And now,let's take a trip to sugarcane fields. 现在,让我们去甘蔗地旅行.
The northern coastal plains of Queensland produce about 94% of 昆士兰州的北部沿海平原生产约 94%
Australia's sugar. 澳大利亚的糖.
Aristocrats of labor,Queensland cane cutters are capable of 贵族的劳动力,昆士兰州的甘蔗切割机是有能力的
handling anything from five to eight tons of cane a day. 每天要搬运五到八吨的藤条.
In the 1930s,there was some real problems in the 在 20 世纪 30 年代,有一些真正的问题
cane industry in particularly, 尤其是甘蔗工业,
cane crops. 甘蔗作物.
Cane,when it's put into an exotic environment like 甘蔗,当它被放入一个异国情调的环境
Queensland was eaten by cane grubs, 昆士兰被甘蔗蛆吃掉了,
which are the larvae from cane beetles that lived in the trees. 它们是生活在树上的甘蔗甲虫的幼虫.
A larvae buried into the soil,and ate the roots of 幼虫埋在土里,吃根
the sugarcane... 甘蔗...
that meant that the sugarcane couldn't draw water, 这意味着甘蔗不能吸收水分,
it couldn't draw nutrients,and,very often, 它不能吸收养分,而且,通常,
the grubs ate so much that the entire crop fell over. 幼虫吃得太多,以至于整个庄稼都倒了.
The Queensland growers were in dire straights. 昆士兰的种植者陷入了困境.
Naturally,you would expect the famers to be most 当然,你会期望农民是最
frustrated; to have a promising crop, 有一个有前途的作物,
hoping to be able to harvest it,and then see it become yellow 希望能够收获它,然后看到它变成黄色
and then start to fall over and would be worthless worth no 然后开始跌倒,一文不值
money at all. 一分钱都没有.
It would be heartbreaking for the farmer to see that happen to 如果农民看到这种情况发生在他们身上,他们会很伤心的
his crop. 他的庄稼.
Yes,it was a real problem,all right. 是的,确实是个问题.
There was dead cane everywhere,famers going broke left, 到处都是枯死的甘蔗,农民们破产了,
right,and center it was misery at the highest. 没错,中间是最高的痛苦.
There was a lot of political pressure by the cane growers on 甘蔗种植者施加了很大的政治压力
the Queensland government to do something about this. 有昆士兰州政府做些什么.
In 1932,there was an international sugar conference 1932 年,有一个国际糖会议
in Puerto Rico. 在波多黎各.
At that conference,there was a woman called Raquel Dexter, 在那个会议上,有个叫拉奎尔・德克斯特的女人,
and she'd done some experiments with the cane toad, 她用甘蔗蟾蜍做了一些实验,
and,apparently,the cane toad had had very,very good results 显然,甘蔗蟾蜍取得了非常非常好的效果
in Puerto Rico. 在波多黎各.
The guy who was chairing Raquel Dexter's session 那个主持 Raquel Dexter 治疗的人
where she gave her paper was Cyril Pemberton from Hawaii. 她发表论文的地方是夏威夷的西里尔・彭伯顿.
He got very excited about the possibility of the toad to cure 他对蟾蜍治愈的可能性感到非常兴奋
the white crop problem. 白色作物的问题.
So her took two suitcases,filled them with wood shavings, 于是她拿了两个箱子,装满了木屑,
and took those toads on the biggest journey they'd been on 带着这些蟾蜍踏上了它们最伟大的旅程
in 40 million years of their evolution. 在它们四千万年的进化中.
He took them from Puerto Rico by boat up to New York. 他把他们从波多黎各带到了纽约.
All aboard! 全部上车！
Across American,and across the Rockies by train... 穿越美国,坐火车穿越落基山脉.
down to San Fransisco,and then,on a boat back to Hawaii. 去 San Fransisco 然后坐船回夏威夷.
He released them in Hawaii,and they set up home in the Pacific. 他在夏威夷放了他们,他们在太平洋安了家.
The Queensland government came upon the idea that they should 昆士兰州政府想到他们应该
really try the toad in Queensland, 试试昆士兰的蟾蜍,
because it was so successful in Hawaii. 因为它在夏威夷非常成功.
In April 1935,they sent Reg Mungomery across to Hawaii to 1935 年 4 月,他们把雷吉・蒙哥马利送到夏威夷
meet with Cyril Pemberton and bring some toads back to 去见西里尔・彭伯顿带一些蟾蜍回来
Australia to see how they would go. 去澳大利亚看看他们会怎么做.
Cyril Pemberton helped Reg round up some toads, 西里尔・彭伯顿帮雷吉收集了一些蟾蜍,
they put them in the suitcases again, 他们又把它们放回箱子里,
and the toads and Reg travelled in pretty good luxury from 蟾蜍和雷吉从
Hawaii all the way through to Australia. 从夏威夷一直到澳大利亚.
All aboard! 全部上车！
When it docked in Sydney, 它在悉尼靠岸的时候,
Reg got on the sleeper train up to Brisbane in Queensland. 雷吉上了去昆士兰州布里斯班的卧铺火车.
There was a lot of enthusiasm from growers. 种植者表现出了极大的热情.
This toad that had quite a reputation by now was going 这只臭名昭著的癞蛤蟆要走了
to do wonderful things for them. 为他们做一些美好的事情.
It was going to eat the canegrubs and save 它会吃掉那些小虫子,然后拯救世界
their industry. 他们的工业.
News from around the world and from around Australia. 来自世界各地和澳大利亚各地的新闻.
Brisbane and the hope of the sugarcane industry sits squarely 布里斯班和甘蔗产业的希望正确地坐在一起
on the broad shoulders of these humble creatures known 在这些卑微的生物的宽阔的肩膀上
as "cane toads." 叫做 “甘蔗蟾蜍”
See here for the very first time on motion picture film, 这是我们第一次看到电影胶片,
they are all set to go to war against the Grayback beetle. 他们已经准备好与灰背甲虫开战了.
By the look of things,this sturdy fellow is eager to go 看样子,这个强壮的家伙很想去
to work. 去工作.
So three cheers,and welcome,brave champion. 三声欢呼,欢迎勇敢的冠军.
I was with my dad when we released a dozen or so 我们释放十几个人的时候,我和我爸爸在一起
of these toads into the lagoon straight opposite of our house. 把这些蟾蜍放到我们房子正对面的泻湖里.
He thought it was the savior of the sugar industry. 他认为这是制糖业的救世主.
My father pointed out that first cane toad that I ever saw, 我父亲指出了我见过的第一只藤蟾蜍,
and said,"It's going to grow much bigger than that one you 然后说,“它会长得比那个大得多
see there now,and it's going to eat up all the cane beetles. 看那里,它会吃掉所有的藤甲虫.
Now,with he advent of the toad, 现在,随着蟾蜍的出现,
he said,"We've got these Cane Beetles by the balls now." 他说,“我们现在已经抓住这些藤甲虫的蛋蛋了.”
In actual fact,we didn't have them by the balls, 事实上,我们并没有抓住他们的要害,
they had us by the balls. 他们抓住了我们的把柄.
The toad did nothing whatsoever to eliminate the beetle problem. 蟾蜍没有采取任何措施来消除甲虫问题.
I just can't comprehend because, 我只是无法理解,因为,
you know,they were brought here to eat the bug in the sugarcane. 他们被带到这里来吃甘蔗里的虫子.
That bug is two meters up in the sugarcane it's in the flower 那只虫子在两米高的甘蔗地里它在花里
of the sugarcane. 甘蔗.
cane toads are not very good in climbing sugarcane. 甘蔗蟾蜍不擅长攀爬甘蔗.
That couldn't have worked. 那不可能成功的.
And when the toad didn't work,my father made the following 当蟾蜍不起作用的时候,我父亲做了以下的事情
statement that is this... 声明是这样的...
"Depart from here,you cursed creatures, 离开这里,你们这些被诅咒的生物,
into everlasting flames,prepared for the Devil and all 变成永恒的火焰,为魔鬼和其他一切做好准备
his bloody angels." 血腥的天使”
I hate 'em. 我讨厌他们.
I hate 'em in every respect. 我从各个方面都恨他们.
He's the worst thing to ever have been brought 他是我见过的最糟糕的人
into the country. 进入这个国家.
Gordonvale is a place where the cane toads started off. 戈登维尔是甘蔗蟾蜍起源的地方.
There were heaps of them. 有很多.
At nighttime,if wanted to go to the outside dunny, 晚上,如果想去外面的厕所,
there was a track through the grass, 草地上有一条小径,
and there was cane toads everywhere on the track. 跑道上到处都是癞蛤蟆.
And,of course,I didn't like the damn things [chuckles], 当然,我不喜欢那些该死的东西,
and they jumped on to your feet when you walked along with the 他们跳上你的脚,当你走在
In the wet season,the little baby toads would come out. 在雨季,小蟾蜍会出来.
You couldn't count the number; there would be thousands and 你数不清,有成千上万
thousands and thousands. 成千上万.
Cane toads can breed in big numbers. 甘蔗蟾蜍可以大量繁殖.
And,when they lay their eggs,they're not laying one or two... 而且,当它们产卵的时候,它们不会产一个或两个...
it's sheer volume,you know? 这是纯粹的量,你知道吗？
A female can lay 30 to 40,000 eggs, 一只雌鸟可以产下 30 到 40,000 个卵,
and sometimes she can do it twice a year. 有时候她一年可以做两次.
The mating behavior usually starts in the late spring and 交配行为通常在晚春开始
summer,and it's the male that instigates everything. 夏天,是雄性在煽动一切.
The call of the cane toad is quite beautiful, 甘蔗蟾蜍的叫声很美,
and it's quite dulcet. 非常美妙.
It goes something like this... 大概是这样的.
And if you see male cane toads,they've got very strong 如果你看到雄性甘蔗蟾蜍,它们非常强壮
forearms,and they've got big thumbs. 他们有大拇指.
And he whams his thumbs in behind her front legs and into 他的大拇指在她的前腿后面猛击
her ribcage. 她的胸腔.
And once he does that,she starts extruding her eggs. 一旦他这么做了,她就开始挤出卵子.
The major key to the success of the cane toad is the 甘蔗蟾蜍成功的关键是
capacity to produce eggs at a drop of a hat in vast numbers. 大量产卵的能力.
So to be able to produce 30 or 35,000 eggs twice a year... 因此,能够生产 30 或 35,000 个鸡蛋,每年两次...
gives it a tremendous advantage over any native species, 使它比任何本土物种都有巨大的优势,
which only produces 100 eggs once a year. 每年只产 100 个鸡蛋.
It's curious,if you look at the rate at which it is moving 这很奇怪,如果你观察它移动的速度
across northern Australia,given what happened in, 在澳大利亚北部发生的事情,
say,the 1930s,40s,50s,it's as though the cane toad scarcely 比如说 20 世纪 30 年代 40 年代 50 年代,就好像甘蔗蟾蜍
moved at all,other than to link up some of these small 除了把这些小东西连接起来
populations on the Queensland coast. 昆士兰海岸的人口.
