Yeah. You do know what cephalopods are, don't you? - Yes, of course I do.

是的，你知道头足类动物是什么，对吧？是的，我当然知道。

A cephalopod is a kind of sea creature, like a squid or octopus.

头足类动物是一种海洋生物，例如乌贼或章鱼。

Cephalopods may have evolved complex brains long before our vertebrate relatives.

头足类或许比我的脊椎动物近亲更早演化出复杂的脑部。

Rather than a body map, the cephalopod brain has a behavior library.

章鱼的脑部没有身体地图，却有个行为图书馆。

Guess you could " magnapin" it on their deep " seeded" fear of being on a " cephalopod cast" .

我猜你以将其放大对捕捞头足类动物存在根深蒂固的恐惧上。

How? Like other cephalopods, they can rapidly change the pigmentation patterns on their skin by contracting and relaxing their muscles.

如何做？像其它头足类动物那样，它以通过收缩和放松肌肉来迅速改变皮肤上的色素沉着图案。

But cephalopods–like octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish–they don't have a blind spot.

但头足纲动物——比如章鱼、鱿鱼和乌贼——它没有盲点。

Am I saying that cephalopods have better eyes than us?

我说头足类动物的眼睛比我的好吗？

And as cameras became widespread, seafarers finally began capturing proof of these high-flying cephalopods.

随着照相机的普及，海员终于开始捕捉这些高飞头足类动物的证据。

But I feel like something that energizes me, it's like, I love cephalopods.

但我觉得能激发我的东西，就像，我喜欢头足类动物。

Now these cephalopods feed a lot of us.

这些头足类动物是养活了不少我呢。

A different modern cephalopod shows us how ammonites swam.

一种不同的现代头足类动物向我展示了菊石是如何游泳的。

In ancient times, the shell was cephalopods’ greatest asset.

在古代，贝壳是头足类动物 最大的财富。

The cephalopods are very old, and they have slipped, protean, through many shapes.

它形态多变， 经历了多种形态的演变。

Fortunately, our soaring cephalopod has a plan.

幸运的是，我翱翔的头足类动物有一个计划。

These are vertebrates, cephalopods and arthropods.

这些是脊椎动物、头足纲动物和节肢动物。

And if a swimmer was caught slacking on the job, the cephalopod might reach out and smack it.

如果游泳者被发现偷懒，头足类动物能会伸出手去拍打它。

We're quite lucky, in that ammonites belong to the large group of mollusks called the cephalopods.

我很幸运，因为菊石属于被称为头足类的一大类软体动物。

And that kicked off an evolutionary arms race between fish and cephalopods.

这引发了 鱼类和头足类动物之间的进化军备竞赛。

Just look at this kaleidoscope of color of dynamically controlled pigments and reflectors that we see in the cephalopods.

看看这些头足类动物身上动态控制的色素细胞和反射器构成的万花筒般的色彩。