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

螳螂完全和相反。

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。

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。

One female liked to sit on the lever in order to activate it.

一只雌性喜欢坐在杠杆上，以启动它。

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

鱼儿也在产，则在野生的牧场上采获食物，猫头和狐狸给它们的幼仔喂食。

It's really gruesome and totally opposite.

非常残忍 和完全相反。

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。

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粪便，以及猫头反刍的老和骨头。

Neighboring Minnesota, the Gopher State, is named for a much nicer animal that builds hills and tunnels.

临近的明尼苏达州被称为“州”，取自这种有趣的打洞动物。

" 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。”

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。

" Why, I am a Queen--the Queen of all the Field Mice! "

“你要知道！我是一个皇后—是一切们的皇后！”

" We will! " cried all the mice, in a shrill chorus.

“我们一定听从！”小们用一种尖锐的合唱叫了出来。

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的，我们没让它们进入研究。

An owl can eat over 1,000 field mice in a season.

一只猫头一个季节能吃掉超过1000只。

It was very clearly an extremely small field mouse.

那显然是一只非常小的。

And in the fall, after the first snow our games took us to the nearest meadows in search of field mice.

秋天，下过一场雪之后，我们去最近的草地上玩捉的游戏。

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

能分辨出两扇门、两根杠杆和两种不同结果。

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

不 我不是草原 我就是我。

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。