This moth is not a ordinary insect, at least if you believe the people of Madagascar.

这种飞蛾可不是普通昆起码在马达加斯加人看来不是。

On Saturday, the Pope made an impassioned plea to Madagascans to protect their island against deforestation.

周六，教皇慷慨激昂地呼吁马达加斯加人保护他们岛屿，减少森林砍伐。

Most likely, then, the first Malagasy were accidental castaways, news of whose adventure never made it back home.

那么，首批马达加斯加人也很可是因船只失事而意外漂流到该岛，而这批人后来也没办法回到家乡。

And third, genetic evidence has linked the modern Malagasy with people living in eastern Indonesia as well as farther off in Melanesia and Oceania.

再次，基因学证据已证明现代马达加斯加人与东印尼人以及相距更遥远美拉尼西亚人和生活在大洋洲人都是有联系。

He drew this conclusion, just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, by sampling the DNA of 266 Malagasy people and comparing it with existing samples from 2,745 Indonesians.

Cox博士最近在学术期刊《皇家学会进展》（Proceedings of the Royal Society ）发表文章中对266名马达加斯加人进行DNA抽样，同现有2745名印尼人DNA样品进行了比对，得出了以上结论。

Dr Cox and his colleagues were therefore able to make a statistical comparison of Indonesian and Malagasy mitochondrial genomes knowing that any changes which had occurred since they separated would be the result of rare mutations.

Cox博士和他同事们因此进行印尼人和马达加斯加人线粒体基因组数据比对，从而推断出原本相同线粒体DNA天各一方后发生任何遗传变化都是源于一些罕见基因突变。