It's another

是另一集

creature feature

生物小百科

The series where I tell you more about an animal that you don't often see on YouTube

這個系列是在介紹許多你不常在 YouTube 上看到的動物

And that you might not know things about.

以及你不知道的事

Today's creature is called Malay.

今天的動物是 Malay

Say hello to Malay.

跟 Malay 說哈囉

My little friend

我的迷你朋友

my litt- does that work?

我的迷你…有用嗎？

Say hello to ma-lay-tle friend!

跟我的小 Malay 說哈囉

Get it, 'cos her name's Malay

有聽懂嗎，因為她叫 Malay

I don't know if they're going to get it, Malay

我不知道他們是不是懂這個諧音，Malay

Ha Malay over here is a Jungle Nymph. Yes. I know that name is amazing.

哈！Malay 是隻叢林精靈，沒錯，我知道這名字聽起來很厲害

I wish that I could run around claiming to be a Jungle Nymph, but alas I am a homosapien

我希望我可以跑來跑去大聲嚷嚷著說我是叢林精靈，唉，但我只是個人類

In simpler terms,

簡單的說

she is a giant stick insect. She is one of the largest insects in the world

她是隻巨大竹節蟲，她是世界上最大的昆蟲之一

I believe the Jungle Nymphs actually lay the largest eggs in the insect world

我相信叢林精靈下的蛋是昆蟲界中最大的

At least, by mass any way

至少，大部分來說

The eggs are really huge and the eggs are so cool. It looks like dinosaur eggs

牠們的蛋相當地大，而且很酷，看起來就像恐龍蛋一樣

They really look like something out of Jurassic park

真的看起來就像從侏儸紀公園出來的東西

When the eggs hatch and the nymphs are born they're very, very small

當叢林精靈從蛋裡孵化時，牠們非常非常小

they almost look kind of like a- like a large ant

牠們看起來就像隻大螞蟻

And straightaway they start eating, eating, eating

然後牠們馬上就開始進食

Just foraging, trying to get as much size as possible.

就是不斷覓食，盡可能讓自己長大

The males, you can always tell the males are very dark, black color.

雄性，雄性的顏色看起來總是很暗沉、黑黑的

The females are kind of like a beige color

雌性看起來則是米色

That's how you know that they're going to grow up into being females

這樣你就能辨別牠會長成雌性

But their life span is very short

但牠們的生命週期很短

Their life span is only two years which is amazing when you think it can take a year to a year and a half for the eggs to hatch.

牠們的生命週期只有 2 年，而且你會很驚訝牠們需要 1 年到 1 年半才會從蛋中孵化出來

That's pretty extraordinary really

那真的非常特別

Jungle Nymphs come from the Malay Archipelago

叢林精靈來自馬來群島

Malay is an adult female Jungle Nymph

Malay 是一隻成年雌性叢林精靈

the male Jungle nymphs look completely different

雄性叢林精靈看起來完全不一樣

Looking at the male as compared to the female

看看雄性跟雌性的對比

the males are much, much smaller the females are

雄性體型小得多，雌性

Vastly bigger than the males also the males have wings which they can use for flight

比雄性大上許多，雄性具有翅膀可以飛行

They can actually fly whereas the female over here, Malay

牠們真的能飛，然而這裡這隻雌性叢林精靈，Malay

She does have wings let me show you

她有翅膀，讓我拿近給你看看

now malay does have these beautiful wings at the back here that actually pink underneath

現在 Malay 確實也有美麗的翅膀在背上，在翅膀下是粉紅色的

However

然而

She can't use them for flight

她不能用它來飛翔

the only reason that she would ever really use her wings which are not strong enough to actually lift

她從來不曾使用她的翅膀的唯一理由就是，她的翅膀不夠強壯，無法提起

her body, um

她的身體

If their threatened they can actually move them together and make a kind of like a trembling hissing sound and that's supposed to keep predators away

如果牠們受到威脅，牠們可以將翅膀併在一起發出顫抖的嘶嘶聲，可能可以趕走天敵

She does look very f- That was in my nose.

