社交媒体助长了中国对“狨猴”的非法狂热 [英国媒体]

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The “year of the monkey” dawned recently in China– and with it, a trendy new exotic pet. Pygmy marmosets are all the rage among China’s wealthy elite, who are forgoing legality and snapping up baby monkeys at around $4,500 (￡3,200) each. The internet has exploded with photos of the so-called “thumb monkeys,” while conservationists and primate scientists are lamenting the situation.

最近一段时间，中国开始进入猴年，伴随而来的是一个新的时髦的异国宠物。侏儒狨（译者注:栖息于南美洲的小型长尾猴，参考自《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》和百度百科）在中国富裕的精英中正在流行，他们正不惜违法，以每只4500美元（3200英镑）左右的价钱抢购婴猴。互联网上这种所谓“拇指猴”的照片爆炸式地增多，而与此同时，生态环境保护者和研究灵长类动物的科学家为此感到痛惜。

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Weighing in at just over 100 grams (equivalent to about 20 US nickels), pygmy marmosets (Cebuella pygmaea) are the world’s smallest monkeys. They’re native to the rainforests of South America’s western Amazon Basin, where they live in small groups of around a dozen individuals. They aren’t considered threatened because of their large range and relative prence, but they are in decline, according to the IUCN, primarily due to the pet trade.

重量仅超过100克（相当于大约20个美国五分钱的镍币），侏儒狨（拉丁文学名:倭狨）是世界上最小的猴子。它们原产于南美洲的亚马逊盆地西部，在那里，它们生活在一个有约一打成员的小群体中。他们不被认为是受到威胁的，因为他们大范围的存在和相对的普遍，但根据“国际自然与自然资源保护联合会”的消息，它们在减少，主要是由于宠物贸易。

Not all of China’s “thumb monkeys” are imported, Shanee said, and China may have established domestic breeding stock. However, these marmosets also stand little chance of survival, as the people who buy them often do not have the ability or knowledge to adequately care for them.

并不是所有中国的“拇指猴”都是进口的，Shanee说，中国可能已经建立了国内的种用家畜。然而，这些狨也没有多少幸存的机会，因为购买它们的人们往往没有能力或知识来足够照顾他们。


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Renewoods 2d ago
In their home country in Amazon of Brazil it is illegal for wildlife to be kept as pets. Poor things ending up as status pets in China, they all end up dying . This country needs to change its medi mindset regarding respect for animals.

 在这些侏儒狨的家乡巴西，野生动物被禁止作为宠物来养。可怜的小家伙们最后都以宠物的身份死在了中国。这个国家需要改变它那尚且停留在中世纪的对待动物的野蛮态度。

Nickji 2d ago
"20 US nickels"? Never seen one so this isn't much help!

“20个美国五分钱镍币”？这注释一点用都没有因为我一个（镍币）都没见过！

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Frank Friedrich Kling 2d ago
Friends, I will share with you the most terrifying experience of my life. The first and last time I visited China, while in Beijing exploring the city, I stumbled across a building easily the size of a stadium. My curiosity was piqued due to the wailing and crying from inside the building so I investigated the source of the sounds, and what I saw was beyond words. In this gargantuan building, cages were everywhere jam packed with every imaginable animal from the four corners of the Earth- monkeys, turtles, dogs, cats, bears, snakes, lizards, deer, frogs, chimps, a virtual Noah's Arc, but not for salvation. All of these innocent animals were being butchered for exotic food or "medicine". My God, I thought I was experiencing Hell. The suffering of these animals, the blood, the crying was beyond anything you can possibly imagine, and the traders and buyers could care less. The only concern was MONEY. Now, I am not an emotional person, but I was so shocked and horrified that I broke down. I subsequently returned to my hotel room and I never left for one week until it was time to leave the country. I continue to have nightmares over this and my faith in humanity has been decimated. I ask you, what can we do to stop this insanity? The politicians don't seem to care so what do we do or is it hopeless already? This quote from the movie The Matrix seems to sum things up nicely: "I would like to share a revelation I had during my time among the human race. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you are not true mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium- a symbiotic relationship- with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and replicate without any natural limits to population growth until every natural resource is consumed and all other life is extinguished. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same destructive pattern- a virus. Human beings are a pernicious disease- a metastasizing cancer on Mother Earth. You are a plague and we are the cure."

朋友们，我想和你们分享一下我一生中最恐怖的经历。在我生平唯----次造访中国的时候，有一天我在北京探险，我偶然发现了一个差不多有一个体育场大小的建筑物。我的好奇心被从这座建筑物中传来的哀嚎痛哭声所激起，于是我沿着声音的来源探索下去，接下来我看到了难以言表的景象。在这座庞大的建筑物中，挤满了装着来自地球各个角落里你所能想象的所有动物的笼子----猴子，乌龟，狗，猫，熊，蛇，蜥蜴，鹿，青蛙，猩猩等等，简直是一个虚拟的诺亚方舟，然而却并非为了拯救。这些无辜的动物们被屠杀，被做成异国情调的菜肴或者是为了”制药“。我的天，那时我简直觉得自己身处地狱。那些动物所受的痛苦，所流的鲜血，所发的哭泣超出了你能想象的一切，而那些商人和买家根本不在乎。他们只在乎钱。说真的，我不算是个情绪化的人，但是那时我被惊吓得近乎崩溃。我赶回了旅馆并且在接下来的一周里都没出过门直到离开中国。我长时间被关于那天的梦魇所困扰而且我对人类的信念从此大大削弱了。我想问问大家，我们究竟该如何阻止这样的疯狂？警察看起来根本不在乎所以我们能做什么又或者说，我们根本无能为力？《黑客帝国》里这句活说的很好：”我想和你们分享一个我从人类获得的心得。我在试图给你们（人类）分类时发现了它。我意识到你们根本不算是哺乳动物。这颗星球上的每一种哺乳动物都会出自本能地和自然维持生态平衡，而你们人类却并非如此。你们每到一处就毫无节制地繁衍直到耗尽所有的自然资源，造成其他物种的毁灭。这颗星球上和你们一样的生物只有一种----病毒。对于地球母亲来说，你们是扩散性的癌细胞。你们是瘟疫而我们就是解药。“

