--- title: Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The higher you climb a mountain, the colder it gets and the thinner the air becomes, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Mountains of the world: snow leopards,… # Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders Lesson 183 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/0/) — The higher you climb a mountain, the colder it gets and the thinner the air becomes, so each breath brings less oxygen; climbers on Everest often carry bottles of oxygen. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/1/) — Mountain animals have bodies made for this: thick fur and long tails against the cold, big lungs and special blood that grabs oxygen from thin air. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/2/) — Picture a goat standing on a cliff so steep you could not climb it with your hands: its hooves have soft pads that grip like the soles of trainers and hard edges that dig in. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/3/) — Even near the top of Mount Everest, where nothing grows, a tiny jumping spider lives by eating insects that the wind blows up from below. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/4/) — Snow leopards live high in the mountains of Asia; their long thick tails help them balance and wrap round their faces to keep them warm when they sleep. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/5/) — Snow leopards cannot roar like lions and tigers; they hiss, growl and make a puffing sound instead. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/7/) — Bar-headed geese fly over the Himalayas, the highest mountains on Earth; their blood carries oxygen very well, and they often fly at night or early morning, when the air is cooler and denser. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/9/) — The Himalayan jumping spider lives over six thousand metres above sea level, higher than almost any other animal, eating insects blown up by the wind. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/10/) — Mountain goats and ibexes climb steep cliffs; their hooves have soft pads and hard edges, and Alpine ibexes even climb dam walls to lick salt from the stones. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/11/) — Giant pandas live in cool mountain forests in China and eat mostly bamboo, which has little energy, so they eat for many hours a day; a special wrist bone works like a thumb to grip it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/12/) — Llamas and alpacas live in the Andes; their blood carries oxygen well, and they spit mostly at each other to settle arguments. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/13/) — The red panda lives in mountain forests and eats bamboo too, wrapping its long fluffy tail around itself for warmth, but it is not a close relative of the giant panda. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/14/) — Mountain flowers grow low and are often hairy to keep warm against strong sun, cold winds and short summers, and some grow only a few millimetres a year. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/15/) — Marmots whistle loudly when they see an eagle or a fox, warning the others to run to their burrows, and they sleep through winter for up to eight months. - ← previous: [Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/) - next →: [Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)