她看起來非常…你把腳放到我鼻子裡了

That was legit in my nostril

剛是真的放到我鼻孔裡了

Look in the eyeball. (This is far more hazardous than I had expected) they will infect your eyeball juice with their wandering groping Antennae

插到眼睛裡了 (這比我預期的還要危險)，牠們晃來晃去、到處探索的觸角可能會感染你的眼睛

Not again in the nose. Oh my God malay over here is a herbivore

不要再伸到我的鼻子來了，我的老天鵝啊。Malay 是個草食動物

She's only interested really in bramble leaves privet leaves and a couple of other leaves such as raspberry

她只對莓果樹葉、水蠟樹葉跟一些其他樹莓類葉子有興趣

Although Jungle Nymphs are this beautiful lime green color. They're actually nocturnal meaning

雖然叢林精靈有著漂亮的萊姆綠的外觀，其實牠們是夜行性的，意思是

They wake up at nighttime

牠們會在夜晚醒來

They might come out in the daytime for a little bit just to have a little bit of a browse and some food

牠們可能會再白天出沒，就只是稍微閒逛一下或是找點食物

But typically they're mostly active at night which is why she's starting to wake up because we're coming up to 8:00 p.m. here in the U.K.

但基本上牠們大多在夜晚活動，這就是為什麼現在她開始醒來，因為現在英國已經快晚上 8 點了

Malay is Full-Grown.

Malay 現在完全成年

This is the size of an adult female all she has to do now is deposit eggs

這就是成年雌性的體型大小，她現在唯一要做的就是下蛋

So can you see down here on her abdomen? She's got this sort of hatch over here.

所以你看她的腹部，她會從這裡產下蛋

This thick part well inside there. She's forming an egg

在這個凸起的地方，有個蛋正在成形

Can you see that browness inside her that's a large egg which she's going to get ready to deposit after she deposits her egg

你可以看到這裡有褐色的東西在裡面，那就是她即將產下的蛋，在下蛋之後

Sadly that is the end of their lifespan

很遺憾地牠們的生命週期也就結束了

And they will pass away shortly afterwards

之後牠們很快就會死去

She will actually take the time to climb down and find some moss or some nice moist soil

她會花點時間爬到樹下找到有苔癬或是潮濕的土壤

And she will actually bury down into soil and gently deposit that egg

然後她會將尾部埋入土壤，輕輕地產下她的蛋

It actually takes between 11 and 18 months for the egg to hatch. Now when it comes to protecting herself

實際上從蛋孵出來的時間大約在 11 到 18 個月之間，現在來說說當她要保護自己的時候

she doesn't have any Venom or any poison and

她沒有任何毒物也無法放毒

Usually you would think that they might have a venom or a poison because of this bright Vivid color. In the animal Kingdom

通常你會想牠們應該會有毒物或可以放毒，因為牠們明亮、鮮艷的顏色，在動物王國中

Bright Vivid colors are usually a warning sign. It's saying stay away from me

明亮、鮮艷的顏色通常是個警告，代表離我遠一點

I taste disgusting please don't eat me but from Malay over here

我嚐起來很噁心，拜託不要吃我，但這裡的 Malay

She has other ways to protect herself

她有其他方法保護她自己

Number one what she does is she stays very still a lot of the time she would usually be near the tops of trees

第一個她會做的是，她會安安靜靜的待著，她經常待在樹的頂端

So these green colors make her look a bit like a leaf the other things she can do is if she's being attacked

所以這樣的綠色可以讓她看起來像樹葉般。另一個她會做的就是，如果她被攻擊了

Do you see these amazing spiky legs of hers? These spiky legs I can tell you from experience

