一种传染性面部癌症正在塔斯马尼亚袋獾中迅速蔓延。
An infectious facial cancer is spreading rapidly among Tasmanian devils.
癌症初期，袋獾的面部生出肿瘤。
袋獾是一种只有澳洲有的动物。
Tasmanian Devils are a kind of animal that only live in Australia.
大蜘蛛尸罗的叫声实际上是袋獾的叫声。
他举了个例子，目前有一种罕见的癌症正在威胁濒危物种袋獾。
As an example, he described an unusual cancer that is spreading among endangered marsupials called Tasmanian devils.
他呼吁人们像保护袋獾那样去防止这种逆转录病毒在考拉之间的蔓延。
He has called for support akin to that given to help protect the devils to stop the spread of the koala retrovirus.
传染性面部肿瘤在袋獾中迅速蔓延，人们相信，其结果是导致这种世界上最大的袋类食肉动物的数量降低了60%以上。
An infectious facial cancer is spreading rapidly among Tasmanian devils and populations of the world's largest marsupial predator are believed to have fallen by more than 60% as a result.
得了这种怪病之后，袋獾会首先在嘴部周围出现毒瘤，然后肿瘤会慢慢扩散至颈部，有时候还会出现在身体的其它部位。
Devil Facial Tumour Disease causes cancers to appear first in and around the mouth before spreading down the neck and, sometimes, into the rest of the body.
这一举措将使袋獾受到人们的保护，从而免受其它危险因素(如因为水质污染或土地开发而使其栖息地遭到破坏等)的干扰。
Threatened status would give the devils protection from other perils, such as habitat destruction caused by water pollution or land development.
在世界各地的大多数犬类身上都有发现CTVT，科学家认为它与澳大利亚濒危动物袋獾身上见到的一种传染性的、但更加致命的肿瘤相似。
Found in most canine breeds throughout the world, the scientists think CTVT is very similar to the transmissible but more fatal cancer seen in the endangered Tasmanian devils of Australia.
一些最初的调查结果显示，有数万只的袋獾因为感染上了一种名为“袋獾面部肿瘤”(Devil Facial TumorDisease)的疾病而死亡。
The results of the first investigative survey revealed that tens of thousands of Tasmanian devils had died from a disease now known as devil Facial Tumor disease.
对此，斯科特表示，这种疾病“已经给野生的袋獾种群造成了非常严重的影响，但科学家们相信，在眼下这段时期内，袋獾还不会从塔斯马尼亚的栖息地灭绝。
The disease "is having a very serious impact on the wild population, but at this stage we don't believe that the species is headed for extinction," Scott said.
自从上个世纪90年代末，澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚岛的野生动物官员们就陆续接到一些不同寻常的报告，这些报告显示，一些被称之为“塔斯马尼亚恶魔”的有袋动物——袋獾的面部都出现了严重溃烂的伤口。
Starting in the late 1990s Tasmanian wildlife authorities began receiving unusual reports: Some of the island's Tasmanian devils were spied with their faces marred by ulcerated sores.
自从上个世纪90年代末，澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚岛的野生动物官员们就陆续接到一些不同寻常的报告，这些报告显示，一些被称之为“塔斯马尼亚恶魔”的有袋动物——袋獾的面部都出现了严重溃烂的伤口。
Starting in the late 1990s Tasmanian wildlife authorities began receiving unusual reports: Some of the island's Tasmanian devils were spied with their faces marred by ulcerated sores.
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