上个月，墨尔本动物救助中心迎来了一名新成员：一只基因突变的幼年负鼠。这只负鼠奇妙的毛皮颜色，让它获得了一个非常合适的名字：皮卡丘。《墨尔本时代报》写道：这只负鼠发生了一些基因突变，导致了它身体的黑色素要低于一般值，这也就让它的毛皮颜色是金黄色而不是棕色。“皮卡丘”大约5个月大的时候，被一名热心市民发现，它似乎是从母亲的背上掉了下来，成为了一名流浪儿。墨尔本动物救助中心收留了它，目前不会考虑将其重新放回野外，因为其明亮的毛色，会让它成为其他许多掠食动物的捕猎目标。墨尔本大学的凯西·韩德赛德博士告诉记者：“毛色特异的问题之一，就是它们非常容易成为捕猎者的目标，负鼠本身是一种夜行生物，它的颜色过于显...
Last month, a new member of animal rescue center ushered in Melbourne: a possum gene mutation of youth. The opossum wonderful fur color, only make it acquired a very suitable name: Pikachu. Melbourne age newspaper wrote this opossum happened only a few genetic mutations, caused the body of the pigment melanin than average value, this also let it fur color is golden color rather than brown. "Pikachu" about five months of age, is discovered by a zealous citizens, it seems to be dropped from the mother's back, became a homeless children. Animal rescue center in Melbourne took it in, is not considered to be put back in the wild, because of their bright colors, can make it become a target for many other predators hunting. Kathy, a professor at the university of Melbourne, Korea Dr Desai DE told reporters: "the colour one specific problem, is that they are very easy to become the target of hunters, opossum itself is a nocturnal creature, its color is too obvious...