But now it's running rampant. 但是现在它开始猖獗了.
This is really unheard of for any species that is a stowaway 这对于任何偷渡者来说都是闻所未闻的
or is a sort of introduced from into another area. 或者是从另一个地方引进来的.
They are really,um,nothing more than sort of vacuum 他们真的,嗯,没有什么比真空更多的排序
cleaners wondering around trying to find food. 清洁工四处寻找食物.
A toad's a nomad... 蟾蜍是游牧民族.
a wonderer that's what he does, 不知道他是做什么的,
he just keeps expanding and maybe he's eating himself out of 他只是不断扩张,也许他在吃自己
house and home and has to keep moving. 房子和家,不得不继续前进.
He's very much a vagabond,isn't he? 他真是个流浪汉,不是吗？
Queenslanders do tend to have a sense of hopelessness 昆士兰人确实有一种绝望的感觉
with this issue. 这个问题.
They think,"Well,there's just too many toads out there, 他们会想,外面蟾蜍太多了,
and what can you do? 你能做什么？
So,get used to it." 所以,要习惯它.”
Well,I was born in a toad free Brisbane in 1949, 我 1949 年出生在布里斯班一个没有蟾蜍的地方,
and within a matter of just a few years, 在短短几年内,
it seemed that the toad had covered the whole of the 看起来蟾蜍已经覆盖了整个
Brisbane area. 布里斯班地区.
At the high school oval,you could see that amazing scene 在高中的椭圆球场,你可以看到那令人惊叹的场景
where the whole of the ground just shifts, 整个地面都在移动,
and there are literally tens of thousands of freshly 这里有成千上万的新鲜
metamorphosed toadlets. 变态的小蟾蜍.
Just about every night they're under the light. 他们几乎每晚都在灯光下.
They come under that at nighttime, 他们晚上来的时候,
and they eat the insects that fall... 它们吃掉掉下来的昆虫.
and I'm pleased to see the cane toads snapping them up. 我很高兴看到甘蔗蟾蜍把它们抢购一空.
That's all there is about cane toads I don't like the look 这就是关于藤蟾蜍的一切,我不喜欢它的样子
of them. 他们.
If you're a person who's ugly,you're not very popular... 如果你是一个丑陋的人,你不是很受欢迎...
that's human nature,I'm afraid. 恐怕这是人类的天性.
That's the way it goes poor little cane toad, 就是这样,可怜的小癞蛤蟆,
he's ugly! 他很丑！
My grandmother used to tell me,"You'll get warts. 我的祖母曾经告诉我,“你会得疣.
You can't handle toads,because your hands will 你对付不了蟾蜍,因为你的手可以
become full of warts!" 长满了肉瘤！”
So there're all these,you know,old stories about them, 所以有很多关于他们的老故事,
how dangerous they were and ugly in many senses, 他们是多么的危险和丑陋,
but I as I said,I don't find them ugly, 但我说过,我不觉得他们丑,
and I know lots of people who don't find them ugly at all. 我知道很多人一点也不觉得他们丑.
They shouldn't be here,but they're not ugly animals. 他们不应该在这里,但他们不是丑陋的动物.
Toads are quite beautiful creatures. 蟾蜍是非常美丽的生物.
They've got this nice protruding brow, 他们的眉毛很突出,
and below it you have these quite stunning eye 在它下面你有一双非常迷人的眼睛
golden black flecked. 金色的黑色斑点.
And they're quite pleasant to look at you can just stare 它们看起来很舒服,你可以直接盯着看
into them. 变成他们.
Sometimes you feel like you could fall into them. 有时候你觉得自己会掉进去.
I had a cane toad,Bevy she was huge. 我有一个藤蟾蜍,贝弗,她是巨大的.
I used her to publicize the impacts of cane toads. 我利用她来宣传甘蔗蟾蜍的影响.
But the problem was that she was so big and so attractive, 但问题是她那么高大,那么有魅力,
she just became a media star. 她刚成为媒体明星.
A reporter asked,"Yes,she's big. 一个记者问道： “是的,她很大.
Can anything mate with her?" 有什么东西能和她交配吗？”
And I said,"Oh no,it might be very difficult to find a male to 我说,“哦,不,可能很难找到一个雄性
mate with her." 和她交配”
The next day,the articles would come out nothing about the 第二天,这些文章就不会出来了
problems with cane toads and say "Big Bette looking for big 问题,然后说 “大贝蒂寻找大
macho male!" 有男子气概的男人！”
She died one day on Australia Day... 她在澳大利亚日那天去世了.
from over heating. 因为过热.
When you think about Queensland and the cane toad, 当你想到昆士兰和甘蔗蟾蜍,
I mean,the legacy it's gotta leave. 我是说,它留下的遗产.
I mean,we used to be called the "banana benders," 我是说,我们以前被叫做 “香蕉变形人”
but you never hear that term anymore it's cane 但你再也听不到这个词了,它是拐杖
toads,you know? 蟾蜍,你知道吗？
And,yeah,it was just a part of our life. 是的,那只是我们生活的一部分.
My wife and I decided to build a motel in Sarina, 我妻子和我决定在萨里纳建一个汽车旅馆,
and the majority of the southern tourist, 和大多数南方游客,
they would always when they were booking in say, 他们总是在登记的时候说,
"Would we be able to see a cane toad tonight?" “我们今晚能看到一只蟾蜍吗？”
They'd heard about cane toads,fascinated by cane toads, 他们听说过甘蔗蟾蜍对甘蔗蟾蜍很着迷,
and they wanted to see one. 他们想看看.
So we thought,"Well,why don't we capitalize on it, 所以我们想,为什么我们不利用这一点,
and use the cane toad to promote a nice little friendly cane town 用甘蔗蟾蜍来宣传一个友好的甘蔗小镇
like Sarina." 就像 Sarina”
The romance of Buffy is what keeps Buffy alive. 巴菲的浪漫是巴菲活着的原因.
I was approached about two years ago by the ladies of the craft 大约两年前,一位女士找到了我
center to do a calendar. 中心做一个日历.
It was with our calendar girls,but with a bit more of a wow 是和我们的日历女郎,但是更加惊艳
factor,and that was a best seller it went all over 因素,这是一本畅销书,它走遍全国
the world and they raised money for the jail. 他们为监狱筹集资金.
From that,they asked me to do the postcards for the toad. 因此,他们让我为蟾蜍做明信片.
I think you could take some really nice shots of toads 我觉得你可以拍一些很棒的蟾蜍照片
I've done it where they actually look cute, 我试过让他们看起来很可爱,
because they have a funny smile on them, 因为他们脸上有一个有趣的笑容,
and if you get the right angle in the front and a bit up 如果前面的角度正确,再往上一点
from underneath they look fine they're great! 从下面看,他们看起来很好,他们很棒！
These smile,you know,and they look innocent! 这些微笑,你知道,他们看起来无辜！
I see it,and I think, 我看到了,我想,
"What can I do with that? “我能做什么呢？
What angle can I use that will emphasize something dramatic? 我可以用什么角度来强调一些戏剧性的东西？
I wonder if I can just tweak it a bit and make it more 我想知道我能不能稍微调整一下,做得更好
interesting," and so I did. 很有意思” 所以我照做了.
Photoshop... Photoshop...
It's being creative without a great deal of effort; 这是不费吹灰之力的创造；
it just happens. 就这么发生了.
We need color; a lot of grey people in the world. 我们需要颜色,世界上有很多灰色的人.
They were trying to get a grant at one time, 他们曾经试图获得拨款,
and paint it as I had designed it in the more psychedelic 按照我设计的更迷幻的风格来画
colors,but I don't know whatever happened nothing 但我不知道发生了什么,什么都没有
happened and shortly after that, 在那之后不久,
somebody stole the toad. 有人偷了蟾蜍.
Somebody moved it,and then, 有人动了它,然后,
of course,it was a great controversy, 当然,这是一个很大的争议,
they put chains on it and chained it up. 他们用铁链锁住它.
There was condoms hung around his neck at one 一点钟的时候,他脖子上还挂着避孕套
time,and the name of the mayor was put there beside 市长的名字被放在旁边
the condoms. 避孕套.
I think he'd been dressed a couple of times, 我觉得他穿过几次衣服,
and brass put on it,and all that sort of thing. 还有铜管乐器,诸如此类的东西.
I love him. 我爱他.
I think he's great. 我觉得他很棒.
He's great for the town,and,well, 他很适合这个镇子,
what other icon could we have? 我们还能有什么其他的偶像？
He's you know,it's so symbolic of this area. 他是这个地区的象征.
Well,I doubt the IQ of those people I really do, 我怀疑我认识的那些人的智商,
in all due respects. 在所有应有的方面.
Fancy erecting a monument of any kind to a creature like this. 想象一下为这样的生物树立一座纪念碑.
He's got no place in the society none at all. 他在社会上没有一席之地.
I drive past twice a day on my way to the crafts 我每天开车经过两次
center,and I really see people flocking around the toad. 我真的看到人们成群结队地围着蟾蜍.
Probably at the time that's all Sarina had, 也许当时萨琳娜只有这些,
so,I think,they had to have something. 所以,我觉得,他们肯定有些什么.
I have no idea how they came up with it, 我不知道他们怎么想出来的,
but I really can't think of anything else... 但我实在想不出别的办法.
what else? 还有什么？
Well,I can't read and write,but... 我不会读书写字,但是...
I've been gifted with me hands,you know what I mean? 我的手很有天赋,你明白我的意思吗？
And... 还有...
I've done a good job of anything I've touched. 任何我碰过的东西,我都做得很好.
When I do things,I put me heart and soul into it. 当我做事的时候,我全身心的投入.
I had plans to build a museum,but it was running to too much 我本来计划建一个博物馆,但是实在太多了
money,so I come up with the idea of a traveling toad show. 钱,所以我想到了一个旅行蟾蜍表演的主意.
So I started mucking around taming them, 所以我开始驯服它们,
and stuffing them in that,and... 然后把它们塞进去.
I would put my mind to it,and started building the trailer and 我会用心去做,然后开始建拖车
building these toad displays. 建立这些蟾蜍展示.
I built the four man tag team wrestling ring first. 我先做了四人组合摔跤.
Just something that come in me head. 只是我脑子里的想法.
At the time,I got some extra decent sized toads and made them 当时,我得到了一些特别体面的大小蟾蜍,并使他们
the baddies,and the smaller ones I made as the good ones. 坏人,还有那些我做的好人.
And it just shows ya,the little bloaks get knocked about 它只是告诉你,小家伙们会被打倒
and all that. 诸如此类.
