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01. Many [species] of plants and animals are endangered due to pollution.
02. Oak and arbutus trees are protected [species] here in Victoria.
03. Bongos are a [species] of ape which look like small chimpanzees.
04. There is a [species] of black bear in British Columbia which sometimes produces young cubs which are white in color.
05. Many great whales are now on the endangered [species] list.
06. Many [species] of plants in the Amazon forest provide medicines which are very helpful to man.
07. At French Beach, you can see at least 3 or 4 different [species] of crabs.
08. Somerset Maugham once said that love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the [species].
09. There were many different [species] of starfish living on the beach that we visited with my biology class.
10. In the Marxist view, we must eat in order to survive; hence, the first activity of our [species] must be economic.
11. More than 1,800 [species] of fish are known to inhabit the Amazon River.
12. Of the 4000 [species] of mammals on the planet, there are 900 different [species] of bats.
13. The mineral content, porosity, and general makeup of human bone is nearly identical to some [species] of South Pacific coral.
14. Some [species] of rainforest birds migrate every summer from South America to the U.S. to breed.
15. Seaweed is a general term for more than 20,000 [species] of sea plants living in the world's oceans and seas.
16. Specimens of almost every seashell [species] from the Indian Ocean wash up on Mozambique's beaches.
17. Human beings are the only [species] capable of laughter, and the average adult does so approximately 17 times per day.
18. Africa is now widely recognized as the birthplace of the human [species].
19. By around 100,000 years ago, several [species] of hominids populated the Earth.
20. Scientists estimate the present number of [species] living in the world's oceans at 230,000, with hundreds of new life-forms being discovered every year.

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  • species — (n.) 1550s, a classification in logic, from L. species kind, sort, originally appearance, sight, a seeing, related to specere to look at, to see, behold, from PIE *spek (see SCOPE (Cf. scope) (1)). Biological sense is from c.1600. Endangered… …   Etymology dictionary

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