kakapo

kakapo

1. One of the world's rarest birds, New Zealand's kakapo, is now not quite so rare thanks to the arrival of 34 kakapo chicks.

世界稀有鸟类之一，新西兰鸮鹦鹉，因为34只小鹦鹉仔的出生而不是特别稀有了。

2. But Polynesian and European colonization that started several hundred years ago introduced predators such as cats, rats and stoats that wiped out most of the kakapo.

但数百年前玻里尼西亚以及欧洲殖民纽西兰时期，因为殖民者引进外来掠食物种；如：猫类、鼠类以及鼬类动物，导致夜鹦鹉近乎绝迹。

3. 1.We really should be inspired by the fact that the Kakapo is still with us.

我们真的应该为枭鹦依然与人类生活在一起而欢欣鼓舞。

4. Really the kakapo has a very similar life history to that iconic extinct bird the Dodo.

枭鹦与绝种的渡渡鸟的生命历史十分相似。

5. 2.And yet somehow, Kakapo is still with us despite all the devastation we have wrought on these islands and with all the introduced predators we have brought here, Kakapo have managed to hang on.

然而，尽管我们给这些岛屿造成了毁坏，尽管我们引进了食肉动物，但是枭鹦仍然坚持存活了下来。

6. Surviving kakapo are now kept on small, predator-free offshore islands.

现存的夜鹦鹉大多生活在没有天敌的小岛上。

7. BIOLOGIST: We really should be inspired by the fact that the Kakapo is still with us.

生物学家：我们真的应该为枭鹦依然与人类生活在一起而欢欣鼓舞。

8. The team estimates that the kakapo has 667 functional olfactory receptor genes.

研究小组估计新西兰鹦鹉有667个起作用的嗅觉感受器基因。

9. Kakapo is a nocturnal parrot with finely blotched yellow-green plumage, a large gray beak, short legs, large feet, and relatively short wings and tail.

纽西兰夜鹦鹉为夜行性的鹦鹉，全身批覆著黄绿色的羽毛，有灰色的大喙、短腿、脚掌极大、但翅膀与尾部相对较短。