The beak shapes of different species of Galapagos finches played an important part in Darwin's conception of natural selection.

加拉帕戈群岛不同雀类的鸟喙形状在达尔文的自然选择学说中重要角色。

Sanders and the bird, a house finch, stared at each another for several moments.

就这样，桑德斯与这只小鸟对视几秒钟。

When Darwin got to the Galapagos Islands, he actually wasn't that interested in the finches.

达尔文到达加拉帕戈斯群岛时，其实对雀类并不感兴趣。

And zebra finch birds slow their songs and use higher tones to communicate with young.

斑胸草雀放慢歌声，用更高的音调与幼鸟交流。

Flocks of swallows, finches, and countless other birds feast on grass seeds and insects.

成群的燕子、雀类和无数其他鸟类以草籽和昆虫为食。

Greer has Finch. He's the only thing we have to worry about.

格里尔抓芬奇 他就是我们唯一需要考虑的。

My teachers were always telling not to finch it.

我的老师告诉我别去挠它。

In an experiment with over 50 bird nests of local house finches and house sparrows, the team found that nests with the cellulose from smoked cigarette butts attracted significantly fewer mites, lice, and ticks than their non-smoker counterparts.

在对50多个本地家雀和家麻雀的鸟巢进行的实验中，研究小组发现，与不吸烟的鸟巢相比，使用来自烟蒂的纤维素的鸟巢所吸引的螨虫、虱子和蜱虫要少得多。

In a neighbouring brake a finch was trying to sing; but the wind blew under his feathers till they stood on end, twisted round his little tail, and made him give up his song.

附近灌木丛中，有一只燕雀正要一展歌喉；但是吹起它全身的羽毛，羽毛竖立起来，小尾巴也，它只好放弃歌唱。

In the bird, seems to be somehow encoded so that when they imitate sounds, they'll shift them to where some kind of an internal image that they have of how a good zebra finch song should be like.

鸟类体中，似乎有某种密码，当它们模仿某些声音时，它们能将密码换成某种内影像，也就是珍珠鸟好听鸣叫声的样子。

On another island, the main diet is prickly pear, and the finches that survive and flourish there have very different shaped beaks from yours.

在另一个岛上，主要的食物是刺梨，在那里生存和繁衍的雀鸟，其喙的形状与你的非常不同。

Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands will use little sticks as spears to fish out caterpillars and beetle larvae that are hiding underneath the bark of plants.

加拉帕戈斯群岛上达尔文的燕雀会用小棍子作为长矛来钓出隐藏在植物树皮下的毛毛虫和甲虫。

The grass finches, the vireos, the wrens, and the linnets have joined their voices to the chorus, and the bobolinks are loudest in their song.

草地雀、捕虫鸣鸟、鹪鹩和红雀也加入到大合唱中，在这些歌声中属食米鸟的嗓门最嘹亮。

Charles Darwin is most famous for his finches, from whose beaks he gleaned the idea that a single species might radiate into many.

查尔斯·达尔文最著名的是他的雀鸟，他从雀鸟喙中获得一个想法，即一个物种可能辐射多个物种。

It was his friend the ornithologist John Gould who realized that what Darwin had found was lots of finches with different talents.

是达尔文的朋友——鸟类学家约翰·古尔德意识到，达尔文发现的不过是具有不同本事的效舌鸫。

Okay, uh, how do I put this? Um... are you familiar with Darwin's observation of the finches in the Galapagos Islands?

好吧 怎么说呢 你解达尔文在加拉帕戈斯群岛考察雀类时的观察法吗？

The finches descended from a common ancestor but had evolved differently depending upon the different environmental pressures of the islands.

这些雀类来自一个共同的祖先，但根据岛屿上不同的环境压力，它们的进化方式不同。

Like Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands, the world's garbage patches may give birth to new life forms.

就像加拉帕戈斯群岛上的达尔文雀一样，世界上的垃圾区可能会孕育出新的生命形式。

Imagine you're a finch on a Galapagos island.

想象你是加拉帕戈斯岛上的一只雀。

We think this evolved because the finches likely started picking off the parasites on the boobies.

我们认为这种进化是因为雀鸟很可能最初是啄食鲣鸟身上的寄生虫。