Wildlife Rescue
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents Introduction.
导言表。
4 Wildlife Rehabilitators.
4"野生动物康复者".
5 Rescue.
5 救援行动。
7 Rehabilitation.
7 善后.
11 Release.
11 释出.
15 Conclusion.
15 结论。
18 Glossary.
18 词汇。
19 Index.
19 指数。
20 Introduction A baby bird hops along the ground, and its parents are nowhere in sight.
导言 婴儿鸟跳出地上 父母无所见
What should you do if you find a baby bird that seems to be orphaned?
如果你发现一只幼鸟 似乎成了孤儿 你会怎么做?
What if you find a rabbit that seems unable to hop or a raccoon that is walking strangely?
如果你发现一只兔子 似乎不能跳 或浣熊 走路怪异?
Many people don’t know what to do, or not to do, when they find wildlife that may be in danger.
许多人发现野生动物可能处于危险之中,
But some people with special training know just what to do.
但有些受过特殊训练的人知道该怎么做。
They know to leave the raccoon alone because it is probably sick.
他们知道让浣熊一个人呆着 因为它可能生病了
They know whether they can help the rabbit and then return it to the wild.
他们知道能不能帮助兔子 然后把它送回野外
They can also look at the baby bird and know what care to give, if any.
他们也可以看小鸟,知道该怎么照顾,如果有的话。
These people can teach you how to help, too.
这些人也可以教你如何帮助。
Topsy, a three-month-old female great horned owl, was rescued after she fell out of her nest during a windstorm.
托普斯(Topy)是一头三个月长的雌性大角猫头鹰,在一场暴风雨中从巢穴倒出后被救出.
She is healing from neck and back injuries.
她从颈部和后部的伤口中痊愈
Tucson Wildlife Center Who to Call?
图克森野生动物中心 谁打电话?
If you see a wild animal in trouble, let an adult know right away.
如果看到有麻烦的野生动物,立刻通知成年人.
If you cannot find an adult you trust, look in the phone book under “Wildlife Rescue” or “Animal Rescue.”
如果你找不到你信任的成年人,请查看电话簿“野生动物救援”或“动物救援”。 “
Wildlife Rehabilitators People who help sick, injured, or orphaned wildlife are called rehabilitators, or “rehabbers.”
野生动物康复者 帮助生病、受伤或成为孤儿的野生动物的人被称为康复者或“康复者”。 “
Rehabilitate means “to make healthy again.”
康复意味着“使健康恢复。 “
Wildlife rehabbers rescue wild animals and care for the animals as they heal.
野生动物康复者拯救野生动物,在动物痊愈时照顾动物.
After the animals recover, or get better, rehabbers return them to the wild whenever possible.
在动物康复或康复后,康复者尽可能将他们送回野外。
Wildlife rehabbers have special training in caring for, feeding, and housing wild animals.
野生动物康复者在照料、喂养和安置野生动物方面接受特殊培训。
Many can treat wild animals for sicknesses and injuries, too.
许多动物也能治疗疾病和伤害。
They also know how to handle wildlife safely without hurting the animals or themselves.
他们还知道如何安全地处理野生动物而不伤害动物或自己。
The work of rehabbers is needed more often as people move into habitats where once only wild animals lived.
随着人们迁入曾经只有野生动物居住的栖息地,更需要康复者的工作.
When land is used for farming, houses, and businesses, the homes and food sources of wild animals are destroyed.
将土地用于农活,房屋,企业时,会破坏野生动物的家园和食物来源.
As people move into wild areas, animals are more likely to be orphaned, injured, or killed.
随着人们迁移到野外地区,动物更容易成为孤儿,受伤或被杀死.
People and their activities cause most wildlife injuries.
人类及其活动造成大部分野生动物受伤.
Common Causes of Injury • Hit by cars or other vehicles • Hitting other objects, such as windows • Poisoning • Illegal hunting • Litter and pollution • Attacks by other animals Animal caretakers treat a sea turtle for injuries to its right flipper.
• 常见伤害原因 • 撞到其他物体,如窗户; 其他动物的攻击 动物护理者 治疗海龟受伤 右翻。
Rehabber Lisa treats Tripod, a young javelina who was hit by a car.
瑞哈贝尔·丽莎治疗特里波德,一个被一辆车撞倒的年轻贾维琳娜.
Watch Out!
当心!
If you see any of these animal behaviors, stay away!
如果你看到这些动物的行为, 离我远点!
They are clues that the animal may be sick—and dangerous.