The next one I done was the 接下来我做的是
"Four Lane Intersection Car Smash." “四车道十字路口车祸”
There's fuel tankers all smashed up, 油罐车都被砸烂了,
and motorbikes,and smashed cars.... 还有摩托车,砸烂的汽车.
and there are bits of bodies laying everywhere, 到处都是尸体的碎片,
and I've got 'em set up as,like the parents there crying. 我把他们安排成像那边哭泣的父母一样.
The next one I done was,uh,the nightclub scene. 我接下来拍的是夜总会的场景.
You gotta snip the backbone,and then pry his backbone away from 你得剪断他的脊椎,然后把他的脊椎从
the skin,and then pull everything out through 然后把所有东西都拉出来
the mouth... 嘴巴...
you don't make no cuts in the skin at all, 你根本不会在皮肤上留下伤口,
and then you just stuff them with the stuff you 然后你就把它们塞进你自己的东西里
put in your pillows. 放进枕头里.
When they're stuffed,you can bend them into what position 当他们被填充,你可以弯曲他们到什么位置
you want. 你想要的.
The Traveling Toad Show wasn't 《蟾蜍旅行秀》可不是
a success around Queensland,really. 在昆士兰很成功,真的.
Queensland is not they had a different outlook about the cane 昆士兰并不是他们对甘蔗有着不同的看法
toad,you know? 蛤蟆,你知道吗？
That used to get people walk past and, 以前人们经过的时候,
"No way in the world I'd pay money to go and see dirty old “我绝不会花钱去看肮脏的老人
cane toads," and all this and that,and... 还有这个那个的,还有...
It was disappointing. 太令人失望了.
I put everything I had into it,and... 我倾尽全力.
with other people,if they didn't like it, 如果别人不喜欢,
you know,it was their problem. 这是他们的问题.
I'm proud of it anyway,so.... 不管怎样,我很自豪,所以...
I don't care. 我不在乎.
I first expressed my concerns about the cane 我首先表达了我对拐杖的担忧
toad in 1963. 1963 年的蟾蜍.
I was reading the literature,and I found that, 我在读文献,我发现,
um,they were highly toxic. 毒性很强.
There were reports coming in of impacts upon domesticated 有报道称,这些影响了家养动物
animals cats and dogs,for example. 动物,例如猫和狗.
They'll go and play with a frog or a toad they do it all the 他们会去和青蛙或蟾蜍玩,他们会做所有的
time and if they ate them,they died. 时间,如果他们吃了他们,他们死了.
Wallace is a very much loved member of the family. 华莱士是这个家庭中深受爱戴的一员.
I treat him like one of the children. 我对待他就像对待孩子一样.
he's got an excellent personality he's just 他性格很好
very lovable. 非常可爱.
And he's mine,so he's special. 他是我的,所以他很特别.
He's special because he was given to me by Michael on 他很特别,因为他是迈克尔给我的
Valentine's Day about five years ago. 五年前的情人节.
I always get a kick out of her reactions, 我总是被她的反应逗乐,
because Vicki is in control of every situation except for when 因为 Vicki 掌控着一切,除了时间
I surprise her. 我给她个惊喜.
She'll normally shed a tear it's quite romantic. 她通常会流泪,这很浪漫.
He was definitely a very special gift. 他绝对是一个非常特别的礼物.
Very special. 非常特别.
Very,very special. 非常非常特别.
He was a very,uh,dominate dog. 他是一只非常,呃,支配欲强的狗.
He had a very strong personality, 他个性很强,
very dominate personality. 非常强势的性格.
He was the one that sort of ruled the household like me, 他是那种像我一样管理家务的人,
I think,he picked that up from me, 我觉得他是从我这学来的,
I think,so... 我想,所以...
because I'm the boss,aren't I,Michael? 因为我是老板,不是吗,迈克尔？
Yeah. 是啊.
He's my dog; he follows me everywhere,so... 他是我的狗,到哪儿都跟着我,所以...
He knows when I'm not around,so...doesn't he? 我不在的时候他知道,所以...他不知道吗？
Yes. 是的.
He sort of frets a little bit,so, 他有点烦躁,所以,
wherever I go,Wallace goes. 无论我去哪,华莱士都会去.
Come on! 来吧！
I got to the bottom step,and this cane toad jumped up from 我到了最底层,这只癞蛤蟆跳了起来
around the corner. 就在拐角处.
Wally! 沃利！
No! 不！
No,don't! Wally! 不,不要,沃利！
So he just simply grabbed it and then let it go. 所以他只是简单地抓住它,然后就让它走了.
Obviously,the cane toad sprayed him. 很明显,藤蟾喷了他一身.
Stright away I instantly knew I needed to grab the dog and wash 我马上意识到我需要抓起狗去洗澡
his gullet out. 把他的食道吐出来.
So,we thought he was fine,then; 所以我们以为他没事
we didn't think anything of it,until we looked over,and... 我们什么都没想,直到我们看过去,然后...
My first reaction was,"He's dying," you know? 我的第一反应是 “他快死了”？
"He's going to die." “他要死了”
The cane toad defends by producing a series of toxins, 甘蔗蟾蜍通过产生一系列毒素来防御,
which are produced from... 产生于...
If you look at a toad,they look like sweat glands. 如果你看蟾蜍,它们看起来像汗腺.
They're on either side of the head, 它们在头的两边,
it is sort of these little patches, 就是这些小斑点,
and the toxins seep out through those pores onto the skin. 毒素通过毛孔渗入皮肤.
You know,the way a dog attacks a piece of prey is generally to 你知道,狗攻击猎物的方式通常是
open its mouth and clonk on either side of it to crush the 张开它的嘴,在它的两边发出叮当的声音
brain,so they then get this liquid, 然后他们得到这种液体,
sticky toxin into the mouth,and, 粘性毒素进入口腔,然后,
yeah,you just get this this incredibly distressing, 是的,你只是得到了这个令人难以置信的痛苦,
shrieking,screaming noise from the dog. 狗的尖叫声.
Frogs and toads are the cannon fodder of the animal kingdom 青蛙和蟾蜍是动物王国的炮灰
everything seems to eat them. 好像所有的东西都在吃它们.
And because the cane toads don't have a label on them saying 因为甘蔗蟾蜍身上没有标签
"don't eat,I'm toxic," it meant that any species which devoured “不要吃,我是有毒的,” 这意味着任何物种吞噬
them in a normal way,would die as a result. 他们会因此而死.
We were conscious of the fact that toads were a threat to the 我们意识到,蟾蜍是一个威胁
Northern Territory,and it dawned on everybody that they 所有人都意识到
were migrating along behind the mangroves at the bottom of the 正沿着红树林底部迁徙
gulf there. 那里有一道鸿沟.
The reason the people argued that it wouldn't 人们认为不会的原因
get across the gulf was the large number of enormous rivers, 穿越墨西哥湾的是大量的巨大的河流,
which discharge into the Gulf of Carpentaria. 排入卡奔塔利亚湾.
The thought was that these were so vast that the toads would be 我们的想法是,这些是如此巨大,蟾蜍将
restricted to the eastern side. 仅限于东部.
As it happens,they went across without any trouble whatsoever. 碰巧,他们顺利通过了,没有遇到任何麻烦.
I thought they would have been slowed down a fair bit 我以为他们会放慢脚步
going across the Gulf of Carpentaria. 穿过卡奔塔利亚湾.
But,of course,it wasn't a slow point at all they were 但是,当然,这并不是一个缓慢的过程
actually going quicker than ever, 实际上比以往任何时候都要快,
and that generated a lot of community concern. 这引起了社会的广泛关注.
There were lots of people stirring it up, 有很多人在煽动,
even back then. 即使在当时.
They were crossing the boarder. 他们正在越境.
There was a proposal to fence the boarder and all sorts of 有人提议用篱笆把房子围起来
extraordinary things that would never have worked. 那些不可能成功的非凡事物.
I thought it was quite likely that the arrival of cane toads 我认为甘蔗蟾蜍的到来
could have an effect on the native frog fauna. 可能会对本地的青蛙产生影响.
Every species of frog makes a different sort of call, 每种青蛙都会发出不同的叫声,
and so we can monitor native frogs by listening 这样我们就可以通过监听来监视本地的青蛙
to them calling. 敬他们的呼唤.
We wanted to set up listening stations down about 100 我们想把监听站设在 100 米以下
kilometers stretch of the Roper Valley highway. 罗珀瓦利高速公路延伸数公里.
There's a microphone plugged into the computer, 电脑里有个麦克风,
which would listen for the mating calls of the frogs, 它会聆听青蛙的求偶声,
and would also track the arrival of the tides. 也会跟踪潮汐的到来.
I was one of those who mistakenly believed that, 我是那些错误地认为,
uh,the cane toad would simply not be able to survive the long 甘蔗蟾蜍不可能长时间生存下来
dry season,but such is their brilliance, 但这就是它们的才华,
I was completely wrong. 我完全错了.
Every biologist in Australia must have been staggered to hear 澳大利亚的每一位生物学家听到这个消息都会感到震惊
that cane toads,in some places,were traveling one 甘蔗蟾蜍,在某些地方,正在旅行
kilometer a night. 每晚一公里.
And that,for a little creature that's half as big as your shoe, 对于一个只有你鞋子一半大的小东西来说,
is really a remarkable feat. 真是了不起的壮举.
Once the toads got around the bottom of the gulf, 一旦蟾蜍到达海湾底部,
they hit much richer country more frequent rivers 他们打击更富裕的国家更频繁的河流
billabongs and their rate of progress just was exponential. 水洼和它们的发展速度是指数级的.
One of the most remarkable things about this whole toad 这整只蟾蜍最了不起的地方之一
invasion is how they've conquered the 他们就是这样征服了
Australian landscape. 澳大利亚风景.
They've come across all these different habitats where even 它们穿越了所有这些不同的栖息地
our own native animals die very easily. 我们本土的动物很容易死亡.
I don't think any other native animal would have been able to 我不认为其他任何本土动物能做到
establish itself in the speed that these toads are doing it. 建立自己的速度,这些蟾蜍做到这一点.
I reckon we're down about 10 to15% on baby crocs. 我估计我们的鳄鱼宝宝减少了 10% 到 15% .
I found a croc on the river,but we opened it's mouth and we 我在河上发现了一只鳄鱼,但我们张开它的嘴
could see down in its gullet and I reckon we could see a cane 可以看到它的食道,我估计我们可以看到一根拐杖
toad down there in the poison, 毒液里的蟾蜍,
that's right kills them very quickly. 没错,它们死得很快.
When you work and live on the river like we do, 当你像我们一样在河边工作和生活的时候,
you see a lot of things that the scientists don't see. 你能看到很多科学家没有看到的东西.
Out in the field that I'm in all the time, 在我经常出外勤的地方,
I do see the door of the numbers. 我确实看到了数字之门.
We've had sand monitors... 我们有沙子监视器.
