英语听力：自然百科 罕见的树袋鼠 -2

 Papua New Guinean Gabriel Porolak handles the captured male. He is the Tree Kangaroos Conservation Program Research Coordinator¹ and a key figure in the local preservation² effort. (Six kilograms.)

 

The captured animal is weighed and examined by veterinarian Carol Esson, and then the Crittercam collar is fastened into place. (All right.) And then the animal is released. For the next few days the animal will have a new role as a Crittercam videographer. (Nice.)

 

What the researchers found was more than they've ever dreamt of seeing.

 

“It is way beyond my wildest imagination. It actually brought tears to my eyes. When these animals go so high up in the, huh, in the trees that you can not know what they do unless you have a camera on them and now we can see that.”

 

The Crittercam recorder is on a timer so as to record short segments at different times of the day. Scratching, grooming³, eating, as he scales one old tree branch to another, you can see the lush（苍翠繁茂的） vegetation, mosses⁴ and orchids⁵ that serve as a smorgasbord（自助餐）. Some 9 different species of plants the Tree Kangaroo eats.

 

“See you get this view all the way down to the ground from, it's probably about 100 feet up. And then it was sunrise. It was about 6 am or so. Cause that's when we think that they feed and in fact that’s when we saw in the video that he was feeding but then he looked out and it was the sunrise which was amazing.”

 

The team captured the second Kangaroo, this one, a female they've been tracking for three years, named Trish. And this time she has a baby Joey developing in her pouch⁶(袋). When Trish was set free with the camera she collected video from a female perspective, including one segment where she is seen cleaning her pouch.

 

The forest where these tree Kangaroos live is pristine⁷ and it would hopefully stay that way, as the local population has agreed to set it aside as a Conservation Area. Dabek help enlist⁸ the local population that she says is crucial to the efforts to save the species.

 

This first Crittercam Tree Kangaroo Project was funded through the National Geographic⁹ Society Waitt Grants program.

 

"This is an incredible tool. We can now see what the animals are eating up in the canopy¹⁰ which we never could do before. We can see what, how they are moving in the trees at what time of day." (Oh, it is great.)

 

The project was a success for Tree Kangaroos research and also a crucial test for the new Crittercam, with this smaller system, Crittercam would be opening windows into the hidden lives of many new species.

1 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？

2 preservation   

n.保护，维护，保存，保留，保持

参考例句：

• The police are responsible for the preservation of law and order.警察负责维持法律与秩序。
• The picture is in an excellent state of preservation.这幅画保存得极为完好。

3 grooming   

n. 修饰, 美容，（动物）梳理毛发

参考例句：

• You should always pay attention to personal grooming. 你应随时注意个人仪容。
• We watched two apes grooming each other. 我们看两只猩猩在互相理毛。

4 mosses   

n. 藓类, 苔藓植物 名词moss的复数形式

参考例句：

• Ferns, mosses and fungi spread by means of spores. 蕨类植物、苔藓和真菌通过孢子传播蔓生。
• The only plants to be found in Antarctica are algae, mosses, and lichens. 在南极洲所发现的植物只有藻类、苔藓和地衣。

5 orchids   

n.兰花( orchid的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Wild flowers such as orchids and primroses are becoming rare. 兰花和报春花这类野花越来越稀少了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She breeds orchids in her greenhouse. 她在温室里培育兰花。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 pouch   

n.小袋，小包，囊状袋；vt.装...入袋中，用袋运输；vi.用袋送信件

参考例句：

• He was going to make a tobacco pouch out of them. 他要用它们缝制一个烟草袋。
• The old man is always carrying a tobacco pouch with him.这老汉总是随身带着烟袋。

7 pristine   

adj.原来的，古时的，原始的，纯净的，无垢的

参考例句：

• He wiped his fingers on his pristine handkerchief.他用他那块洁净的手帕擦手指。
• He wasn't about to blemish that pristine record.他本不想去玷污那清白的过去。

8 enlist   

vt.谋取(支持等)，赢得；征募；vi.入伍

参考例句：

• They come here to enlist men for the army.他们来这儿是为了召兵。
• The conference will make further efforts to enlist the support of the international community for their just struggle. 会议必将进一步动员国际社会，支持他们的正义斗争。

9 geographic   

adj.地理学的，地理的

参考例句：

• The city's success owes much to its geographic position. 这座城市的成功很大程度上归功于它的地理位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Environmental problems pay no heed to these geographic lines. 环境问题并不理会这些地理界限。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

10 canopy   

n.天篷，遮篷

参考例句：

• The trees formed a leafy canopy above their heads.树木在他们头顶上空形成了一个枝叶茂盛的遮篷。
• They lay down under a canopy of stars.他们躺在繁星点点的天幕下。