Una rana llamada Romeo (A Frog Named Romeo) - Revisited

大家好，听众朋友们。

Hola listeners.

你知道吗，人和动物之间的纽带常常令人惊叹，甚至能改变人生。

You know, the bond between humans and animals can be pretty amazing, even life changing.

我们就在这个《多邻国西班牙语播客》里，亲眼见证了这种联系的力量。

We have witnessed the power of that connection right here on the Duolingo Spanish podcast.

所以在这个特别的系列里，我们重新回顾一些关于人和动物朋友的精彩故事。

So for this special season, we are revisiting our favorite stories about people and their friends from the animal kingdom.

今天我们要去玻利维亚，重温2020年8月的一期节目。

Today we're headed to Bolivia for an episode from August 2020.

主角是生物学家特蕾莎·卡马乔，她对一种濒临灭绝的青蛙着了迷。

It features Teresa Camacho, a biologist who's obsessed with a frog in danger of extinction.

这只青蛙叫罗密欧，特蕾莎还发起了一场特别搞笑的活动，想拯救整个物种。

His name is Romeo, and Teresa launched a hilarious campaign to save his whole species.

这真的是我听过的最喜爱的播客故事之一。

This is truly one of my favorite stories from the podcast.

别走开，结尾会有特蕾莎和罗密欧的最新进展。

Stay tuned until the end for an update about Teresa's work and Romeo.

现在进入本期节目。

Now onto the episode.

2018年，特蕾莎·卡马乔深入玻利维亚最大的云雾林之一。

In 2018, Teresa Camacho went deep inside one of the largest cloud forests in Bolivia.

天气很冷。

It was cold.

她能感觉到雾气打在脸上。

She could feel the mist on her face.

水珠从树叶上滴落到地上。

Water dripped off the leaves onto the ground.

空气中弥漫着花香、树叶味、泥土和木头的气息。

The air smelled of flowers, leaves, soil, and wood.

特蕾莎是受过专业训练的生物学家，但那一刻，她感觉自己更像一个红娘——专门给青蛙牵线的红娘。

Teresa is a trained biologist, but at that moment, she felt more like a matchmaker, a frog matchmaker.

她和团队正在寻找一只雌性的塞布恩科斯水蛙，名叫伊姆布拉。

She and her team were searching for a single female specimen, or Imbra, of the Cebuencos water frog.

只要找到这一只，就有可能挽救整个物种不致灭绝。

If found, this one frog could help prevent an entire species from disappearing.

这只青蛙是目前已知的唯一一只卡亨卡水蛙雄性个体。

This frog was the only known male specimen of the Cahuenca's water frog.

如果这个物种还想延续下去，它必须找到一个伴侣。

He needed a mate if the species was to stand a chance.

所以几个月前，一群生物学家想出了一个办法，为这次探险筹款。

So several months earlier, a group of biologists had hatched a scheme to raise funds for an expedition.

他们给这只青蛙取名叫罗密欧，还在Match.com上为他创建了一个交友资料。

They gave the frog a name, Romeo, and set up a dating profile for him on match.com.

那天，在云雾森林里，特蕾莎鼓励团队再去最后一条溪流试试。

So that day, in the cloud forest, Teresa rallied the team to try one last stream.

突然，她看到一个身影从瀑布跃入池塘。

Suddenly, she saw something leaping from the waterfall into a pond.

她赶紧跑到那东西落下的地方，看起来像只青蛙。

She hustled to the spot where something that looked like a frog had landed.

欢迎收听多邻国西班牙语播客。

And welcome to the Duolingo Spanish podcast.

我是马丁娜·卡斯特罗。

I'm Martina Castro.

每期节目，我们都会为你带来引人入胜的真实故事，帮助你提升西班牙语听力，同时拓宽对世界的认知。

Every episode, we bring you fascinating true stories to help you improve your Spanish listening and gain new perspectives on the world.