I haven't got dogs or cats,I've got wildlife here, 我这里没有猫狗,只有野生动物,
and we don't see them anymore. 我们再也见不到他们了.
These thing,I think,are scary to Territorians... 这些东西,我觉得,对于本土居民来说很可怕...
very scary,and the last thing they want to see is their native 非常可怕,他们最不想看到的就是他们的祖先
wildlife obliterated,or their dogs dying in their backyards, 野生动物被消灭或者他们的狗死在后院,
or that sort of stuff,you know,from such an ugly creature. 或者类似的东西,你知道,从这样一个丑陋的生物.
The first time I walked in was the next day, 我第一次走进来是第二天,
and he was just flat no movement, 他一动不动,
no nothing and just a lot of tubes and everything in him. 什么都没有,只有很多管子和他身体里的一切.
The vets came up to me and said there was nothing they could do 退伍军人来找我,说他们无能为力
for him,that it would be better if he would be put down. 对他来说,如果他被处死会更好.
If he's not in any pain,then there's really no reason to sort 如果他没有任何痛苦,那就没有理由去分类
of put him down or anything,because he's a fighter, 因为他是个斗士,
and I know he's in there. 我知道他在里面.
You take a risk if you persist and the dog survives, 如果你坚持下去,狗活下来了,你就是在冒险,
um,you might have a vegetable dog,if you like. 如果你愿意的话,你可以养一只蔬菜热狗.
I wouldn't put one of my children down, 我不会杀我的孩子,
so I wouldn't put one of my dogs down. 这样我就不会杀死我的狗了.
It's just me. 只有我.
Its just how I am. 我就是这样的人.
At that stage,it was was quite traumatic for us... 在那个阶段,对我们来说很痛苦.
were basically waiting to see,"Give us a sign. 基本上都在等着看 “给我们一个信号”.
Is the dog going to live or not,you know?" 这只狗能不能活下来,你知道吗？”
I thought,"Did I really see that?" 我想 “我真的看到了吗？”
Well,I cried,and I called his name, 我哭了,喊了他的名字,
and his tail just moved up and down, 尾巴上下摆动,
and then I thought he was definitely in there. 然后我想他肯定在里面.
So he fought back,and,as I said, 所以他反击了,就像我说的,
you know,Wallace the wonder dog he came back from the dead. 你知道,华莱士,那只死而复生的神奇狗.
He's definitely changed. 他绝对变了.
Yeah. 是啊.
Now he's more like, 现在他更像是,
"Oh well,what the heck," type attitude. “哦,好吧,管他呢” 这种态度.
The personality shift,in some ways, 性格的转变,在某些方面,
has been good because he's not as dominate, 很好,因为他没有那么强势,
and he doesn't want to fight with other dogs now he tends 他现在不想和其他狗打架
to run away 逃跑
so there is some pluses for him. 所以对他来说还是有好处的.
And he likes his baths. 他喜欢洗澡.
He seems to enjoy himself,doesn't he? 他看起来很享受,不是吗？
He seems to be self amused. 他似乎很自得其乐.
He's like,"Hi," you know? 他说 “嗨” 你知道吗？
Dazey,so,no one's home. Dazey 家里没人.
So,it's very cute. 很可爱.
He's just happy to be here,he's happy to be back at home, 他很高兴来到这里,也很高兴回到家里,
and he's grateful just to sit on the lounge and watch television, 他很感激能坐在休息室里看电视,
so it has given him brain damage,I think. 所以我认为他的大脑受到了损伤.
So,he doesn't really do much doggy things now,does he? 他现在不怎么做狗狗的事了,是吧？
No. 没有.
Where luscious green replaces red, 绿色代替了红色,
where the ancient palms still grow.... 古老的棕榈树依然生长.
a little north of the turning point, 在转折点的北边一点,
where the Katherine River flows... 凯瑟琳河流经的地方.
her waters are sweet,her path is bold, 她的水是甘甜的,她的道路是勇敢的,
an awesome gorge her track.... 一个可怕的峡谷她的轨道....
And by the town that bears her name, 以她的名字命名的小镇,
First Lady of the Outback. 内陆第一夫人.
I remember hearing them saying they've crossed the Queensland 我记得听到他们说他们已经穿越了昆士兰
boarder,and they're now in the territory. 他们现在已经进入了领地.
And,I think,for a few years,not just myself, 我想,这几年来,不仅仅是我自己,
but a lot of us listened to the developments. 但我们很多人都听取了事态的发展.
"They're now at Borroloola." “他们现在在 Borroloola”
And people said,"Oh,we've seen them on the Stuart Highway at 人们说” 我们在斯图尔特高速公路上见过他们
Daly Waters." 戴利・沃特斯”
Next time they're at Mataranka. 下次他们会去马塔兰卡.
And the year they hit Katherine it was just there was just 他们袭击凯瑟琳的那一年
swarms of them. 成群结队.
I,Heaven forbid,thought about things like flame throwers and 但愿不是这样,我想到了火焰喷射器
everything else. 其他的一切.
You know,standing in front of them and trying to stop 'em, 站在他们面前试图阻止他们,
but there's too many of them. 但他们人太多了.
Why couldn't we just have aerial bombing across the whole front 为什么我们不能在整个前线进行空中轰炸呢
of them. 他们.
The deadly cane toad is on the march again. 致命的甘蔗蟾蜍又开始行动了.
Now Darwin is the new frontline in the fight against it. 现在,达尔文成了对抗它的新前线.
The toad's predicted to invade the city by the end of 这只蟾蜍预计将在今年年底入侵这座城市
this wet season. 这个雨季.
A new national task force is meeting there 一个新的国家工作组正在那里开会
to find a solution. 找到解决办法.
Humpty Doo is a very small place. 矮蛋斗是个很小的地方.
We originally moved out here because we like to have a little 我们最初搬到这里是因为我们喜欢
bit of space for our children to grow up in. 给我们的孩子一点成长的空间.
When they were toddlers,they could run around with no clothes 当他们还在蹒跚学步的时候,他们可以不穿衣服到处跑
on no anything go up to the local supermarket, 没有任何东西去当地的超市,
everybody knows who their children 每个人都知道自己的孩子是谁
With clothes on. 穿着衣服.
I remember getting a phone call when the cane toads 我记得我接到一个电话,当甘蔗蟾蜍
first arrived here from Merinda she was very, 第一次从梅林达来到这里她非常,
very excited. 非常兴奋.
Well,excited,but also distressed, 很兴奋,但也很痛苦,
because,"we found the first cane toad!" 因为 “我们找到了第一只藤蟾”
We had heard that the cane toads liked dog food, 我们听说甘蔗蟾蜍喜欢吃狗粮,
and I went to feed the dogs,and I moved it, 我去喂狗,然后把它挪开,
and there it was,it was just sitting there like that. 它就在那儿,就那样坐在那儿.
I'm not a screamer. 我不会大喊大叫的.
You shriek at times; you might have gone,"Ah!" 你有时会尖叫,你可能会说 “啊！”
Like that? Yeah. #NAME?
Might have done that. 也许吧.
And I thought,"Shit! Is that one or not?" 然后我就想 “妈的,到底是不是那个”
And you just knew it was because it was so damn ugly. 你知道是因为它太丑了.
But,um,I don't think that we thought they were gonna be here 但是,我觉得我们没想到他们会在这里
that quick,you know? 那么快,你知道吗？
No. 没有.
The behavior of toads at the invasion front is really 蟾蜍在入侵前线的行为
bizarre,and its different from what anybody has seen before in 奇异,它不同于任何人以前看到的
any amphibian in the world. 世界上任何一种两栖动物.
They were really an invasion army coming towards our study 他们真的是一支入侵军队,正朝我们的书房走来
area to a much greater degree than I ever expected. 比我想象的要大得多.
The approach that my group has taken, 我的团队所采取的方法,
is to genuinely try to understand what toads are all 就是真诚地去理解什么是蟾蜍
about,to understand the impacts that they have on natural 了解它们对自然的影响
systems,and to develop new ways that we might control toads. 开发新的方法来控制蟾蜍.
Greg Brown was strapping radio transmitters on toads as soon as 格雷格・布朗在蟾蜍身上绑上无线电发射器
the first ones got close to us,and we discovered that these 第一批接近了我们,我们发现这些
animals were traveling enormous distances much further than 动物们正在长途跋涉
any on the planet has ever been recorded to move. 地球上有记录的任何动物.
There's a remarkable phenomenon that's gone 有一个非凡的现象消失了
on in the last 70 years since cane toads were released in 自从 70 年前甘蔗蟾蜍被放生以来
northeastern Queensland. 昆士兰东北部.
Essentially,it's become a footrace across tropical 基本上,它已经变成了横跨热带地区的赛跑
Australia for the toads. 澳大利亚的蟾蜍.
The kids that are at the front of the invasion are the fastest 冲在最前面的孩子是最快的
moving toads,the most athletic toads. 会动的蟾蜍,运动能力最强的蟾蜍.
So,the best athletes are breeding with each other, 所以,最好的运动员在一起繁衍后代,
and we call it "the Olympic Village effect." 我们称之为 “奥运村效应”
So it's a cumulative process,and in Australia, 这是一个累积的过程,在澳大利亚,
it's produced a fundamentally different kind of a toad. 它产生了一种完全不同的蟾蜍.
These large,long legged,incredibly active individuals, 这些巨大,长腿,异常活跃的个体,
that disperse huge distances whenever they can. 只要可以,它们就会远距离传播.
What is going to stop them? 什么能阻止他们？
How are they going to be brought under control? 怎样才能控制住他们？
I mean,what are they going to be like when they get to the 我的意思是,他们会是什么样子,当他们到达
western Australian boarder? 澳大利亚西部边境？
They'll be as big as camels. 他们会像骆驼一样大.
Cane toads are invading the top end much faster than previously 甘蔗蟾蜍入侵顶端的速度比以前快多了
feared according to a new study using radio transmitters. 根据一项使用无线电发射机的新研究.
Scientists are warning that the first toads could reach Darwin 科学家警告说,第一批蟾蜍可能到达达尔文
as early as next month. 最早下个月.
Once they were in Katherine, 一旦他们进入凯瑟琳体内,
it was only a matter of time before they'd be in Darwin. 他们到达达尔文只是时间问题.
When you drive down the track,you see them all the way. 当你沿着赛道开车的时候,你一路上都能看到它们.
It's a bit like an army on the march. 有点像行军中的军队.
The think that "Oh my God,this is going to take parks, 想着 “哦,我的天哪,这会占领公园的”
and towns,and everything in its path." 和城镇,以及路上的一切”
It was a bit of an "oh shit" moment, 那是一个 “哦,该死” 的时刻,
and it was quite scary. 真的很可怕.
Toads are public enemy number one in the Territory. 蟾蜍是本地区头号公敌.
