斐济冠鬣蜥Crested Iguana, Yaduataba Island, Fiji

Crested Iguana, Yaduataba Island, Fiji Islands
冠鬣蜥，亚杜阿塔巴岛，斐济群岛，2003


中文注释：（网友翻译，有待改进，请跟帖发表自己看法）
斐济333个岛屿之一的亚杜阿塔巴岛上，一只稀有的斐济冠鬣蜥在树上仔细观察着四周。冠鬣蜥自1979年被来自岛外的人们发现以来，由于随之引入的例如野猫和黑鼠等外来物种的迅速蔓延，他们的数量正在急剧缩减。

图为国家地理杂志2003年3月刊文章《热点：保护脆弱的生物圈》的未刊发约稿。




英文注释：
Crested Iguana, Yaduataba Island, Fiji Islands, 2003
A rare Fijian crested iguana surveys his surroundings from a tree on Yaduataba Island, one of the 333 islands making up Fiji. Discovered by outsiders in 1979, the crested iguana’s numbers are rapidly dwindling due to the brisk spread of introduced species, such as feral cats and black rats.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hotspots: Preserving Pieces of a Fragile Biosphere," March 2003, National Geographic magazine)









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