| 文章轉(zhuǎn)載自 21英語微商城 21世紀(jì)英文報 前陣子“白鱘滅絕”的熱門話題引起了廣泛重視。 難道動物們該不該被保護(hù)還要看長相不成？唔，可能還真有這方面的因素…… 最近有科學(xué)家研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，動物們的“顏值”和它們的生存息息相關(guān)！如果你也在想這件事，閱讀下面的文章吧！ When we encounter advertisements encouraging us to save endangered animals, we usually see images of pandas, snow leopards (雪豹) or seals. It’s easy to feel sympathy for a baby seal with big puppy-dog eyes, but conversation efforts shouldn’t be based on how cute an animal is. 你看過瀕危動物公益廣告嗎？它們通常都會用熊貓、雪豹或海豹——這些可愛動物的照片。瞪著萌萌噠大眼睛的小海豹，只看一眼就讓人心生同情，但保護(hù)動物也要看它們夠不夠萌么？
A 2020 paper published in The Royal Society Proceedings for Biological Sciences found conservation efforts are heavily focused on vertebrates (脊椎動物) – 75 percent of budgets in Europe are focused on mammals (哺乳動物) and birds alone. Why are other endangered species considered less important? Evidence points to a lack of cuteness. 2020年一項調(diào)查研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，動物保護(hù)工作多集中在脊椎動物身上，而歐洲保護(hù)瀕危動物75%的預(yù)算集中在哺乳動物和鳥類上。為什么不重視其他瀕危物種？有證據(jù)指出是因為他們沒那么“可愛”。
Researchers from the University of Montpellier in France published a study on June 7 in PLOS Biology. They found that fish conservation efforts were biased toward the more attractive species with bright colors and graceful shapes, such as angelfish and butterfly fish.
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