Most of the light comes instead from bioluminescent organisms, creatures that produce their own light.

大多光线来生物发光的有机体，产生光的生物。

Mushrooms can be used in teas, broths and medicinal remedies. These are bioluminescent.

蘑菇可以用在茶、肉汤、草药中。他们都会生物性发光的作用。

One of the most remarkable aspects of some of these animals is their bioluminescence.

水母最显著的特征之一是它们的生物发光。

She says it's easiest to see bioluminescent nature on land by using a UV torch, so next time you head out at night, pack one!

她说，在陆地上，使用紫外线手电筒最容易看到生物发光的然景象，所以下次在夜间外出时，一定要带上紫外线手电筒！

But the real biological light show takes place in the sea. Here, an astonishing number of beings can make light.

但真正的生物发光秀发生在海洋中。在这里，惊人的生物可以发光。

By going down there and studying things like ctenophores, comb jellies, jellyfish, copepods, weird bioluminescence worms, we can learn from them.

通过深入研究像栉水母，栉水母，水母，桡足类动物，奇怪的生物发光蠕虫，我们可以从它们身上学到东西。

How the bacteria gather in numbers large enough for their bioluminescence to be seen from space is unknown.

这些细菌是如何聚集到足够大的，使它们的生物发光能在太空中被看到的，目前尚不清楚。

Bioluminescent tides like this are rare, but dinoflagellates are found in huge numbers all over the world.

像这样的生物发光潮汐很少见，但在世界各地都发现了大。

Like a built in fishing rod, it glows with the help of a bunch of bioluminescent bacteria and lures the anglerfish's prey in close enough for them to have a little lunch.

就像一根内置的钓鱼竿， 它在一堆生物发光细菌的帮助下发光，并将琵琶鱼的猎物引诱到足够近的地方， 让它们吃一点午餐。

Bacteria might have been the very first living things to glow, but they aren't the only reason why the sea lights up.

细菌可能是最先发光的生物，但它们并不是海水发光的唯一原因。

But it turned out that the fish actually used their bioluminescence to disorient seals after the seals began their attack.

但结果发现，鱼类实际上是在海豹开始攻击后，利用的生物发光来让海豹迷失方向。

Throughout history, stories of bioluminescence were often thought to be pure fiction, and seafarers have been telling each other magical tales ever since.

纵观历史， 人们通常认为生物发光的故事纯属虚构，从那时起， 水手们就一直在互相讲述着这些神奇的故事。

There are many different bioluminescent marine organisms found throughout the ocean.

整个海洋中发现了许多不同的生物发光海洋生物。

Others, like angler fish, use colonies of bioluminescent  bacteria to hunt and lure their prey.

其他的，比如琵琶鱼，利用生物发光细菌的菌落来捕猎和引诱它们的猎物。

The bioluminescence people find so attractive is a defense mechanism.

人们觉得如此吸引人的生物发光是一种防御机制。

So all of these livings things glow for similar reasons as a glow stick.

所以所有这些生物发光的原因都与荧光棒相似。

They have the potential to bury fields of nodules, choke the filters of sponges and anemones, even those living outside the mining zone, and obscure bioluminescence that squid and fish use to hunt and mate.

它们有可能埋葬大片的结核矿，堵塞海绵和海葵的过滤器，甚至影响到生活在采矿区外的生物，并遮挡乌贼和鱼类用来捕猎和繁殖的生物发光。

And the reason it can bioluminesce is if you're a fish looking at the Bobtail Squid from below, they can adjust the light so they actually blend in with the sky.

其能够生物发光的原因在于， 若你是一条从下方观察尾蛸的鱼，它们能调节光线， 使身与天空背景融为一体。

Like most other members of its order, this anglerfish is known for the bioluminescent, lure-like appendage that drifts in front of its mouth to attract prey.

像其目中的大多其他成员一样，这种琵琶鱼以生物发光、类似诱饵的附肢而闻名，这种附肢在其嘴前漂流以吸引猎物。

These structures can absorb up to 99.95 percent of the light having wavelengths similar to ambient sunlight in the ocean or to light from bioluminescent animals.

这些结构可以吸收高达99.95%的光线， 这些光线的波长类似于海洋中的环境阳光或来生物发光动物的光。