这里有令人叹为观止的风景，还有这个星球上最稀有、最美丽、最凶猛的动物， With its breathtaking landscapes and some of the rarest, most beautiful, most ferocious animals on the planet,
美洲仍然是一个拥有非凡自然奇观的地方，值得去探索，也值得去发现 America is still a place of extraordinary natural wonders to explore, and discoveries to make.
对于我们所有拍摄《野生美洲》的人来说， And for all of us filming "Wild America",
这是一次真正的冒险 it's been a true adventure.
野性拉丁美洲
我是Juan Antonio Rodriguez Llano， I'm Juan Antonio Rodriguez Llano,
《野生美洲》的导演，这是一个探索美洲未驯服的自然世界的野生动物系列 director of "Wild America", a wildlife series in which we explore America's untamed natural world.
制作《野生美洲》对这个小团队来说是一次很大的冒险和挑战 Making "Wild America" has been a really great adventure and a wild challenge for this small team.
每个人都不得不集摄影师、博物学家和冒险家于一身 Everyone has had to be a camera person, naturalist, and adventurer all rolled into one.
拍摄《野生美洲》给我们带来了很多挑战 Filming "Wild America" has presented us with many challenges.
其中之一，可能是最让人不舒服的，就是恐惧因素 One of them, probably the most uncomfortable of them all, has been the fear factor.
我们一直处于被攻击、被蛰、被咬，甚至被吃掉的危险之中 We have been in danger of being attacked, stung, bitten, and even eaten.
这些情况会引发一些相当强烈的感受， These situations can provoke some pretty intense feelings,
在整个美洲， and in the whole of America,
最能引起恐惧的动物是美洲虎。这个小雕像来自巴雷斯部落， the animal that induces the most fear is the jaguar. This little figurine comes from the Barres tribe,
一个美洲雨林深处的亚马逊地区 from the Amazon region deep in the American rainforest.
对他们来说，美洲虎是一个真实的、令人敬畏的上帝 For them, the jaguar is a true and feared God.
美洲虎绝不仅仅是一个神话。它是地球上拥有最强下颚的猫科动物 The Jaguar is much more than just a myth. It's the feline with the strongest jaws on earth.
它的咬合力比老虎和狮子都强 Its bite is more powerful than that of a tiger or a lion.
它可以轻易地敲开鹿或小牛的头骨 It can easily crack open the skull of a deer or a calf.
最好不要去想它会对一个人产生什么影响 Best not to think what it could do to a person.
而拍摄美洲虎的图片，是我们面临的最令人兴奋，也是最具风险的挑战之一 And getting pictures of jaguars was one of the most exciting, and risky, challenges we faced.
我们在哥斯达黎加经历了真正的恐惧和兴奋 We experienced a real sense of fear and excitement in Costa Rica.
几乎是偶然的机会，我们在一个孤独的海滩上遇到了一个海龟死亡之地 Almost by chance we came across a turtle graveyard on a lonely beach.
这里的海龟是美洲虎的受害者， The turtles here were victims of a jaguar,
当它们在夜晚来到海滩产卵时，美洲虎就会猎杀它们 which will have hunted them when they came onto the beach at night to lay their eggs.
这些重达40多公斤的爬行动物的外壳几乎无法抵御美洲虎可怕的牙齿和下颚 The shells of these reptiles weighing more than 40 kilos offer little protection against the jaguar's fearsome teeth and jaws.
美洲虎会把猎物拖到丛林里吃掉 The jaguar will drag its kill into the jungle to eat it.
拍到美洲虎猎食这些海龟的机会微乎其微 The chances of getting shots of the jaguar that hunted these turtles were minimal.
这既需要运气，也需要勇气 It would require both luck and courage.
我们都知道，在很近的某个地方， We all knew that somewhere very nearby,
那里一定有好几只美洲虎，有着杀手的下颚和尖牙 there must have been several jaguars, with their killer jaws and fangs.
当然，这是非常令人兴奋的，但在当时，它也真的很可怕 It's very exciting, of course, but at the time, it's also really scary.
我们所能做的就是等待夜幕降临，这样我们就可以运输拍摄设备了 All we can do is wait for night to fall so we can transport our filming equipment.
而让等待更糟糕的是，汽车出了点问题 And to make the wait even worse, a spot of car trouble.
终于，我们到达了海滩 Finally, we make it to the beach.
路易斯、米格尔和巴勃罗决定轮流住几个晚上 Luis, Miguel, and Pablo decide to take turns for a few nights.
我们从来不带枪 We never carry guns.