讲故事的人会使用中级西班牙语，我会适时用英语补充背景信息。

The storyteller will be using intermediate Spanish, and I'll be chiming in for context in English.

如果没听清，随时可以倒回去重听。

If you miss something, you can always skip back and listen again.

我们还在 podcast.duolingo.com 提供完整的文字稿。

We also offer full transcripts at podcast.duolingo.com.

特蕾莎十岁那年，她的生物老师让一些学生带蝌蚪到课堂上来。

When Teresa was 10, her biology teacher asked some students to bring tadpoles, or renacuajos, to class.

他们要学习两栖动物。

They were going to learn about amphibians.

特蕾莎以前见过青蛙，但从来没怎么在意过它们。

Teresa had seen frogs before, but she had never thought much about them.

特蕾莎的妈妈让她马上把那东西扔掉。

Teresa's mother ordered her to immediately get rid of that thing.

因为不得不跟小蝌蚪告别，特蕾莎接下来十年都没再留意青蛙，但上大学后，她决定主修生物学。

Upset after having to say goodbye to her little tadpole, Teresa didn't pay attention to frogs again for another decade, but in college, she decided to major in biology.

大学三年级时，特蕾莎得找一个研究项目加入。

During her third semester of college, Teresa had to find a research project to join.

有一天下午，她在学校的公告栏上看到一则广告。

One afternoon, she spotted an ad on one of the school bulletin boards.

一群科学家正在招募学生，去雨林偏远地区进行物种普查。

A team of scientists was looking for students to travel to remote areas of the rainforest to do a species inventory.

特蕾莎和二十位科学家一起前往一个叫安博罗-马迪迪的山区。

Teresa traveled with a group of 20 scientists to a mountainous area known as Amboro Madidi.

二十名科学家中只有五位是女性，很明显，一些当地男性对她们在场感到不自在。

Only five of the scientists were women, and it was clear that some of the local men were not comfortable with them being there.

特蕾莎立刻被团队里的两栖动物专家吸引住了。

Teresa was immediately drawn to the expedition's herpetologists.

就是那些专门研究两栖动物的生物学家。

Those are the biologists who specialize in amphibians.

她总是跟着他们出野外，通常都是在晚上。

She tagged along on all of their trips, usually at night.

要看到一只青蛙并不容易。

Catching sight of a frog was not easy.

特蕾莎训练自己，学会在潮湿的泥土或树枝上辨认青蛙背部那抹绿褐色的痕迹。

Teresa practiced training her eyes to detect the green and brown slime of a frog's back in the wet soil of a forest or in the branches of a tree.

晚上找它们尤其困难。

It was especially difficult to spot them at night.

她找到了自己的人生方向。

Teresa had found her calling.

她想起自己十岁时带回家的蝌蚪，那时就着了迷。

She remembered her fascination with the tadpoles she had brought home when she was 10.

说到底，她其实一直都很喜欢青蛙。

Clearly, deep down, she had always loved frogs.

从那以后，她彻底沉迷了。

Now she became obsessed.

回到学校后，特蕾莎拼命学习一切关于青蛙的知识。

Back in school, Teresa tried to learn as much as she could about frogs.

她在厄瓜多尔拿到了硕士学位。

She finished a master's degree in Ecuador.

之后，她申请了科恰班巴自然历史博物馆的职位——那家专门研究两栖动物的博物馆。

Then she applied for a job at the Museum of Natural History in Cochabamba, the one that specializes in amphibians.

2009年，一支生物学家团队捕获了一只雄性的塞布恩卡水蛙。

In 2009, a team of biologists captured a single male Cebuenca's water frog.

这种蛙在整个玻利维亚的森林里，分布地点不到十个。

This species is found in fewer than 10 places in all of Bolivia's forests.

expedition 中的一位生物学家是特蕾莎的朋友，他知道特蕾莎工作的博物馆里有个项目，专门饲养青蛙，比如格里亚、拉纳斯和考迪韦里奥。

One of the biologists in the expedition was a friend of Teresa's, and he knew that in the museum where she worked, there was a project to raise frogs in captivity, or Griar, Ranas, and Caudiverio.

