Автор: Татьяна Литвинова понедельник, 16 марта 2015 г. 0 коммент.

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My fairy-tale about the Ladoga seal that once became ringed.
From time immemorial there lived a marvelous seal in the waters of Lake Ladoga. This fabulous animal has always had thick warm fur skin, has always eaten chiefly fry and crustaceans, has always been harmless to people. Undoubtedly that this seal has always had good-natured temper and a cute snout. At that time fur on the back of our seal was dark grey and the upper part of the body was light. And now I am going to tell you how light, elongated rings appeared on the body.
One day the seal swam to the small island hauling out in the ice. At the beginning of March a cream-white pup was born in a snow cave. To feed her pup mother-seal had to catch a lot of smelt, as the daily ration was about 3 kilograms. She wanted her pup to be fed with fresh nutrient rich food. Once the seal was following a school of fish and didn’t realize how she got to the mouth of the Neva River and then to one of the channels of Saint-Petersburg. At this point our seal-traveller got frightened she might have lost her way. She watched smelt floating and didn’t notice she went so far. It’s high time our seal swam home to her pup.
Having understood the situation our seal decided to emerge from the water and look around. The water surface in the channel was covered with dirty film of chemical waste of one of the chemical plants of our city. When aggressive liquid got to the beautiful fur skin of the seal, the animal felt burning pain, got scared and at top speed zoomed off. But chemical injuries which the pet had got remained at her fur skin forever. Her fur skin got covered with light, elongated rings, because some parts of the fur were discolored because of the chemical substance.

Since then the Ladoga seal has been called the Ringed Seal. If the seal hadn’t lost her way and swum far away, she wouldn’t have spoiled her fur skin. The Ladoga ringed seal inhabits the largest lake in Europe - Lake Ladoga. But she is still afraid of her main threats - water pollution and poaching. 

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Автор: Татьяна Литвинова воскресенье, 15 марта 2015 г. 1 коммент.

Творческая работа Поповой Анастасии.
My fairy-tale about dreadful and helpless narwhales.
Since time out of mind in the Arctic waters there lived wonderful animals – sea unicorns also known as narwhales. They were strange creatures with long tusks protruding from their heads. Like an underwater unicorn they had a kick-ass facial horn. It was thought that narwhales could beat a polar bear in a fight. They were so awesome that made feel terrified ancient sailors. Sailors had always been afraid of narwhales because they could easily gore wooden boats and even shipboards.
At their own peril and risk people hunted these animals with harpoons because of their costly meat and tucks. In medieval times, its long, straight tusk was often given to royalty, passed off as a “unicorn horn.” From tucks people made bijouterie, combs, and musical instruments. One day the elder narwhale, the head of the tribe, ordered their relatives to take the tucks off and hide them away. The animals knew if they hadn’t had corns, people would have stopped killing them. So they agreed with the offer of their elder narwhale, take off their tucks and put them into a starting hole at the bottom of the sea. Having done that, narwhales could save their lives. Now practically no one could distinguish narwhales from seals or sea-cows. That is why narwhales have still been living in the Arctic waters and only in red-letter days narwhale put on their tucks. The narwhales knew that their tucks made them extremely vulnerable.


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