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You gotta ask John.
我制订了一个控制郊狼的计划
I’ve created an expectation
that to control the coyote
就是说要杀了它
means to kill him.
天哪 有这么多
God, there’s so many.
我们要一直这样下去吗
Are we gonna just keep
letting this happen?
好了 让我们试试这个
All right.
Let’s give this a try.
记住我们训练的内容 别去追鸡 好吗
Remember what we practiced.
No chasing. Okay?
不
No.
福利
Foley!
科里
Corey!
那没什么用
That’s not gonna work.
我要么彻底消灭郊狼
I either completely
eliminate the coyote,
要么完全放弃 那样鸡蛋就颗粒无收了
or we might as well abandon
our entire egg operation.
母猪艾玛又升级了
Update on Emma the pig,
这是她再次临产的前一天
the day before she is to
give birth yet again.
然后这是
And then there’s the
她那紧张的男朋友 老油条先生
nervous boyfriend,
Mr. Greasy.
给它们点小画面
A little somethin’
for them
回忆回忆美好时光
to reflect
back on the good times,
生活就是这么简单
when life was simple.
啊
Aw!
猜猜婴儿会是什么颜色
Any guess what color
the babies are gonna be?
这些东西在黑暗中能看见吗
Do these things see in the dark?
嗯嗯 您设置了多少个
Mmm-hmm.
How many are you setting up?
嗯 每个果园一个 门口也有几个
Um, one in each orchard
and a few by the gate.
然后我们会看到 这里到底发生了什么
Then we’ll see
what’s really going on
out here.
那么 为什么一只郊狼会躺在花♥园♥里
So why is a coyote laying
paralyzed in the garden?
最有可能的是
The best I can tell,
郊狼想要钻过栅栏追逐那只地鼠
the coyote was chasing
a gopher along the fence
碰到电线
and hit an irrigation line,
它的脖子触电了
breaking both the pipe
and his neck.
哦 托德 过来 别再让它受苦了
Oh, Todd, come on.
You can’t let it suffer.
这是令人心碎的现实
It’s a heartbreaking
realization.
郊狼可能不光是害兽
The coyote might not be
just a pest.
它也可能是我们的朋友
He may very well be
our friend.
每当我仰望银河
Whenever I look up
at the Milky Way,
我被它的复杂性迷住了
I feel so captivated
by its complexity.
然后很容易忘记 地球也是它的一部分
And yet it’s easy to forget
that Earth is a part of it.
几乎不可能掌控
It’s almost impossible
to grasp
因为我实际上也在里面旋转
that I actually spin inside
这让我明白了一个道理
of that which I see.
老油条在哪里
Where’s Greasy?
这是什么
What?
我不知道我能不能原谅你
I don’t know if I can
forgive you for this.
看看你
Look at you.
我想你肯定不懂 卡亚 这有多糟糕
I don’t think you understand,
Caya, how bad this is.
瞧 罗西身上没有任何东西
And look, Rosie doesn’t have
anything on her.
这是你干的
This was you.
有时我希望这不是真的
Sometimes I wish
it weren’t true.
但失败是成功之母
But it’s those
tiny revelations
that are born from failure
为我们的生态系统引擎提供着燃料
that act as a fuel
for the engine
of our ecosystem.
我们到了
Here we are.
第二天
Day two.
罗西 小鸡卫士
Rosie, the chicken guardian.
我注意到了它
And if I’m paying attention…
好姑娘
Good girl.
我可以用它
I get to use it.
请不要吃鸡 罗西
Please don’t eat
the chickens, Rosie.
鸡们在守护狗罗西的保护下
With Rosie the guardian dog
protecting our chickens,
迫使郊狼把目光转到狩猎地鼠上
the coyotes are now focused
on hunting gophers.
所有害虫 甚至是地鼠
All pests, even gophers,
都有一定的益处
have a beneficial role.
其一 可以让土壤变得疏松
For one,
they aerate our soils.
但是太多的地鼠 问题就开始了
But too many gophers,
and the problems start.
嘿 看 看见吗 地鼠吃了所有的根
Hey, look. See?
The gophers ate all the roots.
多少
How many?
一个月内 我抓了900只
In one month,
I got 900.
九百
Nine hundred?
所以现在 讽刺的是
So now, the irony is,
我们实际上已没有足够的郊狼
we actually don’t have
enough coyotes
来让地鼠的数量保持平衡
to bring the gopher population
back into balance.
希望能在这种微妙的共舞中
有更多的东西加入
Hopefully, there’s more
to this delicate dance
of coexistence,
因为随着我们农场的繁荣
because as our farm flourishes,
害虫也越来越昌盛
so do the pests.
我们的农作物越健康
The healthier our row crops,
蚜虫也越多
the more the aphids.
水果越好
The better the fruit,
鸟儿也越多
the more the birds.
第七年
Year Seven
艾伦告诉我们 到了第七年的时候
Alan told us by
the seventh year,
我们就不必再那么独自耕作了
we would no longer
be alone in our farming.
他是对的
And he was right.
你会看到你以前没有见过的东西
You will see things that
you did not see before.
我在仔细观察蚜虫危害时
And as I looked closer at
those aphid infestations,
发现了蚜虫天敌的卵
the eggs of their predator.
自然的力量爆发了
You just tapped into
a power of nature
你可以借助瓢虫
that you can ride
不必付出太大的努力
without an extraordinary
amount of effort.
这和冲浪完全一样
It’s exactly
the same thing as surfing.
生物圈运行了起来
The flywheel in motion.
你正在建立这种平衡
You’re establishing
this equilibrium.
复杂
Complexity,
多样
diversity,
此消彼长
all supporting
and enhancing each other.
你会看到一张生命之网
You will see a web of life.
今年我们统计了一下 87只仓鸮
This year we counted
87 barn owls,
吃掉了大约15000只地鼠
eating an estimated
15,000 gophers.
形势的发展 并没有就此止步
And it didn’t stop there.
一大群专业玩家
A whole host
of specialized players
都跑来尽责
arrived to do their part.
老鹰从天上攻击
Hawks attacked from above.
地鼠蛇从下面出动