生物学家称这种青蛙为特尔马托比乌斯·乌拉卡拉。

Biologists call this frog Telmatobius uracare.

它生活在高海拔地区的岩石底下，从不离开水。

It lives under rocks at high elevations and never ever leaves the water.

它很容易辨认，因为肚子是橙色的。

It's easily recognizable because of its orange belly.

这种水蛙正面临污染、气候变化，以及一种致命传染病的威胁。

This water frog species is threatened by pollution, climate change, and also a deadly infectious disease.

所以特蕾莎必须好好照顾这只雄性青蛙。

So Teresa had to take really good care of this male frog.

特蕾莎觉得每只青蛙都有不同的性格，这只特别淡定。

Teresa believes every frog has a different personality, and this one was chill.

它很平静，放松，也很安静。

He was calm, relaxed, and quiet.

他不太动，但吃很多虫子。

He didn't move much, but he ate a lot of worms.

时间一天天过去，科学家们在野外始终没找到像特蕾莎养的这种水蛙。

Time passed and scientists failed to find other water frogs like Teresa's out in the wild.

要是卡韦恩克水蛙彻底灭绝了怎么办？

What if there were no more Cahuenques water frogs alive?

特蕾莎说，如果这种蛙真的消失了，整个生态系统都会受到严重影响。

According to Teresa, if it became extinct, this could have a big impact on the whole ecosystem.

整整十年，这只青蛙一直独自待在水箱里。

For ten long years, the frog sat in his tank all alone.

时间一分一秒地流逝。

The clock was ticking.

大家都想救这只青蛙，特蕾莎也是其中之一。

Everyone wanted to save the frog, including Teresa.

2018年，这只青蛙整整一年都没发出一点声音。

In the 2018, the frog had been totally quiet for a whole year.

连一声叫都没听过。

Not a single croak or gruyar.

这可把博物馆里的生物学家们，包括特蕾莎，急坏了。

This really worried the biologists at the museum, including Teresa.

生物学家们必须采取行动，于是决定筹款组织一次远征，去寻找一只雌性的塞布恩科斯水蛙。

The biologists had to do something, so they decided to start raising money for an expedition to search for a female Cebuencos water frog.

总部设在美国的全球野生动物保护组织主动提出资助这次远征。

The Global Wildlife Conservation, an NGO based in The US, offered to help fund the expedition.

他们还建议和Match.com合作，就是从这时候起，这只青蛙有了名字。

They also suggested partnering with match.com, which is when the frog got a name.

罗密欧。

Romeo.

罗密欧的交友资料上写着他是一只11岁的雄性，住在玻利维亚的科恰班巴。

Romeo's dating profile said that he was an 11 year old male living in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

他形容自己是个很朴实的人。

He described himself as a pretty simple guy.

他想找一只体型敦实、光头、两到三英寸长的雌性青蛙，而且愿意生宝宝。

He was looking for a stocky and bald female frog, two to three inches long, who was interested in having kids.

他的个人照片是他正悠闲地待在水族箱里。

His profile photo showed him chilling in his tank.

这个匹配网的帖子在全球范围内爆红了。

The match.com post went viral around the world.

罗密欧成了全球瞩目的焦点。

Romeo was a global sensation.

2018年情人节那天，博物馆的科学家接到了全球野生动物保护组织的电话。

On Valentine's Day twenty eighteen, the scientists at the museum got a call from the people of the Global Wildlife Conservation.

他们带来了个天大的好消息。

They had really good news.

由于罗密欧年纪已经不小了，特蕾莎赶紧加快了组织考察队的进度。

Since Romeo was already a little advanced in age, Teresa sped up the process of organizing an expedition.

寻找朱丽叶的考察队于2018年12月8日出发了。

The expedition to find Julieta began on 12/08/2018.

