Animal Discoveries

Animal Discoveries. Written by Karen Mokler.

动物大发现。 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. You might also look under a microscope to see how one species is different from another. Scientists discover 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.

前言。 如果你想要寻找一种新的动物物种，你会去哪里找呢？ 你或许会前往地球上人迹罕至的偏远角落。 你也可以借助显微镜观察，分辨不同物种之间的区别。 科学家每年都会发现超过15000种新的动物物种。 这个数量占到我们目前已知150万物种的1%。 与此同时，全球物种灭绝的速度也创下了历史新高。 正因如此，每当我们意外发现新物种，都是一项重大发现。

Monkey Mania In 2007, a new species of monkey was found in the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Lesula has large eyes and is shy and quiet. The first one, found by scientists, was being kept as a pet. The Kakata TT Monkey lives in the Amazon jungle with about 20 other species of TT Monkey. The Kakata 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.

猴子新发现 2007年，人们在刚果民主共和国的森林里发现了一种新猴子。 勒苏拉猴长着大大的眼睛，性格害羞又安静。 科学家找到的第一只勒苏拉猴，当时被当作宠物饲养。 卡卡蒂蒂猴生活在亚马逊丛林，那里还生活着大约20种其他蒂蒂猴。 卡卡蒂蒂猴因浓密的红色胡须出名。 它不像其他蒂蒂猴那样，额头上长着一道白纹。 它们的宝宝会像小猫一样发出咕噜声。 目前全球仅存约250只卡卡蒂蒂猴，属于濒危物种。

Freaky Fabulous Frogs The Matong narrow -mouthed frog is the size of a pea. It was discovered on Borneo, an island in Southeast Asia, in 2010. It turns out that scientists had seen these frogs before but thought they were the young of a different species. Then they heard the frogs calling. Since only adult frogs make calls, They realized that these tiny frogs must be full grown.

神奇绝妙蛙 马通狭口蛙只有一颗豌豆那么大。 2010年，它在东南亚的婆罗洲岛被发现。 其实科学家之前就见过这种蛙，但误以为它们是另一物种的幼蛙。 后来，他们听到了这种蛙的叫声。 只有成年蛙才会叫，因此大家才意识到这些小青蛙已经完全长大了。

A herpetologist discovered the long -nosed tree frog in 2010 while exploring the Foya Mountains of New Guinea. The area is so remote that it has been called the Lost World. This tree frog is known for its long, unique nose. When the male frog calls, its nose points up like a spike. When the frog is done calling, its nose falls. No one knows why. The frog has another name, the Pinocchio frog. The herpetologist spotted it sitting on a bag of rice in his campsite.

2010年，一位爬行动物学家在探索新几内亚福亚山脉时发现了长鼻树蛙。 这片区域太过偏远，还被叫做“失落世界”。 这种树蛙因独特修长的鼻子闻名。 雄蛙鸣叫的时候，鼻子会像尖刺一样翘起来。 鸣叫结束后，它的鼻子就会垂下来。 没人知道这是为什么。 这种树蛙还有另一个名字，匹诺曹蛙。 这位爬行动物学家是在营地的一袋大米上发现它的。

Furry Finds Another find during the 2010 Foyah Mountains trip was the Blossom Bat. Although bats are mammals, this one has been called the Hummingbird of the bat world. It uses its long tongue to drink nectar from the flowers of rainforest trees. During a 2005 expedition to another island, Madagascar, researchers found Goodman's mouse lemurs. Not much bigger than mice, these tiny lemurs jump around in the trees at night. In the daytime, they sometimes sleep in empty bird's nests.

毛茸茸的新发现：2010年福亚山脉考察途中还发现了花蝠。 虽然蝙蝠都是哺乳动物，但这种花蝠却被称为蝙蝠界的蜂鸟。 它用长长的舌头吮吸雨林树木花朵里的花蜜。 2005年，研究人员在另一座岛屿马达加斯加考察时，发现了古德曼鼠狐猴。 这种小型狐猴只比老鼠大一点，夜晚会在树林间跳来跳去。 白天它们有时候会睡在空掉的鸟巢里。