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  • Good morning, John!

    早安,約翰!

  • This morning I woke up, and I took a shower, and I brushed my teeth,

    今天早上我起床,沖了澡,然後刷牙,

  • and I did it all in my normal house, with my normal stuff.

    在我平常房子裡,幹我平常幹的事。

  • And it's- sometimes we feel like we gotta do "thoughts from places" from really weird places,

    然後...有時候我們覺得一定要做「不同角度思考」而且是非常不同的角度,

  • but maybe we could just find some really weird places in the places where we live.

    但也許我們只需要在日常生活中就能找到非常不同的角度。

  • I'm here with Michael. Say hi.

    麥可跟我在一起。說聲嗨吧。

  • Good morning, John.

    早安,約翰。

  • We are driving to one of the coolest places I have ever found in Missoula,

    我們正開車去密蘇拉郡裡我所見過最酷的地方,

  • and some of you may be a little bit grossed out.

    也許你們有些人會覺得有點噁。

  • So if you don't like dead things, you might not want to watch this video.

    如果你不喜歡死翹翹的東西,也許你不會想看這個影片。

  • Still driving. Still- wooooaaahhhh - driving.

    還在開車。還在...哇...開車。

  • Now we're on campus. We're now walking to the health sciences building.

    我們到校園了。我們正走去健康科學大樓。

  • Going up some stairs. Down the hall. And then a left.

    爬樓梯。過走廊。向左轉。

  • This is the Philip L. Wright zoological museum,

    這裡是 菲利浦‧L‧萊特 動物學博物館,

  • and this is Emily, and she's going to give us a tour.

    而這位是艾蜜莉,她要當我們的導遊。

  • Hi! In this tiny room alone, we have about 21,000 specimens.

    嗨!光是在這個小房間裡我們就有大約兩萬一千件樣本。

  • Quick tour around our museum. We have 7,000 bird specimens.

    快速瀏覽一下我們的博物館。我們有七千件鳥類樣本。

  • They're on sticks, so you can pick them up.

    牠們就插在棍子上,這樣比較好拿起來。

  • Birds on sticks! - How do you keep them preserved?

    插棍子的鳥! - 你們怎樣保存牠們呢?

  • The ones dating before the 1960's were preserved with arsenic.

    在1960年代以前的都用砒霜保存。

  • Highly effective for preserving the birds, not highly effective for preserving the curators.

    保存鳥兒超有效,保存管理員就不見得了。

  • Woooaaahh, they gotta like walk around with two of these on your head?

    哇,牠們頭上得戴兩個這種東西?

  • I think it's about 40 pounds to carry these on your head, and they grow more every year.

    我猜頭上這種東西大約四十磅重,而且每年還會長得更大。

  • So you get older and older-

    所以當你越長越大...

  • Well I guess you get used to it.

    這個嘛,我猜久了就習慣了。

  • I guess they kinda grow on ya.

    我猜習慣是會累積的。

  • I like these, um, these hyenas.

    我喜歡這些,嗯,鬣狗。

  • I ask people who have a loose understanding of animal skulls what they think it is

    我問一些對動物頭骨有大概了解的人,問他們有什麼想法

  • and they're like, "It's a bear! No, it's a dog! No, it's a cat. No, it's a bear-dog-cat..

    他們大概都說,「這是熊!不,這是狗!不,這是貓。不對,這是熊狗貓...」

  • The beardogcat.

    熊狗貓。

  • You can also tell that this guy probably scavenged a lot,

    你也可以看得出來這傢伙也常常食腐肉,

  • and eats a lot of bones and that kind of thing;

    也啃一大堆骨頭之類的東西;

  • his teeth are all worn down.

    他牙齒都磨光了。

  • A lot of these guys get dental abscesses,

    這些傢伙很多都牙齦長膿,

  • this is like- there's a huge exposure of root right there, where they had bone loss.

    這就像...這裡的牙根露出來一大塊,還有骨質流失。

  • So they'll get food impacted in their teeth and they can't go to the dentist.

    所以牠們的食物磨壞了牙齒又沒法兒去看牙醫。

  • They get tooth rot and all kinds of fun, nasty, gross things. It makes them angry. And dead.

    牠們有爛牙和各種又噁心又有意思的奇怪毛病。這會讓牠們脾氣暴躁。然後死掉。

  • What's the stinkiest place in here? - The stinkiest cabinet is probably the bald eagles.

    這裡最臭的地方是哪兒。 - 最臭的櫃子大概是白頭鷹。

  • It's really hard to remove all of the grease from the skin of an aquatic bird, 'cause they have all that fat.