只有四个人去了，特蕾莎、另一位生物学家，还有两位兽医。

Only four people went, Teresa, another biologist, and two veterinarians.

他们选的地点是保密的。

The spot they chose was a secret.

罗密欧现在已经是个名人了，他们不想引来不必要的关注。

Romeo was now a celebrity, and they didn't want to attract any unnecessary attention.

早上七点，团队从科恰班巴出发了。

At 7AM, the team left Cochabamba.

开车到雨林花了七个小时。

It was a seven hour drive to the rainforest.

到了之后，到处都是浓雾。

When they arrived, there was a thick fog.

不太妙。

Bad news.

行动的第一天简直是一场噩梦。

The first day of the operation was a nightmare.

第二天情况也没好多少。

The second day wasn't much better.

他们找了几个水塘，但一无所获。

They looked in a couple of ponds, but nothing.

特蕾莎觉得该找个干燥的地方过夜了。

Teresa decided it was time to find a dry spot to spend the night.

然后，她在回车的路上听到了瀑布的声音。

Then, while hiking back to the car, she heard the sound of a waterfall.

那地方不太好找。

It was not an easy spot to reach.

她得极其缓慢、极其安静地穿过植被。

She had to make her way through the foliage very, very slowly and very, very quietly.

她不能惊跑任何可能的青蛙。

She could not scare off any potential frogs.

特蕾莎慢慢伸手到池塘底部，摸到了一只青蛙。

Teresa reached down slowly to the bottom of the pond and felt a frog.

她一把抓住了它。

She grabbed it.

把它从水里拿出来后，她立刻看了下它的腹部——是卡亨卡水蛙。

When she got it out of the water, she immediately looked at its belly and It was a Cahuenca's water frog.

特蕾莎激动极了。

Teresa was ecstatic.

后来发现，特蕾莎抓到的这只青蛙是雄性的。

As it turned out, the frog Teresa had grabbed was a male.

但她又花了两天时间在池塘里搜寻，最终找到了五只健康的青蛙。

But she spent two more days searching the pond and ended up finding five healthy frogs.

其中有两只雌性。

Two of them were female.

一只太小还不能繁殖，另一只则完全配得上罗密欧。

One was too young to reproduce, but the other one was the perfect match for Romeo.

特蕾莎的团队把青蛙带到了博物馆，对胡丽叶塔做了各种检测。

Teresa's team brought the frogs to the museum and did all types of tests on Julieta.

终于，经过所有检测和四周的隔离，罗密欧和朱丽叶的第一次约会正式开始了。

Finally, after passing all the tests and a four week quarantine, it was time for Romeo and Juliet's first date.

特蕾莎把罗密欧捧了起来。

Teresa grabbed Romeo.

另一位生物学家则抱起了朱丽叶。

Another biologist grabbed Juliet.

他们赶紧把两只青蛙放进同一个水箱里，脸上都带着笑容。

Then they placed them in the same tank together as fast as they could, smiling.

如今，特蕾莎·卡马乔在野外待的时间更长了。

These days, Teresa Camacho spends even more time in the field.

自从2020年她的故事首次播出以来，特蕾莎和其他科学家对这种骗局有了更多了解。

Since her story first aired in 2020, Teresa and other scientists have learned a lot more about this kind of fraud.

那罗密欧后来怎么样了？

But what about Romeo?

特蕾莎在一条微信消息里给我们发来了一条重要更新。

Well, Teresa sent us an important update in a WhatsApp message.

你会注意到，她的声音和原来的故事里不太一样。

You'll hear she sounds a bit different from the original story.

听到罗密欧还活着，而且过得很好，我们真的特别开心。

We are so happy to hear that Romeo is alive and thriving.

特蕾莎，你为保护他和其他动物所做的工作，真的让人敬佩。

The work you do, Teresa, to protect him and other animals is so impressive.

再次感谢你分享这个更新。

Thank you again for this update.

我们非常欣赏你，当然也特别喜欢罗密欧。

We are big fans of you and, of course, of Romeo.