They're like a commando,they're like an invading army, 他们就像突击队,就像入侵的军队,
they've invaded our territory,and certainly, 他们侵犯了我们的领土,当然,
they've got to take the consequences. 他们必须承担后果.
People should take the problem into their own hands, 人们应该自己解决问题,
and they should try and kill as many of them as they possibly 他们应该尽可能多的杀掉他们
can,by any means that they can. 无论如何他们都可以.
As soon as they came onto people's properties, 他们一进入人们的财产,
everybody was vigilant. 大家都很警惕.
Everybody in the street would be out, 街上的每个人都会出来,
you'd see you'd wave to neighbors as everybody would be 你会像其他人一样向邻居招手
driving around,running them over on the roads,and... 开车到处跑,在路上碾过他们,然后...
Even when they were dead,running them over again. 即使他们已经死了,还要再次碾压他们.
Practice makes perfect,I suppose. 我想熟能生巧吧.
I think I'm better at hitting them than what 我觉得我更擅长打他们
I did 12 months ago. 12 个月前.
You just feel this squelch. 你能感觉到这种压迫感.
And you can sort of hear the noise... 你可以听到一些声音.
even with the air conditioner on. 即使开着空调.
When they're in such plague proportions, 当它们处于这种瘟疫状态时,
people will resort to any method. 人们会采取任何手段.
We wanted to achieve,I suppose,a quick death. 我想,我们想要一个快速的死亡.
We found Dettol works well. 我们发现滴露效果很好.
In fact,I go out and do my little constitutional with the 事实上,我走出去,做我的小宪法与
water bottle at night,and I'd get eight, 晚上喝瓶装水,我就能得到八个,
or 10,or 12. 或者 10 个,或者 12 个.
He's nothing but vermin in every essence of the word. 他就是个害虫.
I think there should be a bounty put on his head. 我觉得应该悬赏他的人头.
My suggestion was just to encourage people to encourage 我的建议只是鼓励人们
their kids,and just kill a toad... 杀死一只蟾蜍.
hit them with cricket bats,hit them with a golf club... 用板球棍打他们,用高尔夫球棒打他们...
We'd spear them with whatever we could find a sharpened stick 我们会用任何能找到的锋利的棍子刺穿他们
or a star picket. 或者星际纠察队.
I'd just put them in a big bucket and boil up the kettle 我只是把它们放在一个大桶里,然后烧开水
and just tip boiled water over them. 把开水倒在上面.
I put the muzzle of an air rifle down their throats, 我把气枪的枪口伸进他们的喉咙,
and blow the back end of them out. 然后把它们的尾部炸掉.
You can link the contraption to the exhaust of your car, 你可以把这个装置和你的汽车排气管联系起来,
and you gas the toad. 然后毒死蟾蜍.
Use your imagination strap a cane toad to skyrocket, 用你的想象力捆住一只蟾蜍飞上天空,
and let him go,you know? 让他走,你知道吗？
Somebody has made cartridge of "Toad Loads" for a 22 caliber 有人用 22 毫米口径的 “蟾蜍弹” 做了一个弹夹
rifles,and,you know,I was quite amazed by that. 步枪,你知道,我很惊讶.
To each his own. 人各有志.
I think the territories are a pretty tough place, 我认为这个地区是一个相当艰苦的地方,
and I think,if the toads come to the territory, 我想,如果蟾蜍来到这里,
they should expect some tough treatment. 他们应该期待一些严厉的对待.
What we do is we put them straight into 我们要做的就是把它们直接放进
a bag in the freezer. 冰箱里的一个袋子.
One of my children said,"It's like they're going on a holiday, 我的一个孩子说,“这就像他们要去度假,
like a free trip to Alaska,when we put 'em in the freezer, 就像去阿拉斯加的免费旅行一样,当我们把它们放进冰箱的时候,
isn't it?" 不是吗？”
So that made my kids feel better about killing them if they were 这让我的孩子们觉得杀了他们会好受些
going to the snow,to something like that. 去雪地,去那样的地方.
We taught our children that,you know, 我们教育我们的孩子,
we don't kill anything... 我们不杀任何东西.
everything is God's creatures sort of jazz,you know? 一切都是上帝创造的,就像爵士乐一样,你知道吗？
We'll try and euthanize them in a in a 我们会在一分钟内对他们实施安乐死
the nicest way possible. 最好的方式.
I wouldn't put a bloody toad in me freezer! 我才不会把该死的蟾蜍放进我的冰箱里！
That's ridiculous! And most people wouldn't. 太荒谬了,大多数人都不会这么做.
You don't want dead cane toads in your freezer. 你不会希望冰箱里有死甘蔗蟾蜍的.
I come up with the idea of hydrated lime in water, 我想到了水中加水石灰的主意,
and I made some [indistinct]. 我做了一些 [模糊不清].
If there's going to be death of anything, 如果有什么东西要死了,
it must be quick,in my opinion. 在我看来,一定要快.
But,like I said,[indistinct],and they're not injured. 但是,就像我说的,他们没有受伤.
I want them dead. 我要他们死.
What I reckon,as cruel as these hens and [indistinct] and birds 我认为,就像这些母鸡和鸟儿一样残忍
in cages,or cattle in feed lots, 在笼子里,或者在饲养场里,
they're the people that are cruel. 他们是残忍的人.
But killing a toad? 但是杀死一只蟾蜍？
I can't see how that's cruel. 我不明白这有什么残忍的.
Or any of the meat industry,that's cruel. 或者任何肉类产业,这太残忍了.
People that catch a fish,and play them on the line for hours, 人们抓到一条鱼,然后在线上玩上几个小时,
some big fish,you tell me that's not cruel? 一些大鱼,你告诉我这不残忍吗？
Of course,it's cruel. 当然,这很残忍.
The definition of cruelty is when you see bombing people in 残忍的定义就是当你看到
another country. 另一个国家.
It's shocking. 太令人震惊了.
Killing and maiming people in another country... 在另一个国家杀害和残害人民.
under the guise of security and all that sort of stuff... 以保安之类的名义.
it's shocking. 太令人震惊了.
You always need a scapegoat,so you go down until you can you 你总是需要一个替罪羊,所以你下去,直到你可以
can find a scapegoat that you can hammer without any 可以找到一个替罪羊,你可以锤没有任何
retribution to yourself. 惩罚自己.
And then you get some high priest from some university with 然后你从某个大学里找了个大祭司
a PhD professor this or that to tell you it's all fine. 一个博士教授这样或那样告诉你一切都很好.
Well,he's a jerk. 他是个混蛋.
You don't need that. 你不需要那个.
You can think it through yourself. 你可以自己想清楚.
The toad sanctuary here is really unofficial, 这里的蟾蜍保护区是非官方的,
but it's the idea is just people can't bash toads here. 但我们的想法是人们不能在这里打蟾蜍.
I don't feel any great love for them or anything, 我对他们没什么好感,
they're just there,and I think they've got a right to exist. 他们就在那里,我认为他们有权利存在.
I think that's the basis of it; they have a right 我认为这是它的基础,他们有权利
to be themselves. 做自己.
You're not going to stop them by beating individual animals 你不能通过殴打动物来阻止他们
to death. 死亡.
They don't know that there's anything wrong with them; 他们不知道自己有什么问题；
they're just themselves. 他们只是他们自己.
There's a toad here we can him Joe Hockey because you need 这里有只癞蛤蟆,我们可以叫他乔・冰球,因为你需要
a hockey stick to get rid of him, 用一根曲棍球棍来摆脱他,
a golf club wouldn't do he's pretty big. 高尔夫球杆也不行,他块头挺大的.
He comes in regularly,and he sits on the dog's bowl, 他经常来,坐在狗的碗上,
has a swim,goes over and eats the food, 游泳,过去吃东西,
goes back to the bowl. 回到碗里.
You can always tell when they've been there, 他们去过的时候你总能看出来,
because it's all muddy,you know? 因为这里全是泥巴？
They don't watch their feet before they [laughs] get in 他们进来之前不会注意自己的脚
the bowl. 碗.
He obviously has a slightly difficult life,um... 他的生活显然有点困难.
Yeah,I wish him well. 是的,我希望他一切都好.
As well as the town or suburb with the emergency? 以及城镇或郊区的紧急情况？
Okay,what's the exact address of the emergency? 好吧,紧急情况的确切地址是什么？
Okay,what's the problem? 好吧,有什么问题吗？
Tell me exactly what's happened. 告诉我到底发生了什么.
Is he conscious? 他有意识吗？
Is he breathing? 他还有呼吸吗？
Okay,gotta get you to answer the questions for me, 你得回答我的问题,
and we'll get the ambulance on its way. 我们马上叫救护车.
QRS 2 40. QRS 240.
We receive the call out 我们接到通知
from the communication center. 来自通讯中心.
Cat 1 which is "emergency response/life threatening 第一类是 “紧急反应 / 危及生命”
event," um,lights and sirens. 灯光和警笛.
Thee scenario we walked into was very unusual. 我们遇到的情况非常不寻常.
I've not seen anything like that before or since. 我之前和之后都没见过这种情况.
On Friday the 21st of January, 1 月 21 日星期五,
I was present at Bowen Police Station when a call was received 我当时在鲍文警察局接到一个电话
from Townsville Ambulance Control. 来自汤斯维尔救护中心.
An ambulance from Bowen was currently en route to the scene, 一辆来自 Bowen 的救护车正赶往现场,
and they requested police to attend. 他们要求警察出席.
Mr.Graham Sealey lead police to the caravan, 格雷厄姆・西利先生带着警察去了商队,
and I then observed that the body of the deceased was laying 然后我发现死者的尸体
prone to the ground. 趴在地上.
I further observed that there was laying close to the deceased 我进一步观察到死者身边躺着
a makeshift metal spear,that consisted of a long tubular 一种临时的金属矛,由一根长长的管状物组成
metal aluminum pipe,and that it had a carving knife embedded in 金属铝管,里面嵌着一把雕刻刀
the end of it to make the point of the spear. 它的末端是矛的尖端.
I then observed that laying approximately one meter away 然后我观察到大约一米远的地方
from the deceased was a power extension cord which ran across 死者身上有一根电源延长线
the pathway from the caravan to the power box. 从商队到电力箱的通道.
I then approached [beep] the owner of the caravan and the 然后我找到了拖车的主人
persona identified to me by Sealey as being a possible Sealey 告诉我,这个人可能是
witness to the incident. 目击者.
Had you or him been drinking at all this evening? 你或他今晚一直在喝酒吗？
Yeah,we've just been sitting outside having a 是啊,我们一直坐在外面
couple of beers. 几瓶啤酒.
It was,at the time,that the deceased and herself 当时,死者和她自己
had been outside the caravan at about 6:30PM attempting to kill 在下午 6:30 左右出现在商队外面企图杀人
cane toads with the homemade metal spear that was present at 手持自制金属矛的藤蟾蜍
the scene. 现场.
