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

螳螂完全和田鼠相反。

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

可以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.

那是一只田鼠，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，并进行致命一击。

When researchers gave voles a compound that suppressed the effects of vasopressin, the pairs quickly fell apart, losing their devotion to each other.

然而当研究人员用一物抑制后叶加压素的效果时，土拨鼠夫妇很快分开了，失去了对彼此的热爱。

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

在第一阶，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.

这是因为有足的水源遍意味有足的猎物，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鹰粪便，以及猫头鹰反刍的老鼠和田鼠骨头。

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，猫头鹰和狐狸给它们的幼仔喂食。

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

实际上，要让草原田鼠按下杠杆获得奖励是非常困难的。

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。

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

草原田鼠是遍布北美的一毛茸茸的啮齿目动物。

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

每对经过训练的田鼠又可选择两根杠杆和两扇门。

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

每对田鼠有48小时黏在一起并增进感情，之后继续按杠杆。

To better understand how lifelong bonding works, Beery and her team wanted to know if both male and female prairie voles make equal investments in making the long haul work.

为了更深入了解终生关系的运作方式，Beery 和团队想知道在长期作中，雌雄草原田鼠的投入是否相等。

Hearing also plays the central role here, but for the prey, not the hunter owls that hunt prey with pretty good hearing, like mice or voles, were and still are under evolutionary pressure to evolve silent flight.

听觉在这里也起核心作用，但对于猎物来说， 而不是像老鼠或田鼠这样具有良好听觉的猎物猎人猫头鹰，过去和现在都面临进压力， 需要进出无声飞行。

The flat disc of the Great Grey's face (pictured) acts as a satellite dish that captures noise and directs it to the ears; using sound alone, it can seize a vole faintly scratching deep under snow.

Great Grey 面部的扁平圆盘（如图）当卫星天线， 捕捉噪音并将其引导至耳朵；仅凭声音，它就可以捕捉到一只在雪地深处轻轻抓挠的田鼠。

Voles and lemmings are also heavily consumed  when available, but these species go through boom and bust periods, and are usually  only readily available every 3 to 4 years.

如果有田鼠和旅鼠，它们也会被大量食用，但这些物会经历繁荣和萧条时期，通常每 3 到 4 年才会出现一次。

From the Jurassic to the Cretaceous Periods, when our ancestors were the size of voles and shrews, dinosaurs like Supersaurus, Sauroposeidon, and Argentinosaurus were shaking the Earth.

从侏罗纪到白垩纪时期，当我们的祖先大小如田鼠和鼩鼱时，超级龙、索伦龙和阿根廷龙这样的恐龙正在震撼地球。

According to Beery, putting vole monogamy to the test helps us better understand the different types of human relationships and our process for selecting who we spend time with.

依据 Beery 的看法，测试田鼠的单一配偶制可帮助我们更好地理解不同类的人类关系，以及我们选择与谁共度时光的过程。