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This creature is much more than a passive drifter.
這種生物可不是隨波逐流的流浪漢。
It can move as fast as an Olympic swimmer, and it has 24 eyes, each complete with a lens that can form a detailed image.
它可以游得像奧運運動員一樣快，它有24只眼，每一個都有晶體，能清晰的成像。
It uses its tentacles like a trawl net, when a fish makes contact, thousands of microscopic stinging capsules explode into the prey's body, flooding it with a paralysing venom.
它使用觸手形成的拖網，當魚碰到觸手，數千微小的刺絲囊爆開。刺入獵物的身體，注入麻痹毒素。
The fish is killed quickly, and then hauled into the mouth on the underside of the bell.
魚很快就被毒死了，然后被拖進水母鐘形下方的口器中。
All of the habitats we have seen so far have an obvious connection to the lagoon, but there is one place that couldn't be more different from the underwater world that's critically important to the vigor of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem.
到目前為止，我們已見到的棲息地都與環礁湖有明顯銜接，但是有一個地方和前面提到的水下世界相比極為不同。但對大堡礁生態系統的活力起著極為重要的作用。
It's the tropical rain forest.
這就是熱帶雨林。
The Queensland rainforest is the oldest in the world, it's older than the Congo and even the Amazon.
昆士蘭的熱帶雨林是世界上最為古老的，甚至比剛果和亞馬遜的熱帶雨林還古老。
And this is one of the most impressive trees in it.
這棵樹是其中最驚人的一棵。
this giant fig has strangled its original host and now dominates its immediate environment
這棵巨樹的無花果扼殺了其原有的寄主，現在它占據了主導地位。
It's an ecosystem in its own right.
這是一個自得其利的生態系統。
but you might be asking yourself what has this tree got in common with the reef?
但你可能會問自己，這些樹和珊瑚礁有什么關系嗎？
But in fact it's directly linked.
事實上，它們是直接相連的。
The rain forest all around me and indeed swamps and mangroves are critical for the health of the reef.
我周遭的熱帶雨林，以及沼澤，紅樹林都是珊瑚礁保持健康的關鍵。
