本篇短文介紹了亞洲象數(shù)量減少的情況并分析減少的主要原因。
The Asian elephant is one of the world's rarest animals. Unfortunately, its sad condition has not been as well publicized as that of the African elephant. This is because Asian elephant's ivory supplies only a small percentage of the world ivory trade. In fact, we know very little about the Asian elephant. They live in the remote forests of southern Asia and it is therefore very difficult to study them. Most knowledge of Asian elephants is from those that have been captured, or tamed. Asian elephants are easier to tame than African elephants. The elephants you see in the circuses and zoos are nearly always Asian.
亞洲象是世界上稀有動物之一。不幸的是，它們的悲慘狀況還沒有像非洲象一樣得到很好的宣傳。這是因?yàn)閬喼尴蟮南笱澜灰自谑澜缦笱澜灰字袃H僅占了很小的一個百分比。事實(shí)上，我們對亞洲象的了解很少。它們生活在亞洲南部很偏遠(yuǎn)的一個森林中，因此對它們的研究工作就非常困難。我們所了解亞洲象大部分的知識是從那些被捕獲或者被馴服的亞洲象中得來的。亞洲象比非洲象容易馴服。你在馬戲團(tuán)或者動物園中看到的大象幾乎都是亞洲象。 ——譯文來自: veraaaa