这些是动物可能生病和危险的线索。
Rescue How do you know whether an animal needs to be rescued?
救援 你怎么知道动物需要救援?
You should always follow these two rules: 1) do not touch the animal, and 2) call an adult right away.
你应该遵守这两项规则: 1)不触摸动物,2)立刻给成年人打电话.
Adults can help by calling a wildlife rehabber who is trained in wildlife rescue.
成人可以通过呼叫接受野生动物救援训练的野生动物康复者来帮助.
You can help by watching from a safe place to see where an animal hides so rescuers can quickly find it when they arrive.
你可以从一个安全的地方看动物藏到哪里 所以救援人员到达后可以迅速找到它
Putting a box or laundry basket over a small animal will protect it from other animals until help comes.
在一个小动物身上放个盒子或洗衣篮 就能保护它免受其他动物的伤害 直到帮助降临
A Florida state wildlife worker examines a panther kitten.
一个佛罗里达州的野生动物工人检查一只豹猫。
SAFETY FIRST.
安全的第一个。
for Animals • Animals may be injured or die from being held wrong when they are hurt and frightened.
• 受伤和被吓倒的动物可能会被错扣而受伤或死亡。
escape from wire cages.
从铁丝笼中逃出。
sense of smell.
闻之有感.
don’t know that people are trying to help.
并不知道人们试图帮助。
exposed to rabies must be treated right away.
被狂犬病感染者必须立即接受治疗.
Many baby animals are wrongly taken from their homes when they aren’t in danger.
许多婴儿在没有危险时被错误地从家中带走。
A young bird hopping on the ground may not be orphaned.
在地上购物的小鸟可能不会成为孤儿.
It might just be learning how to fly.
它可能只是学习如何飞行。
Baby birds often hop around as they practice moving before they fly.
幼鸟在飞行前练习运动时经常会四处跑来跑去.
Their parents usually watch them from somewhere nearby, but you may not be able to see the parents.
他们的父母通常会在附近的某个地方观看他们,但您可能无法见到父母.
People sometimes rescue baby rabbits, seals, and fawns that aren’t in trouble.
人们有时会拯救没有麻烦的兔子、海豹和小鹿。
It’s normal for these babies to rest quietly on a beach or in the grass while their mothers eat nearby.
这些婴儿在海滩或草地上静静地休息,
Only people trained in the natural ways of these animals know whether the babies need human help.
只有受过这些动物自然方式训练的人才知道婴儿是否需要人类的帮助.
If they don’t, taking them from their mother hurts their chances to survive.
如果她们不这样做,
Many people wrongly believe they are helping wild animals by taking them home.
许多人错误地认为,他们正在帮助野生动物回家。
Just because you love animals doesn’t mean you can take care of a wild animal.
你爱动物并不代表你可以照顾野生动物。
Much more training is needed to care for wild animals than to care for dogs and cats.
照料野生动物比照料狗和猫需要更多的培训。
Besides, taking home wild animals is against the law.
此外,带回野生动物是违法的.
If you were injured in an accident, would you want just anyone taking you home and caring for you?
如果你在事故中受伤了 你会希望有人带你回家照顾你吗?
No, you would want someone trained to help, such as a doctor or nurse.
不,你会希望某个受过训练的人 帮助,如医生或护士。
You would also want a clean place that has the right equipment and medicine to help you.
你也会想要一个干净的地方 有合适的设备和药物来帮助你。
Like you, wild animals deserve to get the best care.
像你一样,野生动物应该得到最好的照顾
Unless baby animals are wounded, they do not need to be rescued.
除非婴儿动物受伤,否则不需要被救出.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
Spring is the busiest time of year for wildlife rescue because wild animals give birth in the spring.
春季是一年中野生动物救援最繁忙的时刻,因为野生动物会生于春季.
Babies are weaker and often can’t survive on their own.
婴儿体弱,
A baby animal may become orphaned if a car hits its mother or if a hunter or predator kills its parents.
如果汽车撞到母亲或猎人或掠食者杀死了父母,婴儿动物就可能成为孤儿。
Veterinarians examine a red panda.
兽医检查一只红熊猫.
Rehabilitation When animals are brought to a rehabilitation center, they get a checkup and first aid.
康复 当动物被带到康复中心时,他们得到检查和急救.
If the animals have broken bones or diseases, doctors must treat those conditions first.
如果动物有骨折或疾病,医生必须首先治疗这些疾病。
Newly rescued animals are put in their own cages and kept separate from other animals so they don’t make others sick.
