Lurking in the shadows of the forest floor, where these bugs roam, there's a lot of competition: other hungry beetles and lots of vertebrate scavengers, all looking to feast on the same things silphids love to eat.

潜伏在面阴影， 这些虫子在那里漫游，那里有很多竞争：其他饥饿甲虫和许多脊椎动物食腐动物， 都希望以 silphids 喜欢吃相食物为食。

The silphid so fiercely protects its food source because the eggs it lays will also feed on whatever's buried in this seeming crypt.

施温：水飞虫如此强烈保护它食物来源，因为它产下卵也会以埋在这个看似任何东西为食。

But Silphids don't want any other competition to know their food is rotting.

但埋葬甲虫不想让其他竞争者知道他们食物正在腐烂。

And though we are only now just discovering the lengths to which silphid parents go for their brood, the beetles—it appears—learned their morbid tricks while avoiding the foot falls of ancient creature, like Tyrannosaurus rex.

施维因：虽然我们现在才刚刚发现水虫父母为它们后代付出了多大努力，但甲虫似乎在躲避霸王龙等古代生物脚步时学会了它们病态伎俩。