我们没有保护措施，但我们的向导每天都和美洲虎生活在一起，向导说美洲虎对我们没有威胁 We don't have protection, but our guide lives with the jaguars every day and he says they're not a threat to us.
所以我们只能相信他 So we have to believe him.
这很危险，但我们不能错过这个机会 It's dangerous, but we can't miss this opportunity.
我们知道每种动物都有自己的安全距离 We know that every species of animal has its own safety distance.
那么我们的安全距离是多少?我们的勇气，或者说恐惧，能走多远? So what's our safety distance? How far does our courage, or fear, go?
一旦我们都藏好了，我们能做的就是等待 Once we're all well hidden, all we can do is wait.
拍摄美洲虎意味着要克服我们给自己的最艰巨的挑战之一 Filming jaguars meant overcoming one of the most difficult challenges we gave ourselves.
现在是时候转向我们的其他目标了 Now it's time to turn to our other goals.
从太平洋的海滩到哥伦比亚和委内瑞拉之间的大平原 From the beaches of the Pacific we had to the great plains that stretch between Colombia and Venezuela.
我们这次的任务是寻找一种身长可达12米的巨型爬行动物， Our mission this time is to look for a gigantic reptile that can measure up to 12 metres in length,
传说中的水蟒 the legendary anaconda.
为了找到世界上最大的蛇，我们要去同样传奇的洛斯大草原 To find the biggest snake in the world, we're going to the equally legendary region of Los Llanos.
洛斯大草原是一个广阔的南美洲平原，在强烈的洪水和严重的洪水之间交替 Los Llanos are a vast South American plain that alternates between periods of intense flooding and severe
我们在洛斯大草原最荒凉、最偏远的地区和牧场主们一起生活了一段时间 We spent some time living with ranchers in the wildest, most remote region of Los Llanos.
而当我们和他们在一起的时候，我们的生活和兰内洛人完全一样 And while we stayed with them, we lived exactly as the llaneros do.
我们睡在他们的家里，吃他们的食物 We slept in their homes and ate their food.
牧场主简单而简朴的生活，他们的忍耐力，真的让我们不堪重负 The simple but austere life of the ranchers, their endurance, really overwhelmed us.
每天我们都被他们的韧性和处理牲畜的技巧所打动 Every day we were impressed by their resilience and the skill with which they handle their stock.
我们惊讶地发现，最老的牧场主更喜欢赤脚行走 And we were amazed to see that the oldest ranchers prefer to go barefoot.
炎热、干燥和蜱虫的组合让这里的每一天都很难熬 The combination of heat, dryness, and ticks make every day here tough.
我们刚刚到达洛斯大草原的中心，我们将在那里停留几天， So we've just arrived in the heart of Los Llanos where we're going to stay for several days,
从一个地方移动到另一个地方 moving from place to place.
这是我们在该地区拍摄的第一个地方 This is the first place we're going to film in the region.
而且看起来吊床不够整个团队用 And it seems that there aren't enough hammocks for the whole team.
当然，我们还得准备好设备，确保一切正常工作 And of course, we've also got to get the equipment ready and make sure it all works.
所以我们不得不做一张桌子和几把椅子， And so we've had to make a table and some chairs,
甚至寻找电源插座，这样我们就可以给电池充电，让电脑工作 and even look for electrical sockets so we can charge the batteries and get the computers working.
连续几天，我们每天早上都要出门去寻找绿色的水蟒 We head out every morning for a few days in search of green anacondas.
最后，我们很幸运 And finally, we're in luck.
这是一种体长超过8米的庞然大物 It's a huge individual more than eight metres long.
我们的生物学家引导我们试着握住它，这样我们就可以拍一些特写镜头 Our biologist guides to try to hold it so we can get some close-up shots.
但除了水蟒，地平线上还有更让我们害怕的东西 But apart from the anaconda, there was something else on the horizon that scared us even more.
晚餐 Dinner.
我们有充分的理由害怕我们想在美洲拍摄的许多动物:致命的毒蛇， There's good reason to be afraid of many of the animals that we want to film in America:deadly poisonous snakes,
会咬人的未知昆虫，大鳄鱼 unknown insects that could bite us, gigantic crocodiles.
但在洛斯大草原，我们经历了最可怕的经历 But it was in Los Llanos that we had our most terrifying experience.
我们正面临着一个我们都不知道如何应对的挑战 We're facing a challenge that none of us know how to deal with.
而良好的举止意味着我们没有办法摆脱 And good manners mean there's no way we can get out of it.
