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When it comes to attacking an adversary, the sexes were probably different.
在向對手的攻擊上兩性之間可能不同。
The male refined his hunting skills to capture prey or suitable mate.
雄性通過捕食獵物和追求配偶來完善自己的狩獵技巧。
But like modern birds and reptiles, the mother was probably more of a defensive fighter, used to protect her offspring.
不過就像現代鳥類和爬行類一樣，母親可能會是更具防御性的戰士，它們要保護幼崽。
Male Majungasaurus may have these skills for the ritual combat to fight over access to female's territory.
雄性瑪君龍可能可以通過博斗儀式進入雌性的領地。
The females might have one situation where they have advantage.
雌性也可能有一項優勢。
It's going to know how to defend its young and it's gonna fight pretty savagely.
它懂得如何保護幼崽而且它會異常兇猛。
Now if the female was actually defending its young, then the attendant sense changes the equation，
要是雌性是在保護幼崽，這種母性會改變情況，
and consequently the intensity of battle might be different.
博斗的激烈程度會大幅度增加。
At that point, the intensity wouldn't be just about a meal or about territory, it would be about her heritage, her genes and her future.
在這種情況下，激烈程度已經不再是僅僅因為食物或是領地，而是為了它的傳承、基因和未來。
The female is gonna want to save her life.
雌性當然不想喪命。
If she has offspring nearby, she may fight to the death.
要是幼崽就在附近，它會殊死搏斗。
If the young is not there, she's gonna leave because she needs to protect her ability to reproduce.
要是幼崽不在，它也許會溜之大吉，畢竟要保證自己的繁殖機會。
I think if you throw a young Majungasaurus, which the female is going to try to protect him to the nest,
我覺得要是加上一頭小瑪君龍，雌性會盡力在巢穴里保護它，
you kind of change things around a bit and she's maybe not going to leave before the fight is done.
這在一定程度上產生了變化，在戰斗結束之前，它可能不會離開。
She's not gonna abandon the fight if she feels her offspring is going to be in danger.
要是它感覺幼崽有危險，它就不會放棄戰斗。
She'll fight for that offspring.
它是為它們的孩子而戰。
Life on Madagascar was a struggle for an adult Majungasaurus.
對于成年瑪君龍來說在馬達加斯加島上的生活并不容易。
But survival for a juvenile was nearly impossible without protection from an adult.
要是沒有成年瑪君龍的保護，幼崽幾乎不可能生存下來。
Being confined on the island of Madagascar in the late Cretaceous was pretty tough.
在白堊紀的末期，被限制在馬達加斯加島上很艱難。
Because what it did is it took all of dinosaurs and forced them into a very small area.
因為有那么多的恐龍被迫生活在一個狹小的空間。
So unlike the animals on the mainland where the female could leave the juvenile unattended while she hunted.
所以跟在大陸上的動物不同，那里的雌性可以在狩獵時離開幼崽。
On Madagascar, because all these animals were confined in such a small place.
而在馬達加斯加島，因為在這個小地方里有那么多動物。
It was much more likely that somebody would happen across these babies.
這些幼崽更可能被其它動物遇到。
And when you are an unprotected baby, there's a tremendous amount of danger.
對于沒有保護的幼崽這可是天大的危險。
In the dark dense forests of Madagascar, danger came in many forms, but one in particular.
在馬達加斯加島陰暗濃密的森林里危險有多種形式，不過有一種尤為嚴重。
Isolationism had them effect that could have turned this paradise into a prison, even a death sentence.
與世隔絕產生的效果能夠將這里的天堂變成監獄，甚至帶來死亡。
On an island where you are separated from others, it means the chances of meeting mate from the opposite sex are reduced.
在一個島上，跟大陸的同類被分開，這意味著遇到異性進行交配的幾率大幅度降低。
And more importantly, it means that those that you meet, you can very well be very closely related to, so the number one problem is inbreed.
更重要的是，這意味著遇到的有可能是近親，所以最大的問題是近親繁殖。
And with inbreeding comes a couple of very nasty side effects,
近親繁殖會有一些很糟糕的副作用，
like, you have less of tolerance of disease, your bone structure could be weaker, you are a lot more susceptible to early death.
比如說對疾病的抵抗力降低，骨質結構變弱，早夭的可能大幅度增加。
But the number one problem with inbreeding is that a possibility of creating mutations exist.
不過近親繁殖的最大問題是由此帶來的突變的可能。
Majungasaurus may have had that ugly face because it was the end result of inbreeding.
瑪君龍的那張丑臉就有可能是近親繁殖的結果。
