关于动物的作文英语合集20篇

In our country, the number of wild animals is becoming smaller and smaller. Some of them are even dying outThe dangerous methods we human being has taken are as follows:

We have been cutting the trees to build houses, so the home of animals is intruded and they have to find new places to live. In this process, some of them died in the new environment.

The abuse of pesticide has also been endangering the life of wild animals.

In addition, in order to earn money, people have been killing the rare wild animals.

In that we have realized the threat of our behavior to our best friends, we should take actions to change such a condition by taking the following methods:

We should protect the wild animal by protecting the environment that they live in and protect themselves, not to hurt them. At the same time, we should establish more natural reserves for the wild animals.

I believe as long as work together to protect the wild animals, our life will be more and more comfortable.

Everyone knows animals are our friends.So we should be friendly to them.But some people kill the rare animals,such as pandas,golden monkeys and so on in order to get money.It will cause these animals to disappear soon.I think our government should punish those people severely who kill the rare animals.It is our duty to protect the endangered animals.

Last week, I saw a very impressive documentary about panda. A professor

studied panda in the early 1980s went to the wild life and kept trace of wild

giant panda for many years. As a result, he found that it was human being that

made these lovely animals die out. At that time, many people believed that giant

panda became less because of the low rate of newborn babies. But it was not

true. People cut trees for making profit at that time. Panda lose homeland and

they lacked of food. Thanks to these valuable data, the government took the

policy to protect the animals. So today, the number of giant panda is

increasing. People realize the importance of protecting the environment and it

is the best way to protect wild animals, they are the indispensable part of the

nature.

My favourite animal is dog.They are very cute.There are many kinds of dogs.Some of them are big and some of them are small,some of them are white and some of them are black.I like the big dogs,like a bulldog,because they can protect me.I dont have anydog yet,because my mum does not like dogs.she think they are dangrous.I Will buy a dog after I become older.

It is one of the most precious animals. Their bodies are very long, about one zhang（丈）. Dolphins live in the sea. They live on fish, shrimps and so on.

Dolphins are very friendly and peaceful. They never attack people. Instead, they have saved many people in danger in the past years. How helpful the dolphins are!

Dolphins are very clever. People often train them so that they can give a dolphin show which brings people a lot of happiness and joy.

Unluckily, the number of dolphins is getting smaller and smaller. Because of water pollution, there is less and less space for dolphins. Many people make money by hunting dolphins. If we don’t protect them, maybe we’ll lose our good friends one day. As a student, I hope more and more people should take actions to protect dolphins.

Many animals are in danger of dying out。 As is shown in the chart， we can see the number of animal species decreases faster and faster and this trend will continue。 From 1980 to 2010， at least 1 million animal species have disappeared。 Worse still， more and more wild animals are in great danger。 It is not a piece of sensational news; it is a fact， a harsh reality。 Unfortunately， we may not see these animals in the near future。

From the second picture， we can find some reasons。 Why is the number of animal species declining year by year？ Apparently animals have become victims of fashion industry。 Animal skin has been used to make fashionable clothes and these clothes sell at a high price。 So some greedy people begin to kill animals in a large quantity。 This irresponsible behavior not only breaks the balance of nature but also endangers the living environment of human beings。

As far as I am concerned， something must be done to stop this illegal action。 We believe "no buying， no killing"。 First， we must make concerning laws to protect these animals in danger。 Second， we must take some measures to protect animals effectively。 Animals are our friends and part of our environment。 Third， we should raise peoples awareness to protect animals and our environment。 In this way， we can build a harmonious society and ensure a sustainable development。

In my home, there is a very lovely small animals, that is my mother gave me gift.

It was wearing a white and black clothes, looks like a gentleman; He has two small eyes, always hovering, at night, became "emerald"; Its ears are very cute, sharp, like a small mountain.

It is very naughty fish. Once I give it a fish, in your hands in it eyes want to, it also unmoved. I was a little angry said to it: "small cute, why dont you eat?" I think, it may be afraid to eat. So I deliberately turn head, have never thought, my hands move, see it quickly put the fish away, and then to eat with relish. Is really naughty!

It loved playing thread, of course. On one occasion, a bag of thread accidentally fell out. It saw the colorful small ball, curious. Then walk in the past, it is a little bit afraid of points with the hand a offline, see string, no reaction, then dare to play. But it more play more crazy, running around in the house, rolling on the ground, put in the room at sixes and sevens. Finally, get tired of it, to see so disorderly, hurriedly came, to my name, as if he were to me for help. Cant, dont want to be mother knew, had to help it to pick up the pieces.

