about the African wilderness

非洲的自然原生態

and protecting the African wilderness,

以及對這些原生態的保護。

and so what we've done

因此一直以來

is we've focused on iconic cats.

我們都集中關注這些有代表性的貓科動物。

And I know,

是的我知道，

in the light of human suffering and poverty

相比起人類的苦難和貧窮

and even climate change,

甚至是氣候變化，

one would wonder,

你也許會問，

why worry about a few cats?

何必為幾隻貓操心？

Well today we're here

今天我們在這裡

to share with you a message that we have learned

和大家分享我們所學到的一個訊息

from a very important and special character --

從一個非常重要和特殊的對象那裡學到的——

this leopard.

就是這頭花豹。

Dereck Joubert: Well, our lives have basically been

Dereck Joubert說：基本上我們的生活一直以來

like a super long episode of "CSI" --

就是一集超長的“犯罪現場調查”（CSI）——

something like 28 years.

整整長達28年。

In essence, what we've done

根本上，我們一直所做的

is we've studied the science, we've looked at the behavior,

就是研究這個學科，觀察動物的行為，

we've seen over 2,000 kills

我們看到兩千多次

by these amazing animals.

這種令人驚歎的動物施行的獵殺。

But one of the things that science really lets us down on

但是其中一樣科學無法告訴我們的

is that personality,

是個性，

that individual personality that these animals have.

就是每一個動物所有的獨特個性。

And here's a prime example.

這就是主要例子。

We found this leopard in a 2,000-year-old

我們在非洲一棵兩千年的

baobab tree in Africa,

猴麵包樹上，發現的這隻花豹。

the same tree that we found her mother in

就在同一棵樹上我們還觀察過她的母親

and her grandmother.

和她的外祖母。

And she took us on a journey

她帶領我們踏上一段旅程

and revealed something very special to us --

向我們展現了一些非常特殊的東西——

her own daughter, eight days old.

她的女兒，八天大。

And the minute we found this leopard,

當我們發現這隻花豹的那刻，

we realized that we needed to move in,

我們就意識到我們需要搬來這裡。

and so we basically stayed with this leopard

於是我們基本上就和這隻花豹在一起

for the next four-and-a-half years --

在接下來的四年半時間裡——

following her every day,

追蹤她的每一天，

getting to know her,

逐步瞭解她，

that individual personality of hers,

她的獨特個性，

and really coming to know her.

然後真正地認識了她。

Now I'm destined

我真是命中註定

to spend a lot of time

要花大量的時間

with some unique,

和一些獨特的，

very, very special,

非常特立獨行的

individualistic

充滿個性，

and often seductive female characters.

同時也非常有魅力的女性在一起。

(Laughter)

（觀眾笑聲）

Beverly's clearly one of them,

Beverly顯然是其中之一，

and this little leopard, Legadema, is another,

而這頭小花豹，Legadema則是另一個，

and she changed our lives.

她改變了我們的生活。

BJ: Well we certainly did spend a lot of time with her --

BJ: 我們的確花了很多時間和她在一起——

in fact, more time than even her mother did.

事實上，多過她媽媽和她一起的時間。

When her mother would go off hunting,

當她媽媽出去獵食時，

we would stay and film.

我們還在那裡拍攝。

And early on, a lightning bolt hit a tree

早先時候，一道大閃電劈中一棵樹，

20 paces away from us.

離我們就20步的距離。

It was frightening,

當時非常嚇人。

and it showered us with leaves and a pungent smell.

葉子像下雨一樣落到我們頭上，還伴隨著很難聞的味道。

And of course, we were stunned for a while,

當然我們有一陣都嚇懵了，

but when we managed to get our wits about us,

但當我們回過神來時，

we looked at it and said, "My gosh,

我們看向那邊想說，“天啊，

what's going to happen with that little cub?

那個小豹子會怎麼想？

She's probably going to forever associate

她可能會永遠地把

that deafening crash with us."

那聲震耳欲聾的聲音和我們兩個聯繫起來。”

Well, we needn't have worried.

其實我們一點都不需要擔心。

She came charging out of the thicket straight towards us,

她從灌木叢中筆直地沖向我們，

sat next to us, shivering,

坐在我們旁邊，瑟瑟發抖，

with her back towards Dereck, and looking out.

