Name: 【TED】基斯‧慕萊克: 一隻死鴨子如何改變我的一生 (Kees Moeliker: How a dead duck changed my life)
Uploaded: 2013-05-25T15:40:49.000Z
Duration: 11 min 53 s

This is the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam,

這是在鹿特丹(荷蘭)的自然歷史博物館

It's my job to make sure the collection stays okay,

我的職責是確保館藏的狀況維持良好

and basically it means I collect dead animals.

我們博物館的旁邊多了一個新的別館

and this building really helped me to do my job good.

這棟建築對我的工作有很大的幫助

是沒有甚麼概念的，他們看不到它

so they fly into the windows and get killed.

所以他們飛行時撞到玻璃後就死了

pick them up, and have them stuffed for the collection.

然後把它們撿起來，再把填充物加進去，就變成我的收藏品了

我開始能夠從我的耳朵分辨是甚麼鳥類

just by the sound of the bangs they made against the glass.

從它們撞上玻璃所發出的聲音就可以知道了

that I heard a loud bang against the glass

that changed my life and ended that of a duck.

這改變了我的一生同時也終結了一隻鴨子的生命

And this is what I saw when I looked out of the window.

這是當時我從窗外看出去時的景象

This is the dead duck. It flew against the window.

這是一隻死鴨子，牠在飛行的時候撞上了玻璃

But next to the dead duck is a live duck,

但在死鴨子旁邊的是一隻活著的鴨子

Well, I'm a biologist. I'm an ornithologist.

我是一個生物學家，我也是一個鳥類學家

我說 " 這其中一定有甚麼問題 "

One is dead, one is alive. That must be necrophilia.

一隻已死去，一隻還活著。 這一定就是姦屍了

我拿起我的相機，我拿起我的筆記型電腦

took a chair, and started to observe this behavior.

拿了張椅子，然後開始觀察這個現象

我覺得我看夠了，肚子同時也餓了

所以我走了出去，把鴨子拿起來

I checked if the victim was indeed of the male sex.

我確認了這個受害者確實是隻公的鴨子

And here's a rare picture of a duck's penis,

這是一張很稀有的鴨子陰莖的照片

It's a rare picture because there are 10,000 species of birds

這照片很少見是因為世界上有10,000種的鳥類

[The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves:Anatidae)]

[ 鴨屬綠頭鴨 Anas platyrhynchos(學名) 同性戀姦屍的首例 ]

but it took me six years to decide to publish it.

但它花了我六年的時間決定是否要發表它

I mean, it's a nice topic for a birthday party

我的意思是，這是在生日派對上很好的一個話題

but to share this among your peers is something different.

但是要對你們這樣的知識分子分享這項發現，是不太一樣的

So after six years, my friends and colleagues urged me to publish,

所以六年後，我的朋友和同事都鼓勵我發表它

so I published "The first case of homosexual necrophilia

B is the place where the duck hit the glass,

I got a phone call from a person called Marc Abrahams,

一個叫 馬克‧亞伯拉罕 的人打了電話給我

and he told me, "You've won a prize with your duck paper:

他告訴我 " 你的鴨子論文為你贏得了一座獎

that first makes people laugh, and then makes them think,

那些帶給人們歡笑的研究，這些研究會讓人們去思考

with the ultimate goal to make more people

此研究的最終目標是讓更多的人

That's a good thing, so I accepted the prize.

這是一件好事，所以我接受了這座獎項

I went -- let me remind you that Marc Abrahams

我去 ...讓我提醒你們一下，馬克‧亞伯拉罕

不是從瑞典的斯德哥爾摩打給我的

He called me from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

他是從馬薩諸塞州劍橋市打給我的

所以我就前往波士頓，到了劍橋市

and I went to this wonderful Ig Nobel Prize ceremony

然後我參加了美妙的搞笑諾貝爾獎典禮

held at Harvard University, and this ceremony

它在哈佛大學裡面舉辦，而這個典禮

你會從真的諾貝爾得獎者手中接過獎盃

And there are nine other winners who get prizes.

然後，這裡有其他九位也獲獎的人

Here's one of my fellow winners. That's Charles Paxton

這是其中一位獲獎的同伴。這是 查爾斯·帕克斯頓

who won the 2000 biology prize for his paper,

他的論文讓他獲得了2000年的生物學獎

"Courtship behavior of ostriches towards humans

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