
Jojo the rabbit-detecting(探测的) dog is working eight days on, two days off, running up to 20km a day chasing rabbits in the south-west of Bon Bon reserve in South Australia’s arid(干旱的) centre.
兔子探测犬乔乔上八天班、休两天,每天最多跑20公里,在南澳大利亚干旱中部邦邦保护区的西南部追逐兔子。
“She’s being kept very busy,” says Dr Pat Taggart, an ecologist(生态学家) with Bush Heritage Australia(澳大利亚丛林遗产组织), a conservation body that owns the former sheep property.
“她一直非常忙碌,”澳大利亚丛林遗产组织(Bush Heritage Australia)的生态学家帕特·塔格特博士说。该保护组织拥有这片曾经的牧羊场。
“I don’t actually think she has ever caught one. Her job is to scare them back into the burrows(洞穴).”
“我觉得她其实从没抓到过一只。她的任务是把它们吓回洞穴里。”
From 24 to 200 million
从24只到2亿只
Reservoirs of rabbits
兔子蓄水池