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Where the growing season is longerm, there are alerce trees the redwoods of the south.
由于更長的生長季節，南半球也有紅杉--智利柏樹。
As in the frozen north, the Valdivian forests of Chile support very few animals
難道如同寒冷的北極，巴爾第畢亞溫帶森林只有很少的動物，
but that is the end of the similarity.
這種相似性在這里是不存在的。
This is a bizarre world of miniature creatures.
這里是小動物的奇異世界。
The pudu, the world's smallest deer feeds on the giant leaves of the gunnera plant.
智利普度鹿，世界上最小的鹿之一，正在吃根乃拉草的大葉子。
The female is just thirty centimeters high at the shoulder, and her infants are hardly bigger than kittens.
雌鹿肩高僅僅30厘米高，她的孩子不比小貓大多少。
The male must stay alert. There are hunters here who would snatch his young.
媽媽必須保持警惕。獵人正在覷覦著孩子。
Another miniature. The kodkod cat.
另一種小動物。南美林貓。
It's the smallest cat in all the Americas and a young pudu would be a feast for it.
對于這種美洲最小的貓科動物來說，小普度鹿無疑是它的美餐。
But, with the male on guard, the kodkod must lower his sights.
由于母鹿在警戒著，南美林貓只好放棄。
Moths are hatching. They're the last of the summer.
飛蛾正在孵化。今年夏天最后一批。
The tiny cat should be able to score with these.
小貓應該可以抓到它們。
No one knows why the creatures here are so small, but at least they can survive on meager rations.
沒人知道為什么這里的動物這么小，至少它們可以在這個貧瘠的地方存活。
You might call this a game of cat and moth.
你可以稱這個游戲為：貓抓飛蛾。
