宠物：内心狂野（2015）

BIRD WHISTLES
「不陪我玩就捣蛋~~
CUP RATTLES
「看我打翻你的碗
BALL CRASHES TO THE FLOOR
「踢飞你的球」
I see you over there! Baby bird, baby bird
「嗨嗨嗨，小婊砸
Come on, baby bird!
你给我过来
What are you doing, Disco? What did mama say?
看看你干的好事，Disco！妈妈是怎么教你的？
Are you dancing? What is it, Disco?
你在跳迪士科么？
Yah? Come on over
小婊砸快过来
Come on out
到妈妈这儿来」
Having captured his owner's attention,
吸引到它主人的注意力后
he can practice another skill
它还有更多把戏可以玩
It's not easy being green
「当个绿婊砸不容易吧」
BIRD: It's not easy being green. It's not easy being green
「当个绿婊砸不容易吧，当个绿婊砸不容易吧」
Mimicry isn't as unnatural as it seems
鹦鹉学舌并不像它看上去那样是天生的
Wild parakeets mimic each other,
野生鹦鹉互相学舌
and each family learns their own distinct calls
不同的家族就有不同的口音
Never shake a baby bird
「从没见过小鹦鹉
That would surely be absurd
那一定非常奇怪
Never shake a baby bird
从没见过小鹦鹉
That would surely be absurd
那一定非常奇怪」
This budgie is just doing what he would do in the flock
这只鸟所做的和它在群鸟中做的是一样的事
Is that a parakeet. What is it?
「0101，我是鹦鹉，你是什么鬼？
A green and yellow bird that talks?
一个绿绿黄黄的小婊砸？
That's not important right now
其实这不重要
Even having a name may not be as unnatural as it seems
有个名字其实并没有看上去这么糟
I'm Disco and I know it
我知道我叫Disco！
I'm Disco and I know it
我知道我叫Disco！
I am not a crook. My name is Disco
我不是骗子，你才是骗子，你全家都是骗子！我就叫Disco！」
Wild parrots have been shown to assign special calls
野生鹦鹉父母当孩子一出生就会给它一个代号♥
to name their offspring, just as we name our own pet budgies
就像我们的名字一样，像我们给我们的宠物起名
Baby bird. Disco baby bird
「亲爱的Disco
Keep it bird
你的名字是Disco」
In turn, young parrots learn these names
因此，这些鹦鹉就学着使用它
and use them to introduce themselves
以此来介绍自己
I am not a crook. My name is Disco
「我告诉过你我的名字是Disco」
This extraordinary ability may mean that Disco
这种非凡的能力也许预示着
has a sense of his own identity
Disco十分清楚自己的身份
It certainly seems so at times
它的表现正说明了这一点
Disco baby
「亲爱的Disco」
Talking is now a game,
说话就像游戏一样
a way to express wild behaviour in the confines of his home
能让鹦鹉在家中也展现出它野性的一面
A cat. Meow, meow
「看那，来了一只猫，喵喵喵~」（它是一只狗啊...尊严呢...）
Give me a kiss
「来来来，亲一个~」(猫狗都不分就调戏人家)
I can has cheeseburger
「我有你爱的芝士汉堡~」
Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?
「你是个矮子急先锋？」
Disco
「Disco~」
I used to be a spy, then a parakeet
「我以前是间谍，现在是鹦鹉」
Phew, I'm a doctor, not a parakeet!
「呸！我是医生，不是鹦鹉」
I'm a doctor
「蠢猫，懂了没，我是医生」
Disco, has memorised over 130 phrases in all
Disco大约能记130多个短语
My cage is bigger on the inside
「我的笼子里别有洞天」
My cage is bigger on the inside
「我的笼子里别有洞天」
Like learning any new language, practice makes perfect,
就像学习一门外语那样，多多的练习能让它掌握得更好
even if it means talking in your sleep
也许这就意味着它会在你睡觉的时候balabalabala个不停
Give me free ride. Keep up
「载我一程。跟上」
Give me for free
「我要免费的」
Nobody expects...
「谁想...」
The intimacy between Disco and his owner may be unusual,
Disco和它主人亲密关系非比寻常
but the desire to play can bring the oddest of couples together
这也许正是因为这愉快的游戏
The puppy uses play bows to start a game,
之前讲到过，狗狗在开始游戏前都会鞠个躬
something a cat wouldn't normally understand
而一般来说喵星人根本不懂这一套
But, the cat has known the puppy since she was born,
但是这只喵星人从小就和狗狗在一起
and he's learnt her playful signals
自然也就明白这道理了
Having agreed to a game, he keeps his claws firmly sheathed
喵星人回敬一个礼，玩耍就这样开始了
Cats and dogs are our most popular pets,
猫和狗是最受我们人类欢迎的宠物之一
but we treat them both very differently
但是我们对待他们的态度截然不同
Cats are the only pets with the freedom
猫是唯一有完全出入自♥由♥的宠物
to come and go as they please
它们有大把大把的空闲时间
With plenty of time to play with,
这只忍♥者神猫
this ginger tom has created his own game
开始玩它自己的游戏
He free climbs for fun
事实上它完全可以走大门...
