And of course, snap traps, like our friend the Venus flytrap.

当然，还有捕兽夹式陷阱，比如我们的朋友捕蝇草。

Believe it or not, the Venus flytrap is on the verge of becoming an endangered species.

信不信由你，捕蝇草现在濒临灭绝。

Sometimes those responses are recognizable and action-packed — like a Venus flytrap snapping shut on a bug.

有时，这些反应是可识别的，而且充满了动感——就像捕蝇草捕捉昆虫一样。

For example, among the species at risk of extinction is the Venus flytrap, a plant that " eats" insects.

例如，在濒临灭绝的物种中，有一种叫捕蝇草，它是一种以昆虫为食的植物。

It's called a flytrap because, as you probably know, it's famous for trapping flies in its toothy leaves.

它被称为捕蝇草，因为你可能知道这种植物以把苍蝇困在它的齿状叶子里而闻名。

The Venus flytrap uses a modified version of that jasmonic acid signal.

维纳斯捕蝇草使用茉莉酸信号的改良版本。

He wants you to shut that flytrap you got hanging down.

他是说让长在你身上的捕蝇器收声。

So here we are seeing the flytrap actually doing a computation.

所以在这里我们看到捕蝇草实际上在进行计算。

So, as unique as they look, the Venus flytrap’s claws and chemistry are evolutionarily repurposed tools.

因此，尽管它们看起来很独特，但维纳斯捕蝇草的爪子和化学物质是经过进化改变用途的工具。

And to understand why that is, we need to know a little bit more about the behavior of the flytrap.

为了理解为什么会这样，我们需要更多地了解捕蝇草的行为。