BBC | 《南太平洋》- 漂流者 04

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The best-dressed Goldie gets the girl.

羽翼华丽的Goldie鸟得到配偶。

But while his feathers may have secured him a mate,

但，它羽毛帮它赢得配偶，

they're not strong enough to carry him off the island

它们去离不开岛屿了，

and further east across the South Pacific.

或者向东穿越南太平洋。

Birds of paradise have sacrificed flight efficiency for flights of fancy. Goldie

鸟为漂亮而牺牲了飞行能力。

So who did manage to colonise the South Pacific?

因此，谁才能开拓南太平洋呢？

New Guinea's enormous landscape is carved up into thousands of isolated valleys.

新几内亚广袤的土地被劈成数千座孤立的山谷。

Each shelters huge numbers of potential colonisers.

没坐都庇护着数量众多的开拓者。

Amazingly, one in 20 of the world's insect species may live here.

令人惊讶的是地球上1/20的昆虫生活在这里。

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