新获救的动物被放入自己的笼子里,
Rehabbers keep detailed notes about each animal so they can tell if the animal is getting better.
Rehabbers保存关于每个动物的详细注释,以便他们可以判断动物是否变得更好.
Most wild animals are scared of people, and being away from home is stressful.
大部分的野生动物都害怕人,离家出走的压力很大.
Too much stress can kill a wild animal.
太多的压力可以杀死野生动物
Rehabbers try to protect animals from stress and from too much contact with people.
雷哈贝尔斯试图保护动物免受压力和与人太多的接触.
Rehabbers try to keep noise levels low and cover cages with towels so that animals don’t see the people around them.
让动物们看不到周围的人。
Rehabbers also avoid staring at the animals because, in the wild, staring is a signal that an animal is being hunted.
Rehabers也避免了盯着动物看,因为在野外,盯着是动物被猎杀的信号.
Igor, a black vulture, was fed birdseed instead of the meat he needed for good health.
伊戈尔,一只黑秃鹫,被喂了鸟,而不是他身体健康所需要的肉.
His bones became fragile and broke during his rescue.
他的骨骼变得脆弱并被抢救出道.
Imprinting Baby animals imprint on their mothers at an early age; a baby duck learns that it is a duck by watching its mother every day.
幼年时将婴儿动物印在母亲身上;一头婴儿鸭通过每天的观察,得知它是一只鸭子.
Wildlife rehabbers take special care not to let baby birds imprint on humans.
野生动物康复者特别注意不要让幼鸟印入人类身上.
Otherwise, the babies will grow up thinking they are human and will seek out humans instead of their own kind.
否则,婴儿会自以为是人而成长,会寻找出人类而不是自己的同类.
Birds that have imprinted on humans may become dangerous in the wild.
印有人类印记的鸟类在野外可能会变得危险.
They may seek attention from a hiker who doesn’t know that the birds are used to human contact.
他们可能会寻求一个不知鸟类习惯人类接触的徒步者的关注.
The hiker or the bird might get hurt in the meeting.
徒步者或鸟在会议上可能会受伤.
For this reason, the birds often cannot go back to the wild.
因此,鸟往往不能回野外去.
A puppet serves as a substitute mother so this young condor doesn’t get too used to humans.
一个傀儡充当替代母亲,
Wildlife rehabbers must feed each animal foods that are similar to its natural foods.
野生生物康复者必须提供与自然食物相类似的每道动物食物.
Some foods can make animals sick or prevent them from growing normally.
一些食物可以使动物生病或阻止它们正常生长.
For example, the cow’s milk sold in grocery stores is very harmful to many baby animals and can kill them.
例如,杂货店出售的牛奶对许多婴儿动物非常有害并可以杀死它们.
Rescued animals must be fed natural foods so they can survive in the wild later on.
被拯救的动物必须被喂养出天然食物,以便日后能活入野外.
Natural foods are most important for orphaned animals that have grown up in a rehabilitation center.
对于在康复中心长大的孤儿动物来说,自然食物是最重要的.
If they get used to eating human food or do not learn to find their own food, they may starve in the wild.
如果他们习惯吃人的食物或者不学找自己的食物,他们可能在野外挨饿.
Rehabilitated birds practice flying in a flight cage until they have healed enough to be released.
被修复的鸟类在飞行笼中练习飞行,直到治愈出行.
A volunteer feeds a mouse to an adult red-tailed hawk that is almost completely blind.
志愿者将老鼠喂给几乎完全失明的成年红尾鹰.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
Meat-eating animals at rehabilitation centers need to eat meat so they heal and grow strong.
康复中心的吃肉动物需要吃肉,这样它们才能愈合并壮大.
Wildlife rehabbers pick up animals recently hit by cars or trucks along roads, called roadkill, to use as animal food.
野生动物康复者们拾取了最近被汽车或卡车沿路撞倒的动物,被称作"路行"(road kill),用作动物食物.
They also keep freezers full of “mouse-cicles”—frozen mice that they use as food.
他们还把冷冻器装满了它们用作食物的被冻小鼠的 " 肌肉 " 。
To save money, some centers raise quail, mice, rats, and rabbits as animal food.
为了省钱,一些中心将 qua,老鼠,老鼠,兔子作为动物食物来饲养.
Release When a rescued animal is ready to return to the wild, rehabbers must decide where to release it.
发行 当被拯救的动物准备返回野外时,康复者必须决定放出的地方.
The search for a good location begins long before an animal is ready for release.
寻找好位置的工作早在动物准备好释放之前就开始了.
