Going, Going, Gone Volume Two: A Collection of Poems on Endangered Species from Africa and Europe

By Dawn Escoto

This book contains a collection of 128 poems/verses, along with one skit, about
a variety of rare, threatened, endangered and extinct species of Africa and Europe.
Over fifty of the mammals, birds, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, and sea creatures
are illustrated. Through use of humor and pathos, as well as a variety of poetic
structures, the author will engage the young and not-so-young, as they discover their
role in helping wildlife from these continents. You'll want to laugh with the hyena,
cry with the quagga, and say "aye" to the aye-aye.

These poems are best enjoyed when read aloud in an enthusiastic manner. If your
enthusiam takes the form of positive action, her primary objective will have been
accomplished.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 30, 2004
• ISBN: 9781450046282

Dawn Escoto

Ms. Escoto taught English and world languages for thirty-six years in the U.S. and for three years in Africa. She has also had the privilege of traveling to eighteen countries and teaching ESL or Bible in eight of them. She is active in her church, serving in choir and on a board as well as making cards for the terminally ill and grieving. She enjoys using her gifts of teaching and writing to build up believers and speak to hurting hearts.

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Going, Going, Gone

· VOLUME TWO ·

A collection of poems on endangered

species from Africa and Europe

Dawn Escoto

Copyright © 2005 by Dawn Escoto.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Illustrated by Herbert Park, Sheryl Matties, Brendan Wilcox, Dayna Menken, Mary Kate Collier, and Jake Turner

Rev. date: 05/30/2014

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Contents

Acknowledgements and Contributions

Dedication

Mammals

Time’s Up (Beluga Whale)

Mediterranean Monk Seal

Harbor Porpoise

European Otter

Mountain Gorilla

Chimpanzee

Mandrill

Drill

Diana Monkey (Guenon)

Papa Gelada

Sacred Baboon (Hamadryas Baboon)

Indri

Golden-Crowned Sifaka

Ruffed Lemur

Aye-Aye

Ring-Tailed Lemur (Tune: Que Será*)

Bush Baby

Hide-and-Seek (Colobus*)

Fossa

Malagasy Civet

Falanouc

Cheetah, Cheetah

Leopard

Spanish Lynx

Wildcat

Ethiopian Wolf (Tune: Oh, Susanna)

African Wild Dog

African Wild Ass

Barbary Hyena

Quagga

Advice Column (Reticulated Giraffe)

Okapi

African Elephant

Ten Mother Rhinos (Tune: Ten Little Indians)

Pygmy Hippopotamus

European Bison (Wisent)

Western Giant Eland

Addax Convention

Scimitar Horned Oryx

Saga of the Nyala

Moroccan Dorcas Gazelle

Western Klipspringer

Swayne’s Hartebeest

Black-Faced Impala

B-O-N-G-O (Tune: B-I-N-G-O)

K-K-K-Kudu (Greater Kudu) (Tune: K-K-K-Katie)

Lechwe

Giant Sable Antelope

Walia Ibex

Barbary Sheep (Aoudad)

Mediterranean Mouflon

Chartreuse Chamois

Laptev Walrus

Russian Desman

Pine Marten

Long-Tailed Pangolin

Leave It for Beaver (Eurasian Beaver)

Nuts to You (Eurasian Red Squirrel)

Breaking the Silence (European Mink)

Birds & Butterflies

Dodo Bird

Yellow-Bellied Asity

Long-Tailed Ground Roller

Helmet Vanga

Mauritius Fody

Mauritius Parakeet

Mauritius Cuckoo Shrike (Tune: I Love To Go A-wandering with changes to chorus)

Mauritius Kestrel

Pink Pigeon

Seychelles Black Paradise Flycatcher

Seychelles Scops Owl

Raso Lark

Djibouti Francolin

Damara Tern

Gray-Necked Picathartes

Lesson from Romeo and Juliet (Black-Cheeked Lovebirds)

Blue Swallow

Northern Bald Ibis

Aquatic Warbler

Congo Peafowl

Jackass Penguin

Belgian Ballad* (Yellow-Legged Weaver)

Algerian Nuthatch

Roseate Tern

Return of Royalty (Spanish Imperial Eagle)

Azores Wood Pigeon

Great Auk

Great Bustard

White-Headed Duck

Eurasian Bittern

Red Kite

Large Blue Butterfly

Large Copper Butterfly

Damsel in Distress (Southern Damselfly)

Reptiles

Breakfast at Kilimanjaro (Pancake Tortoise)

Second Treaty of Versailles (Plowshare Tortoise)

Hawksbill Turtle

Radiated Tortoise

Milos Viper

Nile Crocodile

Speak of the Devil (South Central Lesser Chameleon)

Jekyll, the Gecko (Round Island Day Gecko)

Raining Reptiles (Ibiza Wall Lizard)

Amphibians & Sea Creatures

Tomato Frog

Goliath Frog

Cameroon Toad

Mallorcan Midwife Toad

Great Crested Newt

Common Sturgeon

Saving Sal (Olm)

Deep-Sea Square Dance (Atlantic Cod)

Knysna Seahorse

Miss Universe Pageant (Edible Sea Urchin)

More Fascinating Animals— Not Yet Endangered

Wisdom of the Warthog

Tommy (Thomson Gazelle)

Wildebeest

Kirk’s Dik-Dik

Cape Buffalo

Meerkat (Suricate)

Red Bishop

Secretary Bird

I Don’t Do Windows Anymore (Hoopoe Bird) (Tune: Bill Grogan’s Goat, similar)

Don’t Go Away (My Lullaby* to the Go-Away Bird)

Gray-Crowned Crane

Mama Mamba (Tune: Alouette)

Alphabetical Listing of Animals with Location

Suggestions for English Teachers

Suggestions for Science Teachers

Bibliography

Acknowledgements and Contributions

Family, friends, and co-workers have been most encouraging as I assembled the material for this volume. I wish to thank my various artists for their skill and dedication. Amphibians, reptiles, some mammals and birds were sketched by Herbert Park; and some mammals, insects, and birds by colleague/art teacher, Sheryl Matties. Herbert Park made the cover.

The following high school students from my district drew additional birds and mammals: Brendan Wilcox, Dayna Menken, Mary Kate Collier, Jake Turner. Teacher, Carol Socks-Parker co-ordinated the effort.

Our building’s computer technician, Robert C. Starr, and his wife, Lenore Hiscoe, made the maps of Madagascar.

To my principal, Karen Jacobson; and Community Relations Director, Judy Evola; many thanks for all the publicity you gave me on the first book and for your encouragement as I worked on this volume.

Dawn

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the Beluga whale,

also known as a white whale,

once abundant in the Atlantic Ocean

on both the North American and European sides. Their numbers have decreased

drastically in recent decades due to

pollution. Many of them are now plagued

with cancer. The prognosis for their

recovery in health and population is slim.

My first poem Time’s Up, has a double

entendre. Time is nearly up for these

marvelous creatures whose vocalization skills

are among the best of any mammals on earth.

The psychologist in the poem also declares,

Time’s up, to his patient, symbolizing the

half-hearted effort we often put into doing

something meaningful for these and

other creatures who suffer due to

our neglect and insensitivity.

—Dawn