piao liu zhe 17

Song 漂流者 17
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC南太平洋

Lyrics

[0-1:59.520] At night, the forests are eerily quiet
[00:04.620] Only a handful of bats made it here,the only mammals to do so,
[00:09.110] and there are far fewer birds
[00:10.730] In the absence of ground predators,
[00:13.730] invertebrates evolved into monsters
[00:16.710] This millipede is one of the biggest of its kind,
[00:20.600] running almost a foot long
[00:22.510] Its diet of rotten vegetation may have sustained its ancestors on their long journeys to these distant shores
[00:29.620] But how did they get here?
[00:31.890] Perhaps more surprising,
[00:33.670] two species of frog also made it to Fiji
[00:36.630] Surprising because adult frogs quickly die in saltwater
[00:41.300] But the ancestor of this frog may have arrived here as a tadpole
[00:44.620] Tadpoles normally need pools of freshwater to develop in,
[00:48.860] but these actually mature inside the egg
[00:52.530] So, on long journeys, these eggs would have been like little survival capsules
[00:57.390] But the question remains - how did they ever reach these islands?
[01:01.670] Maybe the same way as Fiji's most intriguing castaway of all