圣地亞哥動物園為稀有白犀牛寶寶命名

圣地亞哥動物園為稀有白犀牛寶寶命名

A white rhino born last month at San Diego Zoo Safari Park has been named Future for what the calf represents to rhino conservation worldwide, officials said.

上個月在圣地亞哥野生動物園出生的一頭白犀牛被命名為“未來”，因為這頭小犀牛代表了全世界犀牛保護的意義。

The baby is bonding with her mother and frolicking in a maternity yard left wet by recent storms.

這個嬰兒和她的母親親密無間，在被最近的暴風雨弄濕的產房里嬉戲。

“Future’s new favorite thing is mud,” zookeeper Marco Zeno said. “She sees a puddle and she wants to roll in it!”

動物園管理員馬爾科·澤諾說:“未來最受歡迎的新物種是泥巴。”“她看到一個水坑，她想在里面打滾!”

Future is the 100th southern white rhino to be born at the park and the second conceived through artificial insemination. The first, Edward, was born to a different mother in July.

“未來”是在該公園出生的第100頭南方白犀牛，也是第二頭通過人工授精受孕的犀牛。第一個人工授精孩子，愛德華，由另一個母親在七月產出。

The zoo births using frozen sperm are part of efforts to develop knowledge needed to save a subspecies called the northern white rhino, officials said. Only two currently remain and both are female.

官員們說，動物園使用冷凍精子生產的犀牛是為了發(fā)展知識以拯救一種名為北方白犀牛的亞種。目前只剩下兩名，都是女性。

Several other rhino species also are being pushed to toward extinction.

其他幾種犀牛也瀕臨滅絕。

Future was born Nov. 21 to an 11-year-old mother named Amani.

未來出生在11月21日，母親是11歲的阿曼尼。

At 19 days old, the baby weighed 193 pounds. She could weigh 20 times that when fully grown.

19天大時，體重193磅。成年后她的體重可能是這個的20倍。