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歌手: 英语听力
时长: 01:08
The islands of the South Pacific have a life of their own [00:00:03]
Animals have been living in seclusion for so long [00:00:08]
They've evolved in the most curious and surprising ways [00:00:11]
But island living can carry a high price [00:00:15]
Recently some dramatic changes have been sweeping through these strange islands [00:00:18]
At the western limits of the Pacific ocean [00:00:24]
This is New Guinea the world's largest tropical island [00:00:26]
In these isolated jungles [00:00:32]
There are creatures only recently discovered by westerners and mountains that they have never visited [00:00:34]
This is the home of a mammal first seen by scientists as recently as 1994 [00:00:42]
Even the locals rarely see it and it has never been filmed until now [00:00:48]
It lives in trees but it's not a monkey [00:00:54]
Primates never made the jump across the water to this island [00:00:58]
This is a rare glimpse of an almost unknown island oddity [00:01:01]
The dingiso[00:01:06]