At the current rate of decline, many of the rain forest animals could become extinct in less than 10 years.
按照目前的下降速度，许多雨林动物不到十年就会绝种。
The Amazon rain forest is home to the highest number of plant and animal species (种类) on Earth.
亚马逊雨林是地球上动植物种类最多的地方。
The piercing cries of the rhinoceros hornbill characterize the Southeast Asian rain forest, as do the unmistakable calls of the gibbons.
犀鸟刺耳的鸣叫，和长臂猿那不会被认错的叫声，象征着东南亚雨林。
Less colorful birds and animals that inhabit the rain forest tend to rely on forms of signaling other than the visual, particularly over long distances.
热带雨林中居住的不那么鲜艳的鸟类和动物，往往依赖于视觉以外的信号形式，尤其是长距离的信号。
Less colorful birds and animals that inhabit the rain forest tend to rely on other forms of signaling other than the visual, particularly over long distances.
生活在雨林中、且色彩并不那么亮丽的鸟类和动物往往依赖于视觉信号以外的其他信号形式，尤其是在传递长途信号的情况下。
Past assessments of the Brazilian rain forest have used satellite images to tally deforested areas, where farmers and ranchers have clear-cut and burned all the trees.
对巴西雨林过去的评估已使用卫星图像来记录被砍伐的地区，那里的农民和牧场主把所有的树都砍光并烧掉了。
One theory behind savanna formation is that wet forest species are unable to withstand the dry season, and thus savanna, rather than rain forest, is favored on the site.
热带草原形成的理论之一，就是湿润的森林物种无法承受旱季，因此这更有利于热带草原，而不是热带雨林的形成。
In this part of the rain forest, therefore, red and orange are the best colors for signaling, and they are the colors used in signals by the ground-walking Australian brush turkey.
因此，在雨林的这个区域，红色和橙色是最好的信号颜色，它们也是澳大利亚丛林火鸡在地面行走时发出信号的颜色。
Very little light filters through the canopy of leaves and branches in a rain forest to reach ground level—or close to the ground—and at those levels the yellow-to-green wavelengths predominate.
在雨林中，很少有光透过树叶和树枝形成的树荫到达地面——或者接近地面——在这些高度上，黄色到绿色的波长占主导地位。
In Mato Grosso, 700 square miles of rain forest was stripped in the last five months of 2007 alone.
仅在2007年的最后5个月，马托格罗索州就失去了700平方英里的热带雨林。
The fungus, a species of Ophiocordyceps, targets carpenterants living high in Thailand's rain forest canopy.
这种真菌，属Ophiocordyceps种，以生活在泰国雨林树冠层的木蚁为目标。
Unlike some environmental issues, rain forest depletion has fortunately received significant public and media attention.
与环境的一些其他问题不同，热带雨林的减少已经幸运地引起了公众与媒体的高度重视。
Yerbe Matte - Straight from the rain forest, this plant has been used for thousand of years to naturally boost energy and focus.
马黛茶——直接从雨林里获得，这种植物用于自然地增加活力和注意力已经有上千年的历史了。
The Lost City of Z, a fabled metropolis of unimagined riches deep in the Amazon rain forest, has eluded explorers for centuries.
城市Z是亚马逊雨林里传说中的一个富有的古城。
The area is almost all rain forest and until recent decades was one of South America’s least populated and most inaccessible areas.
这个地区几乎全是热带雨林，直到最近几十年，还是南美洲人口最少和人迹罕至的的地区。
Anyone can see a clear-cut rain forest and know that something was lost, but on the surface, a living sea and a dead one look much the same.
所有人都能在看到热带雨林被砍伐的同时感到失去了什么，但一片生机勃勃的海域和一片死气沉沉的海域从表面看来没什么两样。
They soon realized they were looking at the largest rain forest in Southern Africa, and one that had previously been completely unknown to science.
很快他们认识到自己观察的是非洲南部最大的一片热带雨林，而这在之前的科学界中是完全未知的。
A new species of armored, wood-eating catfish (pictured underwater) found in the Amazon rain forest feeds on a fallen tree in the Santa Ana River in Peru in 2006.
当2006年科学家在秘鲁的亚马逊雨林发现这种盔甲食木鲶鱼时，它正在啃食一棵倒在圣安娜河中的枯木。
We assumed that this growth of old trees is pristine rain forest because the only way we know how to manage a forest is to clear the trees, and these weren't clear-cut.
我们之所以认为这片老树是原始雨林，是因为我们自己所知道的唯一的管理树木的方式就是把树砍掉，而这里没有明显的砍伐痕迹。
The rich dust that falls from the sky, and the rain storms caused by that dust picking up moisture during it's transoceanic journey both fertilize the Amazon rain forest.
这些从天而降的肥沃土壤以及由携带尘土的暖湿气流所带来的暴雨滋润了亚马逊雨林。
Biologists at the University of washing-ton observed the behavior of paper wasps (Mischocyttarus mastigorphorus) in the Costa Rican rain forest and then measured the size of their brains.
华盛顿大学的生物学家观察了哥斯达黎加热带雨林中的一种黄蜂(mischocyttarusmastigorphorus)的行为，并测量了它们大脑的大小。
The gunk on the beak of this satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus minor) is plant matter, which he mashed up to paint his bower's inner sanctum in a rain forest in Queensland, Australia.
这只缎蓝园丁鸟(Ptilonorhynchusviolaceusminor)嘴上粘粘的东西是种植物。在澳大利亚昆士兰的雨林里，园丁鸟把这种植物涂在他们的巢穴最里面的密室里。
Here in Mato Grasso, 700 square miles of rain forest was stripped in the last five months of 2007 alone, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, which tracks vanishing forests.
据追踪消失森林的巴西国家空间研究所(Brazil ' s NationalInstitutefor SpaceResearch)说，在马托·格罗索，仅在2007年最后五个月，就有700平方英里雨林被砍光。
Here in Mato Grasso, 700 square miles of rain forest was stripped in the last five months of 2007 alone, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, which tracks vanishing forests.
据追踪消失森林的巴西国家空间研究所(Brazil ' s NationalInstitutefor SpaceResearch)说，在马托·格罗索，仅在2007年最后五个月，就有700平方英里雨林被砍光。
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