Ah yes, I asked you to name the famous insect-eating topical plant.

啊，是的，我让你说出著名的食虫植物的名字。

Golden mantellas are insectivores, feeding on termites, fruit flies, and a range of other insects.

金色曼蛙是食虫动物，它们的食物包括白蚁，果蝇以及其他昆虫。

The mammals have an insectivorous appetite.

这种哺乳动物有食虫的嗜好。

Birds known as aerial insectivores are also at risk because the insects they eat are getting harder to find.

空中食虫的鸟也受到威胁，因为它们食用的昆虫越来越稀少。

And one of the regulars was this charismatic gentleman studying the wonders of carnivorous plants.

其中一位常客是这位研究食虫植物奇观的魅力绅士。

If you've taken TOEFL speaking tests, you've definitely seen question 4 about carnivorous plants.

如果你参加过托福口语考试，肯定到过关于食虫植物的第四题。

They evolved into smaller-bodied insectivores with delicate jaws, short limbs, and single claws.

它们进化成体型较小的食虫动物，具有精致的下巴、短小的四肢和单爪。

Because, some paleontologists think these dinosaurs were specialized insect-eaters.

因为，一些古生物学家认为这些恐龙是专门的食虫动物。

Rising populations of insect species attract hungry insectivores, like birds and reptiles, who entice larger carnivores and apex predators.

昆虫种群数量的增加吸引的食虫动物，如鸟类和爬行动物，它们吸引更大的食肉动物和顶级掠食者。

And it wasn't until AFTER birds evolved that pterosaurs started to move out of their niche of " tiny, flying bug-eaters" .

而且直到鸟类进化之后，翼龙才开始从它们“小型的、飞行的食虫动物”生态位中走出来。

Paleontologists aren't sure what they ate, as their forearms were in between those of their carnivorous ancestors and the later specialized insectivores.

古生物学家不确定他们吃什么，因为他们的前臂介于他们的肉食性祖先和后来专门的食虫动物的前臂之间。

Who would have thought that a bettong would need a bandicoot, that a leaf-cutter ant would need a maned wolf, or, indeed, that a gecko would need a giraffe?

谁会想到食草的短鼻袋鼠会需要食虫的褐色袋鼠，切叶蚁会需要鬃狼，又或者，壁虎需要长颈鹿？

This site was a lake where mayflies lived and swarmed to mate as they do today providing as a side effect a feast for local insectivores.

这个遗址曾经是一个湖泊，蜉蝣在这里生活并像今天一样聚集交配，顺便为当地的食虫动物提供盛宴。

Insectivorous plants, like venus fly traps,   butterwort, sundew and pitcher plants, which we've talked about on the channel,   catch and digest bugs for nutrients.

我们在频道上讨论过的食虫植物，如金星捕蝇器、蝴蝶草、太阳露和猪笼草，可以捕捉和消化虫子以获取营养。

Their hands became similar to those of anteaters and other insect-eating mammals today, which have an enlarged finger with a pick-like claw to break open social insect nests.

他们的手变得类似于今天的食蚁兽和其他食虫哺乳动物的手，它们的手指变大，带有类似镐的爪子，可以打破群居昆虫的巢穴。

Some 180m years ago, during the early part of the Jurassic period, this site was a lake where mayflies lived and swarmed to mate, as they do today, providing, as a side-effect, a feast for local insectivores.

大约1.8亿年前，在侏罗纪早，这个地方是一个湖泊，蜉蝣生活在那里，成群交配，就像今天一样，同时也为当地的食虫动物提供一场盛宴。

And the reason for that is probably because they were good strategies for survival in the niches that they occupied: being small to medium-sized insectivores living in a world full of large reptiles.

而原因可能是这些策略对于它们所占据的生态位来说是生存的好方法：作为小型到中型的食虫动物，在一个充满大型爬行动物的世界中生活。