Here's the true master of camouflage, a stick insect.

这是真正的伪装大师一只竹节虫。

Well, I once tried fried stick insect in Thailand...and I've had ants, as well, that were from Colombia.

嗯，我曾经在泰国尝试过炸竹节虫......然后我还吃过蚂蚁，是在哥伦比亚。

Well, I once tried fried stick insect in Thailand… and I've had ants, as well, that were from Colombia.

嗯，我曾经在泰国吃过油炸竹节虫… … 我也吃过哥伦比亚的蚂蚁。

But scientists have observed an accumulation of harmful mutations in parthenogenetic stick insects that are absent in their sexual relatives.

但科学家们已经发现，一种孤雌生殖的粘虫在缺乏性伴侣时积累起有害的变异。

The stick insect is the world's longest insect.

竹节虫是世界上最长的昆虫。

For lots of animals, like birds, a stick insect would be a tasty snack.

对于鸟类等许多动物来说，竹节虫是一种美味的零食。

So blending in helps stick insects survive.

因此，混入有助于竹节虫生存。

And if they can't find the stick insect, they can't eat it.

如果他们找不到竹节虫，他们就不能吃它。

But it's hard for them to spot a stick insect, since it looks just like the real sticks around it.

但是他们很难发现竹节虫，因为它看起来就像围绕在它周围的真正的竹节虫。

Though these enormous stick insects were well-known to early colonists on the island, no one had seen any since the 1960s.

虽然这些巨大的竹节虫对岛上的早期殖民者来说是众所周知的，但自 1960 年代以来就没有人见过。

But this is actually a kind of bug that's called a stick insect, since it looks so much like a stick.

但这实际上是一种叫做竹节虫的虫子，因为它看起来很像一根棍子。

One of the reasons stick insects look so much like the sticks around them is that they're the same color.

竹节虫看起来很像周围的棍子的原因之一是它们的颜色相同。

Since 2003, the Melbourne Zoo has been breeding these stick insects, to hopefully have enough to reintroduce them onto Lord Howe Island someday.

自 2003 年以来，墨尔本动物园一直在培育这些竹节虫，希望有一天能有足够的数量将它们重新引入豪勋爵岛。

I was legendarily bad at caring for things;we no longer had houseplants at home, or pets, after the disasters that were the hamster, the stick insects and Randolph the goldfish.

我是出了名的不擅长照顾东西；在经历了仓鼠、竹节虫和金鱼伦道夫等灾难之后， 我们家里不再有室内植物， 也没有宠物。

In February, a group of scientists and rock climbers teamed up on a three month expedition to the tallest volcanic stack in the world, and found an extremely rare stick insect.

2 月，一群科学家和攀岩者联手对世界上最高的火山堆进行了为期三个月的探险， 发现了一种极为罕见的竹节虫。

It's used in the next clip to talk about stick insects and needle bugs: Even though they live in different places and eat different things, they look very similar because they both use the same trick to survive.

在下一个片段中用它来谈论竹节虫和针虫：尽管它们生活在不同的地方，吃的东西也不同，但它们看起来非常相似，因为它们都使用相同的技巧来生存。