美國一動物學家發與動物合影成網絡紅人

It's a hard life hugging cute animals, but somebodies got to do it.

與各種可愛的動物擁抱是一件很艱難的事情，但是有人就做到了。

Officially Wes Larson is a bear scientist, unofficially he is an Instagram star with 81,000 followers who can't get enough of his uploads.

韋斯·拉爾森的官方身份是一名熊類動物學家，私下裏則是一名擁有81000名粉絲的Instagram紅人，粉絲們每天都迫不急待地看他上傳的照片。

The Montana native quit optometry school seven years ago to study biology so that he could work towards protecting endangered species. When he's not cosying up to bears, whales, chickens, parrots, lizards and giraffes he's hanging out with Pants, an orphaned racoon he's found himself raising.

這位蒙大拿當地人七年前從驗光學校退學，開始研究生物，這樣他就能從事保護瀕危物種的工作。當他不忙着討好熊、鯨、雞、鸚鵡、蜥蜴和長頸鹿的時候，他就和“褲子”——一隻他收養的浣熊孤兒待在一起。

In a recent interview with IG World Club he said: 'My whole life, I've been interest in wildlife. When I graduated college, I got sucked into the idea that I needed to make a lot of money. But I eventually decided to do what I was passionate about.'

在最近接受IG世界俱樂部採訪時他表示：“我的全部精力和興趣都在野生動物上。當我大學畢業的時候，曾經被掙很多錢的想法深深吸引。但我最終還是決定做我熱愛的事情。”

Since following his passions he has worked with the Southern Beaufort Sea population of polar bears in Alaska for three years. His work hasn't always been easy, he revealed that while working in the Arctic studying polar bears the weather became almost unbearable, dropping to -57degrees Celsius. It was so cold his eyeball actually froze.

自從決定順着興趣工作之後，他已經在阿拉斯加南波弗特海的北極熊保護區工作了三年。他透露，他的工作並不總是一帆風順的，在北極研究北極熊的時候，天氣變得幾乎無法忍受，下降到了零下57攝氏度。天氣如此寒冷，他的眼珠幾乎凍住了。

While this sort of hardship would put most people off he's determined to do as much as he can to help endangered animals.

雖然這種困難會讓大多數人對這份工作敬而遠之，但他還是決心儘可能多地幫助瀕臨滅絕的動物。

His adventures as a real life Dr Doolittle have garnered a legion of Instagram followers keen to be updated on his regular animal interactions. And his pet raccoon is fast becoming more popular than him.

作爲一個現實生活中的“杜立德醫生”，他的冒險已經在Instagram上贏得了大批粉絲，粉絲們都急着要看他更新的與動物的日常互動。而他的寵物浣熊很快就比他還出名了。