||1:Crocodilians, he explained, were much more like birds than snakes.||2:They built nests he had to hunt for, poling his punt along sandbanks to find their holes or poking in the forest debris under the trees: a thin, laconic, clear-eyed figure as quiet and unobtrusive as the creatures he was trailing.||3:He watched them brood their young, listening for the cheeps that announced the eggs were hatching and carrying the young to water.||4:The Nile crocodile rolled its eggs gently in its teeth to help them hatch.||5:In the WCS labs at the Bronx Zoo he would pull the papery, blood-pink shell from a hatchling and announce: “It's his birthday!” with a father's pride.

||1:他解释道，与蛇比起来，鳄鱼明显更像鸟。||2:鳄鱼们构筑他必须得通过寻找才能见到的巢穴，他是通过顺着沙洲划平底船、或是拨弄林中植物沉积物去寻找。||3:他这种安全性差、手段简单、但目的明确的寻找方式一似他正在跟踪的鳄鱼一样，不事声张、不引人注意。||4:他通过注意倾听预示鳄蛋正在破壳和送雏鳄入水时的雏鳄吱叫声，观察鳄鱼孵育雏鳄的过程。||5:尼罗河鳄是通过在其齿腔内轻轻滚动鳄蛋来帮助孵化。

Just what it is that a male meal gives, via the female's digestive system, to the hatchling spiders, remains to be determined.

通过雌蛛的消化系统，雄蛛给予孵化蜘蛛的是什么？这还有待探索。

But just like any youngster we ensure the hatchling eats all the veggies first.

但是如同喂养其他年幼的动物，我们首先保证小象龟对蔬菜的摄取。

Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling .

科学家在一块6700万年的化石中发现了一条蛇盘绕在恐龙蛋和一只幼仔周围。

'It's amazing to think of how much growing it has to do and the challenges any young hatchling would struggle with in the wild.

可以想象，在漫漫成长道路上，小象龟还会遇到野生环境中的很多挑战。

Breeding season is underway for most of the world's birds, with hatchling season close behind.

世界上大部分鸟类的繁殖季节即将到来，紧随其后的就是幼鸟出生的季节。

It might even have eaten hatchling or juvenile dinosaurs.

它甚至可能以刚孵出的恐龙或恐龙幼崽为食。

Bowing to its hatchling 's hunger, a crane offers an insect morsel.

一只美洲鹤低下头来把少量的昆虫喂给它所孵化出的饥饿小鹤。