機智的母天鵝求救警官
Smart Mother Goose Asks Police Officer To Help Free Her Entangled Gosling
機智的母天鵝求救警官
On Monday, May 9, James Givens, a police officer in Cincinnati, Ohio, was sitting in his cruiser when he heard what sounded like a knock. He turned around only to find a goose pecking at the car door. This was highly unusual given that the birds typically preferred to observe humans from a distance.
5月9日週一那天，俄亥俄州辛辛那提的警官James Givens正坐在自己的巡警車中。突然，他聽到類似敲門的聲音。轉過頭來，卻發現是隻天鵝在用嘴啄門。鳥類看到人通常都躲得遠遠的，這隻天鵝的舉動着實奇怪。
But on this day, the goose appeared to be determined to get his attention and kept pecking until Givens opened the car door and stepped out. The police officer says that though the bird then began to walk away, it kept turning around to make sure he was following. When they finally stopped, Givens realized why the mother goose had been so persistent — She needed help to free her gosling that had managed to get entangled in some balloon string.
今天這隻天鵝卻很堅定，一直不停啄門，直到Givens打開車門走了下來。Givens說，雖然他出來後這隻天鵝也走開了，但它邊走邊回頭看，確認他是否跟在後面。直到他們在一處停下來，Givens才明白爲什麼母天鵝會如此堅定——它的孩子被氣球繩困住了，需要人類救助。
Worried that the mother goose would attack him if he got close to the baby, Givens called the local SPCA chapter. Unfortunately, they were unable to dispatch anyone to help right away. Concerned that the gosling would not survive the delay, fellow police officer Cecilia Charron, who had just joined Givens, decided to take on the task herself.
Givens害怕如果走近小天鵝，母天鵝會啄他。於是，他先給當地動物保護協會打了電話。不幸的是，他們目前暫時派不出人手。他的同事Cecilia Charron擔心不趕緊救出這些小天鵝，它就會死掉，於是打算親自上手。
As it turned out, there was nothing to worry about. The mother goose appeared to realize that Charron was trying to help and watched patiently from a safe distance as the officer untangled the trapped bird. As soon as the little gosling was free, it trotted to its mom, and the duo took off shortly after. Charron, a 24-year veteran of the police force, said this would probably go down as the most memorable incident of her career!
事實證明，並沒什麼可擔心的。母天鵝似乎知道Charron是在幫助她的孩子，它站在安全的距離，耐心看着警官解開困住小天鵝的繩子。小天鵝剛獲救，就衝向它媽媽，隨後它們很快飛走了。24歲的Charron是位經驗豐富的警官，她說救助小天鵝將會成爲她職業生涯中最難忘的事。
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