the tuatara的意思|示意

The tuatara rate is significantly faster than for animals including the cave bear, lion, ox and horse.

刺背鳄蜥的进化速率比起包括洞熊、狮子、公牛和马在内的动物，都要快得多。

Saving the tuatara is a matter of pride among new zealand's indigenous groups. the animals are revered by the maori as a taonga or treasure.

拯救大蜥蜴在新西兰土著部落里是一件荣耀的事情。这种动物被毛利人视宝贵财富。

Of course we would have expected that the tuatara, which does everything slowly — they grow slowly, reproduce slowly and have a very slow metabolism — would have evolved slowly.

我们本以为刺背鳄蜥应该进化得很慢，就像它们做什么事都很慢一样——长得慢，繁殖慢，新陈代谢也慢。

However, while a boost in temperature generally results in a nest full of more females than males, the opposite is true for tuatara whose offspring skew toward male in warmer climes.

通常来说，如果温度升高，雌性后代的出生率就会高一些。但鳄蜥的情况正相反，在更温暖的环境下，雄性后代的出生率更高。