Name: 幽靈蘭花之謎的解讀｜探尋者獨立工作室 (Solving the Mystery of the Ghost Orchid | Seeker Indie)
Uploaded: 2021-03-03T18:11:14.000Z
Duration: 19 min 19 s

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And what if that something is high up in a tree, in the middle of a wild swamp,

如果那個東西在高處的樹上，在野生沼澤的中間呢？

in one of the most unexplored places in North America?

Well, this short documentary we're about to show you is about a team doing just that;

好了，我們要給大家看的這部短片就是關於一個團隊的做法。

filming something that has only ever been hypothesized.

拍攝的東西，只有曾經的假設。

The mystery about this rare flower has actually become an obsession to solve.

關於這種稀有花卉的謎團，其實已經成了一個解不開的迷。

But is it worth getting rained on while trudging through alligator and snake infested water?

但是，在鱷魚和蛇出沒的水中跋涉，被雨淋，值得嗎？

沼澤地本身就沉浸在神祕之中。

Holding a wildness that is so increasingly rare in modern life.

持有一種現代生活中越來越少見的野性。

There's this fairy-like, ghost-like thing dancing off the edge of a tree.

有這個像仙女一樣，像鬼一樣的東西在樹邊跳舞。

the way as these curling tendrils in that long nectar stem, the artistry is in the form itself.

就像那長長的蜜莖中這些捲曲的卷鬚一樣，藝術性就在形式本身。

They're so endangered and so elusive that we hardly know anything about them.

它們是如此的瀕危，如此的難以捉摸，以至於我們對它們幾乎一無所知。

We all have this inherent desire to know the answers.

我們都有這種與生俱來的渴望，想知道答案。

This is something that is in our backyard that science doesn't know yet.

這是我們後院的東西，科學還不知道。

You know, this is the burning question that has outlasted generations of scientists.

你知道，這是一個超越了幾代科學家的迫切問題。

This summer, we're like, you know what, if we're gonna do this, we got to go all in.

這個夏天，我們就像，你知道嗎， 如果我們要做到這一點，我們得去全身心投入。

This team that's going about it in different ways.

這支隊伍，正在用不同的方式去做。

Carlton is having to wade through waist deep water and then paddleboard miles and heads.

卡爾頓要涉過齊腰深的水，然後用槳板劃上幾英里，頭。

The chase of this photo is definitely pushing all of us.

這張照片的追逐，絕對是在逼迫我們所有人。

I don't actually know the ingredients of obsession.

Maybe it's a chance of trying something that seems impossible.

也許這是個機會，可以嘗試一些看似不可能的事情。

Orchids are the most diverse group of flowering plants in the world.

蘭花是世界上種類最多的開花植物群體。

The most iconic orchid pollination story is one that Darwin was interested in 150 years ago.

最具代表性的蘭花授粉故事是150年前達爾文感興趣的。

And it involves an orchid in Madagascar that has a nectar tube that's over a foot long.

而這涉及到馬拉加西的一種蘭花，它的蜜管有一尺多長。

And Darwin had predicted that a moth must have a tongue that's that matches the length

達爾文曾預言，飛蛾的舌頭一定是長短一致的。

expression was "Good heavens, what insect can suck it?"

表情是 "天啊，什麼昆蟲能吸到它？"

Here in South Florida. It's the most diverse place for orchids in the United States.

這裡是南佛羅里達州這裡是美國最適合種植蘭花的地方。

And so was really drawn to the ghost orchid because how little was known about it.

所以真的被鬼蘭花吸引了，因為對它的瞭解是多麼的少。

You know, it's this nondescript twig like leafless plant growing on the side of a cypress

就是這種不起眼的小樹枝一樣的無葉植物 長在柏樹的旁邊

tree until it pushes this ephemeral ghost-like flower for the sole purpose of attracting a pollinator.

直到它把這種短暫的幽靈般的花朵推到樹上，唯一的目的就是吸引傳粉者。

A super specific flower adapted and co-evolved to a super specific pollinator.

