探秘野性赤道（2020）

选在了下个雨季
for the next wet season.
交♥配♥过程中 竞争异常的激烈
During mating, there is stiff competition for partners.
雄性河豚会用独特的方式求偶
The males court in a unique way.
它们会叼着树枝、杂草或泥土
They pick up branches, grasses, or lumps of clay in their jaws,
在它们瞩意的雌性面前卖♥♥弄展示
and flaunt them to their attending females.
它们时而在水面上翻滚
Sometimes thrashing them against the water surface
时而摇头晃脑摆弄嘴里的东西
or throwing them with jerks of the head.
一种说法认为雄性河豚通过这种方式 展示了它的健硕与敏捷
One theory is that each male is showing how strong and dexterous he is,
以此向雄性河豚证明它是会后代 最佳的父亲人选
and that he therefore is the best father a female could have for her young.
随着旱季的推移 亚马逊越来越多的区域变成陆地
As the dry season progresses and more of Amazonia reverts to land...
掠食者潜行在回归原貌的 偌大森林中觅食
the predators become more hungry and more desperate
它们饥肠辘辘 处境绝望
as they prowl the expanding forest in search of a meal.
对于像美洲豹这样的 陆上顶级掠食者而言
For top land predators like the jaguar,
它们的陆上猎物分布在整个广袤的 亚马逊热带雨林上
their terrestrial prey is now spread far and wide over the vast Amazon forest.
而捕食的最佳时机便是
Its best chance of finding a meal
潜行在猎物聚集的那些地方
is to stalk the places where prey congregate.
蜘蛛猴生活在高高的树上似乎很安全
Spider monkeys would seem safe high in the trees.
但以果子为生的饮食习惯也迫使它们
But every week or so, its fruit-based diet drives a necessity
每一周左右下到地面满足其他需求
for it to descend to the ground.
森林的地面是一片盐渍地 但也是危险之源
On the forest floor is a salt lick, or collpa.
它的存在如同沙漠中的绿洲一般
It's like an oasis in the desert.
吸引了众多动物的到来
It gets a lot of visitors.
动物需要富含矿物质的粘土才能生存
The animals need the mineral-rich clay to survive.
但猴子对于地面感到十分不安
But the monkeys are skittish about descending.
它们觉得每丛暗处都可能藏着美洲豹
Every shadow may conceal a jaguar.
它们的坐立不安是有道理的
The monkeys were right to be on edge.
但这不是美洲豹 而是豹猫
But it's not a jaguar, it's an ocelot.
虽然它的体格只有美洲豹一半大 但它同样十分危险
Although half the size of a jaguar, it is just as threatening.
猴子们只得耐心等待
The monkeys will have to wait until the ocelot
直到豹猫喝饱水后离开这里
has drunk its fill and moved on.
此时盐渍地看起来十分安全
The salt lick now appears to be safe.
蜘蛛猴补充矿物质的时机到了
Time for the spider monkeys to get their mineral fix.
警报再次响起
Another alarm.
但这次的警报是虚惊一场
But this time, it's a false one.
来的是一群矛牙野猪 猪的亲戚
It's a group of peccaries, relatives of pigs.
挫败促使它们改变策略
Frustration motivates a change of strategy.
与其在地面汲取咸黏土 不如把它们带到树上慢慢享用
Rather than go down for the salty clay, take the salty clay up to you.
十一月份 亚马逊地区的天气即将发生转变
November, and the Amazon is about to transform.
来自安第斯山脉的雨水 再次涌入河流 使河水暴涨
Rainwater from the Andes again fills the rivers to bursting.
世界上最大的洪水平原又出现在眼前
The greatest floodplain in the world has returned.
于美洲豹而言，这预示着它的长途觅食旅程
For the jaguar, it heralds his long journeys in search of prey
要暂时告一段落了
are over, for a while.
生存范围缩至洪水尚未占领的地区
Being condensed onto the remaining land the flood hasn't taken,
意味着亚马逊之王的狩猎活动 变得容易起来
means easier pickings for the king of Amazonia.
择机繁殖的海牛利用此次 食物大增的良机 收获颇丰
Manatees who timed their breeding to take advantage of the increase, profit.
这只雌性海牛一定吃得非常好
This female must eat well.
它有一只两个月大的幼崽需要喂养
She has a two-month-old calf to feed.
小海牛汲取着母亲充足的乳汁 海牛的乳♥头♥位于它的鳍状前肢后面
It feeds on the rich milk from nipples located
just behind the mother's front flippers.
海牛以及其他数以千计的物种
Manatees, along with thousands of species,
都找到了适应亚马逊大洪水 的生存之道
have found ways to adapt to Amazonia's great flood.
这一年度现象所造成的地貌交替景象
The annual phenomenon powering one of the most dramatic
是地球上最蔚为壮观的景象之一
landscape revolutions on earth.