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[00:00.200]Carrying undigested fruit seeds from New Guinea in their stomachs,
胃里携带着来自新几内亚未消化的种子 [00:04.700]they inadvertently helped sow the Solomons' rainforests
它们不经意地为所罗门雨林贡献了种子 [00:08.400]By day, these nocturnal fruit bats roost communally in the safety of the tallest trees
白天这些夜间活动的果蝠集体栖息在最高大树木的安全处 [00:14.930]From the few bats that made it here, there are now 18 different species
如今这里已生活着18个不同种类的蝙蝠 [00:20.120]They have become the most widespread native mammal in the South Pacific
它们成为南太平洋分布最广的原生哺乳动物 [00:25.500]East of the Solomons, the distance between islands increases dramatically
所罗门群岛以东，岛屿之间的距离急剧增加 [00:31.410]It's now 1,000 miles of open ocean before the next island groups -Fiji, Samoa and Tonga
从这里到下一个岛群——斐济、萨摩亚和汤加——中间是1000英里的开阔海洋 [00:40.980]Of all these island clusters, Fiji is the largest
这些岛群中最大的当属斐济 [00:47.000]Made up of over 300 volcanic islands, formed some 40 million years ago,
它由300多座火山岛组成，形成于约4千万年前 [00:52.490]Fiji is around 2/3 the size of the Solomons,
斐济大约是所罗门的2/3大小 [00:56.360]so remained a reasonable target for would-be colonisers
因此依旧很可能是许多开拓者的目的地 [00:59.750]Despite its isolation,
尽管与世隔绝 [01:02.020]it is still home to nearly half the number of plant species found in the Solomons
这里依然生长着所罗门群岛上近一半的植物品种 [01:06.860]But animal colonisers were not so successful
然而，动物开拓者们则未能如此成功