牧场主为我们准备了一顿丰盛的晚餐，倾注了极大的爱心和关注 The ranchers have prepared a dinner for us with a great deal of love and attention.
当地最受欢迎的菜:煮牛头 The favourite dish of the region: boiled cow's head.
不完全是炖菜。甚至都没有调味 It's not exactly a stew. It's not even seasoned.
这简直就是用牛皮煮的牛头 It's simply the head of a cow boiled in its own skin.
这张庆祝菜单都是为了向我们致敬 And this celebratory menu is all in our honour.
但对我们来说，这真的是一场考验。在炎热的平原上度过漫长而艰难的一天后， But for us, it really is an ordeal. After a long, hard day out in the heat of the plains,
我们不能错过宴会 we can't miss the banquet.
就像我们和蟒蛇的战斗一样，这又是一场我们勉强挺过去的战斗 Not unlike the battle we fought with the anaconda, it's another one we only just make it through.
我们已经拍摄了这条巨大的蟒蛇，我们可以用一条较小的蟒蛇来结束这一序列 We'd already filmed the giant anaconda and we were able to complete the sequence with a smaller one.
这些巨大的蛇，可以超过10米长，隐藏在泥土和矮树丛中 These gigantic snakes, which can exceed 10 metres in length, hide in the mud and undergrowth.
水蟒躺在那里等着雨水回来， The anacondas lie there waiting for the rains to return,
也让任何毫无戒心的动物路过 but also for any unsuspecting animal to pass by.
他们经常会在埋伏的位置潜伏数日 They will often lie hidden in their ambush positions for days.
但当它们发现附近有疲惫的旅行者经过时，就会从藏身之处游出来 But when they detect a tired traveller passing nearby, they'll come out of hiding.
筋疲力尽的年幼的迁徙凯门鳄似乎是小蟒蛇的绝佳机会 Exhausted young migrating caiman would seem like an excellent opportunity for a young anaconda.
但凯门鳄不太愿意成为别人的晚餐 But the caiman are not too willing to become someone else's dinner.
他们也许年幼，也许有些累，但他们仍然有足够的力量保卫自己的生命到最后 Young and tired they may be, but they still have enough strength to defend their lives to the last.
没有什么能阻止这些年幼的凯门鳄到达洛斯拉诺斯仅存的绿洲之一， Nothing can stop these young caiman from reaching one of Los Llanos's few remaining oases,
连一条饥饿的蟒蛇都没有 not even a hungry anaconda.
现在我们有了一些出色的镜头，拍摄了美洲虎和水蟒两个出色的镜头 Now we've got some excellent footage for two outstanding sequences of the jaguar and the anaconda.
于是，我们不断地逼迫自己 So we continue to push ourselves.
我们的下一个挑战是找到这个星球上最大最强大的鹰 Our next challenge is to find the biggest and most powerful eagle on the planet.
它威严的面容和外形使它成为另一个美洲传奇 Its imposing face and physical form make it another American legend.
我们想找到大雕。这个挑战也有它的危险因素 We want to find the harpy eagle. This challenge has also got its element of danger.
但这一次，并不是害怕被大型掠食者吞噬 But this time, it's not the fear of being devoured by a great predator.
这是一种非常常见的恐惧:简单来说就是恐高症 It's a very common fear: simply the fear of heights.
有趣的是，团队中只有两个成员没有高度问题，他们是我们最年轻的两个同事，费利佩和塞巴斯蒂安 Interestingly, the only two members of the team that don't have problems with heights are our two youngest colleagues, Felipe and Sebastian.
为了拍摄我们找到的雕鹰巢穴，他们进行了高强度的攀绳训练 They do an intensive rope-climbing course in preparation for filming the harpy eagles' nest we've located.
但在他们将新学到的技能付诸实践之前，我们必须先搭建一个平台， But before they can put their newly learned skills to the test, we have to build a platform,
几十米高的丛林中央 dozens of metres up in the middle of the jungle.
现在是时候让伙计们把他们短暂的训练付诸实践了 And now it's time for the guys to put their brief training into practice.
登上平台是另一个艰难的考验，但他们成功地完成了它 Getting up to the platform is another tough test, but they get through it with flying colours.
几天来，我们勇敢的年轻登山者等待着 For a couple of days, our intrepid young climbers wait.
然后我们所有的努力和耐心都得到了回报 And then all our effort and patience pays off.
雏鸟已经长大了，但始终保持警惕的父母仍然每两三天给它送食物 The chick is already well grown, but its ever vigilant parents still bring it food every two or three days.
幸运之神站在我们这边 Luck is on our side.
