qi miao dao yu 11

Song 奇妙岛屿 11
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC南太平洋

Lyrics

[00:00.24] Born in the forest,
[00:01.82] they stay in the forest,
[00:03.52] while Mum and Dad bring fresh meals straight from the ocean.
[00:16.08] They can hear the waves,
[00:17.18] they can even smell the spray,
[00:18.64] but they have no idea what it looks like.
[00:20.63] These chicks won't have their first splash in the ocean
[00:23.76] until they're three months old,
[00:25.83] when they'll finally set off on their first fishing trip, alone.
[00:34.23] 1,500 miles from the nearest continent,
[00:36.32] New Zealand is beyond the reach of most mammals.
[00:42.48] Marine mammals aside,
[00:43.94] the only ones that did succeed,
[00:45.87] before humans arrived, had wings.
[00:51.66] Bats.
[00:53.34] This is the short-tailed bat.
[00:55.68] It roosts in tree cavities and comes out at night to feed.
[00:59.57] So far, so normal.
[01:01.36] But these bats have been living the island life
[01:04.56] far too long not to have become a little ''different''.
[01:07.49] And they're not the only ones.
[01:11.62] Wetas are primitive relatives of the locust,
[01:14.72] but they can't fly.