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Our product testers come to work just like anybody else.
我們的產品測試人員工作起來和其他人并沒有什么不同。
Their job here, though, is problem solving.
只不過，他們的工作是解決問題。
They're here to put their backs into it, little bit of elbow grease.
他們是用他們的背部，加上一點點的體力活。
The big difference is that they are 600-pound hungry grizzly bears.
最大的不同是他們是體重600磅（500多斤）肚子空空的大灰熊。
This is Randy.
這是蘭迪。
He works at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center just outside the gates of Yellowstone National Park.
他在黃石國家公園門外的“灰熊與狼探索中心”工作。
When bears become habituated to human food, they often become dangerous and are either killed or put into captivity.
當熊對人類的食物上癮以后，它們往往會變得十分危險，所以要么最后被殺死了，要么就被關起來了。
So to keep bears and people safe,
為了讓熊和人都能安全，
Randy runs a program that tests coolers, trash cans and other food storage containers on live bears.
蘭迪搞了一個項目，用活熊來測試冷卻器，垃圾桶和其他食品儲存容器。
If the containers pass the test, they're given bear-resistant certification.
如果容器通過了測試，就能拿到耐熊認證。
The bears here at the center are all rescued bears from the wild.
這個中心的熊都是從野外救回來的。
These are bears that gained access to unnatural, unsecured foods and no longer can live in the wild.
這些熊都是曾經吃非天然，無安全保障的食物的，他們已經無法在野外生存了。
We have seven grizzly bears total.
我們一共有七只灰熊。
They're super, super strong; they're very, very smart, but it's that sense of smell that really gets them the food reward.
他們超級強壯；也非常非常聰明，但真正讓他們得到食物獎勵的是他們的嗅覺。
Their job is to sniff out weaknesses in products.
他們的工作就是嗅出產品的弱點。
They are the ultimate testers here at the center.
他們是我們中心的終極測試人員。
Once the product is here, we bait the product with the bear's favorite food, whether it be fish, meat, peanut butter, honey.
產品送到這里以后，我們就用熊最喜歡的食物，魚啊，肉啊，花生醬啦蜂蜜啦，做成誘餌放到產品里。
In a way, you could say I'm the chef for the bears
在某種程度上，你也可以說我是熊的廚師，
since I'm preparing their favorite meals to try to entice the bears to get into those products.
因為我要準備他們最喜歡的食物，誘使他們弄開這些產品。
If it's a cooler, it requires padlocks.
如果產品是冷卻器，就需要給它上鎖。
Put it out in the bear habitat, and let the bears at it.
把它放在熊的地盤上，把它交給熊。
Once the bears start the testing process,
一旦熊開始測試，
the clock begins and it's a one-hour time-frame that the bears are given in order to try to gain access to that product.
我們就開始計時，熊有一個小時的時間來弄開那個產品。
Some of the most common techniques the bears use when they're trying to get in a product
在嘗試弄開產品的時候，熊最常使用的一些技能包括
is the biting, the chewing, the clawing, yeah, a little bit of smashing.
咬，嚼，用著用爪子，嗯，偶爾也會摔一摔什么的。
But they also do what we call the CPR method,
但他們也會用我們所謂的CPR方法，
so they're bouncing up and down with their front paws, anything to try to find that weak point in that product.
就是用前掌按在上面然后來回壓，總之就是用各種辦法去找出產品的缺陷。
A lot of times they're gonna get a little hole started and then, literally from there, they're tearing the product apart.
很多時候，他們會先弄一個小洞，然后從那里把產品弄開。
So it has to withstand that one hour, and if it passes, it then gets that certification of being bear resistant.
所以，產品必須要能承受這一小時的破壞，如果成功通過了，就能拿到耐熊認證。
This cooler passed the test.
這個冷卻箱通過了測試。
Even though it got some damage on the top lid, they were not able to get through that outer layer.
即使頂蓋上有一些破損，熊還是沒能把蓋子打開。
All the product testing is video taped, so the manufacturers, they're gonna review that footage.
所有的產品測試環節都有視頻錄像，這樣，制造商就能回看了。
If a product fails, the manufacturer's gonna have to go back to the drawing board and make some changes.
如果產品沒有通過測試，制造商將必須進行設計返工修改。
That would be a fail.
這個箱子就沒能通過測試。
The product testing is open to the public,
我們的產品測試是對外開放的，
and hopefully when they leave here they have a better understanding of how smart and how strong bears are and how food driven they are.
順利的話，大家在離開的時候也會對熊的聰明和強壯程度以及它們對食物有多渴望有一個更好的了解。
There is a saying that a fed bear is a dead bear,
有一種說法是人工喂養的熊就是死熊，
and it basically means that when those bears get into unnatural food sources, they're gonna be hanging around our houses,
大概意思是說，一旦這些熊有了非自然食物來源，他們就會一直在我們房子周圍轉悠，
and they're more prone to get into trouble.
就更容易陷入困境。
So working here at the Grizzly Center for 20 plus years,
我在灰熊中心工作了20多年，
really I've learned to appreciate and love the bears here and want to keep the bears out in the wild where they belong.
我已經學會了賞識和愛護這里的熊，我也希望它們能夠回到野外，那才是屬于他們的地方。
