It has to find its pollinator quickly, and it does by emitting a powerful, musty odor.

它必須迅速找到授粉者，並通過散發出一種強烈的黴味來做到這一點。

An irresistible smell for one creature that, until recently, no one knew existed. And this is its TV debut: the tube-lipped nectar bat.

直到最近，才有人知道這種生物的存在。 這就是它在電視上的首次亮相：管脣花蜜蝙蝠。

A pool of delicious nectar lies at the bottom of each flower's long flute.

每朵花的長笛底部都有一池美味的花蜜。

But how to reach it?

但如何到達呢？

Necessity is the mother of evolution.

必然性是進化之母。

This six-and-a-half-centimeter bat has almost a nine-centimeter tongue—the longest relative-to-body length of any mammal in the world.

這種六釐米半的蝙蝠舌頭長達九釐米，是世界上相對於身體長度最長的哺乳動物。

If human, he'd have almost a three-meter tongue. The bat sates its desire for the high-energy nectar, and the flower gets a courier for its pollen.

如果是人類，它的舌頭差不多有三米長。蝙蝠滿足了它對高能花蜜的渴望，花朵則得到了運送花粉的信使。

As the bat reaches deeper into the flute, his head gets dusted.

當蝙蝠把手伸進笛子深處時，他的頭被塵土覆蓋。

At the next flower, the transaction is complete;

在下一朵花上，交易完成；

he alone is the sole pollinator of this plant.

它是這種植物唯一的授粉者。

Without him, the flower simply wouldn't exist.

沒有他，這朵花就不會存在。