象牙喙啄木鸟不像鸟那样大。它的大小和乌鸦差不多，但更华丽。
The ivory-billed woodpecker is not large, as birds go. It is about the size of a crow, but flashier.
从所有种类平均来看，有16%的喙长差异原因可以用温度来解释。
Averaged across all species, temperature explained 16 per cent of beak size variation.
从所有种类平均来看，有16%的喙长差异原因可以用温度来解释。
Averaged across all species, temperature explained 16 per cent of beak size variation.
在一个关于生存的不同寻常的故事中，这只匈牙利鹳装上人工喙后，就重获新生。
In a remarkable story of survival, this Hungarian stork was given a new lease on life after being fitted with an artificial prosthetic beak.
如果托哥巨嘴鸟是在寒冷的爱尔兰进化而来的，它那令人印象深刻的喙部就会比现在小得多了。
If the toco toucan had evolved in chilly Ireland, its impressive bill would have been much more modest.
它有着粗壮的腿、利爪及长有力的长脖子。它的躯干覆盖着毛发状的羽毛，它的喙就像一个长矛。
It had massive legs, taloned claws, and a long, powerful neck. Its body was covered in bristling, hair-like feathers, and its beak resembled a spear.
去年，加拿大安大略布鲁克大学的格伦·塔特索尔发现，托哥巨嘴鸟身体中高达60%的体温都会通过其喙部流失。
Last year Glenn Tattersall of Brock University in Ontario, Canada, found the toco toucan loses up to 60 per cent of its body heat through its beak.
它用喙喝树上的汁液。
为了获得新生活，鹰会用喙撞击岩石，直到它把喙拔出来。
For a new life, the eagle knocks its beak against a rock until it pulls its beak out.
栗嘴巨嘴鸟很大的喙占据了它身体的三分之一长度，但由于其为蜂巢式结构，它并没有看起来那么重。
The giant bill of the chestnut-mandibled toucan makes up a third of the bird's body length, but thanks to a honeycomb structure, it's not as heavy as it looks.
鹦鹉们被分派了一项对智力要求很高的任务，它们要协调爪子和喙，将一份拴在绳子上的零食拉到它们的喙上。
The parrots were given the intellectually demanding task of pulling a snack on a string up to their beaks, using a co-ordinated combination of claws and beak.
随后，乌鸦要不就无视了该对象，要不就把工具丢到一边，然后用喙猛啄该对象——这和用工具觅食有很大不同。
Subsequently, the crows either ignored the object or dropped the tool and pecked at the object—which is very different from using the tool to get access to food.
李奇曼：那是它们的“喙”。
鸟用喙整理它的羽毛。
我们的神明头上长角、或月亮、或海豹鳍、或鹰喙。
Our gods had horns on their heads, or moons, or sealy fins, or the beaks of eagles.
用合成松脂制成的鸟喙也许能让这只鸟重返野外生存。
The beak, which was created from synthetic resin, may allow the bird to return to life in the wild.
羽色、特殊标记以及鸟喙形状等特征在鸟类识别中有很大作用。
Physical characteristics that are important in bird identification include colors, markings, and bill or beak.
身高三英尺、拥有巨喙的渡渡鸟已经成为了“动物灭绝”的标志。
The dodo, a three-foot-tall flightless bird with a great big beak, has become a symbol of extinction.
德国慕尼黑海拉·布伦动物园。鹈鹕在午餐时间用长长的喙捕鱼。
Pelicans try to catch fish with their beaks during lunch time at the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich, Germany.
他们有时会用长喙衔些野草或者一块木头，转着圆圈，击打水面。
They also sometimes pick up weeds or a piece of wood with their beaks, twirl in a circle, and smash the object on the water.
它会来回旋转，挥动翅膀，摇摆尾巴，两毫米厚的鸟喙还会微微翕动。
It rotates around its own axis, flaps its wings, shakes its tail and moves its two-millimeter beak.
它那很长的弯曲的喙就像一个探测器，可以在潜水中寻找到食物。
It uses its long curved bill, equipped with sensitive feelers, to probe for food in shallow waters.
对不同鸟类的观察越仔细，你对多种多样的鸟喙的了解就会更深入。
The more closely you begin to examine different birds, the more familiar you will become with the wide range of bills.
翠鸟流线型的长喙从尖端到头部的直径是逐渐增大的，潜水时会让水流向身后。
Kingfishers wedge themselves into water with a streamlined beak that gradually increases in diameter from tip to head, letting water flow past.
理想的河岸边土壤很松软，这些鸟可以很轻松的用自己喙去凿出适合做窝的地洞。
The ideal riverbank is crumbly enough for the birds to excavate a nesting burrow with their beaks.
7/13河豚下颚肌肉发达，能够像鳄鱼般凶狠，“咔嚓”一声咬断长喙下的猎物。
A boto's jaw muscles can snap its elongated beak down on prey with crocodilian ferocity.
某个性状的选择，比如说喙的大小或者其他别的，取决于控制该性状基因的代代传承。
Selection for a trait, be it beak size or something else, depends on passing down the genes for that trait to offspring.
13/13广角镜头拍摄的长喙、矮胖河豚，提示我们它和鲸有亲缘关系。
This wide-angle shot gives an elongated impression of the stocky boto, hinting at its kinship with whales.
13/13广角镜头拍摄的长喙、矮胖河豚，提示我们它和鲸有亲缘关系。
This wide-angle shot gives an elongated impression of the stocky boto, hinting at its kinship with whales.
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