Once home to the world's largest trading port,East London is a lovely and cultural place to visit.Here are some of the places of interest there. Aquarium Beachfront,Esplanade,East London Tel:705 2637 Open daily:9 a.n5 p.m. Fish Feeding:daily at 10:30 a.m.and 3:00 p.m Seal Show:daily at 11:30 a.m.and 3:30 p.m.(Performances are only 10 minutes long.) Fees:adults-PS9,children(3--16 years)PS5,school /groupsPS3 per person- This is the o1dest aquarium in the country.It is also a large office for Tourism in East London,supplying booklets and information to the public* Border Birders Club is one of the programs here.This is a super birding club where the whole family can have a nice Saturday walk around,looking at different types of birds and talking with the friendly members along the way.For more information,look for the notice on the nonce boards outside the Beacon Bay Library and at the Aquarium or call 735 2195* Calgary Transport Museum 13km from East London on N6 to Stutterheim Tel:730 7244 Open daily:9 a.m.4 p.m. Closed:Friday&Christmas Day Fees:adults-PS5,childrenPS3. Fine collection of restored horse drawn vehicles,carts,wagons,buggies ,a gypsy caravan and governess cart. Museum--The East London Museum Upper Oxford Street(Entrance and parking in Dawson Road) Tel:743 0686 Fax:743 3127 Open:Monday--Friday 9:30 a.m.5 p.m.;Saturday 2p.m.5p.m.:Sunday &Public Holidays 11 a.m.4 p.m. Fee:adultsPS5,childrenPS2,school groups&scholars in uniform are free. Go on a wonderful adventure into the past.Best known as the home of the Coelacanth &world's only Dodo Egg,the museum also has an excellent display about the rich and color1ful Culture of Xhosa,living in South Africa.There is also a Museum Cafeteria with refreshments. We can learn from the passage that _ A) on Christmas Day,you cannot visit Calgary Transport Museum B) you can enjoy the seal show at 4 p.m.every day C) in Border Birders Club,you can see the world's only Dodo Egg D) people can go to the Beacon Bay Library in the East London Museum
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The dodo is among the most famous extinct creatures, and _ for human-caused extinction events. Despite its bad name, and the fact that the species was alive during recorded human history, little is actually known about how this animal lived, looked, and behaved. A new study of the only known complete skeleton from a single bird takes advantage of modern 3-D laser scanning technology to open a new window into the life of this famous extinct bird. The study was presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Estrel, Berlin. Leon Claessens, Associate Professor at the College of the Holy Cross, and lead researcher on the study said that, "the 3-D laser surface scans we made of the fragile dodo skeletons enable us to reconstruct how the dodo walked, moved and lived to a level of detail that has never been possible before. There are so many outstanding questions about the dodo bird that we can answer with this new knowledge." A complete dodo skeleton, found by an amateur collector and barber, Etienne Thirioux, on the island of Mauritius between 1899 and 1917, has remained unstudied, even though it is the only complete dodo skeleton from a single individual bird known to exist. All other skeletons are incomplete combinations, meaning that they are gathered from more than one individual. In addition, Thirioux constructed a second, partially combined skeleton, which contains many bones that also belong to a single bird. "Being able to examine the skeleton of a single, individual dodo, which is not made up from as many individual birds as there are bones, as is the case in all those other combined skeletons, truly allows us to appreciate the way the dodo looked and see how tall or fat it really was," said Juilan Hume, of the Natural History Museum UK, a co-author on the study. The scans were performed on site in Durban, South Africa, and allow examination of the biology of this mysterious extinct bird in detail for the first time. Using the newest digital tools and techniques, the... What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage? A) To call people's attention to wildlife protection. B) To criticize humans for the extinction events. C) To introduce a new way of studying the dodo. D) To give tips on how to study extinct creatures.
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C
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B