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原来动物们的“颜值”，也跟它们的生存息息相关？
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文章转载自 21英语微商城 21世纪英文报
俗话说的好，爱美之心人皆有之。美丽的事物人人都爱，美貌是一种优势，不仅人类如此，动物界亦是如此。
前阵子“白鲟灭绝”的热门话题引起了广泛重视。商城君发现，评论区里有不少小伙伴们提出了一个“灵魂”拷问：世界上濒危物种有很多，到底该先帮哪个？它们看起来都一样萌啊！！看到萌萌的北极熊顿时就想伸出援手？你真的不是一个人！
难道动物们该不该被保护还要看长相不成？唔，可能还真有这方面的因素……
最近有科学家研究发现，动物们的“颜值”和它们的生存息息相关！如果你也在想这件事，阅读下面的文章吧！When we encounter advertisements encouraging us to save endangered animals, we usually see images of pandas, snow leopards (雪豹) or seals. It’s easy to feel sympathy for a baby seal with big puppy-dog eyes, but conversation efforts shouldn’t be based on how cute an animal is.
你看过濒危动物公益广告吗？它们通常都会用熊猫、雪豹或海豹——这些可爱动物的照片。瞪着萌萌哒大眼睛的小海豹，只看一眼就让人心生同情，但保护动物也要看它们够不够萌么？
A 2020 paper published in The Royal Society Proceedings for Biological Sciences found conservation efforts are heavily focused on vertebrates (脊椎动物) – 75 percent of budgets in Europe are focused on mammals (哺乳动物) and birds alone. Why are other endangered species considered less important? Evidence points to a lack of cuteness.
2020年一项调查研究发现，动物保护工作多集中在脊椎动物身上，而欧洲保护濒危动物75%的预算集中在哺乳动物和鸟类上。为什么不重视其他濒危物种？有证据指出是因为他们没那么“可爱”。
Researchers from the University of Montpellier in France published a study on June 7 in PLOS Biology. They found that fish conservation efforts were biased toward the more attractive species with bright colors and graceful shapes, such as angelfish and butterfly fish.
法国蒙彼利埃大学的研究人员发现，鱼类的保护工作更偏向于那些颜色鲜艳、外形美丽的品种——如扁鲨和蝶鱼。“There is a need for us to make sure that our ‘natural’ aesthetic (审美的) biases do not turn into a bias of conservation effort,”Nicolas Mouquet, one of the paper authors, told EuroNews. “Our study highlights likely important mismatches (不匹配) between potential public support for conservation and the species most in need of this support.”
