Title:
Desert Museum in Arizona Exhibits Native Plants and
Animals
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a VOA Special English General News Report.
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Text:
Correction: This video misidentifies the
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum as the Arizona-Sonoma
Desert Museum. Also, Sonoran is misspelled as
Sonaran at one point in the captions.
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The mountain lion is the largest cat native to North
America. It is not often seen in the wild. But it
can be found at the Arizona-Sonoma Desert Museum in
Tucson, Arizona. This realistic-looking area was
build with man-made materials. The museum is home to
more than three hundred animal species and one
thousand two hundred kinds of plants. Craig Ivanyi
works at the museum.
CRAIG IVANYI: "The Sonoran Desert region is a very
special place. Its the lushest desert on the planet.
Instead of being in an urban environment, youre
immersed in the desert we represent."
More than five hundred thousand people visit the
museum each year. This woman is from Canada. Many
coyotes live in Arizona. This one looks like it is
in the wild, not surrounded by a fence.
CRAIG IVANYI: "All of the exhibits are designed with
barriers, moats, walls or fencing, quite often
fencing thats difficult for visitors to see.
Some parts of the museum have barriers made from
glass, like this one for a prairie dog. Visitors can
see animals like a bobcat, a pig-like creature
called a javelina and the black bear. Common desert
creatures like scorpions and snakes also can be
seen. This Harris Hawk can fly where it wants to,
but has been trained to come back for food. Bird
trainer Dillon Horger says the birds consider the
museum their territory.
DILLION HORGER: "They want to come back with us,
they want to go back into their enclosures, and
spend the night in a safe, secure area where they
know they get food and water and shelter."
Craig Ivanyi hopes the museum will influence people
to protect the Sonoran desert.
CRAIG IVANYI: "So they are aware of what kinds of
plants and animals are out there and, hopefully,
give them some sort of passion for wanting to save
it."
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