Now you know who it is? It is a lovely cat. It is my friend! My joys and sorrows, will tell it, share my happiness with it. Every time I test is bad, they will also use wool rub my legs, as if to say again: "master, dont lose heart, trying to point, you will succeed next time!" When I get good grades, the kitten again as if to say: "dont be proud!" So, I have the "partners" and feel happy!

在我家里，有一只非常可爱的小动物，那是我妈妈送给我的礼物。

它穿着一身白黑相间的衣服，看起来就像一位绅士;他有两只小眼睛，总是转来转去，一到晚上，便成了"绿宝石”;它的耳朵也十分可爱，尖尖的，就像一座小山峰。

它吃鱼时很顽皮。有一次我给它一条鱼，拿在手上在它眼睛要来晃去，它也无动于衷。我便有点生气的对它说：“小可爱，你怎么不吃啊?”我想啊，它可能害怕不敢吃。于是，我故意扭转头，没想到，我手中一动，只见它飞快地把鱼叼走了，然后津津有味地吃起来。真是顽皮!

它最爱玩得当然是线团。有一次，袋子里的线团不小心掉了出来。它看见这五颜六色的小圆球，感到很好奇。便走过去，它有点害怕的用手点一下线团，见线团没什么反应，便渐渐敢玩了。可是它越玩越疯狂，在屋里跑来跑去，在地上滚来滚去，把屋里弄得乱七八糟。最后，它玩累了，看到这么乱，连忙走过来，对着我叫，像是在向我求救。没办法，要不想被妈妈知道，只好帮它收拾残局。

现在你知道它是谁了吗?它就是可爱的小猫。它还是我的朋友呢!我的喜怒哀乐，都会告诉它，与它分享我的快乐。每当我考试不好，小猫就会用毛蹭我的腿，好像再说：“主人，别灰心，在努力点，下次你一定会成功的!”当我取得好成绩，小猫又好像在说：“别骄傲哟!”所以，我拥有这个“伙伴”而感到开心!

I am the most intelligent Marine. Good magic. Very fun and very friendly to you humans Marine mammals, is a small and streamlined shape toothed cetaceans. My body like a fish, and general body length 4 ~ 5 meters, back 靑 black, with a white belly. On small fish. Shrimp. Squid, etc.

I am a swimmer and can swim 15 meters per second, can the fishing boat far behind, swimming, the entire surface of the skin can do Ann water waves, become and the shape of the wave is consistent; Reducing the friction of 90% of the water.

I can show, such as: playing table tennis. Jump fire, people often training my brain, to train it to complete the underwater operation. A trained dolphins can trace of the investigation to the fish. Can undertake port alert, rescue the victims and wrecked plane for sea and underwater in service.

Want to know me!

参考翻译

我是海洋中最聪明.善良神奇.极富情趣而且对你们人类十分友好的海洋哺乳动物，是一种身材小且呈流线型的齿鲸类。我体型似鱼，，一般体长4~5米以下，背部呈靑黑色，腹部呈白色。以小鱼.小虾.乌贼等为食。

我是游泳能手，每秒可游15米，能把渔船远远的抛在后面，游泳时，整个皮肤表面能安水流做波浪起伏，变得和水流波的形状一致;这就减少了90%的水的摩擦力。

我还能表演节目，如：打乒乓球.跳火圈等，人们常常训练我的大脑，来训练它完成水下作业。训练过的海豚可以侦查到鱼群的行踪。还能承担海港警戒，抢救遇难者以及寻找海上失事的飞机和海底沉船等在务。

想认识我吧!

[介绍海洋动物英语作文

If you ask me what the little animals I like, then Ill tell you that the little animal I like is the puppy.

My dogs hair is snow white, like snow falling on the dog like, pretty very beautiful! A pair of eyes watery, as if just under a spring rain, rain fell into his eyes like; Long tail, if the dust on the street, you can use the tail to sweep the dust clean.

Once I came home from school, I went to see the puppy. I bite it to eat it, but it not only does not eat, but also motionless, as if what was annoying. The original, the dog will have a baby ... ...

