It's difficult to believe that an advanced culture capable of carving and erecting these monoliths grew up in such a barren landscape. 难以相信一个成长在如此贫瘠景致里的先进文明能够雕刻和竖立这些巨石 The truth is, it d...
The great-grandparents of these dancers were cannibals. 这些舞者的祖先是食人族 Life on an isolated Pacific island is eternally poised on a knife-edge. 在与世隔绝的太平洋岛屿上生命常常前途未卜 Nowhere is this more appare...
The Toka festival celebrates the end of warfare between rival clans, 塔卡节是庆祝对抗宗族之间的战争结束 and pigs are at the centre of it. 猪是节日的中心 To attend, each village must bring some to the party, and that's a lot of...
Jackson's chameleons were brought from East Africa as exotic pets. 杰克逊变色龙是作为外国宠物从东非引入的 The white-rumped shama from India and the northern cardinal from North America 来自印度的白腰鹊鸲来自北美的红衣...
The bird recordings and recreated songs you hear now 现在你听到的是录音再现 are all of species that have disappeared from these main-island forests. 这些鸣叫的鸟儿，都已经从主岛森林中消失 We can't just blame Tibbles and...
Tibbles proved to be a very efficient specimen collector. 蒂伯斯是一个非常有 能力的标本收集者 So much so, in fact, that one year later, 以至于实际上一年后 when the bird was officially declared a new species, 这鸟被正式宣...
Unlike mammals, tuatara live life in the slow lane. 不像哺乳动物 楔齿蜥的生命是生存在一个缓慢的通道中 Days can pass when they barely move a muscle...sometimes taking just one breath an hour. 数天过去了它们只不过动了一...
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, the mammals have finally arrived in force. Australian possums. 聪明能干，哺乳动物最终大规模到达了。澳洲袋貂 Imported for their fur two centuries ago, 200年前它们的皮毛被进口 they soon reac...
Its favourite food is up above - the tiny seeds of the rimu tree. 它们最喜欢的食物在上面 芮木泪柏的微小种子 This fruit fuels kakapo reproduction and they only breed when the trees produce a bumper crop, 这种果实能促进鸮鹉的...
The very first bat evolved from a mouse-like mammal many millions of years ago. 数百万年前最初的蝙蝠是从类似老鼠的哺乳动物演化而来 Here on New Zealand, it seems evolution has gone into reverse. 在新西兰这里，似乎演化...
