Animal Discoveries

Animal Discoveries. Written by Karen Mokler.

动物新发现 凯伦·莫克勒 著

Introduction. If you wanted to find a new animal species, where would you look? You might look in remote corners of the globe. Scientists find more than 15 ,000 animal species each year. That's 1 % of the more than 1 .5 million species we know about already. At the same time, species are dying out at record rates around the globe. For this reason, when we do stumble on a new species, it is an important discovery.

引言 如果你想找一种新动物，你会去哪里找呢？ 你可能会去地球上人迹罕至的角落寻找。 科学家每年都会发现超过15000种新动物。 这个数量占我们目前已知的150多万物种的1%。 与此同时，全球物种灭绝速度创下了历史新高。 因此，当我们偶然发现新物种时，这就是一项重大发现。

Monkey mania. In 2007, a new species of monkey was found in the forests of Central Africa. The Lesula has large eyes and is shy and quiet. The first one found by scientists was being kept a pet. In 2010, scientists found the cockataw TT monkey by listening to its calls. This monkey lives in the Amazon jungle. The cockataw is known for its bushy red beard. It doesn't have a white bar on its forehead as other TT monkeys do. Its babies purr like cats. Only around 250 Kakita -titi monkeys are alive today, meaning the species is endangered.

神奇新猴种 2007年，人们在中非森林里发现了一个新的猴子物种。 莱苏拉猴长着大眼睛，性格害羞又安静。 科学家发现的第一只莱苏拉猴，当时被当成宠物饲养。 2010年，科学家靠叫声找到了卡克托TT猴。 这种猴子生活在亚马逊丛林里。 卡克托猴因为浓密的红胡子被大家熟知。 它和其他TT猴不同，前额没有白色条纹。 它的宝宝会像小猫一样咕噜咕噜叫。 目前卡基塔蒂蒂猴仅存约250只，属于濒危物种。

Freaky Fabulous Frogs The Matong narrow -mouthed frog is the size of a pea. It was discovered on the island of Borneo in 2010. It turns out that scientists had seen these frogs before. They thought the frogs were the young of a different

神奇绝妙的青蛙 马通窄口蛙只有一颗豌豆那么大。 它是2010年在婆罗洲岛被发现的。 其实科学家之前就见过这种青蛙了。 他们原本以为这些青蛙是另一种

A scientist discovered the long -nosed tree frog in 2010. This frog lives in the Foya Mountains of New Guinea. The area has been called the Lost World. This tree frog is known for its long nose. It is sometimes called the Pinocchio frog.

一位科学家在2010年发现了长鼻树蛙新物种。 这种青蛙生活在新几内亚的福亚山脉。 这片区域被人们叫做“失落的世界”。 这种树蛙因为长长的鼻子出名。 人们有时候也叫它匹诺曹蛙。

Furry Finds Another find during the 2010 Foyah Mountains trip was the Blossom Bat. It uses its long tongue to drink nectar from flowers. During a 2005 trip to Madagascar, researchers found Goodman's mouse lemurs. Not much bigger than mice, these tiny lemurs jump around in the trees at night. During the daytime, they sometimes sleep in empty bird's nests.

毛茸茸的新发现 2010年福亚山脉考察的另一项新发现是花蝙蝠。 它用长长的舌头吸食花朵的花蜜。 2005年，研究人员在马达加斯加发现了古德曼鼠狐猴。 这些小狐猴只比老鼠大一点，夜里在树林间跳来跳去。 白天，它们有时候会在空鸟巢里睡觉。