Baby is born, I love the dog more. But did not last long, the unfortunate thing happened. One day, the dog squatting in the mothers parking position, when my mother came back, my mother could not see, the dog fell asleep, do not know. At this time, my mother parked in that position. At this time, the dog was killed by her mother. See this scene, I was sad, continuous cry for 2 hours.

At this time, my feelings about the dog is still so deep, I feel reluctant to love the dogs death. Puppy i love you.

I have got two baby cats. they are very beautiful. One is yellow.

The other is white. they are very lovely. the yellow cat is very naughty.

He likes to play with people. He often runs here and there.

His favourite game is playing with balls, ropes and stones. But the white cat is very gentle.

She likes to wash her face. And she doesn′t like to play with people.

She often jumps onto my knees. I like to give her a bath.

Oh, my baby cats bring me much happiness. We are very good friends. I love them.

My home have a cute little turtle. It was 10 years old my birthday sister-in-law from dad learned I like small animals, he gave me a rarity -- little turtle.

Holding a pair of small tortoise has a big and heavy shell, limbs and exquisite petite feet with shrinkage, a pair of small eyes turned away all day.

The turtle is very greedy. Eat every day to designated to eat on time, also must eat meat every meal, if which day which a meal not eat meat to it, it will break into a furious rage, flutters to where is the water from the tank. So I on time every day to feed it, at half past six in the morning for a small lean lean, half three pieces of lean lean, twelve o clock noon in the afternoon at half past two piece of lean lean, under the care of me, little turtle gradually grew up ready to grow.

Mom and dad took me to the zoo yesterday, and I will change the calendar to get up at 7:00 in the morning, nature, had changed to 7:10 feed the turtle. Tired of I tired to sleep sleep in the night, was asleep incense, suddenly, only heard a loud "crash". Ah! My head, I sat up, glanced at his watch "day!" It is time to the feed the turtle, I to the tank in a look, little turtle? I looked at around, little turtle was walking in my bed! And the turtle is hungry, it had to climb out of a fish tank, hit on my head to my protest!

Since then, I think I dare not again late feed the turtle, lovely small tortoise! You say I love you or hate you?

My lovely little turtle!

我家有一只可爱的小乌龟。那还是我10岁生日小姑从爸爸那里得知我喜欢小动物，便送了我一只稀罕物——小乌龟。

小乌龟托着一副有大又重的龟壳，四肢玲珑娇小的脚时伸时缩，一双小小的眼睛整天不停地转。

小乌龟十分贪吃。每天吃饭要按时定点吃饭，每顿饭还必须吃瘦肉，如果哪一天的哪一顿没有给它吃肉，它就会大发雷霆，把鱼缸中的水扑腾到哪里都是。所以我天天准时去喂它，早晨六点半要为一块小瘦肉，中午十二点半三块瘦肉，下午六点半二块瘦肉，在我的精心呵护下，小乌龟渐渐的长大了长得壮实了。

昨天爸爸妈妈带我去了动物园，我便把作息表改成早上7：00起床，自然喂小乌龟就改到7：10分了。浑身疲惫的我劳累地一觉就睡到了大天亮，正睡着香呢，突然，只听见一声“咣当”。呀!我的头，我坐了起来,看了一眼表“天啊!”到时间该喂小乌龟了，我向鱼缸里一瞧，小乌龟呢?我四处打量了一下，原来小乌龟正在我床上散步呢!敢情小乌龟饿了，它竟然从鱼缸里爬了出来，砸在我头上向我抗议呢!

从此以后，我想我可不敢再晚喂小乌龟了，可爱的小乌龟呀!你说说我是喜欢你呢，还是讨厌你呢?

我可爱的小乌龟!

A thought-provoking dialogue between the mother elephant and her own child appears in the first picture. Having growing his teeth, the young elephant is eager to share the exciting news with his mother. However, after repeating his words several times, there is still no response coming from the mother. Meanwhile, the attractive caption in the second photo reads: no trade, no kill.

The above pictures unveil a hazard posed to wildlife due to the expanding scale of world commercial hunting. At least two fundamental factors could contribute to this phenomenon. The industry of commercial hunting have undergone a booming expansion (along with the growing public awareness of the merits of wildlife, which makes/), making hunting unusually profitable. Worse still, lacking knowledge regarding the significance of ecological balance, some people take the gun to chase animals insatiably (and thus cause a severe threat to all life in the world). Apparently, this trend will surely in turn endanger humankind in the long run.

