Name: 潛入深海！啃食鯨屍的恐怖生物大軍！😱 (The Creepy Creatures That Feast On Dead Whales)
Uploaded: 2025-12-27T17:00:24.000Z
Duration: 4 min 16 s

This is a dead whale, which scientists recently discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

這是一隻死掉的鯨魚，科學家們最近在太平洋海底發現的。

Covered in all kinds of creatures, from bone eating worms to deep sea octopuses.

上面爬滿了各種生物，從噬骨蠕蟲到深海章魚都有。

The bottom of the ocean is a desolate place.

Normally, the only food you'll find there is what's called marine snow.

通常，那裡唯一能找到的食物叫做海洋雪。

Tiny specks of organic material falling from the surface.

從海面掉落的微小有機物顆粒。

And that's why there aren't many critters crawling or swimming at the bottom.

這也是為什麼海底很少有生物爬行或遊動。

But once in a while, the stuff falling from above is a lot bigger.

但偶爾，從上面掉下來的東西會大得多。

Whales, of course, are enormous, weighing up to 180 metric tons.

鯨魚當然非常巨大，重量可達 180 公噸。

So when they fall to the bottom, they can sustain entire eco systems for years.

所以當牠們沉到海底時，可以支撐整個生態系統好幾年。

Just think the amount of calories in a whale here.

這裡的鯨魚蘊含的熱量，光是想想就覺得驚人。

I mean, the equivalent of so much marine snow, it's hard to even compare.

意思是，相當於那麼多的海洋雪，根本很難比較。

That's one of the 31 scientists aboard the exploration vessel Nautilus, a ship that explores the sea floor.

這位是探測船 Nautilus 上 31 位科學家之一，這艘船專門探索海底。

In the fall of 2019, the crew came across this baleen whale more than 3,000 meters down.

2019 年秋天，船員們在 3,000 多公尺深處發現了這隻鬚鯨。

And by the time they arrived, it was overrun with octopuses.

當他們抵達時，這裡已經被章魚佔滿了。

More specifically, moose, Octopus robustus, a little known purplish species that inhabits the deep sea.

更具體來說，是巨型章魚，Octopus robustus，一種鮮為人知、棲息於深海的紫色品種。

What's strange is that octopuses are predators.

They don't usually eat dead tissue, which is why experts think they were feasting on other critters on top of the whale carcass, such as crustaceans or snails.

牠們通常不吃死亡組織，這也是為什麼專家認為牠們是在鯨魚屍體上大快朵頤其他生物，像是甲殼類動物或蝸牛。

They likely use the suckers on their tentacles to pick up their prey and then carefully transfer them from sucker to sucker into their mouths.

牠們很可能利用觸手上的吸盤來拾取獵物，然後小心地將獵物從一個吸盤傳到另一個吸盤送入口中。

But if those octopuses look eerie to you, wait until you learn about the bone eating worms called Osedax.

但如果你覺得這些章魚看起來很詭異，那等到你認識一種叫做 Osedax 的噬骨蠕蟲時，你可能會更驚訝。

There are so many of them here that it looks like the whale skeleton is coated in algae.

這裡的噬骨蠕蟲多到，看起來就像鯨魚骨架上覆蓋著一層藻類。

這些蠕蟲沒有嘴巴也沒有腸道。

Instead, they secrete acid to dissolve bone, and

相反地，牠們會分泌酸來溶解骨頭，

then they rely on bacteria to do the rest of the.

然後牠們就依靠細菌來完成剩下的工作。

So these are worms that have symbiotic associations with bacteria.

所以這些蠕蟲是和細菌有共生關係的。

Instead, they have these rootlets that burrow into the bone, and

相反地，牠們有這些根狀物，可以鑽進骨頭裡，

then the bacteria are able to metabolize the fats and oils that are in the bone itself.

然後細菌就能夠代謝骨頭本身的脂肪和油質。

In other words, they basically outsource digestion.

換句話說，牠們根本是外包消化。

You'll also notice some eel like creatures swimming around.

你也會注意到有些像鰻魚的生物在旁邊遊動。

And as it turns out, they're not actually eels, but

結果發現，牠們其實不是鰻魚，

likely long bodied fish known as eelpouts, which have a taste for decaying whale blubber.

而是很可能是長身魚，也就是俗稱的鰻魚，牠們喜歡吃腐爛的鯨脂。

We saw one or two in particular grab onto flesh and do what we were calling an alligator roll, spinning around to twist off pieces of flesh.

我們特別看到一兩隻纏住肉塊，做出我們稱之為「鱷魚翻滾」的動作，牠們會旋轉身體來扯下肉塊。

The researchers also saw other kinds of worms, crabs and a plump lobster, which they joked may have been fat from feeding on the whale.

研究人員也看到了其他種類的蠕蟲、螃蟹，還有一隻胖胖的龍蝦，他們開玩笑說牠可能是因為吃了鯨魚而變胖的。

He was a little lethargic and maybe not going to swim away too fast.

牠有點昏昏欲睡，可能遊不快。

In fact, a lot of these animals look pretty full.

事實上，這些動物很多看起來都飽飽的。

就像感恩節大餐過後一樣，對吧？

You just gotta sit on the sofa for a while.

With so many animals feeding on the carcass, it can degrade in less than a decade.

有這麼多動物在啃食鯨屍，牠可能在十年內就會分解殆盡。

And considering how vast the ocean is, stumbling on one only months after it died is really lucky.

考量到海洋如此浩瀚，在牠死亡幾個月後就偶然發現，真的非常幸運。

Whale falls are very rare, relatively, and the chance encounter like this was really important for science.

相對來說，鯨落非常罕見，而像這樣的巧遇對科學研究非常重要。

For example, it will help researchers better understand these elusive deep sea animals, like those bone eating worms, which is one reason why they were so excited.

例如，這將有助於研究人員更瞭解這些難以捉摸的深海動物，像是那些噬骨蠕蟲，這也是他們如此興奮的原因之一。

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