Tagged Penguins 带标记企鹅健康受影响
[font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][p=30, 2, left][audio]http://language.chinadaily.com.cn/bbc/media_english/assets_8452674/me_penguin_report_110113_me_penguin_report_au_bb.mp3[/audio][/p][p=30, 2, left]Background: 生物学家多年来一直通过给企鹅做标记的方法来监视企鹅的行踪。法国科学家近日指出，此举动不仅会给企鹅的健康带来危害，而且还对已收集到的有关气候变化的数据产生质疑。[/p][p=30, 2, left]For decades scientists have been following penguins by putting[b]bands[/b] around their [b]flippers[/b].[/p][p=30, 2, left]This allows individual birds to be identified at a distance.[/p][/font][color=#333333][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=13px]The latest study, reported in the journal Nature, confirms it. Scientists from Strasbourg University followed a [b]colony[/b] of king penguins for ten years.[/size][/font][/color][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][p=30, 2, left]But there have been [b]concerns[/b]that flipper bands might [b]harm[/b]the birds by slowing them down as they swim.[/p]
[p=30, 2, left]Birds fitted with bands died younger, started [b]breeding[/b] later in the year, took longer to forage for food and over all raised about 40 per cent fewer [b]chicks[/b].[/p][p=30, 2, left]The researchers suggest that using flipper bands would now be[b]unethical[/b] in most situations.[/p][p=30, 2, left]Scientists in the field would now have to find other [b]tagging[/b] methods but in the meantime there are also concerns that some data gathered on penguins down the years, in this ecological crucial part of the planet, may now be [b]worthless[/b].[/p][/font] band n 带, 箍
flipper n 脚蹼,鸭脚板
colony n (动植物的)群体, 集群
forage for 搜查 寻找
tagging 标记
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