你有看到她佈滿尖刺的腳嗎？這些佈滿尖刺的腳，以我的經驗來說

Are no joke they feel akin to those of a rosebush if you imagine gripping hard onto a rosebush thorn

這不是開玩笑，它們就類似玫瑰上的刺，你可以想像自己用力抓住玫瑰花炳上的刺

That's what their legs feel like she does like an amazing thigh grip on you

那就是被她腳刺到的感覺，她就像用她驚人的大腿緊緊抓住你

And it hurts so much so that you just want to shake her off and let her go

那真的很痛，所以你就只想把她甩掉，讓她走

Something else that Malay can do if she can pretend to be a scorpion

其他 Malay 能做的就是，她能假裝是隻蠍子

I don't think she's going to do it for us today because she's very used to being handled

我不覺得她現在會這麼做，因為她已經很習慣被我放在手中

And I really don't want to scare her

而我真的不想嚇她

but this abdomen over here if she were really

但她的腹部，如果她真的受到驚嚇

Scared she could bring it right over to where her head is to make it look like the scorpion sting and that's supposed to

她會把她伸到頭上，讓她自己看起來像隻蠍子，這樣應該能嚇到你

Threaten you. Malay is also a little bit of a drama queen something else

Malay 也有點影后的才能，另外一件她能做的事

She can do if she senses danger if she can let go of the branches that she's holding herself on and fall to the floor

如果她感應到危險，她會放開手中的樹枝並衝到地上

That way she can make a very quick escape from danger if she senses any.

如此一來她在察覺任何危險時就能快速逃離

But also to appear dead because plenty of animals don't want to eat something that's already dead so she basically just goes like oh

也能裝死，因為多數動物不想吃已經死掉的東西，所以基本上她就像是

I can't take it anymore and just like throws herself onto the floor so um

噢~我不能吃她，然後就把她丟在地上不理她，所以…

She's a little bit of a drama queen we share that in common. Don't we yes we do

她有點像個影后，這點我們兩個都一樣，不是嗎，是的

Oh, spiky on the nose. Now let's talk about Jungle Nymphs as pets because yes

噢，刺到鼻子了。現在讓我們來聊聊把叢林精靈當寵物要注意什麼，因為，當然

you can keep them as a pet and I think that they make fascinating pets for the right family or

你可以把牠們當寵物來養，我想對於家庭或個人來說牠都是個很吸引人的寵物

Individual. The way that Malay is kept is she is in a large Flexarium. A flexarium that we got from Exo Terra.

飼養 Malay 的方法就是把她養在大型飼養箱中，我們是用 Exo Terra 買的飼養箱

The Flexarium's are great because they enable her to climb. Because the flexarium is made of a sort of very durable waterproof fabric

用飼養箱的好處是牠們會有足夠的空間爬行，因為飼養箱是用非常耐久的防水材質做成

Um it enables them to be able to climb all over whereas if they were in a glass tank for example

這可以讓牠們到處爬來爬去，然而如果牠們在玻璃箱裡

They wouldn't enjoy it quite as much. We spray them twice a day with water because they like a high humidity and they do have

牠們就沒辦法享受這樣的樂趣，我們一天會噴兩次水，因為牠們喜歡很潮濕的環境

Special heating so the heating the way that we keep them is we keep them at about Thirty degrees Celsius

牠們也有特定喜好的溫度，我們會將溫度保持在攝氏 30 度

I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit

我不知道華氏是幾度

I'll have to insert that somewhere

我會再後製上去

So we keep them during the heat of the day at 30 degrees Celsius and that drops down to about

所以我們白天都會保持在攝氏 30 度，晚上則降到 22 度

22 at night. As I said before they do eat bramble leaves and privet leaves you might already have it in your garden

就像我之前說的，牠們吃莓果樹葉跟水蠟樹葉，這些你的院子可能都有

Or you can grow it yourself. It's super easy

或是你可以自己種，那很簡單

It's not then you can just collect it because there's loads around, but if you are going to collect

