寒星物语

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Woman Swimming, Berlin
Photograph by Lynn Johnson

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

Neurobiologist Constance Scharff finds inspiration swimming near her Berlin home. Her discoveries trace a thread woven through all creatures: "The genetic hardware a bird uses to learn to sing probably isn’t far from what a mouse uses to learn to run a maze, and what you use to learn to speak."

See more photographs from the February 2009 feature story "Darwin’s Legacy."

译文:

游泳的女人,柏林
摄影:Lynn Johnson

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神经生物学家Constance Scharff在她位于柏林的寓所游泳时找到了灵感。她的研究描绘了所有动物之间的相互联系：“鸟类用来学习鸣唱的基因片断可能和老鼠用来学习走迷宫、你用来学说话的部分差不多。”

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Stallions Fighting, South Dakota
Photograph by Melissa Farlow

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Two stallions fight at a wild horse conservation center in South Dakota. It’s an equine echo of an ongoing struggle across the western United States, where mustangs compete for space with ranching and energy development.

See more photographs from the February 2009 feature story "Wild Horses."

译文:

种马打架,南达科他
摄影:Melissa Farlow

本月每日一图的主题是：国家地理杂志专题

两匹种马在南达科他的野马保护中心里打架。这是马在美国西部不断斗争的一个缩影，在那里野马为争夺牧场和活动空间而相互竞争。

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Newborn Weigh-In, India
Photograph by Lynn Johnson 

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

Founded in 1970, the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (also known as Jamkhed, for the city where it is based) delivers preventive care to poor people who otherwise would get none. The project has served 300 villages and 500,000 people in Maharashtra state, including a newborn baby, fully swaddled and suspended for his weigh-in by village health worker Leelabai Amte.

See more photographs from the December 2008 feature story "Community Health."

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在称体重的婴儿,印度
摄影:Lynn Johnson

本月每日一图的主题是：国家地理杂志专题

始于1970年，农村全民保健计划（也被称为Jamkhaed计划，因其所推广的地区而得名）为无力负担卫生保健措施的穷人们送去了疾病预防服务。这一计划已经为马哈拉施特拉邦的300多个村庄和500000多人提供了服务，包括这名被乡村卫生工作者Leelabai Amte用布完全裹住挂在秤上称体重的婴儿。

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Elephant Seal Pups, South Georgia Island
Photograph by Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

Fattened and then abandoned by mothers who leave to mate anew, weaned elephant seal pups stick close together until ready for a first season at sea.

See more photographs from the November 2008 feature story "Elephant Seals."

译文:

小象海豹,南乔治亚岛
摄影:Yva Momatiuk,John Eastcott

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母象海豹把幼崽喂肥便抛下它们，去进行再次交配。两只刚断奶的小象海豹紧紧靠在一起，直到它们为海洋生活做好准备。

2009-03-31 fix: elephant seal是指象海豹（Mirounga），walrus才是海象（Odobenus）；象海豹属于海豹科（Phocidae），海象属于海象科（Odobenidae）；象海豹也作sea elephant，海象也作sea horse。

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Cave of Crystals, Mexico
Photograph by Carsten Peter, Speleoresearch & Films

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

Massive beams of selenite dwarf human explorers in Mexico’s Cave of Crystals, deep below the Chihuahuan Desert. Formed over millennia, these crystals are among the largest yet discovered on Earth.

See more photographs from the November 2008 feature story "Cavern of Crystal Giants."

译文:

晶洞,墨西哥
摄影:JCarsten Peter,洞窟研究与影像公司

本月每日一图的主题是：国家地理杂志专题

墨西哥Chihuahuan沙漠地底深处的晶洞里，巨大的亚硒酸盐晶柱使人类探险家显得是那么渺小。经过千年的结晶成形，这些晶体是地球上已知最大的晶体之一。