本故事由来自布宜诺斯艾利斯的记者兼作家塔利·戈德曼制作并更新。

This story was produced and updated by Tali Goldman, a journalist and writer based in Buenos Aires.

我们很想听听你对这期节目的看法。

We would love to know what you thought of this episode.

你可以随时给我们发邮件到 podcastduolingo dot com，或者拨打 050369 留言，也可以通过 WhatsApp 发语音消息。

You can always write us an email at podcastduolingo dot com or call and leave us a voicemail or audio message on WhatsApp at 050369.

别忘了报上你的名字和你来自哪里。

Don't forget to say your name and where you're from.

如果你喜欢这个故事，欢迎分享给其他人。

If you liked this story, please share it.

每期节目的音频和文字稿都可以在 podcast.duolingo.com 上找到。

You can find the audio and a transcript of each episode at podcast.duolingo.com.

你也可以在 Apple 播客或者你常用的听播客应用上关注我们，这样就不会错过任何一期了。

You can also follow us on Apple Podcasts or on your favorite listening app so you never miss an episode.

Duolingo 拥有超过五亿用户，是全球领先的语言学习平台，也是全球下载量最大的教育类应用。

With over 500,000,000 users, Duolingo is the world's leading language learning platform and the most downloaded education app in the world.

Duolingo 坚信，教育应该是免费、有趣且人人都能获得的。

Duolingo believes in making education free, fun, and available to everyone.

现在就下载应用，或者访问 duolingo.com 了解更多，马上加入我们吧。

To join, download the app today or find out more at duolingo.com.

本节目由 Duolingo 和 Adonte Media 联合制作。

The Duolingo Spanish podcast produced by Duolingo and Adonte Media.

我们的主编是大卫·阿拉内特。

Our managing editor is David Alandete.

我们的高级编辑是劳拉·艾森西。

Our senior editor is Laura Eisensee.

本季由塔莉·戈德曼制作，故事作者包括马尔科·阿维莱斯、露西娅·比拉维森西奥、洛雷娜·加利奥特、佩吉·萨瑟兰和塔莉·戈德曼。

This season was produced by Tali Goldman and included stories by Marco Aviles, Lucia Villavicencio, Lorena Galliot, Paige Sutherland, and Tali Goldman.

这些故事由特蕾莎·博萨、斯蒂芬妮·乔伊斯、卡塔莉娜·迈和梅根·麦克道尔编辑。

The stories were edited by Teresa Bosa, Stephanie Joyce, Catalina Mai, and Megan McDowell.

音频编辑和音效设计由安德雷斯·费什滕霍尔茨、毛里西奥·门多萨、克莱尔·穆伦、丹尼尔·穆尔西亚、马丁·佩雷斯·罗亚和伊莎贝尔·瓦斯奎兹完成。

Audio editors and sound designers were Andres Feshtenholtz, Mauricio Mendoza, Claire Mullen, Daniel Murcia, Martin Perez Roa, and Isabel Vasquez.

我们的制作经理是罗曼·弗朗蒂尼。

Our production manager is Roman Frontini.

我们的制作协调员是尼古拉斯·索萨。

Our production coordinator is Nicolas Sosa.

哈维尔·阿马伊也参与了制作支持。

Javier Amay also supported production.

助理制片人是安德烈斯·费斯滕霍尔茨和卡洛·罗兰多。

Assistant producers were Andres Festenholz and Carlo Rolando.

我们的监制音效设计师、混音和母带工程师包括劳伦特·阿佩尔、马丁·克鲁兹·法尔加、丹尼尔·穆尔西亚和安东尼奥·罗梅罗。

Our supervising sound designers, mixing and mastering engineers were Laurent Apfel, Martin Cruz Farga, Daniel Murcia, and Antonio Romero.

我是执行制片人，也是你们的主持人，马丁娜·卡斯特罗。

I'm the executive producer and your host, Martina Castro.