大猫（2018）

将敏感的运动传感器
Combining a sensitive motion sensor
与高分辨率相机相结合
with a high-resolution camera,
安德鲁和他的团队在丛林中布置了几十台
Andrew and his team deploy dozens of these through the forest...
花费几个月在丛林中跋涉 检查状况
...and spend months trekking through the jungle checking them.
回到基地
Back at base,
需要仔细筛查几千个小时的影片
there are thousands of hours of footage to plough through.
多数画面中都没有猫
Most contain no cats whatsoever...
即使出现了猫 也可能不是婆罗洲金猫
...and, when cats do show up, they may not be a bay cat...
尽管如此
but still.
云豹 太棒了
Oh, clouded leopard. Fantastic.
看啊 伸个懒腰
Oh, look at that, having a little yawn,
你可以看到这种猫的犬齿格外长
and you can see how exceptionally long canines these cats have.
就与头骨大小的比例来说
In proportion to their skull size,
他们拥有猫科动物中最大的犬齿
they're the largest of any other cat.
这是一只纹猫
Ooh, so that is a marbled cat.
我们对这种猫也知之甚少
Now, these guys, I mean, we know nothing about these cats,
只知道可能他们
other than they probably spend
大多数时间都在树上
much of their time up in the trees.
他们走路的时 会抬起极长的尾巴
So as they walk along, they hold this exceptionally long tail
几乎呈水平状
almost horizontally
这为他们在树冠间的穿梭
and that probably gives them balance
提供了平衡
while moving through the canopy.
豹猫
Ah, the leopard cat.
我们真的很少能拍到这家伙
So this is really quite rare for us to record this guy.
浏览了无数视频后
After scrolling through countless videos,
安德鲁终于拍到了一只婆罗洲金猫
Andrew finally filmed a bay cat...
几乎拍到
...almost.
这是世界上第一段婆罗洲金猫的视频
So this is the first-ever video of the bay cat in the world.
画面不是最棒的 也不是最让人激动的
It's not the finest video, it's not the, er, the most exciting
但对我们来说 一样很惊奇
but to us that was just spectacular.
当我们在镜头捕捉器中看到它时
We were absolutely blown away when this thing
彻底被震惊了
appeared on the camera traps in front of us.
2007年9月
这是12年来辛勤努力的成果
This is the fruit of 12 years' labour...
直至今日 世上只有两段野生金猫的视频
...yet to this day only two videos of wild bay cats exist...
安德鲁的
...Andrew's,
2016年8月
和这一段 最近刚刚拍到的
and this one, more recently captured.
难怪我们对这种猫知之甚少
No wonder we know so little about these cats...
而现在这是一场与时间的赛跑
...and now it's a race against time.
婆罗洲是世界上森林退化率最高的地区之一
Borneo has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world.
为了给金猫保留一些空间
To protect some space for the bay cat,
安德鲁想要知道他们需要哪种森林
Andrew wants to find out what kind of forest they need.
他成功拍到了一些对他有所启发的照片
He has managed to capture photographs which help shed some light.
在长达12年的日子里
In - what is it? - 12-odd years,
我们只拍到了大概60张照片
we've only got something like 60 photos.
他们太稀有了 很难遇到他们
They're so rare, they're so hard to come by.
每张金猫的照片就如黄金一般珍贵
Each photograph of the bay cat is worth its weight in gold.
这能帮我们理解
It helps to piece together the ecology
这种猫的生态及其所需的保护
and the conservation needs of these cats.
婆罗洲大多数的森林
Much of the forest clearance in Borneo
都被用来种植棕榈油作物
is to make space for palm oil plantations.
有些猫科动物可以在这些作物间存活
While some cats can survive in these plantations,
而金猫会消失
bay cats disappear.
当森林被用来种棕榈油作物时
When the forest changes to palm oil,
他们似乎就不会在那里出现了
they no longer seem to use those areas,
所以这说明棕榈油作物
so this shows us that palm oil
对这种生活在婆罗洲的猫科动物是巨大威胁
really is one of the greatest threats to these cats on Borneo.
要想金猫存活下去
For the bay cat to survive,
有些森林就必须被保护起来
some forest must be protected.
安德鲁希望能尽可能地解开
Andrew's determined to uncover whatever else he can
金猫的谜团
about the mysterious bay cat...
哪怕还要再花上12年
...even if it takes another 12 years.
镜头捕捉器让我们对猫科动物家族的了解
Camera traps are revolutionising our understanding
有了革命性的改变
of the entire cat family.
把他们布置在这个星球最偏远的角落
Deploying them in the remotest corners of the planet
一次放几个月
for months at a time
能够让我们
allows a unique insight
得以了解猫科动物的私密生活
into the private life of cats.