    要清掉水生鳥類的皮上面的油脂真的很難,因為牠們有好多脂肪。

  • So, like, the boobies smell pretty bad.

    像鰹鳥的氣味就很糟。

  • It tends to creep people out, 'cause- - Oh, 'cause it's like a little baby skulls! - Yeah.

    它有時候蠻嚇人的,因為... - 哦,因為她看起來像小孩子的頭骨! 對呀。

  • It's almost like we evolved from them.

    看起來好像是我們是從牠們演化出來的。

  • Ooh, they're soft. - How many places in Montana can you touch a monkey?

    嗚...好軟耶。 - 在蒙大拿州裡有多少地方可以讓你這樣摸猴子?

  • Tiny itty bitty skulls, and these are primates, too.

    小不點小小頭殼耶,而且牠們也是靈長類動物。

  • Do you know what that is? - It is an echidna of some kind? - Yeeeah!

    你知道那是什麼嗎? - 牠是某種針鼴嗎? 耶!

  • Possums, and they're really kinda gross. They have more teeth than any other mammal.

    負鼠,牠們有種噁心的長相。牠們的牙齒比所有其他哺乳動物都多。

  • Katherine used to work at a wild animal rehab place, so she has worked a lot with possums.

    凱瑟琳曾在一個野生動物庇護單位工作過,所以她接觸過很多負鼠。

  • And their babies, they are adorable.

    而且牠們的小寶寶超可愛的。

  • Oh, man, I gotta show you this thing.

    哦,老兄,我一定得秀這個。

  • Look, it has four legs! It's a duck with four legs! - Oh my god!

    你瞧,牠有四隻腳!四腳鴨子耶! - 我的天哪!

  • This is part of the pharyngeal palate of a freshwater drum fish. I posted this on Tumblr.

    這是淡水石首魚下顎的一部份。我曾把照片貼在 Tumblr 上。

  • I got a lot of private messages from people being like "I need- I can't sleep at night, I need to know what it is."

    我收到一大堆人們貼個人訊息來問:「我睡不著啦,我就是得知道它到底是什麼。」

  • Very concerned.

    非常執著。

  • This is what we call the "cold room", because it's cold.

    這裡是我們所謂的「冷房」,因為它很冷。

  • There's a beaver, too, which I love. He's huge. - Yeah! He only has three legs.

    這裡也有海狸,這我喜歡。好大隻。 - 對呀。他只有三隻腳。

  • I like how you're holding him like a baby.

    我喜歡你抱他像抱小寶寶的樣子。

  • I care for these animals!

    我就是關心這些動物嘛!

  • Go home today and say, "hey, I touched a beaver." - Yeah. I touched a beaver.

    你今天回家可以說:「嘿,我有摸過一隻海狸哦。」 - 對呀。我有摸過一隻海狸。

  • I've got a lot of thoughts about this place,

    我在這裡有了很多想法,

  • about how it largely exists to satisfy that wonderful, insatiable human curiosity.

    主要是關於它的存在主要是為了滿足人類奇妙的、無窮盡的好奇心。

  • About how this and other amazing places like it are tremendously under-supported

    還有關於這裡以及類似的機構都嚴重短缺資源,

  • and could not exist without the help of, like, full-time volunteers like Emily.

    如果不是像艾蜜莉這種全職志工的幫助就撐不下去。

  • And that the pure density of amazing and awesome and interesting things in this place

    而這裡的奇妙、很棒、有意思的東西數量之多

  • rivals anywhere I've ever been in my life.

    遠超過我平生所見。

  • And yet it's hiding there, unknown to most of the people, even though it's open to the public by appointment.

    然而它就藏在這裡不為人知,雖然只要預約人人都可以來看。

  • But mostly the thought I can't get out of my mind is that I'm glad that it exists.

    但我一直在想的就是我很高興它的存在。

  • I'm glad that it is a place, I'm glad that it's there.

    我很高興這個地方還在這裡。

  • Thank you to Emily for the tour, and thank you to all people who help support that place and places like it.

    感謝艾蜜莉帶我們參觀這裡,也要感謝大家幫助這個地方和類似的機構。

  • John, congratulations on all of the "best book of the year" lists that you're on right now.

    約翰,恭喜你的書現在在「年度最佳書籍」之列。

  • As soon as I read it, I knew that it was, but I'm glad all of the rest of the world agrees with me, too,

    當初我一讀完它就知道它是了,但是我現在很高興全世界跟我有同感。

  • and I'll see you on Tuesday.

    咱們週二見。

Good morning, John!

早安,約翰!

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