很明显这只猴子十分坚定执着地 It's clear that this animal is committed
使那只猴子恢复元气 to getting this other monkey back on his feet.
所以,这其实是一种冷酷的爱 So, this truly is tough love,
表现在朋友间互相救助 one friend saving another.
但是他究竟怎么知道该做什么呢? But how on Earth did he know what to do?
这些延展跨越整个城市地区的金属线很有意思 The wires that actually are extended throughout these urban areas are great,
它们就像是猕猴的公路 they're like highways for macaques, you know?
它们不断像这样横越金属线 They are constantly kind of moving across them.
一条方便的途径 A handy shortcut,
但是选错了金属线就会遭到冲击 but pick the wrong wire and you're in for a shock.
在南亚和东南亚 触电对于猴子来说是非常非常普遍的 Electrocutions are very, very common for monkeys in South and Southeast Asia.
Lisa相信这只猕猴对触电事故是不陌生的 Lisa believes that this macaque is no stranger to electrical mishap.
她认为他之前遇到过相似的情景 She thinks he's been in this situation before.
他们之前看到过其他动物触电 They've seen animals get electrocuted;
看到过他们坠落 they've seen them drop and they know
而且他们知道不得不把那猴子扔进水里 并且像那样猛烈激进地推和打 that they've got to go in there and kind of do this very vigorous agitation.
这只街头猴子从先前的经历中 This streetwise macaque has learned,
学到了暴力和毅力 from previous experience,
能够把朋友从死亡边缘拉回来 that brute force and perseverance can bring a friend back from the brink.
他的同伴过来后并做了街头猴该做的 His buddy came in there and did what an urban macaque's gonna do.
他们先查看了情况 They're going to assess the situation.
他们开始介入,他们开始改变行为 They're gonna step in; they've gonna change their behavior.
他们适应和接受情况 They're gonna adapt to the situation
然后他把同伴救回来了 and he brought his buddy back.
真是一个好猴子 That's a good monkey.
猕猴之间可能互相友好 Macaques may be kind to each other,
但是,对于我们人类,可能是个麻烦 but, to us, they can be trouble.
的确,在印度的部分地区,他们的数量呈爆发式增长 Yeah, in parts of India, their populations have exploded,
尤其是在他们非法妨害人们生活 particularly in cities,
的那些城市 where they're making a real nuisance of themselves.
南印度Lucknow的车站 The station at Lucknow, in North India,
是猴子们最喜爱的聚集地之一 was a favorite monkey hangout,
直到政府请来了一个有着特殊技能的高人 until the local authorities brought in a man with a unique skillset
去治理这些麻烦制造者 to tackle these troublemakers.
Acchan Miyan是 Lucknow官方的猴人 Acchan Miyan is Lucknow's official monkey man.
这些猴子早就习惯了人们吓走他们的老套方式 The monkeys at the station are too used to people to be scared away by them,
但是一个人类大小的猴子,就是十分严重的恐吓了 but a man-sized monkey, mm, that's a serious threat.
猴子们遵从等级制度,他们畏惧权威 Monkeys respect hierarchy; they respect authority.
那些猴子知道有新猴子将要在这边重定规矩 Those monkeys know that somebody's here who's going to kind of lay down the law.
并不是因为这张画漆的脸 And it's not the face paint;
it's Acchan's acting that really counts.
It's the way he moves; it's the way he makes eye contact.
He doesn't even have to have a stick in his hand.
He can just kind of walk through in a way that every monkey's gonna be like,
"Oh. Maybe we should leave."
Tama Zoo, near Tokyo.
And that?
well, that's the head keeper, dressed up as a snow leopard.
Why?
Well, the zoo staff are taking part in breakout tests,
rehearsing procedures,
should any of their animals escape in the event of an earthquake.
Oh, look. Bang.
There goes the tranquilizer.
And he's down.
Method acting at its, uh, best.
Now, this might look like some strange new Japanese game show,
but actually, this role-play is quite serious.
In June 2015,
a major flood set zoo animals loose on the streets of Tbilisi, in Georgia.
Rescue workers managed to save some,
but, very sadly,
many animals were lost in the unfortunate aftermath of this event.
Keeping animals and public safe is at the heart of this bizarre yearly escapade.
