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Five-month-old aardvark Winsol is still nursing from his mother at the Cincinnati Zoo.
在辛辛那提动物园，五个月大的土豚温希尔还需要妈妈喂养。
Every Friday when Winsol begins to feed, zoo staffers draw several milliliters of his mother's milk from the available nipples without disturbing the baby.
每周五，当温希尔开始吃奶时，工作人员会从妈妈的乳头抽出几毫升母乳，而不会打扰到宝宝。
The samples are sent to the Exotic Animal Milk Repository at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington DC.
这些样本被送往位于华盛顿特区的史密森国家动物园珍奇动物奶库。
This allows us to determine the basis of the milk, what's in it, and if it changes and how it changes in its formulation over time.
我们能够获取母乳中的基本信息，它的成分，如果成分发生了变化，那么我们如何改进配方。
Artificial recipes tailored for specific periods in the nursing cycle for specific species is critical
在喂养周期中，在特定时间，为特定物种定制人工配方非常关键，
for zoos trying to hand-raise a newborn animal that's unable to feed from its mother.
尤其是那些无法接受母乳喂养，需要人工喂养的新生动物。
We have sent them you know, gorilla milk samples, hippo milk samples, and now aardvark milk samples,
我们给了他们大猩猩样品，河马样品，现在是土豚样品，
so this will increase the base knowledge that they have which not only can help us, but also all other zoological facilities around the world.
这将增加我们的知识储备库，这么做不仅可以帮助我们，全球其它动物机构也可以获益。
The repository has some 15,000 samples from 185 species sent in by zoos across the country, but it last received aardvark milk in 1992.
动物奶库拥有大约1.5万个样品，来自185种动物，范围遍及全国各大动物园，但最后一次接收土豚样品还是1992年。
There's not that many aardvarks in captivity around, and especially being bred,
圈养的土豚本来就不多，特别是需要喂养的，
and especially where the keepers and everything have had interactions with the animal so that you can know you can do this.
特别是我们的饲养员等员工，他们与土豚有接触，所以清楚我们可以这么做。
While Winsol is thriving on his own, data from the National Milk Repository helped another newborn in Cincinnati.
温希尔正在茁壮成长，来自珍奇动物奶库的数据正在帮助另一只辛辛那提幼崽。
There was a baby Fiona, a hippo born at Cincinnati Zoo. She was unfortunately born prematurely.
辛辛那提降生了一头河马宝宝菲奥纳，不幸的是她是早产。
She couldn't even basically stand on her feet and therefore she couldn't nurse from her mother.
她甚至站不起来，因此没法接受母乳喂养。
They sent the milk to us so that we could analyse it, so that we could sent that information back to their nutritionist
他们把奶品样本给了我们，我们进行了分析，随后把信息交给营养师，
so that their nutrition staff and keepers staff could come up with a formula that was as close as possible to be able to fit mother's milk for Fiona
这样营养师，饲养员可以制作配方，尽可能接近菲奥纳母亲的母乳。
The young hippo is alive and well and a star attraction at the zoo.
这只年轻的河马长得很好，还成为了动物园里的明星。
For writer Faiza Elmasry, I'm Faith Lapidus, VOA News.
VO新闻，编辑法扎·埃尔马斯里，我是法斯·拉皮德斯。
