They dart(飞奔，猛冲) across playgrounds on dainty(轻巧的，精致的) paws, sneak into back yard coop(鸡舍，笼子)s to eat suburban(郊区的) chickens and kill more than a million native animals every day.
它们迈着轻巧的爪子飞奔穿过操场，溜进后院的鸡舍吃掉郊区饲养的鸡，每天杀死超过一百万只本土动物。
The European red fox – a wily(狡猾的) invasive species(入侵物种) – is “one of the most impactful threats” for native mammals, says Sarah Legge, a professor at Charles Darwin University(查尔斯·达尔文大学) and author of a new draft plan to curb(遏制，控制) their predation(捕食).
欧洲红狐——一种狡猾的入侵物种——是本土哺乳动物“最具破坏性的威胁之一”，查尔斯·达尔文大学教授、一份旨在遏制其捕食行为的新计划草案的作者莎拉·莱格说。
“Australia has the worst record of mammal extinctions of any country in the world – around 40 species – and the overwhelming cause for those extinctions has been predation by foxes and cats(澳大利亚的哺乳动物灭绝记录全球最差——约40种——而压倒性原因是狐狸和猫的捕食。),” Legge says.
“澳大利亚的哺乳动物灭绝记录是全球最糟糕的——大约40个物种——而导致这些灭绝的压倒性原因是狐狸和猫的捕食，”莱格说。