And, in fact, it's become so popular with visitors that other wildlife parks around the world
have now been inspired to follow suit.
It's a fun way to ensure that visitors and animals are kept safe.
But at Israel's Ramat Gan Zoo,
keeping the residents on the premises
isn't the problem.
This is Dorit,
an Indian crested porcupine, native to Israel.
Abandoned as a baby,
she's been handreared by the staff at the zoo.
We got really, really attached to her.
We've known her since she was just a cute little, tiny baby.
They raised her here at the wildlife hospital,
so we all got to chip in and bottle-feed her
and get really, really attached to her
and see her grow into this beautiful, beautiful porcupine.
And, for nearly a decade,
Dorit's lived a quiet life.
That was, until early 2015,
when strange sightings started to concern her keepers.
Like, every morning,
I come to the exhibit to see Dorit,
to feed her, to clean the yard
and, a special day, one special day,
I came here and I saw the poop.
Instead of being inside the exhibit, it was outside.
And I thought to myself,
"One of the keepers was very lazy yesterday.
Instead of put it the garbage, just throw it away.
Never mind.
I'll clean it up."
The other keepers denied any slacking,
but the poo kept appearing.
I came the other day and I saw, again,
the poop was outside of the exhibit.
Then, a couple of weeks later,
just as the mysterious poo was starting to become a bit of an issue,
an alarm went up.
A call from the primate department came:
"Your porcupine's out on the loose.
We see her. She's right here. She's escaped."
We rushed to Dorit's enclosure and there she was,
just being her happy old Dorit self.
How could Dorit have been in two places at once?
It was time to get to the bottom of this mystery.
We decided to put a camera trap.
Because they're nocturnal, they're mostly active at night
and we wanted to see what was goin' on.
At first, just a few feral cats.
A frisky cock.
But then...
We realized, when we looked at the footage,
that there's a male porcupine that comes in every night
for the past month to visit her.
Dorit wasn't breaking out.
A wild male was breaking in.
He's not just defecating next to her;
he's actually interacting with her through the bars.
They touch noses; they sniff each other.
Dorit had a secret lover.
It's most likely that he smelled her
and came all the way into the zoo to meet her,
which is quite exciting.
Porcupines, you see, give off a very powerful scent
that their quills help to stir up and distribute over long distances.
It's how male and female porcupines find each other
and then become inseparable for life.
Dorit's lover was so intoxicated with her aroma
that he traveled through the Safari Park,
past the hippos, past the rhinos, and the giraffe,
just to be by her side.
The story kind of broke our heart because he found a very special lady,
but he can't be with her.
We can't quite release her because we're afraid for her.
She's imprinted on people.
We're afraid that she'll come close to people and that they hurt her.
We can't bring him in to her
because he's a wild porcupine and it's unfair to bring him into captivity
when he belongs out in the wild.
So the zoo staff are left with only one option:
to hope that frustration!
eventually gets the better of Dorit's late-night lover.
So we're hoping for him that he'll give up one day and find,
you know, another wild porcupine to be with
and, now that we know that Dorit is interested in boys,
we'll definitely consider bringing her a nice boy porcupine to be with.
I hope for her to find a nice man,
also handsome like her.
The city of Raleigh.
Leafy, quiet, safe.
Well, until the spring of 2009, when all of that changed.
We're a midsize government town.
A lot of beige architecture.
Don't get a lot of monsters.
Like every city,
below the roads and pavements is a network of sewers.
And, like in every city, they need inspecting.
We have to monitor the condition of the pipes on a frequent basis
because they can get blocked.
Strange things you'll see are snakes, money; there's jewelry
and we certainly see our fair share of rats.
But on April the 27th,
the cameras captured something,
the likes of which this city had never seen.
So, it appeared that they were going down
either a 6- or 8-inch pipe with this robot
and they came across a really unusual,
somewhat animated,
slimy substance.
The feed from the cameras
showed a bizarre clump of a strange and unidentified substance,
slimy and smooth, reacting to the robot's light,
pulsating and morphing.
I was at a loss for an explanation.
It was really something that I'd seen out of a science fiction movie.
The discovery of something strange lurking in the sewers
didn't stay secret for long.
There was a clamor,
you know, a great alarm in the streets.
It was as though Godzilla had shown up.