一朵超特殊的花適應並共同進化出了超特殊的授粉者。

It's always been suspected that the giant Sphinx moth pollinates, the ghost orchid based

一直以來，人們都懷疑是巨型斯芬克斯蛾授粉，鬼蘭花根據

on the size of the moth, the length of the tongue, in a scientific sense, we need to

在飛蛾的大小、舌頭的長短上，從科學意義上講，我們需要。

This is the perfect embodiment of the scientific process.

Mack and I've been talking about trying to photograph ghost orchids being pollinated

麥克和我一直在討論如何拍攝鬼蘭花授粉的問題。

And the idea is actually to use camera traps and sleep out in the swamp for however long

而這個想法其實是利用攝影機陷阱，在沼澤地裡睡多久就睡多久

The hard part too, though, is that the ghost like the way those roots are and how old it is, and is all over

不過，難的也是，鬼喜歡那些根的樣子，多老的時候，都是在

that, that's got to be a 50 year old orchid by the size of those roots.

那，那一定是一個50歲的蘭花 由這些根的大小。

It's a ghost orchid here in corkscrew swamp they've called the super ghost and that is

這是一種鬼蘭花，在開瓶器沼澤地，他們稱之為超級鬼，那就是：

because it produces so many flowers every single year.

因為它每年都會開出那麼多的花。

and has a massive roots that just spider out in all directions.

並有一個巨大的根，只是蜘蛛出在各個方向。

It can get up to 16 blooms at a time, which is insane.

它一次最多能開16朵花，這太瘋狂了。

"你都準備好了？"  "是啊，準備好了嗎？"

When we started undertaking this project I called Peter, who is an expert in orchids

當我們開始進行這個項目時，我打電話給彼得，他是蘭花專家

who worked for years on pollination attempts.

Peter's an animal, he actually went out in the swamp for weeks at a time and stood on

彼得是一個動物，他實際上去了 在沼澤地幾個星期的時間，並站在上

a ladder, aiming an infrared video camera at a ghost orchid,

梯子，用紅外攝像機對準鬼蘭花。

patrolling different flowers, hoping something would come.

巡邏不同的花，希望能有所收穫。

It was so frustrating for so long, that I was almost just ready to walk away from the whole

它是如此的沮喪這麼久，我幾乎只是準備從整個走開

And then Mac, Carlton, were kind of like you know,

然後Mac和Carlton就像... ...你知道的那樣。

I was ascending and Mac was coming up as well.

And he looked up the trunk and just saw a Giant Sphinx moth.

而他順著樹幹往上看，就看到了一隻巨大的斯芬克斯飛蛾。

I don't I have no idea how Mac even spotted it.

我不... ...我不知道Mac是怎麼發現的。

And we're kind of wondering, you know, is the sun going to set in this thing is it going

我們有點想知道，你知道，太陽會不會在這件事上落山？

to take off and fly right to the orchid and pollinate it?

騰空而起，直飛蘭花，為其授粉？

These ancient canopies that used to extend all over the southeast, they hold an entire

這些古老的甬道，曾經延伸到東南各地，它們承載著一整個

This ghost orchid is a relic of that ecosystem of how it used to be.

這株鬼蘭是那個生態系統的遺蹟，它曾經是如何的。

I think for Mac, the chance to come here to Corkscrew, to go to this amazing ghost orchid

我想對Mac來說，有機會來到Corkscrew這裡，去這個神奇的鬼蘭花。

and try to put a camera trap there is something no one had even thought of doing.

並試圖把一個攝像頭陷阱有什麼東西，甚至沒有人想到做。

And so while I'm having to climb up 50 feet to see and photograph mine, Carlton is by

所以當我不得不爬上50英尺高的地方去看和拍我的照片時，卡爾頓卻在這裡。

We're kind of on parallel pursuits to try to answer this question.

我們是在平行的追問中試圖回答這個問題。

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