He could have used the cat flap!
但它也许只想安静地做一只愉快的蜘蛛猫
Impressive, but great feats require careful preparation
准备得越充足，它就能爬的越高
He scratches to make sure his claws are sharp
它把它的指甲磨尖
This removes old claw coverings, which break off and fall
这样的动作可以使包裹爪子的指甲脱落
These sheaths protect the new sharp claw growing underneath
新的更锋利的指甲就长在这旧壳下面
They are lost naturally every few weeks
旧指甲每几周就掉一次
But it's better to be safe
因为安全是最重要的
Climbing demands equipment that can be relied on
一个闪失就有可能导致摔得很惨
A loose sheath now could spell disaster
所以攀爬对于硬件的要求也是极高的
When the climb gets challenging, he has a hidden tool
当游戏变得更富有挑战性的时候，它还有一个隐藏技能
It flicks out like a knife
弹出来像把刀
This is the dewclaw -
这是上爪
a claw wild cats use to climb trees while chasing prey
野生猫就是通过利用这上爪来爬树捕猎
This tom needs all the help he can get
这把利刃就是这只忍♥者神猫的秘密武器
This is what's commonly called a cliff-hanger
这局面简直就是绝岭雄风
Another sheath falls - a close shave
或者说是劫后余生
With all his proverbial lives intact, he survives another day
这是它所有的生存技能，它成功了！
The black cat was simply expressing his irrepressible urge to play
而那只黑猫只是无聊的发霉想找点事做做而已
In contrast, playtime for dogs
与之相反
is usually at the hands of their owners
狗狗往往是主人的好帮手
But in her doggy world, being taken for a walk is seen very differently
但在狗狗的世界里，被带出来散步，是很不同的体验
For her, it's an imaginary hunt
对它来说，这其实就好像一场想象中的狩猎
She searches for scent trails,
利用它灵敏的嗅觉
zigzagging her nose to stay on track
来规划它的狩猎路线
She's aware of who passed and when,
它能嗅出谁在什么时候来过这里
even getting information from trails left several weeks ago
甚至能追溯到好几周前
She's hypersensitive to every sound and movement,
它调动起它的十二分警觉
hoping for something to chase
希望能发现什么
Throw a ball and she's mentally back pursuing prey
扔一个球，会让它想象出猎物逃走的画面
And she catches it with instinctive precision
然后就利用它完美的狩猎天赋重新把猎物抓回来
With the determination of a wild animal,
狗狗是一种坚定的动物
she's always ready to run again
它时刻都准备着，跑！
In play, fit dogs will run and run
在玩耍的时候，健康的狗狗会不同的奔跑
Their wild relatives are champion marathon runners,
它们是天生的马拉松健将
exhausting their prey by chasing them down
通过不懈的追逐来耗尽猎物的体力
Like a wolf, this German shepherd can reach 35mph,
像狼一样，这只德国牧羊犬的时速可达35迈（约合56km/h）
and can happily cover 50 miles in a day
而且它们一天里可以愉快的跑上50多里
Blanketed with fur from head to paws,
覆盖与全身的毛发
he's perfectly insulated against the cold,
完美得隔绝了严寒
but, when things really hot up,
但真的好热的时候
he can only sweat through his foot pads
它就只能从脚掌排汗了
Instead, he uses his tongue to lose heat by evaporation -
其实它还可以利用舌头来散热
as its blood vessels dilate,
当血管扩张的时候
the tongue extends and swells
舌头就会伸出来开始排汗
Panting cools the hot blood even faster
不停的喘气加速血液的冷却
Thermal imagery shows where all the heat escapes,
红外成像显示了狗狗主要的散热部位
and how no heat is lost through his thick coat of fur
在毛发最浓密的部位几乎没有热量散失
With a pet so geared for a life chasing prey,
有这么一只为追逐猎物而生的宠物
it's hardly surprising they're sometimes so difficult to control
有时候难以管教也就不足为奇了
Let a dog off the leash
让这只已经玩脱了的狗狗
and her natural instincts kick in
以及他的惊人天赋乱入一下
She's always on the edge of doing something wild and unexpected
它总是做一些疯狂到让人想不到的事情
This playful dog takes the plunge again and again
这只玩high的狗狗一次又一次的跳入水中
She may enjoy her mischievous game,
这个曾经对它的生存至关重要的技能
but once it had real survival value
现在只是它欢乐的游戏而已
Wolves still often use doggy paddle to cross rivers in pursuit of prey
狼仍旧用狗刨式过河来追捕猎物
When a dog swims, he simply trots as he would on land,
狗狗在游泳的时候也就像在岸上小跑那样
but makes longer and faster strides
只不过把腿伸得更长动得更快而已
This bearded collie
这只high翻了的牧羊犬