Ah! 啊！
Henry! 亨利！
Henry? 亨利？
Oh my God! 哦,我的上帝！
Friday night,I got the call that somebody had received an 周五晚上,我接到电话说有人接到了一个
electric shock. 电击.
The deceased partner stated that she was 死者的搭档说
present when the deceased had pierced an extension cord while 当死者穿过延长线时
attempting to spear a toad. 试图刺穿一只蟾蜍.
I then proceeded to inspect the hose covering the extension cord 然后,我检查了覆盖延长线的软管
in an attempt to locate the position where the spear 试图找到矛的位置
had entered. 已经进入.
Test undertaken on this extension lead and at the axe 在这个延长线和斧头上进行的试验
inside,indicate that this damaged cable was the active 内部,表明这个损坏的电缆是主动的
live wire. 带电的电线.
Contact with this cable would produce an electric shock or 与这根电缆接触会产生电击或
electrocution... 触电...
if a path to earth was made. 如果有一条通往地球的路.
Contact through a metal spear,and through a person's hand, 通过金属矛和人的手接触,
down through their legs which are in contact with the ground 通过它们与地面接触的腿
would provide such a path to earth, 会提供一条通往地球的道路,
In viewer the above,it would appear that the sudden death of 在观众的上述,似乎突然死亡的
the deceased was nothing more than an unfortunate accident. 死者不过是个不幸的意外.
It's unfortunate. 真不幸.
Any loss of life in an unusual circumstance is certainly, 任何在特殊情况下的生命损失,
but this one was just a little bit off the... 但这个有点偏离...
it was something I'd never heard of before. 我以前从没听说过.
The actual sight of somebody laying in the dirt, 看到有人躺在地上,
with a bit of mud,just with these shorts on, 穿着短裤沾了点泥巴,
um,does have an effect on people. 确实对人有影响.
Life can be taken away from you very very quickly, 生命很快就会被夺走,
and you only need all the holes in the cheese to line up, 你只需要把奶酪上的洞排成一排,
and,in this case,with this particular person, 在这种情况下,和这个特定的人,
all the holes had lined up. 所有的洞都排好了.
The event is very much a part of me now. 这件事现在已经成为我生活的一部分.
It sort of definitely stays with you. 这种感觉一直伴随着你.
Any animal that knows it's invulnerable tends to be very 任何知道自己刀枪不入的动物
calm,it seems,and they simply wander around this is 看起来很平静,它们只是四处游荡
extraordinary air of confidence they're quite calm, 非凡的自信他们非常冷静,
you can pick them up,you can play with them, 你可以把它们捡起来,和它们一起玩,
do what you want them,and put them down, 做你想做的事,把他们放下,
they'll just hop away no stress for the toad whatsoever. 它们会跳走,不会给蟾蜍带来任何压力.
A tissue,a tissue. 一张纸巾,一张纸巾.
We all fall down. 我们都会摔倒.
Ah... 啊...
I used to sing Dairy Queen the odd sort of nursery rhyme, 我以前经常唱《冰雪皇后》那种奇怪的童谣,
but a lot of them were were in German. 但很多都是德语.
I used to sometimes,sort of,help her dance a bit while I was 我以前有时候会帮她跳舞
singing songs to her,so I don't know how much she enjoyed that. 给她唱歌,所以我不知道她有多喜欢.
Dairy Queen got her name from,actually, 事实上,冰雪皇后的名字来源于,
an ice cream brand. 一个冰淇淋品牌.
We used to get these tubs of ice cream called Dairy Queen in 我们以前会买一桶叫冰雪皇后的冰淇淋
massive sizes sort of in five liter tubs and so, 巨大的体积,有点像五升的浴缸,
because Dairy Queen was,of course, 因为当然了,冰雪皇后,
an extra large cane toad,she ended up by coping the name 一只特别大的藤蟾蜍,她最后改用了这个名字
Dairy Queen. 冰雪皇后.
It was a bit difficult. 有点困难.
I did get a little it of teasing from friends, 我确实受到了朋友们的嘲笑,
and quite a lot of people laughing at me and things like 还有很多人嘲笑我
that,and I learned to deal with it. 我学会了处理.
Every pet you have when you're younger is an amazing companion, 你年轻时养的每一只宠物都是很棒的伴侣,
and that's what I found with Dairy Queen. 这就是我在冰雪皇后身上发现的.
She wasn't a cane toad to me,she was just one of my pets that 她对我来说不是一只癞蛤蟆,她只是我的宠物之一
I loved dearly,and I found her quite charismatic. 我深爱着她,我觉得她很有魅力.
Yeah,she was a great companion. 是啊,她是个好伙伴.
I was never too sure what happened to Dairy Queen... 我一直不知道冰雪皇后怎么了.
when she sort of passed on. 她去世的时候.
Mum just sort of continued to tell me that she was living in 妈妈只是继续告诉我她住在
this amazing toad fantasyland,so and I was quite happy that 这个令人惊奇的蟾蜍幻想世界,所以我很高兴
she'd gone back to her friends and was where she belonged. 她回到了朋友身边,回到了属于她的地方.
I was actually approached by Graham Sawyer, 其实是格雷厄姆・索耶找到我的,
who showed me some documentation, 他给我看了一些文件,
and his battle or the battle he wanted to wage against the 和他的战斗或者他想要发动的战斗
cane toad. 甘蔗蟾蜍.
There's three basic elements to a cane toad control... 控制甘蔗蟾蜍有三个基本要素.
there's the trapping,the fencing, 有陷阱,有围栏,
and then there's the hand collection, 还有手工收藏,
or "toad busting" as we call it up here. 或者我们这里所说的 “抓蟾蜍”.
They are really the three elements. 它们实际上是三种元素.
The fence runs north south. 篱笆向北向南延伸.
It's just a simple soft barrier. 这只是一个简单的软屏障.
Now the toads have got this hard, 现在蟾蜍变得如此强硬,
boney head... 白痴...
and their solution to obstacles to head butt the obstacle not 而他们解决障碍的方法就是头顶障碍而不是撞击障碍
to hop around it or over it,like our native frogs do they 在上面跳来跳去,就像我们的青蛙一样
just charge into it. 冲进去.
The idea of the fence was to confuse them, 篱笆的设计是为了迷惑他们,
was to break up their migration for as long as we could. 就是尽可能地阻止他们的迁徙.
Ridiculous! 太荒谬了！
How can you fence a toad? 你怎么能把一只蟾蜍卖掉？
Build it like the wall in Israel, 像在以色列修建隔离墙一样,
or former Berlin Wall,or whatever. 或者前柏林墙什么的.
Any Heron just landing in a pond will get a few cane toad eggs on 任何一只苍鹭只要降落在池塘里就会得到几个蟾蜍卵
its legs,and then fly over the wall, 然后飞过墙,
and then put the cane toads on the other side of the wall! 然后把藤蟾蜍放在墙的另一边！
Another territory government came up with he idea 另一个地区的政府想出了这个主意
of a trap competition. 陷阱比赛.
The original concept was the research traps, 最初的概念是研究陷阱,
and attractants,and other things,as well. 还有引诱剂,还有其他东西.
Traps are no good without an attractant. 没有引诱物,陷阱就没有用.
The toads' primal instinct is to breed, 蟾蜍的本能是繁殖,
and the call is a breeding call. 这个叫声是一个繁殖的叫声.
It's saying,"I'm here,baby. 它在说” 我在这里,宝贝.
Come and get me." 来抓我啊”
The toad blaster is a speaker system. 蟾蜍爆能枪是一种扬声器系统.
It's waterproof horns with a 12 volt amplifier. 这是防水喇叭和 12 伏放大器.
Every frog as a different frequency of call. 每只青蛙都有不同的叫声频率.
Like green tree frog which is very common up here 就像这里很常见的绿树蛙
is down low. 在下面.
The marble frog which is another native is at the 大理石青蛙是另一个当地人
other extreme up high. 另一个极端.
And the cane toad sits in the middle it's about 600 hertz 甘蔗蟾蜍位于中间,它的频率大约是 600 赫兹
and it's... 而且...
And at the end of the valley,we have our fancy little 在山谷的尽头,我们有一个
concentration... 集中注意力.
and we have tracks. 我们有足迹.
I'd like to think I'm a modern day Pied Piper... 我更愿意把自己想象成现代的’魔笛手’.
bringing the toads in towards their own destruction. 把蟾蜍引向自己的毁灭.
The government suggested that we buy cane toad traps. 政府建议我们购买甘蔗蟾蜍陷阱.
They suggested the different kind of lighting seemed to be 他们认为不同种类的光线
more effective than just a white light. 比白光更有效.
But,to date,we've caught jack shit in our traps! 但是,到目前为止,我们的陷阱里什么都没抓到！
Whilst trapping,fencing are great, 在捕猎的同时,剑术也很棒,
biological solution I see is the answer. 我看到的生物溶液就是答案.
Trying to make a virus that will kill them is absolutely 试图制造一种能杀死他们的病毒绝对是
ridiculous,because it that virus would have escaped 荒谬,因为如果病毒逃脱了
Australia,it would have killed toads in the rest of the world. 在澳大利亚,它会杀死世界上其他地方的蟾蜍.
Now that's the other big question mark, 这是另一个大问号,
of course,you know,is will government have the balls to get 当然,你知道,就是政府是否有胆量
out there,and actually put a biological solution 在那里,实际上把一个生物解决方案
into the environment. 进入环境.
Even if you made a virus that would never escape Australia, 即使你制造了一种永远逃不出澳大利亚的病毒,
that was specific just to cane toads which is virtually 只有甘蔗蟾蜍才会这样
impossible it would never have killed the 它不可能永远不会杀死
whole population. 全部人口.
One of the issues we had when we were, 我们在一起时的问题之一,
um,looking at this stuff was what you do with all the bodies, 嗯,看这些东西就是处理尸体的方法,
and someone suggested that you could make a fertilizer out of 有人建议你可以用
the toads. 蟾蜍.
The process is very easy. 这个过程很简单.
We stockpile all the toads in the freezer until we've got 我们把所有的蟾蜍都储存在冰箱里
a big batch. 一大批.
We then put those into a big vat,and 然后我们把它们放进一个大桶里
add the potassium hydroxide. 加上氢氧化钾.
The potassium hydroxide's got a very high pH level, 氢氧化钾的酸碱度很高,
so no bacteria and germs and stuff can survive it. 所以没有细菌,细菌和其他东西可以存活.
And basically they melt down into a brown soup, 基本上它们会融化成棕色的汤,
and that brown soup has quite good nutrient properties 那个褐色的汤有很好的营养成分
for fertilizer. 化肥.
For me,I've got a certain amount of customers, 对我来说,我有一定数量的顾客,
and so,I keep expanding on the research and development. 因此,我不断扩大研究和开发.
