A wallaby on the loose in Colorado?

科罗拉多州的一只沙袋鼠？

That's the name of the wallaby, Surprise.

这只沙袋鼠的名字叫“惊喜”。

But unlike their close relatives, pregnant swamp wallabies mate again a day or two before they give birth.

但与其近亲不同的是，怀孕的黑尾袋鼠临产前一两天会再次交配。

Kangaroos are definitely wild and dangerous. I think wallabies are safer.

袋鼠绝对是又野又危险的动物。我认为沙袋鼠要安全的多。

Some population groups of the brush-tailed rock wallaby in Warrumbungle National Park have fallen to just 10 animals.

沃伦邦格尔国家公园，有些刷尾岩袋鼠的种群数量已下降到只剩10只。

Whatever evolutionary benefit exists to the swamp wallaby's unusual reproductive strategy remains to be seen.

黑尾袋鼠不寻常的繁化上有何好处，尚有待观察。

Wallabies, they're those little mammals from Australia and they were introduced in Hawaii and now they're wild in Hawaii.

沙袋鼠是来自澳大利亚的哺乳动物，它们被引到夏威夷，现夏威夷是野生动物。

Animals such as Koalas, rock wallabies and a rare tree called the nightcap oak are some of the species to be protected.

考拉、岩袋鼠等动物以及一种名为夜橡树的稀有树木是需要保护的物种。

The intervention, raising small animals in a protected environment until they are large enough to survive predators, has tripled Queensland's wallaby population.

这项干预措施将小动物饲养受保护的环境中，直到它们长大到足以面对捕食者时仍得以生存，这已经使昆士兰州的小袋鼠数量增加了两倍。

Picture a small kangaroo. You're basically seeing something very much like the Australian marsupial called the swamp wallaby.

想象一只小袋鼠。你想到的可能非常接近名为黑尾袋鼠的澳大利亚有袋类动物。

So to recap, in a place that's 8,000 miles away from Australia, people are keeping their eyes peeled for a wayward wallaby.

总而言之，一个距离澳大利亚 8000 英里的地方，人们都留意着一只离家出走的沙袋鼠。

The state's environment minister Matt Kean said giving them this food is one way Australians are trying to help endangered animals like the wallaby.

澳大利亚环境部长马特·基恩(Matt Kean)表示，向它们提供食物是澳大利亚民众帮助袋鼠等濒危动物的一种方式。

It says this is to help the brush-tailed rock wallabies who are likely to survive the fires but have less to eat if their vegetation is burned.

官方表示此举是为了救助很可能大火后幸存的刷尾岩袋鼠，如果大火吞噬了植被，那它们就没什么能吃的了。

" And so, for the first time we were able to actually prove that the swamp wallaby is pregnant its whole life. It's never not pregnant."

“因此，我们第一次能够证实黑尾袋鼠整个一生都怀孕。没有不怀孕的时候。”

In one program, national park employees used helicopters to air drop thousands of kilos of carrots and sweet potatoes to brush-tailed rock wallabies in New South Wales.

一个项目中，国家公园的工作人员利用直升机空投了数千公斤的胡萝卜和红薯给新南威尔士州的岩沙袋鼠。

In one program, national park employees used helicopters to air drop thousands of kilos of carrots and sweet potatoes to brush-tailed rock wallabies in New South Wales (NSW).

一个项目中，国家公园的工作人员用直升机空投了数千公斤的胡萝卜和红薯给新南威尔士州的沙袋鼠。

The wallaby, the possum, the anteater, the armadillo, the peafowl, the pigeon, the bowerbird, the cockatoo, the flamingo--all heard, all were aware that something out of the ordinary was happening.

沙袋鼠，负鼠，食蚁兽，犰狳，孔雀，鸽子，园丁鸟，凤头鹦鹉，火烈鸟——也全听到了，他们全都意识到有些非同寻常的事情正发生。

Right. As you know, Australia has many unique species of animals due to its long geographical isolation, such as kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, wombats, dingoes, possums, platypuses, spiny anteaters and so on.

好的。我们都知道，澳大利亚由于长期的地理隔离，有很多独特的动物物种，比如袋鼠、沙袋鼠、袋熊、澳洲野狗、负鼠、鸭嘴兽、针鼹等。