DEEP DIVESMOB MENAGERIE: TURTLE
生物圈栏：海龟


Slow and steady wins the race!      
缓慢而稳健地赢得赛跑！



On Minecraft’s sandy shores, there are plenty of exciting things to uncover. Shipwrecks! Buried treasure! Er... sugarcane? But there’s one other delight that causes my heart to grow whenever I see them flapping their little flippers around. A hero in a half-shell: the turtle! Rejoice, friends, it’s our mob of the month!
在Minecraft的沙滩上，有许多令人兴奋的事情等待着探索。沉船！埋藏的宝藏！嗯...甘蔗？但还有另一个令我愉悦的事物，每当我看到它们拍动它们的小鳍时，我的心就会高兴起来。那就是在半壳里面的英雄——海龟！(不太懂，海龟的下半部分应该也可以算作壳的一部分，或许是暗指《忍者神龟》？)朋友们，庆祝吧，它是本月的生物！

Turtles, or sea turtles as they’re known in Bedrock edition, are passive aquatic animals found on Minecraft’s coastlines. They’ve been hanging out there, in the sun, since they were added as part of the Update Aquatic in 2017.
海龟（Turtles），在基岩版中也被称为海龟（Sea Turtles），是在Minecraft的沙滩上发现的温顺水生动物。它们自2017年作为水生更新的一部分实装进游戏以来就一直在那里晒太阳。

Turtles need sand to lay their eggs in, which means that you won’t find them on stony or snowy shores. But you will find them in any other beach biome in the Overworld that has access to daylight – usually around the water’s edge. Unusually for Minecraft mobs, turtles are fairly happy on both land and in the water. They’re a little slower on land, but they swim fast!
海龟需要在沙子上产卵，这意味着你无法在石岸或积雪沙滩上找到它们。但是你可以在沙滩生物群系中找到它们，在这个生物群系中，它们通常生成在水边且有阳光照射的地方。与Minecraft中的其他生物不同的是，海龟在陆地和水中都很活得很开心。它们在陆地上移动会稍慢一些，但在水中游泳速度很快！


Here’s a fun fact: turtles are one of the few Minecraft animals that can’t be leashed. It’s because they’re kinda grumpy and don’t like to do what other creatures want them to do. But they do like eating, and their favorite food is seagrass, so you can definitely lure them around by waving some seagrass in their vicinity. Foolish turtles!
这里有个有趣的事实：海龟是Minecraft中为数不多不能用拴绳套住的动物之一。这是可能因为它们比较暴躁，不喜欢被其他生物控制。但是它们喜欢吃东西，它们最喜欢的食物是海草，所以你可以通过在它们附近挥舞一些海草来引诱它们四处走动。愚蠢的海龟们啊！

Speaking of seagrass, feeding seagrass to two turtles causes them to enter love mode. But turtles are reptiles and don’t give birth to live young. Instead, they lay eggs – and they’ll only do that on the beach where they hatched. Eggs take about four to five in-game days to hatch into baby turtles, which then take another in-game day to grow into adults.
说到海草，喂两只海龟海草会让它们进入繁殖模式。但是海龟是爬行动物，不会生下幼崽。相反，它们会产卵——并且只会在它们孵化的海滩上产卵。卵需要大约四到五个游戏日才能孵化出小海龟，而小海龟需要再过一个游戏日才能长成成年海龟。



During that time, the babies are very vulnerable. Drowned, stray cats, and foxes all love the taste of baby turtles and will hunt them. So keep those babies safe. When they do become adults, they’ll shed the parts of their baby shells as scutes and grow a new shell. If you want a turtle shell of your own, you’ll need to painstakingly reassemble one out of scutes.
在这段时间里，小海龟非常脆弱。溺尸、流浪猫和狐狸都喜欢吃小海龟，会狩猎它们。所以保证这些小家伙的安全！当它们变成成年海龟后，它们会脱掉幼龟的鳞甲，并长出一个新的壳。如果你想要自己的龟壳，你必须费心地将这些鳞甲重新组合成一个完整的龟壳。

On the beaches of the real world, turtles are a much less common sight than they are in Minecraft, though that wasn’t always true. Turtles are pretty ancient creatures, having thrived since the Permian and Triassic eras. But when humans came along, we pretty quickly realized how tasty turtles are, and today they’re the second-most threatened group of species after primates. Of the 360 kinds of turtle that have existed since 1500 AD, more than half are threatened or extinct.
在现实世界的沙滩上，出现频率相比于Minecraft中的要少得多，尽管这并非始终如此。海龟是相当古老的生物，自二叠纪和三叠纪以来一直存在。但是当人类出现时，我们很快就意识到海龟有多美味，如今它们是继灵长类之后受到威胁的第二大物种群。在1500年以来存在的360种海龟中，超过一半已经受到威胁或已经灭绝。


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Nonetheless, turtles occupy an important role in human culture. In Hindu mythology, the world is carried on top of four enormous elephants that in turn stand on the back of the World Turtle, named Kurma or Kacchapa. World turtles are also found in Native American cultures. They appear in Greek myths, Roman military tactics, Chinese fortune-telling, and Australian Aboriginal art. They’re also popular in comic books and animation. I'm sure you're familiar with Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello!
尽管如此，海龟在人类文化中扮演着重要的角色。在印度教神话中，世界是承载在四只巨大的大象上，而这些大象则站在名为Kurma或Kacchapa的世界之龟的背上。(如果有人有《梨俱吠陀》的话帮我看看f正确的译名是什么)世界之龟也出现在美洲原住民文化中。它们出现在希腊神话、罗马军事战术、中国算命以及澳大利亚土著艺术中。它们也是漫画和动画中受欢迎的角色。我相信你很熟悉甘、文、崔、阿福！(出自《忍者神龟》）

But the coolest thing about turtles is their lifespan. The oldest living land animal is a Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan, living on the island of Saint Helena, who is believed to have been hatched in 1832. That makes him 190 years old, at the time this article was written. While he’s blind and has lost his sense of smell, he’s otherwise pretty healthy and has excellent hearing. No one knows how many more years he’ll live, but if you ask me, he’ll outlive all of us! Keep it up, Jonathan!
但是，关于海龟最酷的事情是它们的寿命。最长寿的陆地动物是塞舌尔巨龟乔纳森，它居住在圣赫勒拿岛，据说是在1832年孵化的。在撰写本文时，它已经190岁了。虽然它失去了视觉和嗅觉，但它仍然非常健康并且听力出色。没有人知道它还能活多少年，但如果你问我，它将活得比我们所有人都长！加油啊，乔纳森！




【大尾巴狼！ 译自官网 2023 年 06 月 01 日发布的 Turtle；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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