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Os Habitantes do Zoo

The Zoo's Inhabitants

Os Habitantes do Zoo

The Zoo's Inhabitants

Learn more about the history of the Lisbon Zoo and the thousands of animals that live there.

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  • 00:00:03O Jardim Zoológico de Lisboa The Lisbon Zoo
  • 00:00:05foi inaugurado em 1884, was inaugurated in 1884,
  • 00:00:10mas só teve uma morada definitiva a partir de 1905, but it only had a permanent address as of 1905,
  • 00:00:15quando se mudou para a Quinta das Laranjeiras. when it moved to Quinta das Laranjeiras.
  • 00:00:19Aproximadamente 2000 animais, Approximately 2000 animals,
  • 00:00:22distribuídos por cerca de 300 espécies, distributed over about 300 species,
  • 00:00:25habitam no Zoo de Lisboa, live at the Lisbon Zoo,
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Comments

  • Is this passage for beginners? I dont think so ,… didnt understand a word unfortunately

    • Hi Avinoam! We marked this one as “Easier” because the grammar is fairly simple, but many of the “Easier” shorties could be considered closer to early intermediate, rather than beginner level, so don’t be discouraged. This particular Shorty actually shows up at the end of one of our Animal units, so it’s definitely much harder if you didn’t just study some of the vocabulary for different animals!

  • Olá, Achei que na palavra “crocodilo” a pronúncia foi “coRcodilo” Achei mal? É um erro ou é essa a maneira correta de a pronunciar? Muito obrigado.

    • Olá! Sim, a pronúncia soa um pouco duvidosa nessa linha – obrigado por nos chamares a atenção. A pronúncia correta é sempre ‘crocodilo’, embora palavras como esta ou como ‘acreditar’ sejam propensas a erros de pronúncia.

  • The transcript mentions “catatuas” (and the audio sounds like that too, though my hearing is poor and I could be wrong). I don’t find “catatua” in the doctionary, is “cacatua” (a kind of cockatoo) meant?

    • Olá. Both ‘cacatua’ and ‘catatua’ exist in the Portuguese language globally, with ‘catatua’ being the standard form in Portugal. It does correspond to cockatoo 🙂

      • Of course you are right. I had carelessly used the Wordreference.com online dictionary, which is Brazilian Portuguese, instead of the Priberam or infopédia online dictionaries which have both forms, or the 2001 print edition of the Porto Editora Dicionário Ilustrado which has only ‘catatua’.

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