BBC. 自然世界.安德莉亚-蝠鲼女王（2009）

Her plan is to attach them to two Giants to see where they go.
她打算把他们黏在两条巨型蝠鲼上 追踪它们的去向
Out on the water Andrea begins her search
安德莉亚在海面上开始搜寻
but it's not just the mantas she has to look out for.
她要寻找的不仅仅是蝠鲼
When the water gets murky
当水变得浑浊时
and you see a manta swimming by
你看到蝠鲼游过
and it has blood trailing out of it
尾后拖着一条血迹
you always look over your shoulder
你会不由自主地向后看
and you think "Jeez what just did that?"
想着 这是什么东西干的
and is it you know after me next.
它会不会也冲着我来
Tiger sharks bull sharks
虎鲨 牛鲨和
and great whites all stalk these reefs.
大白鲨都潜伏在这珊瑚丛中
Down at 30 metres there's no sign of any Giants.
下潜了30米 仍旧没有巨蝠鲼的踪迹
Only the reef mantas are around.
只有礁蝠鲼在游来游去
75% bear the scars of horrific shark bite wounds.
它们中的75%都曾被鲨鱼咬伤过
Bites like these come from sharks of over four metres in length.
造成这种伤口的鲨鱼至少有4米长
Quite why they're the victims of such frequent attacks
为什么蝠鲼这么容易受到攻击
is a mystery.
仍是未解之谜
There's nowhere else in the world
这是全世界唯一一处海域
where mantas get hunted on this scale.
大量的蝠鲼被鲨鱼威胁
But Andrea's discovered they have a special way
安德莉亚发现它们有独特的办法
of surviving such terrible injuries.
从这严重的伤害中恢复
Tofo's reefs are a hotbed of activity.
托佛的礁石是生命的温床
Creatures of all shapes and sizes
形态大小各异的生物
come to the cleaning stations
都会到这个"清洁站"来
to be picked clean of parasites and dead skin.
清理寄生虫和死皮
Injured mantas are frequent visitors here too.
受伤的蝠鲼也是这里的常客
Queuing up for the attention of this tiny fish.
排队等候一种小鱼的垂青
The butterflyfish.
蝴蝶鱼
Andrea has found they specialise in bite wounds.
安德莉亚发现它们特别善于啃噬伤口
Madonna a female Andrea has known for more than five years
麦当娜是安德莉亚发现五年之久的雌性蝠鲼
has a fresh injury on her flank.
她的侧翼上添了新伤
By nibbling her wound
通过轻咬她的伤口
the butterflyfish removes dead tissue
蝴蝶鱼能够去除坏死组织
preventing infection
防止感染
making the difference between life and death
是决定莫桑比克的蝠鲼们
for Mozambique's mantas.
生死存亡的关键
Butterflyfish aren't the only specialist cleaners here.
蝴蝶鱼并非此地唯一的清洁专家
Schools of Sergeant Major Damselfish
六间雀鲷鱼群
concentrate on the area around Madonna's mouth.
专攻麦当娜嘴部的组织
While cleaner wrasse swim right to the back of her throat
濑鱼则径直游向她的咽喉后部
to pick clean her gills.
清洁她的鱼鳃
The giants mantas
巨蝠鲼
when they're around
来到此地时
are frequent visitors to these cleaning stations too.
也是这些"清洁站"的常客
But with no sign of any today
但今天并无它们出现的迹象
Andrea will just have to keep
安德莉亚只得时常
returning here until her luck changes.
过来看看 等待好运到来
Back on land there's better news.
回到陆上 传来了好消息
The listening station she setup in November
她11月设立的监听站
is starting to reveal more about the reef mantas secretive lives.
正在揭示更多礁蝠鲼隐秘的生活习性
Already from the first manta we tagged Tri-Star
从标记的第一条蝠鲼 三星身上
we've gotten some amazing data.
我们收获了许多不可思议的数据
Sometimes she spends up to eight hours on the reef.
有时 她置身礁石区多达八个小时
A lot of the mantas seem to be spending
似乎许多蝠鲼都花费相当多的时间
extraordinary amounts of time on the reef cleaning
呆在礁石区做清洁工作
and that's something you don't see other places in the world.
此情此景 全世界只曾在此地发现
Most people are reporting mantas cleaning
许多人都称目击过蝠鲼
for small periods of time
做短时间的清洁
maybe two hours max
大概至多两小时
but I think the mantas here are spending more time
可我认为 这里的蝠鲼要花更多时间
on the cleaning stations
呆在"清洁站"里
because they have these massive shark bite injuries.
因为它们身负这些大块的鲨鱼咬伤
The data has thrown up some further surprises.
