研究报告的作者卡罗尔·祖布博士告诉《每日电讯报》说:“同样的规律肯定适用于所有季节性换毛的哺乳动物和鸟类。”
“According to studies on showshoe hares during periods when hares are colour mismatched weekly survival probability decreases by 3.3 - 6.5 percent. This seems not to be a big effect, but the cumulative effect over winter can seriously influence mortality of the species.
“根据对白靴兔的研究,当白靴兔的颜色不能融入环境时,它们单周的生存几率下降了3.3%-6.5%。这听起来似乎影响不大,但是整个冬天的累积效应将会严重影响这类物种的生存。”
“It is very probable that in the near future white weasels and stoats will disappear completely from many areas of Northern Europe and North America.
“在不远的未来,北欧和北美许多地区的白鼬很可能将完全消失。”
"They will either be replaced by brown morphs or they will evolve and moult later in the season, being only partly white for a relatively short period.”
“它们要么被棕色的变种鼬取代,要么进化成更晚换毛、白毛期相对更短的白鼬,而且在白毛期时,身上也只有部分白毛。”
Researchers also carried out tests using toys of brown and white-coated weasels to see if the colours were actually making a difference to predators.
研究人员还用黄鼬和白鼬玩具做了测试,看颜色是否对捕食者有影响。
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