跟读练习: Go Inside an Antarctic 'City' of 400,000 King Penguins — Ep. 4 | Wildlife: Resurrection Island - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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In one of the world's largest king penguin colonies, chicks must be able to make it through the winter without food.
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In one of the world's largest king penguin colonies, chicks must be able to make it through the winter without food.
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This chick can expect one of three fates.
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Be eaten alive, starved to death, or hang on one more day until their parents return with food.
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And here they are.
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Look at all their bellies.
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They're all stuck.
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How is it possible that life can come back from the dead?
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The island of South Georgia was the scene of one of the worst wildlife massacres in history.
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Species driven to near extinction, the whaling stations were abandoned.
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This is an awe-inspiring story of how, if given the chance, nature can bounce back on a scale you're not going to believe.
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My name's Bertie Gregory and I'm a National Geographic wildlife filmmaker.
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This is Resurrection Island.
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Less than a hundred years ago, the penguins of South Georgia were being used as kindling for whaling station fires. But now...
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We've finally made it to St Andrews Bay, you know, the busiest beach on the planet.
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That's funny.
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When you read about king penguins on paper, you know, you read, they dive to 300 metres, 1,000 feet in some of the roughest ocean in the world.
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And then they come back to hear this kind of blizzard, snow-covered mountainous island to breed.
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And you meet them and they're just totally unfazed.
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Hello.
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Some of these adults might not have set foot on land for five months to see their chicks.
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And with a belly full of fish, that's no easy task.
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The worst part is over.
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Just a nice stroll to find the kids.
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Great, a blubbery roadblock of elephant seals.
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You ready?
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Ready.
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Here we go.
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Here we go!
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400,000 king penguins!
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I mean, my hometown has less people than that!
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In a way it's almost like a city.
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It looks to start with like just a mass sprawl of penguins but it's almost organised.
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I mean you've got that big swimming pool in the middle, prime swimming for a little wash when you're all stinky.
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Then on the left there's a bunch missing a load of feathers.
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They're in the process of malting so in our city comparison I guess I guess we could say that was the hospital.
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And then starts to see a bit of movement, I guess that's their highways through the colony.
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And then the biggest supermarket in the world, packed full of lanternfish, which is their primary prey here.
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But my favourite part is the creche.
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When the chicks are five weeks old, their parents leave them in a kindergarten.
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Food becomes scarce during the winter, so both of the parents have to go out into the open ocean to hunt.
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Depending on their luck, they might not return for months.
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So what do you do when mum and dad aren't home?
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Get up to no good of course!
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They just have the most amazing fluffy coats.
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I mean, with good reason.
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The adults take over a year to raise the chick, so the chick has to sit here during the austral, the Antarctic winter.
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So imagine sitting here in blizzards and ice and snow, waiting for mum and dad to bring you food.
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I mean, I can't feel my fingers, so I kind of wish I was in his coat right now.
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The parents' absence and the brutal weather conditions make the chicks vulnerable.
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And that's what the giant petrels are here for.
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Giant petrels hunt king penguin chicks by spotting a weak one that strayed away from the crash.
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Luckily this time they have strength in numbers and the giant petrel can't single one out.
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Finally home each adult calls their chick.
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And the chick's like, alright, enough with the showing off, now give me some food.
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And scientists actually found that towards the end of the foraging trips, the bellies of the penguins drop significantly below 37 degrees,
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which is their normal body temperature.
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And so they think it's almost like a cool box in their belly to keep the fish fresh, So now, to regurgitate it to the chick.
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Oh, you totally saw the food come out.
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That's wicked.
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Slash a bit gross.
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Now that the chicks have had a few mouths full, the adults need to go back to the ocean and start again.
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If only it were as easy as that.
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They must negotiate a long line of pecky adults protecting their eggs.
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Go go go, run run run run run, peck peck peck peck.
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Oh he's getting to the double, that's brilliant, what an awesome tactic.
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They must get paired together and the one behind is using the one in front as a shield.
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The front one is getting They're absolutely hammered with the back one.
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Actually no, the back one's getting hammered too.
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It's a rubbish tactic. And there they go.
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Back out to sea, off to get another belly full of fish for their chick.
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And to think that such a clumsy bird on land can then dive to 300 meters, 1,000 feet, pretty spectacular
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this place is just unbelievable in 1925 just 1,100 king penguins were counted here and now there are over 400,000.
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This is what happens when environmental conditions are right
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and you protect a place and if this isn't justification for looking after wild places then I do not know what is.
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I'm sorry.
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