再不然你可以去外面收集，因為它到處都是，但如果你要去外面收集

Bramble leaves or privet leaves, just make sure that you're collecting from an area which doesn't use pesticides because pesticides

莓果樹葉或水蠟樹葉，請確定你收集的那個地區沒有使用殺蟲劑，因為殺蟲劑

Will kill your stick insect, and we don't want to do that do we no, we'd never do that to you because you're beautiful kisses

會殺死你的竹節蟲，而我們不想要這麼做，我們會嗎？不，我們決不會對妳這麼做，因為妳太美了，親一個

Yass, you know it is a bit of a commitment the last thing you want to do sometimes is to go out in the rain

耶。這有點像是承擔義務，有時候你非常不想在雨天

Or in the winter and go with your gardening gloves and your cutters and go and cut bramble leaves

或在冬天，帶著手套跟剪刀去外面收集、剪下莓果樹葉

But it's got to be done

但這一定得要做

so just make sure that if you are going to get them as a pet that you are going to put in the time and

所以確定你要養牠們當寵物的話，你就必須付出時間跟精力

effort because if you don't feed them or you feed them poorly then you're not going to get the best out of your Jungle Nymph.

因為如果你不餵牠們或你敷衍了事，你就沒辦法讓你的叢林精靈保持在最好的狀態

To actually buy the Jungle Nymph you could probably look online there are a couple of different stores

實際上要購買叢林精靈，你可能可以在網路上找找，那裏有許多不同的商店

You can look at they're not the most common stick insect to find so you won't find them just there at your local PetSmart or Petco.

你可以看到，牠們不是最常見的竹節蟲，所以你在地方的 PetSmart 或是 Petco 很難找到

Reptile Expo sometimes sell these guys or an

Reptile Expo 有時候會賣

Invertebrate shows of course or find a breeder that would be the best thing to do find a breeder who can really give you that

或是無脊椎動物展覽，當然，或是找個繁殖者是最好的

Ongoing support if you have any questions, allthough

他可以在你有任何問題時幫助你

They are nocturnal all of the animals that we look after whether they are nocturnal

牠們是夜行性的，所有我們照顧的動物，不論牠們是夜行性

Or otherwise have access to Uv light so although it's not compulsory being nocturnal that they have

或是其他習性，都需要紫外線，雖然對夜行性動物來說不是必要，它們有特殊的紫外線燈

Special UV lights we use it anyway, and I would recommend it

我們還是會用，而我很推薦

You know it would just be good to give them the opportunity to bask in the Sun.

這會是讓他們回到陽光下的一個好機會

And to soak up that goodness if they wanted to remember they do come from a naturally hot and sunny climate so in my opinion

如果牠們想要記得自己是從一個炎熱、陽光普照的氣候來的，吸收太陽精華就很重要

Why wouldn't they utilize some of that sun sometimes so I just think it's nice to give it to them

所以我的建議是，讓牠們偶爾照照太陽，那樣對牠們是好的

Just in case you know they might not come out and bask that much during the day

萬一牠們白天不想出來取暖

They might stay where it's a little bit more shady,

牠們可能會待在有點陰暗的地方

but at the same time. It's nice just to give them that option just in case.

但同時，給牠們另一個選項也是好的，以防萬一。

Overall I think they could make a fascinating pet for the right person. I'm certainly a huge fan of them

整體來說，我想對某些人來說牠們會是個吸引人的寵物，我確定牠們有很多粉絲

They might be a little bit too full on for children though

或許牠們對孩子來說有點太過了

you know if you are going to handle these guys it's a really strange feeling it is literally like a Living thorn bush.

