纪录片《非洲》 第44期:好望角(2)(在线收听

Each one, just seven centimetres long,

每一只小海龟都只有7厘米长

must make a hundred-metre sprint down the beach.

但他们得拿出百米冲刺的速度离开沙滩

From the moment they hatch,

从他们孵化出来那一刻

they're driven by an instinctive urge to run to the sea.

就受着本能的驱使爬向大海

Few creatures start life

很少有生物刚出生时

with the odds for success so heavily stacked against them.

就面临如此多的危险 挣扎求生

Yellow-billed kites.

黄嘴黑鸢

Pied crows.

非洲白颈鸦

But so many of these hatchlings appear together,

但是众多刚孵化的小海龟一起出现

that predators can't catch them all.

捕食者也不能将他们全部抓光

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