一些生物学家意识到给新物种命名有利可图，因而开始了关于一种中美洲的猴子的命名权利的竞标争夺战。
Realising that naming a new species could be lucrative, some biologists initiated a bidding war over the right to name a Central American monkey.
真是一大讽刺：到处都有生物正在日趋灭绝，而我们甚至都无法期望对这些正游向湮没的大多数物种命名。
What an irony: that life is being extinguished everywhere, and we cannot even hope to name most of those creatures swimming towards oblivion.
“当你为一个新物种命名你很珍视它，但它却消失的那么快，怎么可能对它的消失没有感觉呢，”他说。
"When you name a new species you're attached to it, and when that species disappears so quickly it's impossible not to have feelings associated with that," he said.
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