We received a double-crested cormorant a few days ago.

几天前我们收到了一只双冠獾。

Damin usually sets off in the late afternoon and gets the cormorants ready for work.

大民通常下午晚些时候动身，并准备好捕鱼用的鸬鹚。

Li is one of the cleanest rivers in China, a favorite spot for fishermen with their trained cormorants.

漓江是中国最清澈的河流之一，是捕鱼者和他们训练有素的鸬鹚最爱的捕鱼点。

But in the mid-1800s, a bird called the guanay cormorant was considered the most valuable in the world!

但十九世纪中叶，一种被称冠鸬鹚的鸟则被公认是世界上最具价值的动物！

On the tips of other trees, long-tailed cormorants, Madagascan bee-eaters and kingfishers perched, looking for food.

其他树尖上，长尾鸬鹚、马达加斯加食蜂鸟和翠鸟栖息着，寻找食物。

A cormorant may be looking for lunch, but chasing a porcupine puffer fish is all about fun.

鸬鹚也许寻找午餐，但追逐一只剌鲀纯属是了好玩。

It's said the cormorants can keep a tally of the fish they catch, at least up to seven.

据说鸬鹚能够记住它们捕获的鱼的数目，至少能记住七条。

A stock image of China is a fisherman and his cormorant on a placid lake. The reality is different.

人们脑海中的中国印象是平静湖面上的渔民和他的鸬鹚。现实却大相径庭。

These days, competition for modern fishing techniques, means the Huangs can't make a living from traditional cormorant fishing alone.

而如今，现代捕鱼技术的激烈竞争意味着使黄老汉已不能仅靠鸬鹚捕鱼这一传统的手段谋生了。

From the time it first hatched, each of these cormorants has been reared to a life of obedience to its master.

从出生的那一刻起，每一个鸬鹚就开始被训练成。

The cormorants bring the fish back to the boat. The fish are then taken and thrown into a big basket by Damin.

鸬鹚把鱼带回到船上。鱼被取出来，扔进大民的一个大筐里。

Cormorants don't need to fly away from threats, so selection has removed the need for big wings and breastbones.

鸬鹚不需要飞离威胁，因此自然选择消除了对大翅膀和胸骨的需求。

But while the guano boom was great for agriculture, it was bad news for the guanay cormorant and other seabirds that called the islands home.

虽然鸟粪农业生产带来了巨大的收益，但对于居住这些岛屿上的冠鸬鹚及其它海鸟来说，这却是一个坏消息。

A few decades later, Peru started protecting the remaining cormorants — it's one of the first examples of a government stepping in to protect a natural resource.

又过了数十年，秘鲁开始保护剩余的冠鸬鹚——这是政府涉足保护自然资源的先例之一。

Researchers sequenced the Galapagos cormorant's genome to find out how its flightlessness evolved They found changes in the function of hair-like cellular structures called cilia.

研究人员对加拉帕戈斯鸬鹚的基因组进行了测序，以了解其不会飞的能力是如何进化而来的。他们发现了称纤毛的毛发状细胞结构的功能发生了变化。

He flew across the beach in his usual untidy, lopsided fashion, shrieking a few insults along the way at any cormorants that looked smaller than him.

他像往常一样凌乱、不平衡地飞过海滩，沿途对任何看起来比他小的獾尖叫了几声。

Once a tree toad nearly gobbled me up, and if I ran out from the shelter of the bushes the gulls and cormorants swooped down upon me.

有一次一只树蟾差点把我吞掉，如果我从灌木丛的庇护所里跑出来，海鸥和鸬鹚就会猛扑过来。

The source of these outrages is known, and if they are repeated I have Mr. Holmes's authority for saying that the whole story concerning the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant will be given to the public.

这些暴行的根源是众所周知的， 如果它们再次发生， 我有福尔摩斯先生的权威说， 关于政治家、灯塔和训练有素的鸬鹚的整个故事将被公之于众。