如果你要觸碰這些傢伙，感覺真的有點奇怪，就像是會動的灌木樹枝

deciding to climb on you and as feminine and as delicate as my hands look they are actually quite tough because of all the manual

決定爬到你手上，如果你的手像我的一樣柔弱、精緻小巧，讓他們爬上來是有點難受，因為所有的手部動作

Work that I do so just be aware that if you do have any small children in the house

都要非常小心，如果你有小朋友在家

And you do plan on letting them handle these guys

而你打算要讓他們觸摸叢林精靈

please do it under supervision or even give them something like some sort of glove to hold these guys with do your research and if

請一定要好好看著，或是給他們手套之類的東西。好好的調查，如果可能的話

Possible go and see them and try handling them

在買之前當場看看牠們，試著觸碰牠們

in the flesh before actually committing to buy them because you might decide that it's just not the right creature for you

因為你可能會覺得那不是適合你的生物

That said they do make fascinating pets just to observe so you don't have to um

如果只是觀察，牠們確實是吸引人的寵物，所以你可以不用

Handle them you really don't. So yeah, you can keep them as a pet and you don't have to handle them

觸碰牠們，真的不用。所以你可以養牠們當寵物，而你不需要觸碰牠們

You can get a nice thick glove like gardening gloves and gently scoop them on top allow them to walk on there

你可以戴個厚的手套，像是園藝手套，然後輕輕地把牠們鏟起，讓牠們在手套上行走

Just be aware that their feet are very

但要小心，牠們的腳就像鉤子一樣

Hook-like, and when they are on you. They are on you, and if they don't want to come off

當牠們在你身上，而牠們又不想下來

They're not coming off very easily

牠們不會輕易離開你

They like to constantly be in contact with some surface so she will often

牠們喜歡一直抓著某個表面，

Grip down hard from moving from one space to another

所以她會抓得很緊，好讓自己從一個地方移動到另一個地方

Just realize that it can be a bit prickly and it might not be the right pet for everyone

要明白牠身上有許多尖刺，而她或許不是適合所有人的寵物

But if you were thinking of an animal that is going to be semi low-maintenance,

但如果你想要有個不用那麼費心照顧的動物

Doesn't need to be taken for a walk every day, is odorless, is

不需要每天帶她散步、不會有甚麼味道

Relatively clean then I think that they could be a really great choice

相對乾淨，那麼我想牠們會是個很好的選擇

Don't go up on my sleeve though because I don't want you to get your feet caught

別爬到我的袖子，因為我不想要妳的腳被勾住

Thank you guys so much for tuning into today's creature feature

很感謝大家收看今天的生物小百科

I hope that you enjoyed learning about the Jungle Nymph over here malay and of course thank you, too.

我希望你喜歡今天分享的叢林精靈- Malay 的小知識，當然也要謝謝妳

Malay over here

Malay

Without whom I would not be able to have done this creature feature if you haven't already please do hit that subscribe button to stay

沒有妳我沒辦法完成今天的生物小百科。如果你還沒有訂閱，請按下訂閱按鈕

Up to date with weekly creature features and also, I'm working on something

才不會錯過每週的生物小百科。我也準備了一些

rather exciting

有點令人興奮的東西

involving a couple of rather amazing people who you may or may not have heard of but

包括一些你可能有聽過也可能沒聽過的很棒的來賓

You're gonna have to wait and see I'm working on something which I hope will help you guys, so

但你必須再等等，然後看看我所準備的、希望可以幫助你的東西

we'll see it's suddenly exciting you have to wait get to subscribe ah

所以這真的很讓人興奮，你必須再等等，然後訂閱

it's under my fingernail get outta my fingernail oh

你刺進我的指甲，離開我的指甲

It was like when you cut your nail too short

這就像你剪指甲時剪太短了

Too much. Thank you guys again so much for watching and I will see you in another video shortly take care guys

剪太多了。再次感謝妳們的收看，我們很快就會再其他影片見面，大家保重

Bye, Malay we have to give everybody a wave. Are you ready? Wave

再見，Malay 我們要跟大家揮揮手，準備好了嗎？揮手

There we go. Bye

好啦，再見

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