她背對著Dereck，四處張望。

And actually from that day on,

事實上就是從那天起，

she's been comfortable with us.

她接受了我們的存在。

So we felt that that day

因此我們覺得就是在那天，

was the day that she really earned her name.

她真正獲得了屬於自己的名字。

We called her Legadema,

我們叫她Legadema

which means, "light from the sky."

意思就是“來自天空的閃電。”

DJ: Now we've found these individualisms

DJ:現在我們已經在各種動物身上

in all sorts of animals,

發現它們各自的性格。

in particular in the cats.

尤其是貓科動物。

This particular one is called Eetwidomayloh,

這是Eetwidomayloh，

"he who greets with fire,"

意思就是：烈焰騰騰。

and you can just see that about him, you know -- that's his character.

你一看到它的樣子就能瞭解到，你知道——這就是它的性格。

But only by getting up close to these animals

但是只有通過貼近這些動物，

and spending time with them

和牠們長時間在一起

can we actually even reach out

我們才能真正接觸到

and dig out these personal characters that they have.

挖掘出牠們所具有的這些個性。

BJ: But through our investigation,

BJ:但是在我們的探索過程中，

we have to seek the wildest places in Africa.

我們不得不尋找非洲最為荒野的地方。

And right now this is in the Okavango Delta

這裡是Okavango三角洲，

in Botswana.

位於博茨瓦納。

Yes, it is swamp. We live in the swamp in a tent,

是的，這裡是沼澤地。我們就住在沼澤地的一個帳篷裏。

but I must tell you, every day is exhilarating.

但是我必須告訴你們，這裡的每一天都是激動人心的。

But also, our hearts are in our throats

但是同時，提心吊膽的情況

a huge amount of the time,

也占據了多數時間，

because we're driving through water,

因為我們要開車涉水，

and it's an unknown territory.

而這裡是一片未知的領域。

But we're really there

但我們確實在那裡

seeking and searching and filming the iconic cats.

尋找，追蹤並拍攝這些大型貓科動物。

DJ: Now one of the big things, of course,

DJ: 其中一大發現就是，當然，

everybody knows that cats hate water,

每個人都知道，貓不喜歡水。

and so this was a real revelation for us.

所以這對我們來說真是一個大發現。

And we could only find this by pushing ourselves,

而我們要想發現這個就必須逼著自己，

by going where no sane person should go --

去到理智的人不會去的地方——

not without some prompting, by the way, from Beverly --

順便說一句，Beverly起了很大的督促作用——

and just pushing the envelope,

這樣不斷地打破底線，

going out there, pushing our vehicle, pushing ourselves.

去到荒無人煙的地方，考驗我們的車子，也考驗我們自己。

But we've managed to find that these lions

但我們費儘艱辛終於發現，這些獅子

are 15 percent bigger than any others,

比其他獅子大百分之十五，

and they specialize in hunting buffalo in the water.

牠們的獨特之處就在於專門在水裡捕捉野牛。

BJ: And then of course, the challenge

BJ: 當然另一個考驗在於

is knowing when to turn around.

知道什麽時候該掉頭轉向。

We don't always get that right,

我們對轉向的時機把握的不是太好。

and on this particular day,

尤其是這一天，

we seriously underestimated the depth.

我們嚴重地低估了水深。

We got deeper and deeper,

陷得越來越深，

until it was at Dereck's chest-height.

一直淹到了Dereck的胸口。

Well then we hit a deep depression,

然後我們撞進一個很深的窪地裡頭，

and we seriously submerged the vehicle.

水把車子淹得很厲害。

We actually managed to drown

我們實際上不得不任由

two million dollars' worth of camera gear.

200萬美元的攝像器材淹沒在水裡。

We drowned our pride, I must tell you,

一同淹沒的還有我們的驕傲，我不得不說，

which was really serious,

那次真的很嚴重，

and we seized the engine.

而且發動機抱缸了（基本等於報廢）。

DJ: And of course, one of the rules that we have in the vehicle

DJ: 當然，我們車上的其中一條軍規就是

is that he who drowns the vehicle

誰把車開到水裡

gets to swim with the crocodiles.

誰就下去和鱷魚游泳。

(Laughter)

（觀眾笑聲）

You will notice also that all of these images here

你還會注意到這裡所有的圖片

are taken from the top angle by Beverly --

都是Beverly從高處拍的——

the dry top angle, by the way.

