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Do water voles really need water? | Natural History Museum
英国自然博物馆 ･ Natural History Museum
拥有八千万种标本的英国自然历史博物馆
Don’t let the name Ratty confuse you.
别让阿鼠这个名字把你弄糊涂了
In the Wind in the Willows,
风吹过柳林
Ratty was a water vole who lived on the riverbank.
阿鼠是一只住在河边的水田鼠
But could he have made his home elsewhere?
但它能在别的地方安家吗?
When local residents first reported rats in grasslands
在当地居民第一次报告草地上有老鼠时
we really didn’t expect to find water voles living there,over a kilometre away from any water.
我们真没想到水田鼠会住在离水一公里远的地方
But here they are.
但它们就在这里
This site here is in Easterhouse in the East End of Glasgow
这个地点在格拉斯哥东端的伊斯特豪斯
and they’re right in amongst people.
它们就生活在人群中
Behind me you’ve got a local library,
在我身后有一个当地的图书馆
across the road the shopping centre,
穿过马路就是购物中心
even a swimming pool, but there isn’t actually any water
甚至还有一个游泳池 但实际上那里没有水
that’s accessible to the wildlife.
可供野生动物使用
So even though water voles are suited to a semiaquatic lifestyle,
所以尽管水田鼠适合半水栖的生活方式
they’re thriving here in the East End,
但它们在东区茁壮成长
they’re spending more time underground in a large burrow system,
更多时候 它们在复杂的地下洞穴通道里活动
they’re foraging for food, they eat the roots underneath
它们在觅食 它们吃地下的树根
and they come up on the surface to eat the grass.
它们爬到地面上来吃草
So it seems as if Ratty could have had more in common with Mole than a rat.
因此 比起老鼠来说阿鼠更像是一只鼹鼠