DEEP DIVESMOB MENAGERIE: TADPOLE
生物圈栏：蝌蚪

Baby frogs!
变态发育


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 .
你有想过动物们的幼崽为什么会如此可爱吗？近些年的研究表明，人类对可爱生物表现出弱攻击性的动机十分强烈，因此有学说认为这是动物生存的一种策略。所以，我们的本月生物——沾着满身粘液蠕动的蝌蚪——甚至也能得到人们的喜爱。

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.
蝌蚪的首次亮相是在 Minecraft Live 2021。而后，在荒野更新中，它与深暗之域、悦灵以及它们的天然栖息地——红树林沼泽——一同被加入了游戏。



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.
有别于其他的被动生物，创建世界时蝌蚪并不会自然生成。只有使用粘液球繁殖青蛙时产下的卵中会孵化出蝌蚪。青蛙卵从被产下到孵化需要大约 10 分钟，一次会生成 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.
与多数幼崽一样，蝌蚪的行为很单调。在水中时，它们会漫无目的地潜游；在陆地上，它们则会奋力跳向最近的水源。它们会被粘液球吸引，亦可被桶捕获。哦对了，美西螈是它们的天敌，发现蝌蚪时会主动出击。所以要想呵护你的蝌蚪健康成长，记得把它们隔离开。

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.
若是它们安全存活下来，蝌蚪就会成长为青蛙——青蛙的种类取决于成长所在群系的温度，共有三种不同种类。例如，在积雪山坡群系长大的青蛙是绿色，在热带草原群系则是白色，而平原是橙色。蝌蚪长为青蛙需要约一个游戏日，喂食粘液球可以加快这一进程。


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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”.
主世界里的蝌蚪独一无二，因为在地球上几乎所有两栖动物的幼崽都是蝌蚪。刚孵化时，比起青蛙它们更像是鱼；然而随着时间的流逝，它们会长出细小的腿、用于呼吸的肺，尾巴和鳃也会逐渐消失。这一过程叫做”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” 这一单词源于中古英语的 “taddepol”，由表示蟾蜍的“tadde” 和意为头的“pol”结合而成 。一些人习惯称蝌蚪为起源类似的单词 “pollywogs”——“pol”与表示摆动的“wiglen”的组合。

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.
尽管蝌蚪并无骨骼或坚硬的部位，在西班牙，考古学家们仍发现了长达 10 厘米的巨大蝌蚪化石。六百万至两千万年前，在上中新世的沼泽中能看到这些野兽扭动着的身影，此时人类的祖先正与黑猩猩的祖先分离开。

While archaeology 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?
自足迹与故事更新中考古系统加入 Minecraft 以来，还没有玩家发现过蝌蚪化石。好消息是，更新日志可以让我们轻松了解它们何时被加入。如果地球也有个更新日志，想必可以省去不少麻烦。




【SPXX User 译自官网 2023 年 12 月 07 日发布的 Tadpole；原作者 Duncan Geere】
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