(On no account should we turn a blind eye to such things.//All these factors above make it crucial to take drastic measures to protect the wildlife.) Accordingly, governments all over the world are supposed to unite to work out effective measures against commercial hunting. Additionally, people should be educated from childhood to cultivate the awareness that we and the rare wild animals share the same precious planet. I do believe a harmonious relationship between the wildlife and human beings is awaiting us if we make every effort to promote wildlife protection both nationally and internationally.

As we all know , animals are mans friends.Nowadays with the development of industry ,a lot of animals are in danger of extinction. We should protect animals so that we can live in a better environment .To protect them ,our government should forbid people to kill them , and for most of us ,we can plant more trees and call for protecting anmimals habitats.Only if we protect animals well can we have a bright future!

The monkey also called marmosets, and its name, the aye-aye only roughly the size of a finger. Refers to the monkey around 10-12 cm tall, weighs about 80-80 grams. The largest but also 35 centimeters. Its tail is long and fluffy, generally up to 20-35 cm, like a small broom.

Monkeys like to live in the rainforest, hiding in the nest to sleep during the day and night activities alone or in pairs. So how the aye-aye foraging? At night, with the frequent "alas alas," cries, secretive refers to the monkey out, hunting tree of worm is refers to the monkey handy trick, start, walking along the trunk, gently tip close to the bark, when they hear or smell anything, then stop and sparkling view, which in turn was violently dig bite bark, with his unique fingers dig eggs in the trunk, until to dig out the hidden grubs, and then, out of his fingers, fill in the entry grubs squashed. The aye-aye mainly in a variety of fruits, nuts and insects. Due to monkey likes to eat eggs on the bark or dead, larvae, and small beetles, its eating habits, much like the trees doctors - woodpecker, so have the effect of the woodpecker. So close to the island of Madagascar on the African continent have a woodpecker, here was replaced by a monkey.

Mother marmoset pregnancy for 140 ~ 150 days, every child 1 ~ 3. Marmosets family, male marmosets plays the role of "good husband good father". Female marmosets, after giving birth to children only embrace when feeding them for a while and take care of children work all fell upon the male marmosets. Males marmosets as little marmoset clean themselves, by the time the little marmoset no longer eat milk, it will be personally feeding the kids eat

Now marmoset habitat reduction, degradation and human hunting is the main factor to the dangerous animals. Because the monkey evolution so far still with original appearance and characteristics of life, so is very scarce. Marmosets throughout the monkeys in the family, only a dozen in all over the world. Many Malagasy believe that monkeys will bring them bad luck. If you see a refers to the monkey, they will kill it at once. On the other hand, refers to the monkeys live in the rainforest has been cut down, so they also face the danger of extinction. Let us act together, to protect endangered animals.

指猴又叫绒猴，和它的名字一样，指猴只有人的一根手指差不多大小。指猴的身高10—12厘米左右，重约80—100克。最大的也不过35厘米左右。它尾巴又长又蓬松，一般可达20—35厘米，就像一把小扫帚。

指猴喜欢栖息在雨林中，白天藏身于巢窝中睡觉，夜间单独或成对出来活动。那么指猴又是如何觅食的呢?入夜了，随着一声声“唉唉”的叫声，诡秘的指猴出动了，猎取树缝中的小虫是指猴得心应手的把戏，开始，轻轻沿着树干行走，鼻尖紧贴树皮，当听到或嗅到什么，便停下来凝神观看，继而便猛烈地掘咬树皮，用它特有的手指抠树干中的虫卵，直到挖出隐藏着的蛴螬，然后，伸出指头，把蛴螬压扁填入口中。指猴主要以各种水果、坚果和昆虫为食。由于指猴最喜欢吃树皮下或枯树上虫卵，幼虫，小甲虫，它的进食习性，颇像树木医生--啄木鸟，因此起到了啄木鸟的作用。所以在离马达加斯加岛很近的非洲大陆有啄木鸟，这里则被指猴所代替了。

母绒猴孕期为140～150天左右，每胎1～3仔。狨猴家族里，雄狨猴充当着“贤夫良父”的角色。雌狨猴生下子女后，只在喂奶时抱上它们一小会儿，照料孩子的工作全落在雄狨猴身上。雄狨猴会为小狨猴清洗身体，等到小狨猴不再吃奶时，它还会亲自喂小家伙们进食

现在绒猴栖息环境的缩小、恶化和人为的捕猎是使这种动物致危的主要因素。由于此种猴类进化至此仍然带有原始的面貌及生活特征，所以极为稀缺。狨猴在整个猴类家族中，在全世界范围中仅仅只有十几种。许多马达加斯加人认为指猴会给他们带来恶运。如果看到一只指猴，他们会立刻把它杀死。另外，指猴赖以生存的雨林遭到了砍伐，所以它们也面临着灭绝的危险。让我们一起行动起来,保护濒危动物!