Rehabbers find a place that has plenty of food, water, and shelter.
Rehabbers找到一个有充足食物、水和住所的地方。
They also make sure that the place is safe from human contact.
他们还确保该地没有人类接触。
Rehabbers must make sure the animal is healthy enough before releasing it.
Rehabers)必须先确保动物身体健康后再放出.
They make sure that it can run, climb, or fly without problems.
它们确保它可以运行,攀登,或飞行而不会出问题.
They also make sure the animal is able to see, hear, and find food.
他们还确保动物能够看见、听到和找到食物。
The animal needs to know how to avoid animals that want to eat it and how to be with other animals of its own kind.
动物需要知道如何避免想要吃它的动物,以及如何与其他同类动物在一起.
The first step in releasing an animal is moving it to an outdoor pen or cage.
释放动物的第一步是把它移到户外的笔或笼子上.
The animal shares this cage with other animals of the same kind.
动物与其它同类动物共用此笼.
Once outdoors, the animal can get used to the weather and to less contact with people.
一旦室外,动物可以习惯于天气并减少与人的接触.
After some time outdoors at the rehabilitation center, the animal is ready for release.
在康复中心的室外活动了一段时间后,该动物已经准备好释放.
Some young animals, especially orphans, are released slowly.
一些幼畜,特别是孤儿,被慢慢地放出.
Rehabbers put a pen in a safe place in the wild with the door left open so that the animal can return to it.
雷哈贝尔斯将一枝笔放入野外安全的地方,把门开着,让动物可以返回.
Rehabbers provide food for the animal until it is clear that the animal can find food for itself.
雷哈贝尔斯为动物提供食物,直到动物可以为自己找到食物为止.
Wild animals rescued as adults are released much faster than young animals that never had to live on their own in nature.
成年后获救的野生动物被释放的速度远快于不需要靠自己生存的幼兽.
If possible, animals are released near where they were found.
如果可能的话,动物在被发现的地方附近被释放.
A wildlife rehabber has some company as she releases this bald eagle.
野生恢复者在释放这只秃鹰时有同伴
This Tasmanian devil will be examined before it’s released.
这名塔斯马尼亚恶魔将在释放前接受检查。
About half the animals at rehabilitation centers are too sick or too badly injured to ever go back into the wild.
大约一半的动物在康复中心 生病或伤得太重 永远不能回到野外。
Many animals have lost limbs, beaks, wings, or eyesight.
许多动物都失去了四肢,喙,翅膀,或视力.
A bird with a wing that did not heal well, or with only one eye, would not be able to fly or hunt in the wild.
有翅膀不善疗的鸟类,或只用一只眼睛,无法在野外飞行或打猎.
When it is clear that an animal will never survive in the wild or at a center, rehabbers have to make a hard decision.
当动物显然在野外或中心永远无法生存时,康复者必须做出艰难的决定.
If the animal is in pain, a quick, painless killing is sometimes the best way to end that animal’s suffering.
如果动物疼痛,快速而无痛的杀戮有时是结束动物痛苦的最佳方法.
Conclusion Rehabbers often use animals that cannot go back to the wild to help teach people to respect wildlife.
结论 Rehabers经常使用不能回野外去的动物来帮助教导人们尊重野生动物.
Children and adults learn about wildlife that live in their area.
儿童和成年人了解生活在他们的地区的野生动物。
They also learn about respecting the land so that wild animals can continue to find food and shelter.
他们还学习尊重土地,以便野生动物能够继续寻找食物和住所。
Wildlife rehabbers do important work in caring for injured wild animals and returning many of them to the wild.
野生动物康复者在照顾受伤的野生动物并让许多野生动物返回野外方面做了重要的工作.
You can help rehabbers’ efforts by respecting wildlife and by calling a rehabber if you see an animal in trouble.
如果你看到动物有麻烦, 你可以通过尊重野生生物 和打电话给康复者来帮助康复者的努力。
One phone call might give a wild animal the opportunity to grow up and live a free and healthy life.
一个电话可能会给野生动物一个机会,让他们长大后过上自由而健康的生活.
This adult female great horned owl is not a silent flyer because of a wing injury.
这只成年雌性大角猫头鹰并不是因为翅膀受了伤而无声的飞行器.
The noise she makes while flying warns the animals she needs to hunt for food, so she can never be released.
她飞行时发出的噪声会警告她需要去猎取食物的动物,因此她永远不能被释放.
This predatory bird helps to teach children about animals in their area.
这只掠食性鸟帮助孩子们学习他们所在地区的动物.