順便說一句，是乾燥的高處。

(Laughter)

（觀眾笑聲）

But all the places we get stuck in really have great views.

但是所有這些令我們陷入困境的地方都讓我們歎為觀止。

And it wasn't a moment, and these lions came back towards us,

這樣的事情發生過不止一次，這些獅子向我們走來，

and Beverly was able to get a great photograph.

Beverly 得以拍到絕佳的照片。

BJ: But we truly do

BJ: 但是我們確實

spend day and night

日日夜夜

trying to capture unique footage.

都在努力抓住那些獨一無二的瞬間。

And 20 years ago,

20年前，

we did a film called "Eternal Enemies"

我們拍攝了一部影片，叫做“永遠的敵人”

where we managed to capture

在這部影片裡我們得以捕捉到

this unusual disturbing behavior across two species --

這種異常令人不安的行為出現在兩種動物之間——

lions and hyenas.

獅子和鬣狗。

And surprisingly, it became a cult film.

令人驚訝的是，這片子竟然成為一部邪典電影。

And we can only work that out

我們唯一能想到的理由就是

as people were seeing parallels

人們看到了

between the thuggish side of nature

自然界中殘忍殺戮的一面與

and gang warfare.

黑幫火拼之間的關聯。

DJ: It was amazing, because you can see that this lion

DJ: 這真是很神奇，因為你能看到這頭雄獅

is doing exactly what his name,

確實像它的名字的含義一樣，

Eetwidomayloh, represents.

殺氣騰騰。

He's focused on this hyena,

它盯上了這隻鬣狗，

and he is going to get it.

即將要獵殺它。

(Animal sounds)

（動物嚎叫）

But that's, I think, what this is all about,

但我認為這就是這部影片的目的所在，

is that these individuals have these personalities and characters.

即所有這些動物都帶有它們各自的性格和特點。

But for us to get them, not only do we push ourselves,

而在我們拍攝它們期間，我們不僅要挑戰自己的底線，

but we live by certain rules of engagement,

我們還遵循著一些互動原則，

which mean we can't interfere.

就是說我們不能干涉。

This sort of behavior has been going on

這樣的行為已經持續了

for three, four, five million years,

大約三，四，五百萬年之久，

and we can't step in and say, "That's wrong, and that's right."

我們不能突然站出來說，“這樣是錯的，那樣是對的。”

But that's not always easy for us.

但對我們來說往往不易做到。

BJ: So, as Dereck says,

BJ: 正如Dereck所說，

we have to work through extremes --

我們必須經歷很多極端的情況——

extreme temperatures, push ourselves at night.

夜晚我們被迫經歷極端的溫度狀況，

Sleep deprivation is extreme.

睡眠缺乏也相當嚴重。

We're on the edge

在絕大部份時間裡，

through a large part of the time.

我們都處在臨界的狀態。

But, for 10 years, we tried to capture

在十年間，我們試圖拍攝到

lions and elephants together --

獅子和大象在一起——

and never ever managed

卻從未成功

until this particular night.

直到這天晚上。

And I have to tell you

我必須告訴你們

that it was a disturbing night for me.

對我來說這是非常不安的一個晚上。

I had tears rolling down my cheeks.

我熱淚滾滾，

I was shaking with anxiety,

焦急得瑟瑟發抖。

but I knew that [I had] to capture something

但是我知道這是爲了拍攝到

that had never been seen before, had never been documented.

以前從未有人目睹，也從未被記錄下來的情景。

And I do believe you should stay with us.

而我堅信你們應該和我們一起看下去。

DJ: The amazing thing about these moments --

DJ:這些時刻的神奇之處——

and this is probably a highlight of our career --

而這可能也是我們事業的精彩之處——

is that you never know how it's going to end.

就在於你從來不知道事情將會如何結束。

Many people believe, in fact,

很多人都會覺得，事實上，

that death begins in the eyes, not in the heart,

死亡始於眼睛，而不是內心，

not in the lungs,

更不是始於肺部。

and that's when people give up hope,

而這就是當人放棄希望的樣子，

or when any life form gives up hope.

或是任何生命放棄希望的樣子。

And you can see the start of it here.

你可以看到，從這裡就開始了。

This elephant, against overwhelming odds,

這頭大象，在寡不敵眾的情況下，

simply gives up hope.