My rabbit

I have a pretty rabbit. She wears a white coat. She has two red eyes. She has Long ears. My rabbit likes carrots and vegetables. But it doesn’t like taking a bath. She can run and jump. It likes plating and eating. I have a small football and my rabbit likes playing football with me very much.

I like my rabbit. Do you like my rabbit?

哥哥家养了一只小狗狗，因为小狗长得很壮实，所以哥哥给小狗狗取名叫“肉肉”。

Brother a small domesticated dog, because the dog is very strong, so the elder brother to the little dog named "meat".

肉肉长得非常漂亮，人见人爱。它全身长着黑色的皮毛，那条翘着的小尾巴，总是不停地摇来摇去，那双水晶似的大眼睛，总是充满着好奇，不停地到处张望。

I was very pretty, cute. It was a long black coat, that raised a small tail, always keep the to and fro, pair of crystal like eyes, always full of curiosity, constantly looking around.

有一天，我去哥哥家玩。一到门口，肉肉就站在门口迎接我，我就扮着鬼脸想去摸它，肉肉吓得立即逃走了。晚上，我和哥哥在床上玩游戏，肉肉走过来，把头放在床边，哥哥就帮它按摩，还用梳子梳理着它的毛发。肉肉很通人性，不停地摇摆着小尾巴，好像在说：“谢谢小主人，谢谢小主人。”。

One day, I went to my brothers house. One to the door, I stand at the door to greet me, I made a face to touch it, I immediately scared away. At night, my brother and I play games on the bed, I walked over, put his head on the edge of the bed, my brother will help it massage, also comb his hair. The meat is the human nature, rocking the small tail, as if to say: "thank you, master, for the master.".

因为肉肉，我更喜欢去哥哥家玩了。

Because meat meat, I like his brother play.

nimals are natural resources that people have wasted all through our history. Animals have been killed for their fur and feathers, for food, for sport, and simply because they were in the way. Thousands of kinds of animals have disappeared from the earth forever. Hundreds more are on the danger list today. About 170 kinds in the United States alone are considered in danger.

Why should people care? Because we need animals, and because once they are gone, there will never be any more. Animals are more than just beautiful or interesting. They are more than just a source of food. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature. Destroying one kind of animal can create many problems. For example, when farmers killed large numbers of hawks, the farmers stores of corn and grain were destroyed by rats and mice. Why? Because hawks eat rats and mice, with no hawks to keep down their numbers, the rats and mice multiplied quickly.

Luckily, some people are working to help save the animals. Some groups raise money to let people know about the problem. And they try to get the governments to pass laws protecting animals in danger. Quite a few countries have passed laws. These laws forbid the killing of any animal or planton the danger list. Slowly, the number of some animals in danger is growing.

动物是自然资源，在整个历史过程中，人类一直在糟蹋着这种资源。人们杀死动物，获得它们的皮毛，把它们当作食物或运动方式，或者只是因为它们碍事。成千上万种动物已经从这个地球上永远地消失了。现在另外上百种动物也上了濒危动物名单。仅荚国大概就有170种被认为处于危险当中。

为什么人们应该感到担忧呢?因为我们需要动物，因为它们一旦消失，就永远不会再出现。动物不仅仅是漂亮或有趣。它们不仅仅是人类的食物来源。在维持自然平衡中，每种动物都有其作用。毁灭某种动物会导致许多问题。比如，农民们如果杀死为数众多的鹰，他们谷物和粮食的仓库就会受到老鼠和田鼠的破坏。 为什么?因为鹰吃鼠类，没有鹰控制它们的数量，鼠类就会迅速繁殖。

幸运的是，有些人正在努力帮助拯救这些动物。有些组织筹钱以便人们了解这一问题。他们也努力使政府通过保护濒危动物的法律。很多国家已经通过了法律。这些法

律禁止杀害濒危名单上的动植物。某些濒危动物的数目正在慢慢地不断上升。

呼吁保护动物英语作文1

Many wild animals are facing the danger of extinction, because the environment that they are living in has changed greatly. For example, with the developmet of cities, the using of insecticide and serious pollution, their living areas have become narrowcr and narrower. Many of the wild animals, now are confronted with food crisis. At the same time, man is killing off species just for getting their fur, skin, horns, teeth and meat.