我们可以一起拍摄整个家庭 We get to film the whole family together.
成长中的雏鸟，它的母亲，家族中最大最强壮的成员，和父亲， The growing chick, its mother, the biggest and strongest member of the family, and the father,
这个大猎手为家庭提供食物 the great hunter providing food for everyone.
任务完成 Mission accomplished.
从巴拿马的丛林出发，我们的小队朝着更大的挑战前进 From the jungles of Panama, our small team heads towards an even greater challenge.
我们想要找到地球上最奇怪的鸟类之一 We want to find one of the strangest birds on the planet.
所以我们别无选择，只能坠入深渊的深处 So we have no choice but to descend into the depths of the abyss.
在安第斯山脉的山麓，数百米高的巨大洞穴和裂谷俯冲而下， In the foothills of the Andes, gigantic caves and chasms hundreds of metres high plunge downwards,
而他们是我们的下一个目的地 and they are our next destination.
我们在寻找当地人称之为油鸱的东西 We're on the hunt for what the locals call guacharos.
非常奇怪的油鸟 The very strange oilbirds.
为了拍摄隐居的油鸟，我们不往上走 To film the reclusive oilbird, we don't go up.
我们往地下走 We go down into the earth.
这些鸟在难以接近的洞穴深处筑巢 These birds construct their nests deep in inaccessible caves.
所以我们来到了哥伦比亚和Hoyo del Aire So we've come to Colombia and the Hoyo del Aire.
我们能完成这项任务的唯一方法就是寻求当地攀岩和洞穴专家的帮助 The only way we can undertake this mission is by enlisting the help of local climbing and caving experts.
到达瓜查罗斯需要知识和勇气。需要很大的勇气 Reaching the guacharos requires knowledge and courage. A lot of it.
因此，费利佩和塞巴再次成为荣耀的标志 So once again Felipe and Sebas are the ones marked for glory.
考虑到我们的晕眩和恐高症，其余的人都是没用的 The rest of us would be useless given our combined vertigo and terror of heights.
下来并不容易 Getting down isn't easy.
但一旦到了地面，我们年轻的探险者就必须深入地下 But once on the ground, our young explorers have to go under it.
是时候洞穴探险了 It's time for caving.
这需要巨大的体力耗费，但当我们最终得到我们的奖励时，这一切都是值得的 It requires a huge physical effort, but it's worth it as we finally get our reward.
但我们没有时间休息 But there's no time for us to rest.
为了拍摄《荒野美洲》，我们来回穿越了整个大陆，几乎是不间断的 To film "Wild America" we crossed the whole continent back and forth, almost nonstop.
从安第斯山脉出发，我们滑进了被洪水淹没的亚马逊地区 From the Andes, we slipped across into the flooded Amazon region.
亚马逊仍然是世界上最大的森林。在那里我们开始了下一个冒险， The Amazon is still the largest forest in the world. And there we begin our next adventure,
寻找奇怪的猴子，还有更奇怪的粉色河豚 in search of strange monkeys, and the even stranger pink river dolphin.
被洪水淹没的森林是如此巨大，以至于在方圆数公里内， The flooded forest is so gigantic that for many kilometres in all directions,
没有一平方米的旱地 there isn't a square metre of dry land.
接下来的一个月，我们将乘坐独木舟、小艇、木筏和各种各样的浮船，完全在水上航行 For the next month, we're going to be totally waterborne in canoes, dinghies, rafts, all kinds of floating craft.
而从不断移动的船上拍摄简直就是噩梦 And filming from constantly moving boats is a nightmare.
不管他们告诉你什么，告诉你多久， It doesn't matter what they tell you or how often they tell you,
或者你自己学习和研究了多少 or how much you study and research it yourself.
你无法想象亚马逊是什么样子， You can't really imagine what the Amazon is like,
它是多么壮丽，直到你真正来到这里 how magnificent it is, until you're actually here.
现在我们在亚马逊被淹的森林里， Right now we're in the Amazon's flooded forest,
世界上最大的丛林，雨水泛滥 the largest jungle in the world that floods with the rains.
从我现在的位置出发，往每个方向走几十公里，你只能走到这里 From where I am right now, for dozens of kilometres in every direction, you can only walk right here.
我们在马米洛哇自然保护区，就在亚马逊雨林的中心 We're in the Mamiraua Nature Reserve, right in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest.
淹水部分 The flooded part.
我们来到这里，因为这是我们唯一可以组织探险的地方，因为我们首先要寻找的是猴子 We've come here because it's the only place we can organize our expedition from as we look for, above all, monkeys.
