BBC地平线：猫的秘密生活（2013）

我喜欢猫的地方在于他们很独♥立♥
The thing I love about cats is that they’re very independent,
但很有爱
but very loving.
-你可以和他们玩儿 -他们让你开心
– You can play with them. – They’re comforting.
他们毛茸茸的
They’re furry.
如果他不在家 我觉得寂寞
If he’s out, I get lonely.
当他在家的时候 那好 我没事了
When he’s in, fine, I’m all right.
你可以看到有他在我身边
Well, you can see how lovely it is to have him
可以抚摸他是多好的事
near me and be able to stroke him.
我们也许爱我们的猫
We may love our cats,
但我们对他们真正了解多少
but how much do we really know them?
他们有着谜一样的秘密生活
They have a secret life that remains a mystery.
《地平线》和前沿猫类科学家一起
With leading cat scientists,
进行了一次研究猫猫生活的实验
Horizon has set up an experiment to find out what they get up to.
-四处闲逛 -往回倒 倒一点点
– ..wandering round. – Go back. Go back a bit.
在一周里
Across the week,
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镇上的五十只猫将被24小时监控
50 cats in this village will be put under 24-hour surveillance.
好孩子 你想出去转转吗
Good boy! Are you wanting to go outside
让我们用摄像机看看你都去干嘛了好吗
and we can see what you’re doing with that camera on?
他们将戴着特制的摄像头
They’ll be wearing specially designed cat cameras to show us
记录他们不在家时候的生活
what they do when they’re not at home.
并戴着GPS接收器揭示他们的秘密旅程
And carrying GPS receivers to reveal their secret journeys.
这个实验的独特之处在于它揭示了
What’s unique about this experiment is that it reveals
五十只猫如何生活 聚集在一起
how 50 cats live, crowded together…
他们如何捕猎和争斗
..How they hunt and fight…
真是典型的对峙
Really a classic stand-off.
以及他们相处时的惊人策略
..And the surprising strategies they use to get along.
实验提出了一种有趣的可能性
It raises the intriguing possibility
猫猫的行为正在发生改变
that our cats may be changing
这种改变可能是因为我们
and that could be down to us.
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猫的秘密生活
我要在地图上找到杉莫利
I’m going to find Shamley on the map for us.
约翰·布拉德肖和萨拉·艾利斯
John Bradshaw and Sarah Ellis
是英国两位猫类前沿科学家
are two of Britain’s leading cat scientists.
这条路应该延伸到右边
It should sweep round to the right.
他们正在去萨里郡的杉莫利格林镇
They’re on their way to the village of Shamley Green in Surrey
招募猫猫进行研究
to recruit cats for the study.
我觉得这个研究最有趣的地方之一
I think one of the things that will be really interesting
就在于
about this study is,
每个主人都梦想着了解他们的猫
it’s every owner’s dream to find out what their cat does
离开猫洞之后都在干什么
as soon as they go through that cat flap.
我们希望这将会是…
Well, let’s hope it’s going to be…
他们的梦想将会实现
their dreams are going to be satisfied,
而不会是个噩梦
it won’t be a nightmare.
比如猫闻着气味跑到隔壁的屠夫家
The cat sniffing into the butcher’s next door
去偷香肠
and stealing sausages.
杉莫利格林镇
在英国有超过一千万只猫
There are over ten million cats in the UK
而密度最大的地方就是这里
and the highest density of them are found here,
英国的东南部
in the southeast of England.
但除了他们的数量之外
But despite their popularity,
科学家们对他们在猫洞之外的行为
scientists know surprisingly little about their behaviour
了解得却出奇的少
once they’ve left the cat flap.
在这儿能找到很多不同类型的房♥屋
Got a fairly wide range of types of housing
但愿能找到不同种类的猫
and, hopefully, types of cat here.
当然
Yeah, definitely.
住♥宅♥区 根据地图来看
The built-up area, if I’m looking at the map,
在我们身后
seems to be behind us.
而我们前面的房♥子
And then these houses in front of us here
看起来背靠着田野
look to back all on to fields.
他们想知道猫每天会走多远的路
They want to find out more about how far cats travel each day…
但愿我们能发现猫猫们从后花♥园♥里
So hopefully we’ll get cats roaming out of their back gardens
约翰·布拉德肖博士
布里斯托尔大学
溜达到农场里
and up into the farms.
这些独居动物是如何生活在一起
..How these solitary creatures manage to live side by side…
我希望那个住♥宅♥区的一些家庭
I’ll expect some of these houses in this more built-up area,
萨拉·艾利斯博士
林肯大学
他们也许养了不止一只猫
there might be multi-cat households.
