛОЖЕНИЯ, КОТОРЫЕ ПОМОГЛИ ВАМ ДАТЬ ПРАВИЛЬНЫЙ ОТВЕТ!!!

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1. Positive forecast
2. Resistant to danger
3. Ones odd out
4. No difference between countries’ accents
5. Distinctive feature
6. Difficulties of an image
7. Immortal language
8. History is the reason

A. Canada has always faced several problems in defining itself to the outside world. Firstly, it’s not a very populated country of 35 million easily beaten by its neighbour, a hugely powerful country of 319 million. Then there’s history, which lacks the grand mythical arc of most other countries. And there is the problem of the Canadian accent: to most people outside of North America, it is almost impossible to distinguish from the typical US accent.

B. Despite some people’s skepticism there is a special Canadian way of speaking. Over the last several decades, the increasing communication in the world has threatened a number of local dialects across the world, but according to Charles Boberg, the Canadian accent stays strong: “Canadian linguistic identity is here to stay on the long term.”

C. The first reason for Canadians’ hard-to-identify accent is historical. Canadian English was partly shaped by early immigrants from the UK and Ireland, but it was affected much more by the arrival of about 45,000 loyalists to the British crown during the American Revolutionary War. The result, especially west of Quebec, was an accent lightly shaped by British English, but much more so by 18th Century colonial American English.

D. There are a few exceptions: Newfoundland’s population was disproportionally shaped by immigrants from southwestern England and southeastern Ireland, and since the island is geogr aphically isolated and only joined Canada in 1949, it has got a way of speaking that is dramatically unlike the rest of the country.

E. But if a person travels into western Canada, the accent becomes more American-sounding and cannot be distinguished locally. This makes it very difficult, even for Canadians, to tell the difference between someone from Winnipeg and someone from Vancouver — or from Seattle.

F. For most non-native English speakers it is extremely difficult, but linguists have isolated some qualities that are helpful. A feature of Canadian speech called ‘the Canadian shift’ describes Canadians’ tendency to erase the difference between certain vowels that come from the lower part of the mouth — ‘lot’ and ‘thought’, for example.

G. The fact that the Canadian accent has survived this long, despite centuries of close physical and cultural communication with the US, is people’s attachment to their Canadian national identity. When new immigrants arrive in Canada, they still adopt distinctive Canadian speech — and that’s not likely to change any time soon.

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1. who were asked to diet and take more exercise
2. despite the popularity of activity trackers
3. which did a lot of exercises and cut sugar consumption
4. that counts how many steps you have taken
5. this does not mean people should
6. that were not given these devices
7. that the technology has moved on since the study

Researchers suggest that wearing an activity device (A) does not appear to improve the chances of losing weight. The two-year long study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) included nearly 500 overweight volunteers (B). Half were given a fitness tracker to help them keep tabs.This group had lost less weight than the other one by the end of the trial. The study authors say (C) ditch the technology altogether, but neither should they put too much faith in them, at least as a slimming aid.
Manufacturers say (D), and that their own research suggests activity trackers can help with weight loss alongside diet and exercise regimes.
(E), there have been very few studies to see what actual impact they have on weight and fitness levels. The University of Pittsburgh research is one of the first randomised trials to gather such evidence. The investigators found that over the course of the study, the volunteers who wore the fitness trackers had lost about 3.6 kg. In comparison, the control group (F) lost about 5.9 kg
Dr David Ellis, a psychologist at Lancaster University, who has been researching the rise of consumer health wearables said the JAMA study was helpful because it focused on people who might not normally go out and buy an activity tracker.

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Cheetah is now 'running for its very survival'

Pitiful scenes of cheetah cubs lying emaciated and bewildered highlight one of the cruellest but least-publicised examples of illegal wildlife trafficking.
Baby cheetahs are so prized as exotic pets that they are seized from their mothers when they may only be four to six weeks old. Each tiny animal can fetch as much as \$$10,000 on the black market and end up being paraded on social media by wealthy buyers in Gulf states. But the trade exacts a terrible toll on a species that claims a superlative status as the fastest land animal on the planet but which now faces a serious threat to its survival.
According to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, some 1,200 cheetah cubs are known to have been trafficked out of Africa over the past 10 years but a shocking 85% of them died during the journey.
Dr Laurie Marker, the trust's director, describes the horrific conditions involved in shipping the animals from their habitats in northern Kenya, Somaliland and Ethiopia by land and sea to the Arabian Gulf. "They're probably just thrown into a crate, travelling for days without proper food, and many of them end up dead on arrival at wherever that place would be, and maybe one or two living out of a pile that are dead." And those that do make it into the hands of new owners usually die rapidly because they are denied the chance to exercise and are given an inadequate diet.
Dr Marker says that they're often kept in "chicken coop-sized pens" which are far too small for them. "And this is an animal that is the fastest land animal that is used to living in huge home ranges of 800 sq km. Most of those cheetahs don't make it over a two-year period of time in captivity."
With the total of adult cheetahs living in the wild now numbering less than 7,000, the concern is that seizures of an estimated 200—300 a year could drive some of the remaining populations, which are already diminished, to extinction. The poaching comes on top of the long-running destruction of the cheetahs' habitats. The animals tend not to thrive in the confines of national parks where other predators dominate, so they live outside protected areas and are more exposed to conflict with people.
The threat to the cheetah will be raised at the CITES COP17 conference being held in Johannesburg over the next fortnight. On the agenda in Johannesburg is a quest to let people in buyer countries know the dangers the trade poses to the cheetah.
One idea is to persuade internet platforms to join the fight — many carry social media pictures taken by cheetah owners showing off their animals. Others allow dealers to offer cheetah cubs for sale. Another initiative is to draw up plans for how to handle cheetahs if they are confiscated — if the authorities do get tough, large numbers may suddenly need to be housed.
Already when cheetahs become too big, or their owners find that they cannot care for them, the animals are released into the streets and found dead or weakened. But there is a sense that time is not on the side of a species whose very fame may be the cause of its demise. As Dr Marker puts it, "the cheetah is running the most important race of its life, and that's for its very survival and its survival is in human hands".

Cheetahs are very prized because:

1 - There’s a great demand on a black market.

2 - They make perfect pets.

3 - They are very expensive.

4 - They can easily be caught.