我们进入丛林深处寻找猴子的唯一方法就是乘坐独木舟和皮划艇 The only way we can get deep into the jungle to look for the monkeys is in canoes and kayaks.
没有别的路可走，因为这里没有路或小路 There's no other way because there are no roads or paths here.
这有点复杂，因为独木舟很窄，我们的设备又大又重 It's a bit complicated because the canoes are very narrow, and our equipment is very large and very heavy.
所以有过平衡的风险 So there's a risk of overbalancing.
但这是没有办法的 But there's no way around it.
我们明天早上从这里出发 We'll set out from here in the morning.
我们将在丛林深处拍摄数小时直到下午 And we'll be filming for hours deep inside the jungle well into the afternoon.
丛林发洪水的时候，生活在地面上的动物就得往上爬 When the jungle floods, the animals that live on the ground have to go up.
所以现在在树的树枝中间，有啮齿动物、蛇和大量的昆虫 So right now among the branches of the trees, there are rodents, snakes, and a multitude of insects.
所有的动物，那些没淹死的，都得往上爬 All the animals, those that don't drown, have to go up.
然后恰恰相反的事情发生了 And then the sort of opposite happens.
所有生活在这条河上的动物突然发现，它们有了一片属于自己的全新领地， All the animals that live on the river suddenly find they have a whole new territory just for them,
这实际上是森林的地面 which is actually the forest floor.
所以在我们的独木舟下面，可能有粉色的海豚，无数的鱼 So beneath our canoes, there may be pink dolphins, an infinite number of fish.
记住，亚马逊河有多达3000种不同的鱼类，还有鳄鱼和雅卡雷凯门鳄 Remember that there are up to 3,000 different species of fish in the Amazon, and crocodiles and jacare caiman.
我们的主要目的是拍摄在树上很高的猴子，我们现在有优势， Our main aim is to film the monkeys that are high up in the trees, we have an advantage now,
因为随着河水水位的上升， because with the level of the river having risen,
我们在12米高的地方。但我们也有一个小劣势 we're around 12 metres higher up. But we also have a slight disadvantage.
这是世界上最大的洪水丛林 This is the largest flooded jungle in the world.
它的面积相当于半个西班牙 It covers an area half the size of Spain.
所以有时候就像大海捞针 So sometimes it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
但尽管技术上相当复杂，我们还是能拍到一些真正稀有物种的精彩照片， But despite the considerable technical complications, we're able to get some great shots of a real rarity,
在野外很难看到的东西 something that's very difficult to see in the wild.
蒙古巴花是一种罕见的款待。它们只能维持一天 Monguba flowers are a rare treat. They only last one day.
花蕾在夜间开放，存活时间仅为12小时 The buds open at night and live for barely 12 hours.
在这么短的时间内，花必须被授粉，以确保下一代的果实和树木 In that short time, the flowers have to be pollinated to ensure the next generation of fruit and trees.
成群的黑条纹卷尾猴在黑暗中花蕾开放前的最后几个小时寻找蒙古巴树 Troops of black-striped capuchin monkeys seek out the monguba trees in the last hours of daylight before the buds open in the dark.
团体的所有成员都参加了盛宴。机不可失 All the members of the group join the feast. It's now or never.
到了早上，大部分的花都枯萎了 By morning, most of the flowers will have wilted away.
不管怎样，几个小时后，蒙古巴花就漂浮在河上了 One way or another, in a few hours, the monguba flowers float on the river.
但亚马逊从不停止提供惊喜 But the Amazon never ceases to offer up surprises.
在水上呆了几天后，我们去寻找亚马逊河的海豚 After a couple of days on the water, we go in search of the Amazon river dolphin.
我们在水上已经有10天了 We've been on the water for about 10 days.
先在船上，然后是独木舟，挖空的树，木筏，等等 First on boats, then canoes, hollowed-out trees, rafts, and so on.
我们因为水的不断流动，因为蹲在船上几乎走不动，而筋疲力尽 We're exhausted from the constant movement of the water and from squatting down in the boats and hardly walking.
所以，我们一看到这个小岛，就离开水面四处走了一会儿 So as soon as we saw this little island, we got off the water to walk around for a bit.
我们在内格罗河，我们想在那里拍摄粉红海豚 We're on the Negro River, which is where we want to film the pink dolphins.
嗯，实际上，它们不是粉色的 Well, actually, they're not pink.
它们实际上是灰色的，但生活在内格罗河的它们看起来是粉红色的，原因很简单 They're actually grey, but what happens is that living in the Negro River makes them look pink because of one simple thing.
