huo shan lie dao 06

Song 火山列岛 06
Artist 英语听力
Album BBC南太平洋

Lyrics

[00:00.0] Rare crickets scale the rocks
[00:02.97] while translucent earwigs
[00:05.14] and milky millipedes forage for food
[00:09.20] These are cave specialists,
[00:11.65] or troglobites,
[00:13.1] and they never leave the lava tube
[00:15.28] Over time,most have lost their eyes and colour,
[00:18.13] like this plant hopper
[00:20.23] Its tail has a curious function
[00:23.30] Any predator biting it from behind
[00:25.25] will be left with nothing but a mouthful of irritating waxy hair
[00:30.0] This is a place of ghostly stillness -
[00:33.17] a definite advantage for the small-eyed big-eyed hunting spider
[00:37.75] With its super-sensitive leg hairs,
[00:40.24] it can pick up the slightest movement in the air,
[00:43.77] and it senses the cricket's presence
[00:46.3] long before it's close enough to ambush
[00:49.0] As prey are few and far between,
[00:51.99] this may be its last meal for some time
[00:54.52] With no light and little vegetation,
[00:57.8] only the specialists survive here
[01:00.53] But that isn't the case for all lava tubes