As far as my leather goods go,we made bombays, 至于我的皮革制品,我们做了炸弹,
and caps,and toads hanging out of the caps, 帽子,还有从帽子里伸出来的蟾蜍,
and sun visors,and caps,and wallets, 遮阳板,帽子,钱包,
and a lot of people are quite happy that it's an exotic skin, 很多人都很高兴这是一种异域风情的皮肤,
but not every lady likes a toad bag to have a head on it. 但不是每个女人都喜欢有头的蟾蜍袋.
The potential,really,is in the medicine side like the 潜力,真的,在医学方面,就像
Chinese already know,and have been doing for thousands 中国人已经知道了,而且已经做了几千年了
of years. 几年了.
They developed toad cake,which is concentrated venom, 他们发明了蟾蜍蛋糕,这是一种浓缩的毒液,
which the Chinese encapsulize to keep it fresh, 中国人为了保持新鲜而把它们封存起来,
and then sell it to Japanese pharmacies, 然后卖给日本药店,
who turn it into pharmaceutical products and stuff that will 他们把它制成药品
even rival morphine. 甚至是对手的吗啡.
I've got some little vials out of there that they use in the 我这里有一些小瓶子
gallbladder from a cane toad now that must be so small. 从一只甘蔗蟾蜍的胆囊,现在一定是这么小.
I even know one guy who took one of those vials I've got there, 我甚至认识一个人拿走了我那里的一个小瓶子,
and swallowed it. 然后吞了下去.
He said he had palpitations that was coming out of his chest, 他说他有心悸,从胸口冒出来,
he was red hot flashes that'll get you high, 他是让你兴奋的潮热,
that'll get you hallucinating into another planet. 会让你产生幻觉到另一个星球.
The biggest media hype that happened around when the cane 最大的媒体炒作发生在当藤条
toads first arrived was more about the interest in the sort 蟾蜍第一次到达更多的是关于兴趣的排序
of mild intoxication that some dogs get where they get just 轻微的中毒,有些狗得到了他们想要的
quite addicted to licking toads. 非常喜欢舔蟾蜍.
Dobby is a four year old cross breed. 多比是一个四岁的杂交品种.
She's quite a sweet dog. 她是只很可爱的狗.
She's very smart. 她很聪明.
She can be very stubborn,as well,though. 不过她也很固执.
Dobby! 多比！
She first started chasing toads,uh, 她最开始追逐蟾蜍,
probably about eight or nine months of age that's when we 大概八九个月大的时候
first caught her with one. 第一次发现她和一个人在一起.
Dobby! 多比！
Leave it! 别管了！
Dobby! 多比！
Dobby? 多比？
Dobby! 多比！
She tends to get a little high on them, 她喜欢嗑药,
and her pupils will dilate. 她的瞳孔会放大.
She'll act a little bit trippy. 她会表现得有点神志不清.
She won't want to come when she's called or anything 有人叫她的时候她不会来的
like that. 像这样.
Dobby! 多比！
She certainly seems to understand that there are 她显然明白
certain side effects of cane toad poisoning and is happy to 甘蔗蟾蜍中毒的一些副作用
deal with the [laughing] consequences of those. 处理那些事情的 [笑] 后果.
This phenomenon of animals deliberately getting 这种动物故意获取的现象
intoxicated by cane toads is just fascinating. 被甘蔗蟾蜍弄得神魂颠倒真是太迷人了.
It just seems unbelievable that an animal would go back for a 真是难以置信,一只动物居然会回去
second try. 再试一次.
Dobby? 多比？
But nevertheless,we do have many documented cases of 尽管如此,我们还是有很多记录在案的
patients who deliberately on a regular basis will seek out a 有意定期接受治疗的病人
toad,and they seems to be able to lick the toad in such a way 蟾蜍,它们似乎可以用这种方式舔蟾蜍
that they only get a very small dose. 他们只能得到很小的剂量.
It doesn't affect her on a day to day basis, 这对她的日常生活没有影响,
and so I don't think it's certainly fitting a true 所以我不认为这是真的
definition of addiction. 成瘾的定义.
She certainly enjoys it. 她肯定很享受.
Dobby? 多比？
Dobby,Dobby? 多比,多比？
Dobby,you okay? 多比,你没事吧？
You are? 是吗？
I guess if you're going to anthropomorphize it, 我想如果你要把它人格化,
it's kind of like an LSD trip. 有点像迷幻药之旅.
Dobby? 多比？
Dobby... 多比...
Dobby? 多比？
Dobby... 多比...
Presumably,it must be quite pleasant for the dog. 想必这对狗来说一定很愉快.
And they do it again,and again,and again. 他们一次又一次,一次又一次.
And who knows what's going on in those dogs' minds. 谁知道那些狗在想什么.
Dobby! 多比！
They're spending millions of dollars trying to 他们花了数百万美元
eradicate them. 消灭他们.
These other people,like the Chinese, 这些人,比如中国人,
who have been investing in the therapeutical benefits from 他们一直致力于
toads for thousands of years. 几千年来都是蟾蜍.
The very first thing they should do is set up a trial toad farm. 他们首先要做的就是建立一个蟾蜍试验农场.
And so,that venom,you can just milk them by picking them up and 所以,那些毒液,你可以把它们捡起来挤出来
squeezing it out of there,put him back in the pen, 把它挤出来,放回笼子里,
feed him up,and in another few days time, 喂饱他,再过几天,
he's going to be ready to milk again. 他又可以挤奶了.
And then we wonder what we're going to do with the rest 然后我们想知道剩下的怎么办
of the frog. 青蛙.
The Chinese themself will eat the cane toad. 中国人自己会吃甘蔗蟾蜍.
Not a problem at all. 完全没问题.
His back leg is just like nutritious green frog to them. 它的后腿对它们来说就像营养丰富的青蛙.
They want a bite; they can't get it. 他们想咬一口,但却得不到.
And so,everyone can benefit out of the cane toad. 因此,每个人都可以从甘蔗蟾蜍中受益.
I actually like toads a lot now. 其实我现在很喜欢蟾蜍.
Before I used to take the air rifle around on Friday night, 在我周五晚上带着气枪到处跑之前,
and pop 'em all,and send 'em out with the garbage. 然后把它们全部打碎,再把它们和垃圾一起扔出去.
I owe a lot to the cane toad. 我欠甘蔗蟾蜍很多.
He's been very,very good for me and the family, 他对我和我的家庭非常非常好,
and so I have much more humanity towards him now. 所以我现在对他更有人性了.
We called him "Melrose." 我们叫他 “Melrose”
People might say I was crazy, 人们可能会说我疯了,
but he was just like one of me kids. 但他就像我的孩子一样.
Put him on me head,and 把他放在我头上
walk around on top of me head,and... 在我头上走来走去,然后...
Put him on his back,and tickle him underneath the throat, 把他放在背上,挠他的喉咙下面,
and I used to worm him,and we fed him. 我以前给他吃虫子,我们喂他吃东西.
Cockroaches,you know,he thrived on them. 蟑螂,你知道,他就是靠它们生存的.
Then I had his little show pen. 然后我拿到了他的小钢笔.
There was a swimming pool and a little opening where I used 有一个游泳池和一个小开口,我用
to push the door open and the cockroaches used to come 把门推开,蟑螂就会来
running out. 用完了.
As soon as he heard the rustle,he knew it was coming. 他一听到沙沙声,就知道要来了.
He'd sit there and look up at the door of the cage, 他坐在那里,抬头看着笼子的门,
and his tongue would be out fifty to the dozen. 他的舌头会吐出五十打.
I tried to get him in the Guinness Book of Records... 我想把他列入吉尼斯世界纪录.
fatten him up,get the world's largest toad. 把他养肥,养成世界上最大的蟾蜍.
But I haven't done it,really,over feeding him and that... 但是我还没有做过,真的,过度喂养他和那个...
because he couldn't hop. 因为他不会跳.
In the end,he couldn't hop he was too heavy. 最后,他跳不起来,因为他太重了.
He used to just crawl. 他以前只会爬.
Well,I went to feed him one day, 有一天我去喂他,
and he was laying in his water...dead... 他躺在水里,死了.
a heart attack. 心脏病发作.
And it just felt like part of me was dead,too. 就好像我身体的一部分也死了.
I froze him. 我把他冻住了.
I froze him for quite awhile,and then I eventually tanned 我把他冷冻了一段时间,最后我把他晒黑了
him,and then I stuffed him. 然后我把他做成标本.
And I wish I still had him. 我希望我还拥有他.
The marketing stuff is still a little bit up in the air for 市场营销方面的东西还有点悬而未决
toad juice,but we decided to approach one of the big hardware 蟾蜍汁,但我们决定接近一个大的硬件
chains,and they weren't really interested until we had quite a 他们并不感兴趣,直到我们有了一个相当
bit of it. 一点点.
We were stockpiling it. 我们在囤积.
The only problem was the batch was still a little but too 唯一的问题是这批货还是有点多
fresh,and was still fermenting it was just a gas hazard, 新鲜的,还在发酵只是气体危害,
pressure in a bottle. 瓶子里的压力.
I mean,you could see it. 我是说,你能看出来.
In the bottle,they were really,really tight when you picked 在瓶子里,你摘的时候它们非常非常紧
them up. 举起来.
One of the truly spectacular things about the cane toad 甘蔗蟾蜍最引人注目的地方之一
invasion is the directional nature of the toad front. 入侵是蟾蜍前锋的方向性.
There are essentially toads that are traveling in a straight 蟾蜍基本上是直线行进的
line,down the road,in a consistent direction, 沿着这条路,沿着一致的方向,
and I think what's happening is that toads are looking for a 我认为现在的情况是,蟾蜍正在寻找
nice,flat,open,linear corridor that will help them to 漂亮,平坦,开放,线性的走廊,这将有助于他们
head west as fast as they can. 尽快往西走.
We've created those we call them roads and the toads have 我们创造了我们称之为道路的东西,而蟾蜍创造了道路
taken advantage of them. 利用了他们.
I know that Darwin for a while there tried to do 我知道达尔文有一段时间试图做
something about the toads,but they lost interest. 一些关于蟾蜍的事情,但是他们失去了兴趣.
They they appear to have not continued through. 他们似乎没有继续通过.
It's all talk,and they don't care. 只是说说而已,他们根本不在乎.
I mean,there's loads of them sitting down there saying, 我是说,有很多人坐在那里说,
"Of course,we do care!" “我们当然在乎！”
They've done nothing! 他们什么都没做！
They've done absolutely nothing. 他们什么都没做.
I mean,it's government. 我是说,这是政府.
They've been so quiet. 他们一直很安静.
They really,in a sense,diffused the issue. 从某种意义上说,他们确实缓和了这个问题.
I'm saying to them,put some money where your mouth is, 我对他们说,把钱放在你的嘴上,
and fix this problem before it does escalate right across the 并在问题升级之前解决这个问题
top end of Western Australia and down the west coast, 西澳大利亚的顶端和西海岸,
because it will happen. 因为它会发生.