尼格罗河的水是粉红色的 The water of the Negro is coloured pink
因为一年四季沉积在河里的所有植物都含有丹宁酸 because of the tannins that come from all the plant matter that is deposited in the river throughout the year.
森林每年都发洪水，大量木材被冲走 The forests flood every year and a lot of the wood is carried away.
木头的作用是让水和河流改变颜色 And what that wood does is it makes the water and the river change colour.
所以海豚实际上是灰色的，但淹没在水里， So the dolphins are actually grey but submerged in the water,
被丹宁酸染成棕色，海豚看起来是粉红色的 which is coloured brown by the tannins, the dolphins look pink.
所以越接近表面，它们看起来就越灰色 So the closer to the surface they are, the greyer they look.
颜色越低，看起来越粉。甚至接近红色 The lower they go the pinker they seem. Almost red even.
从理论上讲，拍摄粉红海豚的图像绝非易事 Getting images of the pink dolphins is not in theory very easy at all.
但有两个地方在亚马逊河和内格罗河 But there are two places in the Amazon and on the Negro River
人与海豚达成了协议。两个物种都从中受益 where man and dolphin have reached an agreement. And both species benefit.
保护海豚并知道如何与海豚生活在一起的社区吸引了生态旅游， The communities that protect and know how to live with the dolphins attract ecotourism,
粉色海豚受益，因为它是一个濒临灭绝的物种，而这个地方对它们来说是安全的 and the pink dolphins benefit because it's a species in danger of extinction and this place is safe for them.
这对我们来说是一种幸运， And that's a stroke of luck for us,
因为和大多数海豚一样，它们是非常善于社交的动物 because like most dolphins, they're very sociable animals.
冒险深入洪水泛滥的森林后， After having ventured deep into the flooded forest,
亚马逊地区的河流看起来就像大海， where the rivers of the Amazon region seem almost like the sea,
我们朝相反的方向前进， we head in the opposite direction,
从字面上和隐喻上来说，到达南美洲的另一端， literally and metaphorically, to the other end of South America,
以及世界上最干燥的沙漠:阿塔卡马沙漠 and the driest desert in the world: the Atacama.
阿塔卡马地区横跨安第斯山脉和太平洋海岸之间的大片陆地 The Atacama region stretches across a huge area of land between the Andes and the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
我们既想拍摄沙漠的内部， We wanted to film both the interior of the desert,
世界上最干燥的地方，也在沿海地区，成群的鸟类和海豹聚集在那里 the driest in the world, and also along the coasts, where large colonies of birds and seals congregate.
但从一开始，事情就没有完全按照计划进行 But right from the start, things didn't go exactly as planned.
阿塔卡马的海岸线是世界上野生动物最丰富的地方之一 The coastline of Atacama is one of the richest places in the world in terms of wildlife.
冰冷的海水富含营养物质， The cold waters of the ocean are full of nutrients,
鸟类和海洋哺乳动物热心地在其附近定居 and birds and marine mammals enthusiastically settle in its vicinity.
我们的计划是登陆，寻找海鸟的聚居地 Our plan was to make landfall in search of colonies of seabirds.
但有些年，当洋流变暖时，一切都变了 But some years, when the ocean currents warm up, everything changes.
我们沿着海岸上下旅行，寻找鸟类的聚居地 We travel up and down the coast looking for colonies of birds.
但可悲的是，今年根本没有 But sadly this year, there simply aren't any.
水媒的养分还没有物质化，鸟儿也没有筑巢 The waterborne nutrients haven't materialized and the birds haven't nested.
这一带的海都很危险 The sea's dangerous all along this coast.
尽管我们尽了最大的努力，但我们不得不承认失败，并寻找其他选择 And despite our best efforts, we have to admit failure and look for alternative options.
最终，我们不得不接受，崎岖的海岸线-- Eventually, we have to accept that the rugged coastline
击败了我们寻找海鸟的聚居地 has defeated us in our search for seabird colonies.
所以我们决定稳扎稳打，直奔唯一可能的着陆点 So we decide to play it safe and to make for the only possible landing site.
从这里我们可以拍摄南美海狮 From here we'll be able to film South American sea lions.
在岛上扎营不是一件容易的事 Setting up camp on an island is not an easy task.
这个地方可以说是世界上风最大的地方之一， This place might lay claim to being one of the windiest places in the world,
但这几天我们别无选择，只能这样 but we have no choice but to for a few days.
在这里拍戏很辛苦 Filming here is hard work.
