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

螳螂完全和田相反。

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

可以听到田在半米深雪活动。

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

田能分辨出两扇门、两根杠杆和两种不同结果。

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

鱼儿也在产卵，田则在野生牧场上采获食物，猫头鹰和狐狸给它们幼仔喂食。

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

实际上，要让草原田杠杆获得励是非常。

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猫头鹰粪便，以及猫头鹰反刍老和田骨头。

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

这是因为有着充足水源遍意味着有着充足猎物，这些猎物包括田和地。

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

每对田有48小时黏在一起并增进感情，之后继续杠杆。

And we had some voles who never learned the task, and they were not included in the study.

我们有一些从未学习过任务田，我们没让它们进入研究。

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

不 我不是草原田 我就是我。

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，它们必须教会草原田如何打开被杠杆控制门。

Do you know what a vole is, Morty?

知道田嗎 Morty？

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

草原田是遍布北美一种毛茸茸啮齿目动物。

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

无牙停止了抓田努力，跳进了泥泞中。

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

每对经过训练田又可选择两根杠杆和两扇门。

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，它们暂停杠杆活动，转去认识异性成员。

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山地田赏中心会增加它变成一夫一妻制可能性！

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 草原田。

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

“当然，随着它们一起消失还有所有田和鸟类，包括翠鸟和鳽鹭。”

The corpse of a very small animal—a vole, by the look of it—lay on a clump of green moss.

一只非常小动物尸体——从外观上看是一只田——躺在一丛绿色苔藓上。