prairie

But the prairie dogs don't have the prairies to themselves.

但草原土拨鼠 可不是大草原上唯一的成员

The prairie dog should be the hero of the prairies.

土拨鼠应该是大草原的英雄

They'll excavate a prairie dog burrow and then go inside, and while the prairie dogs are sleeping, they will eat the prairie dogs and then they'll also sleep inside the burrow.

他们会挖开土拨鼠的洞穴然后潜入其中 在土拨鼠睡觉的时候 吃了土拨鼠 然后睡在洞穴里

A prairie rattlesnake is taking an afternoon slither through prairie dog town.

一只草原响尾蛇 正悠闲地穿越土拨鼠小镇

And by killing prairie dogs, humans were slowly killing the whole prairie.

在杀了土拨鼠的同时 人类也在慢慢地扼杀整个大草原

And the prairie dogs were the ecological engine that tended to drive the prairie ecosystem.

土拨鼠作为生态的发动机 更是驾驭着大草原的生态系统

Only recently have we come to recognise that without prairie dogs the prairies would be lost forever.

直到最近我们才发现没有土拨鼠 大草原将会永远消失

Even the bison, the largest animal on the prairies, benefits from having prairie dogs as neighbours.

甚至于野牛 草原上最大的动物 也作为邻居而从中受益

So bison and prairie dogs and other species in the prairie ecosystem coexisted very nicely for thousands of years.

所以野牛和土拨鼠 以及草原生态系统的其他生物 和谐共处了几千年

But they tend not to think of prairie dogs, where historically there were five billion prairie dogs, coexisting very nicely with the bison.

但却没人想到过草原土拨鼠 而它们的数量有整整50亿只 并与野牛和谐共处