刺眼的阳光，猛烈的风，刺骨的寒冷都在创造一个荒凉荒凉的环境中发挥着作用 The harsh sun, fierce wind, biting cold all play their part in creating a wild, desolate environment.
但这正是南美海狮喜欢的地方 But it's just the sort of place that South American sea lions like.
它们在这里如此舒适，如此专注于手头的事情，毕竟这是交配季节， They're so comfortable here and so focused on the matters in hand, it's the mating season after all,
我们有很多激情的镜头，还有对抗的镜头 we get lots of shots of passion, and confrontation.
阿塔卡马地区壮观的海岸给我们留下了一些苦乐参半的感觉 The spectacular coasts of the Atacama region leaves us with some bittersweet sensations.
我们无法拍出我们所希望的一切 We aren't able to film everything we hoped for.
但没时间垂头丧气，我们的冒险还没有结束 But there's no time to get downhearted. Our adventure is not over yet.
对于地球上最偏远的地区之一，我们也是如此 巴塔哥尼亚 And so we had for one of the remotest regions on earth. Patagonia.
我们经常要在探险中即兴发挥， We often have to improvise on our expeditions,
但这一次，在巴塔哥尼亚，我们非常幸运 but this time, in Patagonia, we were very lucky.
巴塔哥尼亚是麦哲伦企鹅的家园 Patagonia is the home of Magellanic penguins.
它们在这里非常丰富，甚至成为了这个地区的小象征 They're so abundant here that they've even become like little symbols of the region.
而且它们的聚居地是整个星球上最多产、最大的 And their colonies are the most prolific, the largest on the whole planet.
我们去过丛林，去过安第斯山脉， We've been in the jungle, we've been in the Andes,
我们去过很多地方，在那里拍摄野生动物往往真的相当困难 we've been to a lot of places where it's often really quite difficult to film wildlife.
需要各种努力的地方， Places that demand all kinds of effort,
身体方面，试着看看我们可能有什么选择， the physical side, trying to see what options we might have,
寻找有时会躲着我们的动物， looking for animals which sometimes hide from us,
让我们很难拍到想要的照片 making it very tricky to get the pictures we want.
现在我们来到了南美洲的南锥体瓦尔德斯半岛 Now we're at the Southern Cone of South America on the Valdes Peninsula.
这里是世界上最大的企鹅聚居地之一 This is where one of the largest colonies of penguins in the world can be found.
我身后的聚居地绵延近5公里 The colony behind me stretches for almost five kilometres.
这个聚居地现在大约有30万只，在黄昏的时候，它们会出去呼唤和歌唱， It's a colony that right now has around 300,000 individuals and at dusk they go out to call and sing,
战斗，平静下来 to fight, to cool off a bit.
大约一个月后，又会有30万只雏鸟孵化 In about a month, another 300,000 chicks will hatch.
因此，超过50万只动物将聚集在这里 So more than half a million animals will be gathered here together.
所以当你看到这个的时候，能拍下来真是太棒了 So when you get to see that, it's great to be able to film it.
这真的是北美最令人惊叹的野生动物秀之一 It really is one of the most amazing wildlife shows in North America.
巴塔哥尼亚是一个真正的野生景观，有许多动物 Patagonia is a truly wild landscape where many animals
从其他大陆消失的动物，设法在这里维持着生存 that have disappeared from the rest of the continent manage to maintain their existence.
我们的拍摄日子非常紧张，但同样收获颇丰 Our shooting days are extremely intense, but just as fruitful.
在巴塔哥尼亚，我们有机会做各种实地记录， Here in Patagonia, we have the opportunity to make all kinds of field notes,
甚至为未来的剧本和节目记下想法 and even jot down ideas for future scripts and programs.
我们的相机不停地拍摄，我们拍到了以前从未见过的羊驼群、犰狳和martinetas的图像 Our cameras roll nonstop, and we get images never seen before of guanacos, armadillos, and martinetas.
这片风景荒凉的外表具有欺骗性 The desolate appearance of this landscape is deceptive.
这里的动物群异常多样 The fauna here is extraordinarily varied.
我们还得去参观南美洲的另一个传奇之地，地球上最长的山脉:安第斯山脉 We still have to visit another legendary place in South America, the longest mountain range on the planet: the Andes.
我们穿越安第斯山脉的广大地区寻找眼镜熊，大秃鹰， We travel across vast areas of the Andes in search of spectacled Andean bears, great condors,
还有其他非常多样的野生动物的例子，它们适应了这些山区的恶劣条件 and other examples of the very diverse wildlife which is adapted to the harsh conditions of these mountains.
