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The sharp teeth and rough scales of the needlefish are tangled in the spider silk.
有著鋒利的牙齒和粗糙的魚鱗的顎針魚受到了蜘蛛絲的迷惑
It's clever, it's effective...and many fish can be caught in this way.
靈巧而又有效...許多魚就用這種方法捕獲
Their ability to adapt and find food both on land and at sea was
適應了既能在海洋也能在陸地覓食的技能是
crucial to the survival of the Pacific's first human colonisers.
太平洋首批人類開拓者生存的關鍵
But it wasn't all plain sailing...the Pacific's more remote islands
但并非一切都是順利的...太平洋許多偏遠島嶼是
were some of the last places on Earth to be discovered by humans.
人類最晚發現的一些地方
And the island chain of Hawaii is the remotest of them all.
夏威夷列島是其中最偏僻的
These islands are so hard to reach that before humans arrived,
人類到達前這些島嶼很難觸及
only one new species of plant or animal turned up here every 35,000 years.
每隔35000年才會有一個新的植物或動物物種出現在這里
For those lucky few that made it, this was a land of milk and honey.
對于那些幸運到達的 這是一片肥沃而豐裕的土地
This bird's beak is perfect for sipping nectar from tubular flowers.
這只鳥嘴能完美地從管狀花朵中吸取花蜜
It's an 'I'iwi...a long-billed honey creeper only found in Hawaii.
這是鐮嘴管舌鳥...一種只在夏威夷發現的長嘴吸蜜鳥
But when blown to these shores four million years ago, its ancestors looked very different
400萬年前曾在這些海岸興盛，它們的祖先外形非常不同
Those first Hawaiian honey creepers were finch-like, with short bills,
起初夏威夷吸蜜鳥像雀鳥，有著短短的嘴
perhaps quite similar to this modern honey creeper, the palila.
或許體形也比現在的黃胸擬管舌鳥要小
Its stout bill is perfect for ripping open tough seed pods.
它結實的嘴能劈開堅果的殼
But once here, the honey creepers made the most of it,
但在這 吸蜜鳥為了充分利用嘴
evolving into a variety of birds with some very distinctive bills.
進化成多種帶有特色嘴部的鳥
