If the pupfish did die out in its native habitat, aquarium stocks might stop the species becoming altogether extinct.

如果原始栖息地的魔鬼洞鳉灭绝，人工培养的鳉鱼可能防止这一物种完全消失。

The Bolson pupfish is a small freshwater fish found in northern Mexico.

Bolson pupfish 是一种在墨西哥北部发现的小型淡水鱼。

If a pupfish doesn't fart this gas out, it becomes buoyant— making it easy prey for passing birds.

如果一条鳉鱼不把这种气体放出去，它就会浮起来——很容易成为路过的鸟类的猎物。

Excessive gas buildup can actually burst their digestive systems. Researchers have found groups of several hundred dead pupfish that failed to fart for their lives.

过多的气体积聚实际上会破坏他们的消化系统。研究人员发现了成群结队的数百条死去的鳉鱼，它们一生都没有放屁。

Ted Koch, a member of America's Fish and Wildlife Service who is responsible for the pupfish's wellbeing, has convened a meeting this month to discuss ways to keep the population going.

美国鱼类和野生动物服务中心成员，魔鬼洞鳉权利负责人泰德•科赫本月召开会议，讨论使魔鬼洞鳉这一物种得以延续的方法。

Local landowners, whose right to draw water was thus curtailed, appealed against the consequences of this protection all the way to the Supreme Court, but in 1976 they lost and the pupfish survived.

汲水权益因这一保护行动受损的当地土地拥有者一路上诉到最高法院，却于1976年败诉，魔鬼洞鳉得以幸存。