在我们的探险中，我们已经花了将近两个月的时间在安第斯山脉周围旅行 We've spent almost two months travelling around the Andes on our expedition
寻找美洲最奇怪最不寻常的动物群 in search of the strangest and most extraordinary fauna in America.
现在在的喀喀湖海拔近4000米的地方，我们来到了一个非常小的岛屿， Right now where at an altitude of almost 4,000 metres at Lake Titicaca, and here we've come to a very small island,
la Isla de la Luna，也就是月亮之岛 la Isla de la Luna, or the Island of the Moon.
我们来这里是为了看一种非常特别的青蛙 We've come here to look at a very special frog.
我们已经在的喀喀湖探索了几天了 We've been exploring the shores of Lake Titicaca for a few days.
在我们的散步中，我们看到了很多死鸭子和其他鸟类，生活在这里的湖上 On our walks, we've seen a lot of dead ducks and other birds that live here on the lake.
这是一只鸊鷉，一种濒临灭绝的鸟类。这是一个很大的的喀喀湖鱼 This is a grebe a bird in danger of extinction. It's a good size Titicaca grebe.
这是一只海鸥的头 Here's the head of a seagull.
它的喙更多才多艺，所以它可以开发很多不同的资源 Its beak is more versatile, so it can exploit a lot of different resources.
这是一只鸭子的头 And here's the head of a duck.
它很可能是在游泳时腿被渔网缠住而死的 It probably died by getting its legs tangled up in fishing nets when swimming.
我们认为它们可能被渔民的渔网缠住了，因为湖上的渔民并不特别喜欢它们， We think that they probably get caught up in fishermen's nets and since the fishermen on the lake aren't especially fond of them,
因为渔民认为它们是鱼的竞争对手 because they see them as competition for the fish.
湖里的鱼不是很大，所以他们捕的是相对较小的鱼 The fish in the lake aren't very big, so they're catching relatively small fish.
他们布网，当潜水的鸟看到网里的鱼时，鸟就会试图抓住这些鱼 They put their nets out and when the diving birds see the fish in the nets, they try to catch them.
鸟很可能死在这些网里 Most likely they die tangled up in these nets.
这可能会导致一些物种灭绝，或者至少成为极度濒危物种 This may lead to some species going extinct, or at least becoming critically endangered.
这些鸟吃几条鱼所付出的代价并不多，这很有必要，但也很难解释 It's necessary but quite difficult to explain that the price these birds pay for eating a few fish is not too much.
考虑到这些鸟很特别， Considering that these birds are special,
他们只生活在这里，他们可以带来这里的鸟类旅游，这在世界上是非常重要的 they only live here and they could bring on ornithological tourism here, which is very important in the world.
的喀喀湖蛙是一种非常特殊的动物。它真的很不寻常 The Titicaca frog is a very special animal. It's really quite unusual.
这就是为什么我们要把它展示给大家 And that's why we want to show it to you.
为了能够在这个高度拍摄，我们指定的水下摄像机操作员Sebas， To be able to film at this altitude, Sebas, our designated underwater camera operator,
为了能在这里寻找青蛙，他不得不专门上了一门关于高空潜水的课程 had to take a special course to learn about high-altitude diving so he could look for the frogs here.
4000米潜水和海平面潜水是非常不同的，海平面潜水是最常见的潜水方式， Diving at 4,000 metres is very different from diving at sea level, which is the most common kind of diving,
但你会看到结果是壮观的，完全值得你的努力 but you'll see the results are spectacular and totally worth the effort.
就像美洲的许多其他动植物一样， Like so many other plants and animals in America,
的喀喀湖水蛙正处于极度危险之中 the Titicaca water frog is terribly at risk.
近年来，它的数量急剧减少 Its populations have decreased dramatically over recent years.
然而，幸运的是，人们正在采取措施试图挽救它 Fortunately, however, measures are being taken to try to save it.
拉丁美洲仍然是地球上最野生和生物多样性最丰富的大陆之一 Latin America is still one of the wildest and most biodiverse continents on the planet.
保护它广阔壮观的生态系统和所有生活在其中的生物必须是我们所有人的优先事项 Protecting its vast, magnificent ecosystems and all the beings that inhabit them must be a priority for all of us.
“野生美洲”见证了野生动物的财富， "Wild America" is a witness to this wealth of wildlife,
但它也是一个宣言，表明需要保护和保存美洲的野生动物和所有美丽的风景 but it's also a manifesto of the need to protect and preserve the wildlife of America and all its wonderful landscapes.
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