In order to protect our resources of ecology, people should realize that the loss of any species is at least the loss of source of knowledge and a source of natural beauty. There fore, measures of the following should be taken: pollution standards are made to keepdown poisons; killing off certain rare species is prohibited; national parks should be set up as wild life, reserves.Only if we human beings take some drastic measures can wild animals be preserved.

呼吁保护动物英语作文2

Animal Protection

Animal is the friend of mankind, is an important part of the natural ecosystem. It is human precious naturalresources. Protect animals to maintain natural ecological balance has important significance.

But now many animals are facing the danger of extinction.With the development of society, pesticide used and serious pollution, city sewage .The wild animal living area is becoming increasingly narrow. Many of the animal is facing a food crisis currently . Whats more, in order to obtain wild animal of precious materials, humans are killing animals.

In order to maintain ecological balance, we should take some effective measures to protect animals.We should develop pollution standards to reduce emission of toxic substances, prevent the killing of some rare animals strictly. We can also establish a national park as a wild animal protection area. The most important thing is to improve people s knowledge of animal care.

Let us join hands in creating a harmonious coexistence of human and animal beautiful homes!

呼吁保护动物英语作文3

Animals Need Protecting

Animals are natural resources that people have wasted all through our history. Animals have been killed for their fur and feathers, for food, for sport, and simply because they were in the way. Thousands of kinds of animals have disappeared from the earth forever. Hundreds more are on the danger list today. About 170 kinds in the United States alone are considered in danger.

Why should people careBecause we need animals, and because once they are gone, there will never be any more. Animals are more than just beautiful or interesting. They are more than just a source of food. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature. Destroying one kind of animal can create many problems. For example, when

farmers killed large numbers of hawks, the farmers stores of corn and grain were destroyed by rats and mice. WhyBecause hawks eat rats and mice, with no hawks to keep down their numbers, the rats and mice multiplied quickly.

Luckily, some people are working to help save the animals. Some groups raise money to let people know about the problem. And they try to get the governments to pass laws protecting animals in danger. Quite a few countries have passed laws. These laws forbid the killing of any animal or plant on the danger list. Slowly, the number of some animals in danger is growing.

My home have a clever dog flow li, it has a beautiful name - the ball ball.

Ball ball body white as snow, two big eyes, nose and smooth detour, tail short, chopped far look like a small ball.

It particularly fond of sleep. One time, I take a shower, its in the sitting room east and west, then walk to a bedside table, really boring lives had a good stretch, belly up, carefree lying on the ground. Surface tilted his head to left, two small claw tightly embrace together, very intoxicated with close my eyes and fell asleep. When I take a shower, when he was looking for it to play, see it was fast asleep.

It is not only love to sleep, also very greedy. Remember once, we eat the delicious ribs, the ball ball saw this, he swallowed the mouth water, see it, I really dont have the heart to, had to throw a bone to the ground, the dog jumped up, quickly, he grabbed the bones, climbed to the bed, the Wolf to eat it, eat with relish.

This is my familys good sleep and greedy ball ball, do you like it?

我家有一只聪明怜俐的小狗，它有一个好听的名字—球球。

球球全身毛白如雪，铜铃大眼，鼻子滑漉漉的，尾巴短短的，远看就像一个小茸球。

它特别喜欢睡觉。有一次，我去洗澡，它在客厅东走走，西逛逛，实在无聊了便走到床头柜下，抻了个懒腰，肚皮朝上，悠然自得的躺在地上。小脑袋向左面歪着，两只小爪紧紧的抱在一起，很陶醉的闭上眼睛睡着了。等我洗完澡，正想找它玩的时候，看到它已经呼呼大睡了。

它不但爱睡觉，还很贪吃。记得有一次，我们吃着香喷喷的排骨，球球看见了，馋得直流口水，看到它的样子，我真的不忍心，只好向地上抛了一块骨头，小狗跳了起来，迅速地叼住了骨头，爬到了床底下，狼吞虎咽地吃了起来，吃得津津有味。

这就是我们家贪吃好睡的球球，你们喜欢它吗?

