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From the Ted Talk by Washington Wachira: For the love of birds
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And birds help us so much, and they play very crucial roles in our ecosystems each day. Vultures clean up our environment by literally digesting disease-causing pgnheaots, and they finish carcasses that would otherwise cost us lots of money to clear from the environment. A sizable fcolk of vultures is capable of brninigg down a carcass the size of a zebra straight to the bone within just about 30 minutes. Owls help to rid the emrtnivennos of rodents and this helps us a lot because it svaes us money — we don't lose our crops — and secondly, we don't have to buy hafrmul cecaimlhs to handle these rodents. The beautiful srundibs we see in our environments are part of nature's pollination crew, and they help our plants to form fruits. Together with other pollinators like insects, they have actually hlpeed us to get most of the food crops that we depend on for many years.
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And birds help us so much, and they play very crucial roles in our ecosystems each day. Vultures clean up our environment by literally digesting disease-causing _________, and they finish carcasses that would otherwise cost us lots of money to clear from the environment. A sizable _____ of vultures is capable of ________ down a carcass the size of a zebra straight to the bone within just about 30 minutes. Owls help to rid the ____________ of rodents and this helps us a lot because it _____ us money — we don't lose our crops — and secondly, we don't have to buy _______ _________ to handle these rodents. The beautiful ________ we see in our environments are part of nature's pollination crew, and they help our plants to form fruits. Together with other pollinators like insects, they have actually ______ us to get most of the food crops that we depend on for many years.
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- environments
- helped
- pathogens
- flock
- sunbirds
- harmful
- bringing
- chemicals
- saves
Original Text
And birds help us so much, and they play very crucial roles in our ecosystems each day. Vultures clean up our environment by literally digesting disease-causing pathogens, and they finish carcasses that would otherwise cost us lots of money to clear from the environment. A sizable flock of vultures is capable of bringing down a carcass the size of a zebra straight to the bone within just about 30 minutes. Owls help to rid the environments of rodents and this helps us a lot because it saves us money — we don't lose our crops — and secondly, we don't have to buy harmful chemicals to handle these rodents. The beautiful sunbirds we see in our environments are part of nature's pollination crew, and they help our plants to form fruits. Together with other pollinators like insects, they have actually helped us to get most of the food crops that we depend on for many years.
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