NOT long ago, the news was full of reports about two male Humboldt penguins at a zoo in Germany that adopted an egg, hatched it and reared the chick together.

前不久，许多媒体报道了德国动物园两只雄性洪堡企鹅，它们如何共同领养了一枚鸡蛋，然后又共同哺育孵化出小鸡。

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They continue to look for better ways to increase egg production and to improve chick survival rates.

他们一直在寻找更好的方式去增加蛋的产量和改进幼禽的存活率。

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It seemed to be taking advantage of the protection of the Silo, like a chick inside an egg.

看来它是用来保护青贮窖的，就好像是鸡蛋里面的小鸡。

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The site is critical for the survival of several species of endangered waterbirds, to which the key threat is large-scale egg and chick collection by villagers.

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If the egg which is now being incubated hatches, a chick can be expected in the next five or six weeks.

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Ideally, when a chick becomes a candidate to become an egg-laying hen, it is put in a clean environment with clean water and feed, he said.

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