VOA常速英语:Two Motherless Tiger Cubs Are Brought Together at San Diego Zoo

The birth of a critically endangered Sumatran tiger cub in July at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington was celebrated but less than three weeks later his mother De Mai began displaying aggressive behaviors toward his whenever he tried to nurse.
华盛顿的史密森国家动物园庆祝一只七月出生的濒临灭绝的苏门答腊虎幼崽，但不到三个星期后，每当幼虎试图喝奶时。他的母亲De Mai就开始表现出进攻性行为。

Zoo keepers began feeding the cub a special formula to supplement his diet and keep reintroducing to his mother but when it became obvious that De Mai would not accept him,the zoo’s animal care staff decided to transfer him to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park which has a motherless Bengal tiger cub about the same age.
动物园的饲养员开始用特殊配方喂养幼崽，以补充他的饮食所需，然后一直让他母亲和他重新建立关系，但De Mai根本不接受他，于动物园的动物护理人员决定调他到圣地亚哥野生动物公园，那里有一个没有母亲的孟加拉幼虎年龄与他相仿。

Monday morning, keepers prepared the cub for his cross-country journey.
星期一早上，饲养员为幼虎准备了一次跨越国家的旅行。

Got yourself, got myself, just need a tiger. Let’s go and get him.
你在了，我也在了，就差小虎了，走吧，接上他。

Settled in a roomy kennel the cub and his keepers took a nonstop flight to San Diego where he could grow up with a surrogate brother.
幼虎被安置在狗窝里，他们饲养员讲带他进行一次无间断的飞行，他将在圣地亚哥和他的代理兄长一起长大。

A California cub had been confiscated from a smuggler and brought to the zoo where it was also being bottled fed.
一只加利福尼亚小虎崽从一名走私犯处没收，并被带到动物园，在那里它也用奶瓶喂养他。

The introduction went very well, in fact, we initially had them where they just had visual access and they could kind of see each other and smell each other and vocalize each other between the bars,not necessarily where they can get together.
互相介绍进行的的很顺利，我们先对他们进行了目检，然后他们可以看到对方，互相闻对方，他们隔着栅栏互相对话，彼此进行交流。

And after an hour of that we went ahead and put them together and instantly they bonded.You can see them playing, get along well. It’s the best thing for both of them to be together.
过了一个小时，我们把它们放在一起，他们立刻建立起了关系。你可以看到他们一起玩耍，相处得很好。这对他们两个来说都是很好的。

Guests at this Safari Park can watch the cubs in direct through the glass walls of the animal care center’s nursery.
这个野生动物园的游客可以直接通过动物保育中心保育室的玻璃墙观看幼崽。

Zoo officials hopes they’ll grow up as siblings and learn to be tigers together.
动物园负责人希望他们能成为兄弟，并能一起成长为真正的老虎。

I’m Faith Lapidus, VOA News.
美国之音，Faith Lapidus报道。