DEEP DIVES 深入探究MOB MENAGERIE: TADPOLE
生物圈栏：蝌蚪

Baby frogs!
青蛙幼崽！


Baby animals of every species are incredibly cute, but have you ever wondered why? There’s a theory that it’s a survival strategy – humans are much less likely to hurt a creature that they think is cute, and research in the last few years shows that this is one of the strongest motivations that people have. It can even get them to love our mob of the month – the slimy, squirmy, but oh-so-adorable tadpole .
每个物种的幼崽都非常可爱，但你有没有想过为什么？有种理论认为这是一种生存策略——人类不太可能伤害他们认为可爱的生物，过去几年的url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unserious-psychology/202212/whats-cute-and-why-it-matters]研究[/url]表明，这是人类所具有的最强烈的动机之一。它甚至可以让他们爱上我们本月的暴徒——黏黏的、蠕动的，但非常可爱的蝌蚪。

Tadpoles were announced at Minecraft Live 2021, and then added to the game in the Wild Update, which also added the deep dark, the allay, and the tadpoles’ natural habitat – the mangrove swamp.
蝌蚪在 Minecraft Live 2021 上公布，然后在《荒野更新》中加入到游戏，同时还加入了深暗之域、悦灵和蝌蚪的自然栖息地——红树林沼泽。



Tadpoles don’t generate in the world when it’s created, unlike most other passive mobs. Instead, they’re produced by a block of frogspawn, which is created when you breed a couple of frogs together using slimeballs. Once laid, frogspawn will take about ten minutes to hatch, and when it does it’ll create 2-5 tadpoles.
与其他大多数被动生物不同，蝌蚪不会随世界生成而生成。相反，它们是由一个青蛙卵方块生成的，青蛙卵是用粘液球使一对青蛙繁殖时产生的。一旦产下，青蛙卵需要约十分钟才能孵化，孵化完成时，它会产生2-5只蝌蚪。

Like most babies, tadpoles don’t do a whole lot. They swim around in water, and flop about trying to get to the nearest water if they find themselves on land. They can be lured with a slimeball, and picked up using a bucket of water. Oh, and they have a natural predator – the axolotl, which actively hunts tadpoles. So try to keep them apart if you want your tadpoles to survive.
像大多数幼崽一样，蝌蚪不会做特别多事情。它们在水中游来游去，如果发现自己在陆地上，就会啪嗒啪嗒地跳动，试图到达最近的水域。它们可以被粘液球引诱，然后被一桶水装起。哦，它们有种天敌——美西螈，它积极捕食蝌蚪。所以如果想让你的蝌蚪活着，就试着把它们分开。

Assuming they do survive, a tadpole will grow up into one of three different kinds of frog depending on the warmth level of the biome it grows up in. For example, a snowy slopes biome will hatch a cold frog, while a savanna biome will hatch a warm frog. A plains biome will hatch a temperate frog.It takes about one in-game day for the tadpole to grow up, but you can accelerate that by feeding the tadpole slimeballs.
若它们确实活下来，蝌蚪将长成三种不同种类的青蛙之一，具体取决于它长大的生物群系的温暖程度。例如，积雪山坡生物群系会催生出一只寒冷变种青蛙，而稀树草原生物群系会催生出一只温暖变种青蛙。平原生物群系会催生出常温变种青蛙。蝌蚪需要约一游戏天的时间长大，但你可以通过喂蝌蚪粘液球来加速长大。


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The Overworld tadpoles are unique, because on planet Earth they don’t just come from frogs – but from almost any amphibian. They look more like fish than frogs when born, but over time they grow little legs, as well as lungs for breathing air, and lose their swimming tail and gills. This process is known as “metamorphosis”.
主世界的蝌蚪是独一无二的，因为在地球，它们不仅源自青蛙，而且源自几乎所有两栖动物。它们出生时看起来更像鱼而不是青蛙，但随着时间的推移，它们会长出小小的腿，以及呼吸空气的肺，并失去游泳用的尾巴和鳃。这个过程称为“变态”。

The word “tadpole” comes from the Middle English “taddepol”, which is a combination of “tadde” meaning “toad”, and “pol” meaning “head”. Some people refer to tadpoles as “pollywogs”, which has similar origins – the word “pol” combined with the word “wiglen” which means “to wiggle”.
“tadpole”（蝌蚪）一词源于中古英语“taddepol”，它是“tadde”（意为“蟾蜍”）和“pol”（意为“头”）的组合。有些人将蝌蚪称为“pollywogs”，它们具有相似的起源——“pol”与意为“摆动”的“wiglen”的结合。

Despite the fact that tadpoles don’t have any bones or other hard body parts, archaeologists have discovered enormous fossil tadpoles in Spain, about 10 cm in length. These beasts wiggled their way through the swamps of the Upper Miocene era, about six to 20 million years ago, about the same time that the ancestors of humans split away from the ancestors of chimpanzees.
尽管蝌蚪没有任何骨头或其他坚硬的身体部位，考古学家仍在西班牙发现了巨大的蝌蚪化石，长约 10 厘米。这些动物在约600至2000万年前的上中新世的沼泽中扭动着，大约在同一时间，人类的祖先与黑猩猩的祖先分离开来。

While was added to Minecraft in the Trails & Tales update, there’s no word yet of any players discovering any tadpole fossils. Luckily, we’ve got the changelog to see when they appeared instead. If only Planet Earth had a changelog, wouldn’t that make everything so much easier?
虽然考古在《足迹与故事》更新中被添加到《Minecraft》中，但截至目前尚无任何有关玩家发现蝌蚪化石的消息。幸好我们有更新日志来查看它们何时出现。如果地球有个更新日志，岂不是让一切都变得容易多了？




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