1.It was actually really hard to get prairie voles to press a lever for a reward.

实际上，要让草原按下杠杆获得奖励是非常困难的。

2.You know, praying mantises are the exact opposite of voles, Morty.

螳螂完全和相反。

3.The voles could distinguish between two doors, two levers, and two different outcomes.

辨出两扇门、两根杠杆和两种不同结果。

4.Fish spawn and meadow voles harvest the wild meadows, and owls and foxes feed their young.

鱼儿也在产卵，则在野生的牧场上采获食物，头鹰和狐狸给它们的幼仔喂食。

5.The floor was entirely covered in straw, owl droppings, and the regurgitated skeletons of mice and voles.

地板上到处都是稻草和头鹰粪便，以及头鹰反刍的老和骨头。

6.That's because a regular supply of water means a regular supply of prey, including voles and ground squirrels.

这是因为有着充足的水源遍意味着有着充足的猎物，这些猎物包括和地。

7.The two voles got 48 hours to bond and grow fond… and then the lever pressing resumed.

每对有48小时黏在一起并增进感情，之后继续按杠杆。

8.Each of the trained voles were given the option of two levers and two doors again.

每对经过训练的又可选择两根杠杆和两扇门。

9.It can hear a vole moving under half a meter of snow.

可以听到在半米深的雪下活动。

10.Prairie voles are furry little rodents that live throughout North America.

草原是遍布北美的一种毛茸茸的啮齿目动物。

11.No, I'm not a prairie vole. I'm me.

不 我不是草原 我就是我。

12.Toothless stopped trying to catch voles and leaped into the mud.

无牙停止了抓的努力，跳进了泥泞中。

13.Fireheart quickly collected a vole from the fresh-kill pile and carried it across the clearing.

火心迅速从新鲜猎物堆中捡起一只，并带着它穿过空地。机翻

14.Do you know what a vole is, Morty?

知道嗎 Morty？

15.In the first phase, they had to teach the prairie voles how to open a door controlled by a lever.

在第一阶段，它们必须教会草原如何打开被杠杆控制的门。

16.Have only one mate their whole life. Otters, penguins, the prairie vole.

而是一生只有一个伴侣 像水獭 企鹅 草原。

17.In fact, injecting vasopressin directly into a polygamous montane vole’s reward centre increases the likelihood of it becoming monogamous!

事实上，将加压素直接注射到一夫多妻制的山地的奖赏中心会增加它变成一夫一妻制的可性！机翻

18.When researchers gave voles a compound that suppressed the effects of vasopressin, the pairs quickly fell apart, losing their devotion to each other.

然而当研究人员用一种化合物抑制后叶加压素的效果时，土拨夫妇很快开了，失去了对彼此的热爱。

19.In phase 3, they took a quick break from the lever pressing and introduced each vole to a member of the opposite sex.

在第三阶段，它们暂停按杠杆活动，转去认识异性成员。

20." And of course with them went all the voles and the birdlife, including kingfishers and bitterns."

“当然，随着它们一起消失的还有所有的和鸟类，包括翠鸟和鳽鹭。”