We would play in the hay, the constant tweeting of the hatchlings—a constant background symphony.

我们会在干草中嬉戏，孵出小鸟不停地鸣叫，这是不间断背景交响乐。

Eggs and hatchlings, clumps of juveniles and then—further out—adults.

从恐龙蛋到刚出壳新生命，从一群幼崽到更往后成年恐龙。

It eats 4-5 kilos of flesh every day, nearly the weight of two hatchlings combined.

每天它要吃掉四到五公斤肉，这概相当于两只幼龙重量。

A well-constructed egg makes it that much more likely that a hatchling will survive.

一合理恐龙蛋会使幼崽成活率增加。

In these colonies, a queen lays the eggs, and worker bees called nurses care for the resulting hatchlings.

在这些蜂群中，蜂王产卵，被称为看护工蜂责照料孵化出来幼蜂。

The mother returns and the hatchling announces, " You are a bird, and you are my mother" .

终于，鸟妈妈回来了，小鸟说：" 啊，你才是我妈妈！"

The hatchling is tiny compared to its gigantic parents.

刚孵出幼崽与父母相比是如此瘦小。

Stuck in the shovel's jaws, the hatchling appears doomed until, miraculously, the shovel lifts the bird back to its nest.

被卡在挖掘机铲斗里小鸟似乎在劫难逃，但铲斗居然奇迹般地将它送回了鸟巢。

Thousands of defenseless hatchlings are let loose into a world of fierce predators.

数以千计没有保护幼崽就这样来到了充满凶残肉食者世界。

Most meat eaters keep their distance from the hatchlings of an apex predator, but not this reptile.

多数肉食动物都会远离顶级捕食者幼崽，风神翼龙则不然。

It starts as a tiny hatchling in the Gulf of Mexico or the Mediterranean Sea, no bigger than a human eyelash.

它在地中海或是墨西哥湾中孵化幼年，形态极小，与人类眼睫毛一般小。

From a substantial distance, a T. Rex can hold in on prey or pick up their hatchlings' distinct scent.

从很远距离，霸王龙便能辨别猎物或者感知到它们幼崽特殊气味。

Carnivores gulp down virtually every hatchling. But a few do make it.

捕食者几乎吃完了所有小海龟。不过还是有几只幸存下来。

For a hatchling, the situation is even more dire. They lack even the most basic early-warning system that danger is present.

对于幼兽而言，情况就更糟了。它们连最基本预警系统都没有。

When the hatchlings run out of yolk from their own eggs, they eat the other eggs and hatchlings until one baby shark from each oviduct remains.

当幼体用光了自己卵中卵黄，它们就会吃掉其它卵和幼体直到每个输卵管里只剩下一个小鲨鱼。

Being a hatchling, you don't have horns, you don't have plates, you don't have any kind of armor on the body.

刚孵化幼兽，没有角和鳞片，身体上没有任何甲壳。

One in 1,000 hatchlings last their first year, and only one in 5,000 makes it to sexual maturity which is about 20, 25 years old.

每一千只幼仔中就有一只能活到第一年，而每五千只中只有一只能活到 20、25 岁左右性成熟期。

A single Sauroposeidon lays hundreds of eggs each season, but many are eaten before they hatch, and most hatchlings are devoured by hungry carnivores.

每只波塞冬龙每个季节产好几百个蛋，但是很多都在还没孵化前就被吃了，而且孵化出来小恐龙多也被饥饿食肉动物吞食。

The hatchling heads off in search of its missing mother, asking a kitten, a hen, a dog, and a cow the burning question: " Are you my mother" ?

于是它出发去寻找妈妈故事。一路上，小鸟急切地向小猫、小鸡、小狗，还有一头奶牛问同一个问题：" 你是我妈妈吗？"

He commended the grace of their straight, silent swimming, their camouflage mottlings of yellow, grey and olive green, and the jewelled beauty of new, damp hatchlings no bigger than the span of his hand.

他欣赏鳄鱼那笔直、无声泳行雅姿，他欣赏鳄鱼那黄色、灰色和橄榄绿相间伪装斑，他欣赏那如宝石美人般、刚刚出生、浑身湿漉漉、与他手臂等长幼鳄。