Name: 【TED-Ed】浮遊生物的秘密生活 - The secret life of plankton - Tierney Thys
Uploaded: 2013-07-18T14:40:23.000Z
Duration: 6 min 2 s

魚的自述： 我曾是浮游生物的秘密生活

Well, it's a stranger story than you might think.

"Plankton comes from the Greek planktos for wandering"

「浮游生物一詞來自希臘文 planktos 即漫遊之意」

from clams and crabs to sea urchins and anemones.

We drifting animals are called zooplankton.

我們浮游的動物被稱為 「浮游動物」 (zooplankton)

but you'd never find a place more diverse than my childhood home.

但你找不到比我童年家庭 更多樣化的地方了

can contain more than a million living creatures.

It can be a pretty tough existence, though.

but this crab larva is an arrow worm's worst nightmare.

但這隻蟹苗是箭頭蟲 (arrow worm) 最可怕的噩夢

Epic battles between carnivores like these are just one way to get food.

肉食動物之間的永恆戰鬥 只是獲得食物的方式之一

But the real powers of this place come from phytoplankton:

這個地方的真正能量來源是 「浮游植物」(phytoplankton)：

that transforms sunlight and carbon dioxide into

Phytoplankton are the base for the largest food web in the world.

浮游植物是世界上 最大食物網的基礎

many animals like me would rise up from the depths

許多像我這樣的動物，從深處上升

I was part of the largest daily migration of life on Earth.

我是地球上最大規模 每日遷移生物的一部分

I'd return to the darkness, where I'd join my bizarre companions.

我回到黑暗，加入奇異的同伴中

Cannibals, like this sea butterfly mollusk,

有些會同類相殘，像這隻 軟體動物──海蝴蝶 (sea butterfly)

that beat cilia like rainbowed eyelashes.

令人吃驚的纖毛 像是七彩的睫毛

Some of these snare their prey with sticky tentacles,

有的設下陷阱 用黏黏的觸手捕捉獵物

while others just take a bite out of their cousins.

that catch prey with toxic fishing lures.

But my favorite would have to be the crustacean Phronima;

我的最愛則是甲殼動物「巧戎」 (虫戎) (Phronima)

its monstrous looks inspired the movie "Aliens."

可怕的長相啟發了電影「異形」

但更喜歡樽海鞘 (salps) 這類更大的獵物

With two sets of eyes, this female prowls the deeper water.

牠有兩對眼睛 這隻雌性在更深的水中覓食

she performs one of the strangest behaviors in the entire animal kingdom.

她在執行整個動物王國中 最奇怪的行為之一

she delicately assembles a barrel-like home

feeding her young until they can drift off and survive on their own.

餵養寶寶，直到牠們漂走獨立生存

Best of all, they make the perfect snack for a small fish like me.

最重要的是，對我這樣的小魚而言 牠們是完美的點心

even scientists don't know who eats whom.

至少你現在知道了一些我的故事

There's so much more to me than just a tasty meal.

Written By : Tierney Thys & Christian Sardet

撰稿： Tierney Thys & Christian Sardet