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

“我们定听从！”小田鼠们用种尖锐的合唱叫了出来。

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

听到田鼠在半米深的雪下活动。

That's a vole, and here, almost in pride of place, is a mole, which is very difficult to catch for a cat, because of course, they spend a lot of time underground.

那是只田鼠，而这其中最与众不同的是这只鼹，对猫来说是很难捕捉的，因为他们大多数时候都在地下。

All these adaptations enable a great grey owl to hear a vole tunneling under 18 inches of snow and make a fatal strike.

所有这些适应力使大灰鸮能够听到田鼠在 18 英寸积雪下挖洞的声音，并进行致命击。

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

秋天，下过第场雪之后，我们去最近的草地上玩捉田鼠的游戏。

In the first phase, they had to teach the prairie voles how to open a door controlled by a lever.

在第阶段，它们必须教会草原田鼠如何打开被杠杆控制的门。

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，这些猎物包括田鼠和地鼠。

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，及猫头反刍的老鼠和田鼠骨头。

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“田鼠州”，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，随着它们起消失的还有所有的田鼠和鸟类，包括翠鸟和鳽鹭。”

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

鱼儿也在产卵，田鼠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 和田鼠完全相反。

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

螳螂完全和田鼠相反。

But the Tin Woodman caught the dog in his arms and held him tight, while he called to the mice, " Come back! Come back! Toto shall not hurt you."

但是铁皮人却把狗捉住，紧紧地挟在他的臂弯里，招呼着田鼠们，“回来吧！回来吧！托托不会咬你们的。”

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

实际上，要让草原田鼠按下杠杆获得奖励是非常困难的。

Some of them acted like the females and worked hardest to get to their mates consistently over the course of the study.

在研究过程中，其中些表现得像雌性田鼠，它们直在努力接近它们的配偶。

The Queen of the Mice was the last to leave.

田鼠皇后最后个离开。

After all of the little vole-sized levers were pulled, Beery and her team analyzed the results.

所有小田鼠大小的杠杆被拉开后，Beery 和她的团队分析了结果。

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

只雌性田鼠喜欢坐在杠杆上，启动它。

Social relationships are very important for human biology and prairie voles are one of the only species that are studied in the lab that exhibit this trait.

社会关系对人类生物学至关重要，而草原田鼠是少数在实验室研究中展现出该特征的物种。