We were all extremely excited and, of course,
dashed right out to find out about it.
The sewer blob became a sensation.
Everyone had their own theory.
There was a movie called "The Blob,"
and so everyone was making a lot of "Blob" references.
People thought that it was pudding come to life.
People thought that it was radioactive.
We were getting a lot of questions and, unfortunately,
we didn't have any good answers.
Maybe it was an experiment gone wrong.
Maybe something slithered out of a test tube and into the sewer system.
If only.
But what was the truth behind the headline?
Fingers pointed towards these:
Bryozoa,
thousands of tiny aquatic animals that live together,
clustered along the bottom of ships and docks.
But this theory didn't quite add up.
Most Bryozoans live in the ocean
and actually have these hard,
little coffinlike boxes that each Bryozoan body is in.
When there's a lot of them in one place,
they can look like a big, fleshy blob.
However, this blob was a bit too big
and not quite the right color to be freshwater Bryozoans.
So, what was this pulsating mass?
Could there really be a sensible scientific explanation?
These are worms, annelid worms,
actually, close relatives of earthworms.
It's actually not quite known, how many species,
but they're loosely called Tubifex.
Tubifex worms live in the water,
anchoring themselves against the current and grabbing food as it passes.
Tubifex, in the wild,
typically lives in stagnant water.
They can handle quite low oxygen.
They have this deep-red blood that gives them their color.
It allows them to absorb the oxygen through their thin skin.
The prime real estate for something like a Tubifex is somewhere where you
can attach to the bottom firmly and there's food going by.
Obviously, a sewer wouldn't be our first choice for a home,
but for a Tubifex, it's absolutely perfect.
That many resources in one place,
you can get really dense clumps of them.
So, not a single monster, at all,
but a colony that moves like one.
Each worm can sense movement around it and then it can also contract,
so that's almost like a chain of dominoes.
This town is in danger.
How can it be stopped?
I think people are generally weirded out by whatever lives in the sewer
and, if it's a giant, shiny, slimy, pulsing ball of worms,
then I can understand why they'd be grossed out.
Deep below the surface,
a group of scientists are surveying the ocean floor
when they spot something unusual.
What the...?
- Oh, it's... - Oh.
Garbage?
My goodness.
Their remote camera picks up a bizarre object moving in the current.
Oh, my gosh!
I can't believe that's a living thing.
That's amazing. Oh, how cool!
- What? - I mean...
Spotting this strange sea creature
has made these seasoned scientists a little bit giddy.
What is this?
I guess siphonophore?
Yep. Wow.
You've probably never heard of a siphonophore,
but Dr. Dunn understands their excitement.
I remember the first time I saw a siphonophore live in the water.
They look like swimming glass chandeliers.
They look like nothing else.
It's as if, all of a sudden,
there's this whole new life form that you've never heard of,right in front of you.
But what is this beautifully bizarre animal?
A siphonophore is a cnidarian,so it's a relative of corals
and many of the jellyfish that people are familiar with.
Siphonophores live in the open ocean,
forming the most intricate shapes, in astonishing colors.
They look like glass sculptures.
They're absolutely beautiful.
They really look like something from another world.
And what might really surprise you
is that these spectacular sea creatures aren't rare.
Siphonophores are the largest,
most abundant organisms that most people have never heard of.
Most people haven't seen a siphonophore,
because they're so fragile that they're destroyed before they get close to the coast.
They're just churned over in the waves.
They can't handle the sediment in the water.
But siphonophores aren't only abundant and beautiful.
They're also some of the most bizarre animals in our oceans.
When we're born, we have one cute, little baby body
and then, that baby body has all the parts of the adult,
but they just get bigger as we enlarge.
A siphonophore grows in a completely different way.
What they do is they're born as one little baby body
and then, instead of that baby body growing,
that baby body just makes more baby bodies
and each of them are specialized for particular tasks.
Some bodies are specialized for tasks like feeding.
Others are specialized for tasks like swimming.
And this growth continues in a conveyorlike fashion
through the life of the siphonophore.
So, if we grew like a siphonophore,
we'd start life as a baby,
but, rather than growing bigger,
this baby would grow more babies out of its side.
Some of these babies would only be able to eat
because they'd only have a mouth.
Other babies would only be able to walk
because they just had legs.
It's a weird, weird world.