在中国 两种一般不会有交集的猫科动物
In China, two cats that wouldn't normally cross paths -
一只豹和一只雪豹
a leopard and a snow leopard
相隔几天分别被同一台捕捉器拍到
- are filmed on the same camera just days apart.
在哥斯达黎加
In Costa Rica,
拍到一只虎猫和一只愤怒的负鼠打架
a margay fights an angry possum.
而在西撒哈拉的沙丘里
And in the dunes of the Western Sahara...
捕捉器有史以来第一次拍到了
...camera traps record the first-ever shots
野生沙猫的幼崽
of wild sand cat kittens.
一项开拓性的研究
One pioneering study
正把镜头捕捉器的应用推向另一个高度
has taken the use of camera traps to another level.
山狮 也被称为美洲狮
Mountain lions, also known as cougars or pumas,
以独居而闻名于世
famed for leading lonely, solitary lives.
镜头捕捉器正试图挑战
Camera traps are now challenging
我们对这种美洲生物的认知
what we know about this American icon.
她在这
She's here.
一切都是从马克·艾伯奇博士对这种
It all started with Dr Mark Elbroch's passion
充满魅力的猫科动物的热情开始的
for these charismatic cats.
她就在这 跑来跑去 看看脚印有多大
Here she is, running across. Look at the size of the footprint.
我为了美洲狮而活
I live mountain lions.
我追踪他们 看有关他们的视频
I track them, I watch videos of them,
马克·艾伯奇博士 豹属组织
我晚上睡觉都做梦梦见美洲狮
I go to sleep at night and I dream about mountain lions.
这个小家伙 像一匹脱缰的野马
This guy's a... he's a loose cannon.
这么做是要防止自己被咬
This is the part where you try not to get bit.
在美国怀俄明州的提顿山脉里
In the Teton mountains of Wyoming,
马克和他的团队想要更了解美洲狮
Mark and his team want to learn more about mountain lion hunting
狩猎和哺育的行为
and feeding behaviour.
他们使用定位项圈来追踪动物们
Using GPS collars to track the animals,
以确定猫科动物活动的范围
they identify cat hot spots.
相当多 这很好
Quite a bit, which is good. Yeah.
所以我们应该到那里装一些捕捉器
So we should get in there and set some cameras.
听起来不错
Sounds good.
马克期待能洞察独居猫科动物的独处生活
Mark expected an insight into the solitary life of lone cats...
但他观察得越多
But the more he watched,
越开始意识到还有其他情况
the more he began to realise something else was going on.
现在走过来的是一只九岁的雌性美洲狮
Here comes a nine-year-old resident female,
她走过来 转头
and she comes round and she turns
又来了一只六岁的雌猫
and here comes a six-year-old female.
她在发出些许嘶嘶声 一开始我们觉得
She's doing mild hissing and, in the beginning we thought,
天呐 那种嘶嘶声 是暴♥力♥的前兆
"Gosh, all that hissing, it's the... the pre-runner to violence,
超级有侵略性
"it's super aggressive."
并不是 嘶嘶声看上去挺正常的
No, hissing seems pretty normal,
因为我们已经重复看到这种情况很多次了
now that we've seen it over and over and over again.
那么 接下来发生了什么呢
So what happened next?
他们在一起待了两天 这就是他们做的
They spent two days together and this is what they did.
他们一起进食 共享食物
They shared a meal.
这震撼到我了
It blew me away.
那不是他唯一令人惊讶的发现
That wasn't his only surprising discovery.
雄性之前被认为通常对雌性有侵略性
It's thought that males are normally aggressive towards females,
甚至有杀死他们的能力
even capable of killing them,
但捕捉器表明 那也不是真的
but the cameras show that's not true either.
每一次我们见到一只雄猫接近雌猫
Every time we've seen a male approach a female,
除了求偶以外
outside courtship,
这正是他们会做的 他们悄咪♥咪♥地靠近
this is exactly what they do - they slink in.
注意他把自己的身体贴的离地有多低
Notice how low he's holding his body to the ground,
他的耳朵晾在一旁 几乎要垂下去了
his ears are to the side and almost sagging.
他们有意缩小自己的体型 试着看着更小
They minimise their profile, they try to look smaller.
这完全没有侵略性
It is completely non-aggressive.
他显然只是想共享一顿饭
He clearly just wants to share a meal
你可以看到 当他靠近的时候
and you can see, as he comes in,
没有嘶嘶声 什么也没有
there's no hissing, there's nothing.
她只是看着 是小猫在发出嘶嘶声
She just watches and it's the kitten that does all the hissing.
他们就在那里