乾脆放棄了希望。

But by the same token,

但是同樣的情況下，

you can get your hope back again.

你也可以重新燃起希望。

So just when you think it's all over, something else happens,

所以就在你認為一切已經結束時，有什麽事情發生了，

some spark gets into you,

一些小火花激勵了你，

some sort of will to fight --

某種戰鬥下去的願望——

that iron will that we all have,

我們每個人都有這種堅強的意志，

that this elephant has,

這頭大象有，

that conservation has, that big cats have.

自然保護區有，大貓們也有。

Everything has that will to survive,

大家都有著堅強的意志去生存，

to fight, to push through that mental barrier

去拼搏，去衝破內心的關卡，

and to keep going.

繼續前進。

And for us, in many ways,

對我們來說，從某種程度上，

this elephant has become

這頭大象已經成為

a symbol of inspiration for us,

激勵我們的一個象徵，

a symbol of that hope as we go forward in our work.

是我們投入工作時的希望象徵。

(Applause)

（觀眾掌聲）

Now back to the leopard.

現在回到這頭花豹。

We were spending so much time with this leopard

我們長時間和這頭花豹在一起，

and getting to understand her individualism,

得以熟悉她的個性，

her personal character,

和個人風格，

that maybe we were taking it a little bit far.

可能我們和她的關係更親密一些。

We were perhaps taking her for granted,

甚至可能太過接納她的存在了，

and maybe she didn't like that that much.

而也許她并不喜歡這樣。

This is about couples working together,

當夫妻兩個一起工作時也是如此，

and so I do need to say that within the vehicle

我需要說明的就是在越野車裡，

we have quite strict territories, Beverly and I.

Beverly和我有著嚴格的地盤劃分。

Beverly sits on the one side

Beverly坐的那邊

where all her camera gear is,

放著她全部的攝影器材，

and I'm on the other side where my space is.

而另一邊是我的地盤。

These are precious to us, these divides.

這些分界對我們來說很重要。

BJ: But when this little cub saw

BJ: 但是當這頭小豹子看到

that I had vacated my seat

我離開座位，

and climbed to the back to get some camera gear,

爬到車後面拿些照相器材時，

she came in like a curious cat

她就像一隻好奇的貓一樣

to come and investigate.

爬進來探索一番。

It was phenomenal, and we felt grateful

這很不尋常，我們也非常感謝

that she trusted us to that extent.

她對我們信任到如此程度。

But at the same time, we were concerned

但與此同時，我們也很擔心

that if she created this as a habit

如果她養成這樣的習慣，

and jumped into somebody else's car,

跳到別人的車裡，

it might not turn out the same way --

結果可能大不相同——

she might get shot for that.

她可能因此遭到射殺。

So we knew we had to react quickly.

因此我們知道我們必須快速反應。

And the only way we thought we could

我們想唯一能做的

without scaring her

而又不嚇到她的方法

is to try and simulate a growl like her mother would make --

就是試著發出像她媽媽那樣的低聲咆哮——

a hiss and a sound.

伴隨著嘶嘶的聲音。

So Dereck turned on the heater fan in the car --

於是Dereck把車內的熱風扇打開——

very innovative.

很有創意吧。

DJ: It was the only way for me to save the marriage,

DJ: 這是我挽救這段婚姻的唯一方法，

because Beverly felt she was being replaced, you see.

因為，你看，Beverly覺得自己要被取代了。

(Laughter)

（觀眾笑聲）

But really and truly, this was how

但是的的確確，這就是

this little leopard was displaying

這頭小花豹如何向我們表現出

her individual personality.

她獨特的個性。

But nothing prepared us

但是我們絕對沒有想到

for what happened next in our relationship with her,

接下來我們和她之間發生的事，

when she started hunting.

那是在她開始自己捕獵後。

BJ: And on this first hunt, we truly were excited.

BJ: 對於這第一次捕獵，我們真是非常興奮。

It was like watching a graduation ceremony.

我就像在觀看一場畢業典禮。

We felt like we were surrogate parents.

我們覺得自己好像是代理家長。

And of course, we knew now

當然，我們那時可以確定，

that she was going to survive.

她將能夠生存下去。

But only when we saw the tiny baby baboon

但只是當我們看到那個小小的狒狒幼崽