People touch a dolphin – level 1

22-02-2016 07:00

This news is from Argentina. People are at the beach. There is a dolphin in the water. It is a small type of dolphin. Its name is the Franciscan dolphin. The Franciscan dolphin is very rare. There are only 30,000 Franciscan dolphins in the wild.

People touch the dolphin. They take it out of the water, too. They take pictures with it. This is very dangerous for the dolphin. The dolphin dies.

Difficult words: rare (special), in the wild (not in zoos).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

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