以及猫究竟在哪里找食物
..And where cats really find their food.
我一直对猫很感兴趣
I’ve really been interested in the cat
因为他们是野生动物和家养动物的结合
because it’s that combination of wild animal and domestic animal,
还有他们身上发生的改变
and the changes that are going on within it,
作为一个生物学家我认为这很奇妙
that I find fascinating as a biologist.
科学家们打算招募不同年龄
The scientists are looking to recruit 50 cats of all ages,
体型和品种的五十只猫
sizes and breeds.
我有三只猫 如果可以的话
I’ve got three cats, if that’s any good!
我有一只
I’ve got one.
猫平均能活十五年
On average, cats live to about 15
猫主人? 我们需要你的帮助!
体重大约四公斤左右
and weigh in at around four kilos.
这是莉莉
This is Lily.
她是我养的十八个月大的孟加拉猫
She’s an 18-month-old Bengal that I bred.
这是欧比 万·肯欧比的简称
This is Obi, short for Obi Wan Kenobi.
这是凯托
This is Kato.
克劳德很有个性
Claude’s quite a character
他在这一片儿有很多女朋友
and he has various girlfriends in the district.
经常去捕猎
Does quite a lot of hunting.
我想知道他是从哪儿抓到猎物的
I want to find out where he gets them all from.
我就是这么说的
That’s what I said.
他们每天晚上出去然后回来睡一整天
They go out every night and come back and sleep all day,
所以看看他们到底走多远会很有趣
so it’ll be quite interesting to see how far they go really.
我丈夫认为他只能爬上三米高的树
My husband thinks he just goes ten feet up the woods,
但我觉得他能走很远
but I think he goes a lot further.
他曾经属于街对面的一位女士
He used to belong to a lady over the road,
但他离家出走了
but he left home.
他们现在养了条狗
They’ve now got a dog.
大家聚集到镇里的市政厅跟科学家们见面
Everyone’s gathered in the village hall to meet the scientists
了解这项研究的更多信息
and find out more about what the study will involve.
我们想拍摄你的猫的自然普通的生活
We want to get a picture of your cat’s natural, normal life,
所以不要做任何改变 一切照旧
so don’t do anything different, don’t change your routines,
不要把猫洞锁上
don’t lock the cat flap,
不要突然让工人上门
don’t suddenly call up the local handyman
做一个猫洞
and get a cat flap put in.
让猫保持正常的生活
Let the cat do what it usually does
但愿我们能够描绘出
and hopefully we will build up this picture of
在杉莫利格林镇一只猫的生活
what it’s like to be a cat in Shamley Green.
现在把时间交给艾伦 他是其他
I’ll now hand over to Alan, who is the technical expert,
许多方面的技术专家
among many other things.
艾伦·威尔森的任务是设计一种追踪猫的新方法
Alan Wilson’s task is to devise a new way to track the cats.
他是野生动物追踪的世界级专家
He’s a world expert in tracking wild animals.
我们的工作主要是在博茨瓦纳 在非洲
Where we do most of that work is in Botswana, in Africa.
所以我们设计并制♥造♥了这样的东西
So we design and build things like this.
这可以用在狮子身上
This will fit on a lion.
这也可以用在印度豹或非洲野狗身上
This will fit on a cheetah or an African wild dog.
艾伦开♥发♥出来用在这些大型猫科动物身上的
The technology that Alan has developed for the big cats
是一种先进的GPS追踪器
is an advanced GPS tracker.
它追踪动物的位置 速度
It tracks the animal’s position, speed
以及他们每一步的加速度
and how fast they’re accelerating, step by step.
这个项圈顶部有太阳能电池板
The collar has got solar panels on the top,
这里面有电子元件
it’s got electronics in the top here
底部有电池和一个无线电天线
and then the batteries on the bottom, and a radio antenna.
它将以每秒三百次的速度
So this will give us the position of our animals
艾伦·威尔森教授
皇家兽医学院 结构和运动实验室
和几十厘米的精度告诉我们猫猫的位置
to tens of centimetres, 300 times a second,
以及他们行动的速度
and how fast they’re going,
所以我们能够详细地了解
so we actually get exquisitely fine detail
他们在做什么 他们在哪儿活动
about what they’re doing, where they’re moving,
他们要去什么地方 他们怎样捕猎
what terrain they’re moving in, how they’re hunting,
他们什么时候成功什么时候失败
when they’re successful and when they aren’t.