And this all before your kids are even born—that is, if you're a silphid beetle.

这一切都发生在你的孩子出生之前——也就是说，如果你是一只 silphid 甲虫。

Silphid beetles belong to the subfamily Nicrophorinae, and parenting beetles don't just simply bury small dead creatures and leave.

Silphid 甲虫属于 Nicrophorinae 亚科，育儿甲虫不只是简单地埋葬小的死生物然后离开。

But Silphids don't want any other competition to know their food is rotting.

但是 Silphids 不希望任何其他竞争者知道他们的食物正在腐烂。

The silphid so fiercely protects its food source because the eggs it lays will also feed on whatever's buried in this seeming crypt.

Schwing： silphid 如此强烈地保护它的食物来源，因为它产下的卵也会以这个看似地穴中埋藏的任何东西为食。

And though we are just now discovering the lengths to which silphid parents go for their brood, the beetles—it appears—learned their morbid tricks while avoiding the foot falls of ancient creature, like Tyrannosaurus rex.

Schwing：虽然我们现在才发现 silphid 父母为他们的后代付出的努力，但甲虫——看起来——学会了他们病态的把戏，同时避免了像霸王龙这样的远古生物的跌倒。

Lurking in the shadows of the forest floor, where these bugs roam, there's a lot of competition: other hungry beetles and lots of vertebrate scavengers, all looking to feast on the same things silphids love to eat.

潜伏在森林地面的阴影中， 这些虫子在那里漫游，那里有很多竞争：其他饥饿的甲虫和许多脊椎动物食腐动物， 都希望以 silphids 喜欢吃的相同食物为食。