神操作！法国主题公园“雇佣”乌鸦捡垃圾_公共英语阅读理解

神操作！法国主题公园“雇佣”乌鸦捡垃圾

公园中总少不了垃圾，尤其是小而难缠的烟头等。法国的一个主题公园想到了一个好办法：训练乌鸦来捡垃圾。上周末开始，6只“出师”的乌鸦已经开始它们的清洁工生涯。乌鸦捡完垃圾扔进垃圾桶后，就能领取到“报酬”。

ScienceAlert网站截图 If you've been paying attention, you know that corvids (crows, rooks and ravens) are remarkably intelligent birds. Now these feathered geniuses have been given a job: six rooks have been trained to pick up rubbish in the Puy du Fou historical theme park in western France.

如果你平时留心的话，应该知道鸦科动物（乌鸦、白嘴鸦和渡鸦）是绝顶聪慧的鸟类。现在这些智商超群的鸟儿们得到了一份工作：6只白嘴鸦接受训练后将在法国西部的历史主题公园“狂人国”捡垃圾。

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Whenever Boubou, Bamboo, Bill, Black, Bricole and Baco deposit a cigarette butt or other small piece of trash in a special receptacle, it dispenses a treat - rewarding the rooks for their efforts.

这6只白嘴鸦的名字分别叫波波、斑布、比尔、布莱克、布里克尔和巴科。它们将烟头或其他垃圾碎屑放到一个特别的容器中，容器就会发放一个小食，来奖赏白嘴鸦的劳动。

The idea came from one of the park's falconers, Christophe Gaborit. As part of the falconry show, crows had already been trained to pick up roses and bring them to a princess - so in the 2000s, Gaborit raised and trained two rooks to do the same with rubbish.