Return of the Moa

For my reading task this week we had to summarise and answer questions about the book " Return of the Moa " This book is about scientist in New Zealand that want to try and bring back animals from Extinction. Here is my work:

Uni structural: What is the purpose of the story?

The purpose of the story is to let people know that scientists can bring back animals such as the moa back from extinction. What words does the author use to describe events and actions? DNA and De-extinction. What are the settings and characters? Washington DC, Museum, Bush walk. Characters: Scientist and Moa.

Multi structural: The scientists believe that they can bring back animals from extinction, especially the Moa all they need is DNA. Although scientists are quite determined to bring the Moa out of extinction, others are second guessing this experiment and its behavioural changes in the wild.

Relational: Palaeeudyptes Klekowskii Penguin is extinct like the Moa. The Moa went extinct in 1445 in the 17th century, but the Palaeeudyptes Klekowskii went extinct in 37 - 40 million years ago. Polynesians arrived at about in the 1300’s , and all the Moa were sadly driven to extinction by hunting and, to a more insignificant, by habitat cutback due to forest clearance. By 1445, all moa had become extinct, along with the Hast eagle, which had relied on them for food.