栖字的意思

一只金刚鹦鹉从栖枝上冲他尖叫。

A macaw screeched at him from its perch.

鸟儿栖在树上。

Birds roost in [on] the trees.

大致说来，犀牛是一种定栖动物。

Rhinos are largely sedentary animals.

两栖动物的皮肤是透水的。

The skin of amphibians is permeable to water.

一些底栖鱼如鳕鱼会向下游，试图逃脱。

Some groundfish, like cod, swims down to try to break out.

它们在血液中储存氧气的能力也比陆栖动物强。

They also have a greater capacity than land animals to store oxygen in their blood.

为什么那位演讲者要选择这种两栖动物作为公众生物的代表呢？

Why does the speaker choose that amphibian as her representative of a public creature?

一些两栖动物通过在地下深处的休眠期内完成加速发育以适应干旱环境。

Some amphibians adapt to arid environments by completing accelerated development with resting stages deep underground.

关于鸟类飞行的起源，传统上提出了两种对立的假设：“地栖说”和“树栖说”。

Two opposing scenarios, the "arboreal" hypothesis and the "cursorial" hypothesis, have traditionally been put forward concerning the origins of bird flight.

一个类似的策略——加速发展与休息阶段相结合——也使两栖动物得以栖息在沙漠中。

A similar strategy—accelerated development combined with a resting stage—has also allowed amphibians to inhabit deserts.

可以肯定的是，这些水陆两栖物种的数据出现在接近三角坐标中间的位置，位于水栖海龟和陆栖乌龟的坐标点之间。

Sure enough, these amphibious species show up on the triangular graph approximately half way between the "wet cluster" of sea turtles and the "dry cluster" of land tortoises.

像大多数的两栖动物一样，它们从幼年的“蝌蚪”状态蜕变成成年的形式——蝾螈这个物种除外，众所周知，它一生都处于幼年状态。

Like most amphibians these begin life in a juvenile "tadpole" state, then metamorphose into the adult form — except for one species, the axolotl, which famously lives its entire life as a juvenile.

因此，你可能会想，现代陆龟可能从早期的陆栖时代就一直呆在陆地上，就像大多数哺乳动物，他们中的一些返回海洋之后所做的那样。

You might think, therefore, that modem land tortoises have probably stayed on land ever since those early terrestrial times, as most mammals did after a few of them went back to the sea.

底栖章鱼中的交接腕通常是第三个右臂。

The hectocotylus in benthic octopuses is usually the third right arm.

那是因为它们有巢可栖，有歌可唱。

It is because they have nests that they sing.

水栖动物获得池塘，陆栖动物获得某种笼子。

Aquatic animals get tanks, land animals get enclosures of some kind.

罗伊兹海角群栖地的阿德利企鹅。

Adelie penguins at the Cape Royds rookery.

两栖协同作战的时代远未结束

THE AMPHIBIOUS ERA IS FAR FROM OVER

栖在树枝上的红脚鲣鸟。

Red-Footed Booby on a Tree branch.

最初的飞行动物是首先从树梢滑翔到地面的树栖动物吗？

Were the first flyers arboreal creatures that initially glided from tree tops to the ground?

在印度，大量的栖地流失造成孟加拉虎的数量持续减少。

In India, massive habitat loss continues to devastate Bengal tiger populations.

北美两栖类监测计划是美国最大的青蛙计数系统。

The North American Amphibian Monitoring Program is the country's largest frog-counting system.

北美两栖动物监测中心是美国最大的青蛙统计机构。

The North American Amphibian Monitoring Program is the country's largest frog-counting system.

北美两栖动物监测中心是美国最大的青蛙统计机构。

The North American Amphibian Monitoring Program is the country’s largest frog-counting system.

正是在此次灭绝之前，原始两栖动物第一次爬上了陆地。

Right before the extinction events, the first proto-amphibians made it onto shore.

起初，天气乍凉的时候，这种两栖动物将自己埋在土壤里。

At first this amphibian deals with the cooler days by burying itself in the soil.

但是其它因素也会带来影响：栖地的流失、污染、疾病和入侵的物种。

But other factors have also had an impact: habitat loss, pollution, disease and invasive species.

但是其它因素也会带来影响：栖地的流失、污染、疾病和入侵的物种。

But other factors have also had an impact: habitat loss, pollution, disease and invasive species.