约翰?瑟布贾纳森知道,自人类首次冒险从树上直接落入鳄鱼渲腾的沼泽中以来,他不可能终结人们对鳄鱼的恐惧。但在他为野生动物保护协会工作的20多年岁月里,他比其他人更勤于冒险。他欣赏鳄鱼那笔直、无声的泳行雅姿,他欣赏鳄鱼那黄色、灰色和橄榄绿相间的伪装斑,他欣赏那如宝石美人般的、刚刚出生、浑身湿漉漉的、与他的手臂等长的幼鳄。他强调鳄鱼文化的重要性,甚至着迷于好运守护神中国龙,使草地变绿的古埃及水神。他称颂鳄鱼的漂亮,当鳄鱼们在暖和的烂泥中懒洋洋地晒太阳,或在舒适的长草坡上,一只鳄鱼的前足趴在另一只鳄鱼的背上时,他拍摄它们。他提醒人们,大多数鳄鱼宁愿吃鱼或软体动物而不愿吃农夫。大多数鳄鱼敏感、甚至胆小。
He also warned the world how scarce they were. Before he began to catalogue them as apostgraduate, drawing up in 1988 an action plan to save them, all 23 species of crocodilianswere threatened or declining. Their numbers had been destroyed by man s hatred and thehandbag trade. Only a few years ago, exploring the Brazilian Amazon, Mr Thorbjarnarsonfound black cayman hunted indiscriminately, like fish.Patrolling the mouth of the Yangzi in 1997, where swamps had been turned into urban sprawlor rice fields, he counted only 120 Chinese alligators still in the wild. Here he began anintensive strategy of egg-collecting, captive rearing in the Bronx Zoo, and release. To hisdelight, the alligators from the Bronx remembered what to do.
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