Orcas are not related to whales at all, other than being ocean-dwelling mammals. Rather, they are close kin to dolphins. While it was believed that they were a single species, recent research indicates that they may, in fact, be comprised of several different species of Orca. You can find them in every ocean in the world, though they tend to favor the colder waters around Antarctica and the North Atlantic or Pacific. The only predator they possess is humankind. While theres a deadly standoff between the two species, Orcas proliferate in the wild, and have an incredible life span. The males usually live as long as sixty or seventy years, while the females—who are excluded from the sometimes-violent competition for mates—may live a hundred years or more in the wild.

虽名虎鲸，但不同于海洋其他哺乳动物，非鲸目，海豚科的近亲。此前一直认为虎鲸只有一种，但最近的调查显示虎鲸种类繁多。部分虎鲸会终年停留于南极、大西洋北部和太平洋等温度较低的海域，但总体来看，它们的活动范围几乎覆盖全世界水域。它们堪称海上霸王，唯一的天敌也只有人类了。虎鲸全年都可以交配，数量庞大，雄鲸的平均寿命在60到70年左右，野生雌鲸不同于雄鲸经常参与猎杀食物，寿命可达100年甚至更长。

Theyve been observed reaching speeds of around 30 miles per hour, although some Orcas may utilize much greater bursts of speed, based upon their favored prey. Resident pods in the Pacific Northwest have shown a decided preference for salmonids—specifically, Chinook salmon. This presents a conflict with the goals of companies that rely on high yields of salmon for profit. Several communities of killer whale seem to favor beach and ice floe ambush approaches, snatching seals and walruses or even sea birds from their resting places. Others, located in the Southern Hemisphere, take up the challenge of hunting sharks in the open sea, as well as feeding on species of rays and other fish abundant in the cold southern waters.

虎鲸约时速30英里，当然也有爆发力更强的，为了追捕中意的猎物，时速可以更快。太平洋西北海域的虎鲸族群偏爱三文鱼，尤其是大鳞三文鱼。这就和沿岸经营三文鱼生意的公司产生一定的利益冲突。虎鲸族群喜欢在浮冰区伏击猎物，捕杀海豹、海象或者在这里歇脚的海鸟。在南半球海域里，有些虎鲸还会在公海里捕杀鲨鱼，也会以鳐和其他鱼类为食。

A triple bacon cheeseburger seems like a heart attack on a plate.

三层奶酪咸肉汉堡感觉吃完很容易让人突发心脏病。

So how can polar bears thrive on their version, seal blubber?

那么,北极熊是如何处理这些高热量食物的呢?

Turns out theyve stocked up on genes that let them clear fats from their blood.

结果显示它们储存在遗传基因里的信息使得它们能够清除血脂。

Thats according to a study in the journal Cell.

这是根据《细胞》杂志上的一篇研究得出的结论。

Polar bears are well adapted to life on the sea ice.

北极熊非常适应在浮冰上的生活。

Up to half their body weights fat, which gives them extra insulation and buoyancy, and provides them with a ready source of energy.

几乎占它们身重一半的脂肪足以使它们保暖并且维持体力，提供给它们一种易转化的能量。

But how can an animal so fat also be so fit?

但一种动物怎么能又胖又健康?

Researchers compared the genomes of polar bears with those of brown bears, and found that polar bears have accumulated genetic changes that boost their heart health and fat metabolism.

研究人员们通过比较北极熊和棕熊的基因，发现北极熊的基因组中积累了不少有利于心脏健康和脂肪代谢的遗传突变。

One gene in particular, called ApoB, helps move cholesterol out of the blood—where it causes problems in humans—and into cells.

特别是编码为载脂蛋白B的基因有助于清除血液中对人类有害的胆固醇转变成细胞代谢。

These genomic changes happened quickly, evolutionarily speaking.

这些遗传变化从进化的角度来讲发生的十分快。

Polar bears and brown bears diverged from a common ancestor less than half a million years ago.

北极熊和棕熊都来自于同一个祖先，它们是在大约50万年前左右开始向不同分支进化。

But if that seems super speedy, the ability to digest lactose didnt spread through human populations until we domesticated cows, just 10,000 years ago.

但是如果这种变化看上去十分快速的话，消化乳糖的酶逐渐进化到人类各个种群中也还是发生在大概1万年前我们可以驯化乳牛之后。

A moooving testament to the power of natural selection.

这是自然选择力量的证明。