数据带来了更多意料之外的信息
None of the mantas that we tagged are spending any time
我们标记的所有蝠鲼
at the cleaning stations during night time hours
没有一条在夜间来"清洁站"逗留
so where they go at night
所以他们在夜晚的行踪
whether they go offshore or down the coast
是游向了近海 亦或是沿着海岸而行
remains a complete mystery.
仍旧是个彻底的谜团
Andrea suspects they're moving out into open-water to feed
安德莉亚怀疑它们是去了开阔水域觅食
or to avoid the sharks which are at their most active
要么就是躲避日落后格外活跃的
as the sun goes down.
鲨鱼的袭击
It's her first glimpse
这是她首次
into what Tofu's mantas are doing at night.
对托佛的蝠鲼的夜间活动有了认识
Four weeks later and Andrea is facing a new problem.
四周后 安德莉亚遭遇了新的难题
Not only are there still no Giants around
这片海域不仅没有巨蝠鲼出现
but now her entire reef population has disappeared as well.
连整个礁蝠鲼群都没了踪影
In seven years Andrea has never seen anything like it.
七年来 安德莉亚还是第一次遇到这种情况
Ah. That was a pretty rough day.
今天过的很艰难
We've been going out for ages
我们去了很长时间
and we can't seem to find a single ray in the ocean.
可在海里好像根本找不到一条蝠鲼
I'm getting thoroughly frustrated.
我要彻底抓狂了
The conditions are fine
环境都适宜
It's just I don't know where the mantas went
可我就是不知道蝠鲼都去哪了
so I'm pretty frustrated.
所以我十分抓狂
It's hard you know
这很残酷 你知道
when the animal you study doesn't show up
当你研究的动物
for such a long period of time
长时间不出现时
you start to worry.
你就会开始担心了
And I've heard of other researchers in the world
我听说过其他地方的科学家
that have lost their manta populations
遗失了一直追踪的蝠鲼群
and then that's it
事已至此
they have to pack up and move somewhere else
他们就得打点行装 移师别处
so it does make you worry
所以这真的很让人忧心
but we have such a stable population here
可我们在这里有个很稳定的种群
I'm just hoping that that's not the case.
我希望 不会出现类似的情况
Andrea has good reason to be concerned.
安德莉亚的担忧并非空穴来风
Worldwide entire manta populations are being wiped out.
世界范围内 整个蝠鲼种群的数目一直锐减
I think the first time I saw a dead manta
我第一次看到死亡的蝠鲼
it was actually in Mozambique and fishermen pulled it up
就是在莫桑比克 一个渔民把它拉上岸
it was actually and individual that I knew.
实际上是我之前见过的一条
And I couldn't control myself. I was crying.
当时我不能自已 我哭了起来
It was really hard for me.
对我来说 这真的很残酷
Worst affected are mantas in South-East Asia.
首当其冲的是处在东南亚的蝠鲼
Their body parts used in Chinese medicine
它们的器官可入中药
to treat illnesses from diabetes to the common cold.
治疗大到糖尿病 小至寻常感冒的许多病症
And increasingly there are reports of foreign fishing boats
越来越多的外国渔船被目击
working Mozambique's 1600-mile coastline.
在莫桑比克长约1600英里的海岸线上作业
Four weeks later
四周过去了
and still no mantas.
仍旧不见蝠鲼的踪影
An aerial survey is Andrea's last hope of finding them
航测是安德莉亚找到它们最后的希望
or at least to uncover the reason for their disappearance.
或者至少能发现它们销声匿迹的原因
In the past the mantas have vanished
过去 蝠鲼也曾失踪过
but only for short periods when plankton levels have dropped.
可那只是浮游生物数量锐减的短时间内
We've also had instances where
我们也遇到过
a predator will come through the area
天敌来到这片海域的先例
a great white shark or a pod of orcas
一条巨大的白鲨 或是一小群虎鲸
and everything will leave - whale sharks manta rays
鲸鲨啦 蝠鲼啦 所有鱼类都会撤离
and sometimes they'll leave the area for up to three weeks.
有时它们会离开这片海域长达三周
But even from the air
可即便在空中
Andrea can see nothing to explain
安德莉亚还是找不到
their baffling disappearance.
能解释它们离奇失踪的原因
So far we've seen turtles
我们目前只看见了海龟
humpback whales but none of the manta rays.
座头鲸 可一条蝠鲼也没见到
They seem to have disappeared completely
它们似乎在60公里的海域内
from about a 60km area.
完全蒸发了
With her entire population of over 650 mantas missing
她多达650条的蝠鲼群全体失踪
it's now a real crisis.
构成了真正的危机
'The thing that really gets to me is just the waiting.
我最难以接受的就是等待
'I go out to sea I check
我出海去巡查
I am in contact with dive centres up and down the coastline.
我联络海岸线周围的潜水中心