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quarrytone  Frank Friedrich Kling 2d ago
Could you please explain where this horrendous stadium sized all species meat market is in Beijing? You see I live in Beijing (best part of a decade and travelled all over the city) and have never heard of it. Nor has the head of a foreign animal rights NGO based in Beijing who is a friend of mine.
 He really wants this information so he can investigate. That is if it exists.

不好意思，能请你告知那个贩卖许多野生动物的体育馆大小的建筑在哪？我住在北京（最好的地段之一，也走遍了这个城市），但我从没听过这种事。我认识一个北京的野生动物保护组织的朋友，他想了解这些消息并调查事实真相，假如这是真的。

Renewoods  Frank Friedrich Kling 2d ago
Thank you for sharing this, people meed to know these facts from people on the ground. Friends of mine were almost mobbed in a village in China when they tried to save some cats from being skinned alive.

感谢你分享你的经历，人类需要了解这些真相。
我的朋友们曾经在中国农村，因为试图拯救那些要被剥皮的猫而差点被围攻。

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Seasheep  Renewoods 2d ago
people meed to know these facts from people on the ground.

只有亲自去当地看了以后你才能知道真相。

Except they are not "facts" are they? Just something written on the interwebz by some random bod - The poster after asks where it is as he lives there and knows nothing of it - ( or he could be another random bod on the interwebz )

除非这根本就不是“事实”，不是吗？只不过是某个家伙在网上随意写的东西——上面有人问那个体育场大小的建筑在哪里，因为他就住在北京可是从没听说过（或者说，他也是网上的又一个随意发问的人）

Facts? don't make me laugh :)

 事实？别搞笑啊 :)。

KBroowny 2d ago
And the Chinese whinge about the rest of the world not doing the right thing when they would be the most illegal country in the world, buy anything and eat anything the Chinese way of screwing the planet up.

中国已成为世界上最违法的国家，他还不停地抱怨其他国家没做对事。他们啥都买，啥都吃，中国走在让地球枯竭的路上。

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onegift 2d ago
“People [in Peru] think that if it is ok for a Chinese or an American to have a monkey pet, why can they not get one in the local market?”

“秘鲁人表示如果中国人或者美国人可以养宠物猴的话，那为什么秘鲁人不可以在当地市场买一只养？”

1. blame other people for your own fault - If I have done something wrong, that is because I was taught/guided/forced by others. Always blame the buyers more than the sellers.

  别找人为你的错背锅——“如果我做错了事，那是因为我是被别人教唆/怂恿/逼迫的。”总是骂那些买家多过骂卖家。

2. Even though both Chinese and American are mentioned in this comment by the researcher, this article deliberately neglects the "American" part and put all blame on the Chinese.

  尽管中美在报道评论中都被提到，但是文章选择性眼瞎忽视了“美国”的部分，还把全部责任都推给中国。

Frank Friedrich Kling  onegift 1d ago
The American part in China's sale of illegal wildlife????????? Please.

 美国有像中国那样非法销售野生动物？？？别逗我。

onegift 2d ago
Am I getting this correct? The Warwick study is about exotic animal trade in the US, and yet the article deliberately forgets to mention that, instead trying to trick its readers into thinking that this is all about China.

 我打开的方式不对？这个研究明明讲的是美国的外来动物贸易，怎么特意不提美国，非要带节奏骗读者以为这都是讲中国的。

I double checked and this article has got no link from the "US news" section, even though it is also about the US.

虽然是跟美国有关的新闻，但我仔细查了这篇文章，但是“美国新闻”栏里都没有发现这篇文章的链接。

Guardian, just how low can you get?

《卫报》你这么low图啥？！

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quarrytone  onegift 2d ago
The Guardian is heading tabloid. It seeks increasingly to pander to stereotypes. Like misleading people into thinking air pollution in China is the worst in the world, while air brushing India and Pakistan which both have it 3 times worse.

 卫报作为报纸行业的带头大哥，却越来越追求迎合读者的那些老套口味（不黑中国浑身难受）。比如误导人们认为中国的环境污染是世界上最糟糕的然而而印度和巴基斯坦的空气污染是中国的三倍。

The Guardian article that reported that inconvenient fact was buried, while those pointing at China and air pollution feature on the home page 3 times a month.

 卫报的文章把令人尴尬的事实掩盖起来，却在一个月之内3次把那些针对中国及其空气污染的专题放在其报纸首页。

ID7769048 3d ago
Very sad. Again, animal trafficers need life sentences. The trade needs stopping now not later. The buyers need a very serious education lesson and a massive fine if not a jail sentence too.

伐（bu）开心。动物走私犯就该被判终身监禁。这种交易就该立刻叫停并且杜绝再次发生。如果那些购买者没有被抓去坐牢（捡肥皂）的话，那就让他们接受非常严厉的教育批评和一笔巨额的罚款。

Peter McClure  ID7769048 3d ago
Yes, and if part of the popularity comes from people posting photos on Facebook, it shouldn't be too hard to track those people down and charge them.

是的，并且假如（小猴吱）的人气部分来自于人们把照片上传到 非死不可上（脸书），那么这就不难追（踪）到那些人并且控告（heiheihei）他们了。