The warm coast of California is a place where many western monarch butterflies stay during the cold winter months in the United States. Researchers fear the record low number of monarchs this year could mean the insects are in danger of disappearing in the near future. Researchers from the Xerces Society said they found fewer than 2,000 orange-and-black butterflies in the yearly count this January. That number showed a big drop from the tens of thousands in recent years. In the 1980s, there were millions of them in trees from Northern California's Marin County to San Diego County near the Mexico border. Every winter, western monarch butterflies fly south from the northwestern U.S. to California, going to the same places and even the same trees. They often stay together to keep warm.
Title: The Monarch Butterfly Population Is in Danger of Disappearing
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4819/B.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='The Monarch Butterfly Population Is in Danger of Disappearing' data-article-id='5344'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12167'>The warm coast of California is a place where many western monarch butterflies stay during the cold winter months in the United States. </span> <span data-start-time='12167' data-end-time='24438'>Researchers fear the record low number of monarchs this year could mean the insects are in danger of disappearing in the near future.</span> <span data-start-time='24438' data-end-time='37146'>Researchers from the Xerces Society said they found fewer than 2,000 orange-and-black butterflies in the yearly count this January. </span> <span data-start-time='37146' data-end-time='44375'>That number showed a big drop from the tens of thousands in recent years.</span> <span data-start-time='44375' data-end-time='57396'> In the 1980s, there were millions of them in trees from Northern California's Marin County to San Diego County near the Mexico border.</span> <span data-start-time='57396' data-end-time='71188'>Every winter, western monarch butterflies fly south from the northwestern U.S. to California, going to the same places and even the same trees. </span> <span data-start-time='71188' data-end-time='76063'>They often stay together to keep warm.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4819/fewer_than_2000.wav'><span>fewer than 2,000</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4819/more_than_10000.wav'><span>more than 10,000</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4819/3500.wav'><span>3,500</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=16670 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/4819/many_western_monarch_butterflies_migrate_to_the__blank_.wav'>Many western monarch butterflies migrate to the <span class='blank'>coast of California</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='coast of California'><div class='choice' 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