英文解说词-《七个世界,一个星球》S05-欧洲

kidnapper. All monkeys love to be groomed even by a low ranking female. It’s the basis for peace in macaque ally the urge to join in is just too strong. The kidnap is over, and the youngster can climb back into his mother’s are pockets of wilderness even in Europe’s cities. Green oases among the urban sprawl. Vienna in Austria has over2000 parks, gardens and cemeteries. And down in the undergrowth, a rather unusual resident. A European hamster. Wildhamster are found in grasslands throughout central Europe. Here in the city, they’re doing extremely well. This male is on amission to find food. And he’s set his sights on one thing in particular-fresh flowers. To survive the winter, hamsters mustfatten up. So there’s no time to waste. The only problem, these flowers are in someone else’s patch. Graveside bouquetsare worth fighting for. The winner gets to keep the territory and all the food within it. The loser has to beat a hasty the lure of fresh petals is just too much. Plan B-stealth mode. The coast looks clear, but best not take any chances. Thetrick is to get in and out before you’re caught. And now, dessert. Candle wax-it’s full of oil and high in calories. Ahamster’s cheeks can hold a quarter of its bodyweight. Just one more mouthful. Oh, dear! Big cheeks and narrowbottlenecks. How very embarrassing. Mission ’s landscape has changed dramatically, but its temperate climate is still good for wildlife. The continent has warmsummers and mild winters. These conditions are a consequence of its position on the globe and the influence of the GulfStream. The current of warm water in the Atlantic Ocean heats the air that then flows over the land. And every year,Europe’s unique climate helps trigger an extraordinary natural event. The Tisza River in Hungary. For a few days in June,when day-length and water temperature are just right, the largest of all mayflies emerge. After 3 years of feeding and growingon the riverbed, the males appears first. With new wings they can fly to the riverbank and there undergo a final moult. Nowsexually mature, they have just one purpose in life-to find a female. Each male has only 3 hours to live. And now the femalesbegin to emerge on the surface of the river. The male scour the water surface searching for them. Each desperate to be theone that fertilizes her eggs. Every female is pounced on as soon as she appears. With only minutes left for each male to livethe competition becomes increasingly urgent. And all too soon, the male’s time is up. All of them die. But the females’journey has only just begun. Now that they’ve mated, they start to fly upstream and continue for as much as 5 the height of the hatch there may be as many as ten million insects on the wing. Exhausted, the females now collapse andrain down onto the water surface. And as they hit it, each releases thousands of eggs. As the eggs slowly sink, they driftdownstream, so that by the time each reaches the riverbed, it will be in exactly the same spot that its parents emerged. Justhours after the first mayflies appeared, this great eruption of life is ’s extensive waterways are a haven for wildlife. One of the richest of its wetlands lies on the edge of the Black Sea inRomania. The delta of the Danube River. Migrating birds are drawn here from as far away as central Africa and Asia. Greatwhite pelicans. Every summer, three quarters of the world’s population flock to the delta. They’ve flown thousands ofkilometres to get here, and they will spend the summer feasting on the delta’s riches. To find the best fishing, they take tothe air. From half a mile up, they search the entire delta 200 miles across. They can’t see individual fish from this height soinstead they look for others below that have already done so. Cormorants. They are diving deep to reach the biggest shoals,flushing them to the surface. A couple of pelicans land and others soon home in on them. The pelican don’t join the feastdirectly, they mug the diners. This brutal tactic enables each pelican to catch many more fish more quickly than it would do ifit worked by itself. Once the shoals of fish have been plundered and dispersed, the cormorants make their escape. And thepelican pirates fly off in search of their next meal. Water has shaped Europe’s landscape in another is a vast wildness lying within the rocks of the continent, caves. Over 12，000 have been discovered in Slovenia’sKarst region alone. Each has been eroded by water over millions of year, and shaped drip by drip. The largest cavern is 25kilometres long and there are certainly many more still to be discovered. Down here, live some of the most specialized animalson the planet. New species of them are discovered in Europe’s caves every year. This is a world that still holds many the deepest pools lurk animals that were once believed to be baby dragons. They have feathery gills which enable them tobreathe underwater as well as on land. They are olms. They are completely blind, but sensory pits around the mouth enablethem to detect the faint electrical currents emitted by their prey. Food of any kind down here is hard to come by, but an olmscan go without a meal for a decade and live for a century. The olms world has remained virtually unchanged for however, Europe has altered beyond recognition. Its landscape has been transformed by humans. Protected wildernessnow covers less than 4% of its surface. The disappearance of wilderness has had catastrophic consequences for wildlife. Onefifth of Europe’s animals are now under threat. Some teeter right on the brink with extinction. The Iberian lynx. One of theworld’s most dangerous cats. In less than 2 decades decreased by nearly 90%. At one point, there were fewer than a

hundred , their last stronghold is in the mountains of the Sierra d’Andujar in southern Spain. Here, a natural park was createdto help protect the lynx. Only 40 kilometres across. It is small, but for this male it’s just enough. He’s lived here all his 10 years old, he’s reached a remarkable age for a wild lynx. Once persecuted, he’s now protected. For this old male andEurope’s entire lynx population, this could be the beginning of a new chapter. For this year alone, nearly 200 kittens havebeen born and the population has risen to over 700. But the fate of the Iberian lynx and indeed of all Europe’s wildlife is farfrom certain. The continent has now been so changed by humanity, that many of its animals species are under threat. Only byprotecting the few wilderness that remain and creating new wild spaces. Can we ensure a future for Europe’s 12, 2019Version 1By. MZLEmail：****************