The only people making a difference at the moment 现在唯一有所作为的人
are the public. 就是公众.
They get out there,and they collect toads. 他们出去,收集蟾蜍.
We've got an advancing wall of toads going west in the Northern 我们看到蟾蜍在北方向西推进
Territory,and that's only been disrupted by people. 领土,只有被人类破坏了.
And all we are really doing is buying time for 我们真正在做的就是争取时间
Western Australia. 西澳大利亚.
I was asked by Kimberly Tybusters to become 我被金伯利・泰伯斯特要求成为
involved for the reconnaissance side of the work, 参与了勘察工作,
so the volunteer group could get in there and do the mop up work. 这样志愿者小组就可以进去做清理工作.
The highway front line is the one of most concern at the 高速公路前线是最受关注的地区之一
moment,because that's where the cane toads are closest to WA, 因为那里是甘蔗蟾蜍离华盛顿州最近的地方,
and it's also the path of least resistance for the cane toads. 这也是甘蔗蟾蜍抵抗力最小的路径.
We have become quite good at identifying daytime refuges 我们已经非常善于识别白天的避难所
where toads will hide,under riverbanks and other locations 蟾蜍会藏在哪里,在河岸和其他地方
like that where they can get good shade. 像那样,他们可以得到良好的阴凉.
At Croc Tank Lagoon,it was quite an amazing sight. 在鳄鱼坦克泻湖,这是一个相当惊人的景象.
It's probably the largest concentration of cane toads that 这可能是最大的甘蔗蟾蜍集中
we've seen in any one small area. 我们在任何一个小地方都看到过.
These toads in hibernate in these cracking 这些蟾蜍在这些裂缝中冬眠
clay holes. 粘土洞.
They don't necessarily need water. 它们不一定需要水.
So if a water hole is dried up,we can no longer guarantee that 所以如果一个水坑干涸了,我们就不能保证
the toads have died with it. 蟾蜍都死了.
None of us could believe that,in one night, 我们都不敢相信,一夜之间,
we pulled out 6,180 toads. 我们救出了 6180 只蟾蜍.
It was like watching a moving carpet. 就像看着一条移动的地毯.
We find cane toads that may be five, 我们发现可能有五只藤蟾蜍,
six years old. 六岁.
They've travelled such a distance, 他们走了这么远的路,
that they've actually worn their toes off on their feet, 他们的脚趾都磨掉了,
and they end up having just small little stumps, 最后只剩下一些小树桩,
and that gives us a real indication that these toads have 这给了我们一个真实的迹象,这些蟾蜍
really traveled quite some distance. 真的走了很长一段路.
We are looking at multiple corridors of toads. 我们看到的是多条蟾蜍走廊.
If you look the full length of the West Australian/Northern 如果你看看整个西澳大利亚 / 北澳大利亚
Territory boarder,that's a pretty large area. 领土边界,那是一个相当大的区域.
We have narrowed those corridors down to six. 我们已经把走廊缩小到六个了.
Three of those quite likely will get crossed into 其中三个很有可能会进入
Western Australia. 西澳大利亚.
Not if the Kimberley Toad Busters can help it, 如果金伯利蟾蜍克星帮得上忙的话,
I might add. 我得补充一句.
The Kimberley Toad Buster is a two and a half thousand 金伯利蟾蜍终结者是一个 2500
volunteer group committed to stop the toad coming into 志愿者组织致力于阻止蟾蜍进入
Western Australia. 西澳大利亚.
It's a bit like a military campaign,really. 有点像军事行动,真的.
I think of those brigades in the desert, 我想起了沙漠里的那些旅,
even in the Second World War,when you hear about those eight 即使在第二次世界大战中,当你听到这八个人的时候
of them out there against 500,00 on the other side, 他们在外面对抗另一边的五十万人,
and it feels like that sometimes. 有时候就是这种感觉.
Everyone's geared up,because we are working in, 每个人都准备好了,因为我们正在,
obviously,snake country,crocodiles, 显然,蛇之国,鳄鱼,
wild buffalos,wild pigs. 野牛、野猪.
It's incredibly dangerous, 非常危险,
and if you're with people who are trained and skilled in that 如果你和受过训练的人在一起
wilderness,then you feel very safe. 那么你会感到非常安全.
I mean,I'm a city slicker,and I remember once I got heat 我是说,我是个城里人,我记得有一次我被追杀
stroke on a trip with her,and she just threw me in a billabong 和她一起旅行的时候中风了,然后她就把我扔进了死水潭
fully clothed,and fed me fruitcake 'til I'd recovered. 穿好衣服,给我吃水果蛋糕,直到我康复.
Toad busting at night it's always on rugged terrain, 夜间捕蟾蜍总是在崎岖不平的地形上,
so you really want your hands free if you're the toad catcher. 所以如果你是捕蟾蜍的人,你肯定希望自己的手能空出来.
So you go diving for a toad while your partner spots it and 所以你潜水去找一只蟾蜍,而你的搭档发现了它
holds the bag for you. 替你背黑锅.
And then you'll go to bed and it might be two or three in the 然后你上床睡觉,可能会有两三个小时
morning and then you get up at, 早上起床后,
I don't know,whenever Lee's got the bacon and eggs on. 我不知道,只要李还在吃培根和鸡蛋.
Kimberley toad busting is not just about removing the toads, 金伯利捕捉蟾蜍不仅仅是消灭蟾蜍,
it's also understanding their behavior, 也是理解他们的行为,
and it's understanding what we're dealing with. 它能理解我们面对的是什么.
Are we dealign with a male colonizing front? 我们面对的是男性殖民者吗？
Or are we,in fact,dealing with an area where we've got males 或者,我们实际上是在处理一个有男性的区域
and females getting ready to breed? 而雌性正准备繁殖？
So every toad that we remove is measured, 所以我们移除的每一只蟾蜍都是经过测量的,
it's sexed... 性感...
It's one of the difficulties that one of Kimberley Toad 这是其中一个困难,其中一个金伯利蟾蜍
Busters have had is to try and get scientists to except that “假人老兄” 想让科学家去做的事情
what we are doing in the field is science. 我们在这个领域所做的是科学.
They tend to treat our data an anecdotal. 他们倾向于把我们的数据当作轶事.
They look at the Kimberley Toad Busters volunteer movement as a 他们把金伯利蟾蜍终结者志愿者运动看作是
bunch of rednecks out there... 外面有一群乡巴佬.
which,of course,is not the case. 当然,事实并非如此.
We use CO2 because it's clean,and it's a gentle way of doing 我们使用二氧化碳是因为它是干净的,而且这是一种温和的方式
it,and it's very quick. 而且很快.
And so,the CO2 is pumped into the bag, 所以,二氧化碳被注入袋子里,
the bags are sealed off,and they are left for about an hour 袋子被密封起来,放置大约一个小时
before we actually,then,bury them. 在我们真正埋葬他们之前.
The invasion's going to go on; 入侵还在继续
they're not going to stop it. 他们不会阻止的.
They're actually wasting their time. 他们其实是在浪费时间.
They can't stop it. 他们阻止不了.
It's simply practically impossible. 这几乎是不可能的.
They're looking at a few little spots and a few little gardens, 他们在找一些小地方和一些小花园,
and a few campgrounds,and a few billabongs... 还有几个露营地,几个洼地.
We have huge rivers and billabongs everywhere, 到处都是大河和死水潭,
and swamps that stretch for miles and miles they're not 以及绵延数英里的沼泽
going to stop the cane toad. 阻止甘蔗蟾蜍.
I'm a bit embarrassed as an Australian that we can't 作为一个澳大利亚人,我有点尴尬,我们不能
come up with a solution yeah! 想出一个解决方案,耶！
I think by now we should have. 我觉得我们现在应该.
We've now got traps. 我们现在有陷阱了.
We can divert them with fences and so forth, 我们可以用栅栏来转移他们的注意力,
but they seem to have us beat on every turn. 但他们似乎每一个回合都打败了我们.
The next thing on the agenda for the toads is is Western 下一件事是关于蟾蜍的议程是西方
Australia,and the first thing they come up against is the Ord 澳大利亚,他们遇到的第一个对手就是奥德
River system,which is heaven if you're a toad. 河流系统,如果你是癞蛤蟆,那就是天堂.
There you've got a water storage area eight times bigger than 这里有一个储水面积是
Sydney Harbor,they can breed at any time of the year, 悉尼港,它们可以在一年中的任何时候繁殖,
and over there they'll be able to breed all year, 在那里它们可以全年繁殖,
because conditions are good. 因为条件很好.
They're just gonna love that. 他们会喜欢的.
So that will be a major battleground between humans and 所以这将是人类和
toads there,and I hope we can hold them off here as long 那里有蟾蜍,我希望我们能在这里拖住他们
as possible. 越多越好.
It is truly remarkable that despite all of the fantastic 真的很了不起
activities that can be undertaken by the human race 人类可以从事的活动
the magnificent pieces of equipment that are being 正在进行的宏伟的设备
developed,our capacity in space and yet we still haven't come 我们在太空中的能力得到了发展,但是我们仍然没有到达
to find a way to control the cane toad. 想办法控制甘蔗蟾蜍.
You're not going to set the clock back, 你不会让时光倒流,
you know? The toad is now here. 你知道吗？ 蟾蜍现在在这里.
You can bash it with golf clubs 'til you're blue in the face, 你可以用高尔夫球棒把它打得脸色发青,
it's not going to make him go away. 这不会让他消失的.
They've got their place in society. 他们在社会上有自己的位置.
They don't belong to you at all. 它们根本不属于你.
In Hawaii,somebody send them back over there to Barack Obama. 在夏威夷,有人把它们送回去给巴拉克・奥巴马.
The Federal Government is giving six and a half million 联邦政府捐赠了六百五十万
dollars to save the whales what about helping your own 用美元去拯救鲸鱼,那么帮助你自己的鲸鱼呢
country and eradicate these blasted animals? 消灭这些该死的动物？
We are our own worst enemy,aren't we? 我们是自己最大的敌人,不是吗？
It's not the toads' fault that they came to 这不是蟾蜍的错,他们来了
Australia and caused the death of animals. 导致了澳大利亚动物的死亡.
It's our fault. 是我们的错.
We brought the toads here. 我们把蟾蜍带来了.
To them,it's an alien country with alien animals, 对他们来说,这是一个有着外星动物的陌生国度,
and we're the cause. 我们才是罪魁祸首.
And the cane toad will eventually get where it wants to 甘蔗蟾蜍最终会到达它想去的地方
get or can get and that's the way it's going to be. 得到或者可以得到,就是这样.
It's a remarkable story 这是个了不起的故事
there's no doubt about it. 毫无疑问.
This is an epic. 这是一部史诗.