EP49【說】 牠一天可以睡幾百次耶，羨慕嗎？ Ants Sleep Hundreds of Times a Day. ｜螞蟻的好玩冷知識

When we see ants, they always seem to be busy. 我們看到螞蟻的時候，牠們好像永遠都在忙。 They look for food, carry things, take care of young ants, and move around all day. 牠們找食物、搬東西、照顧幼蟲，而且一整天都在到處活動。 So, you might think, “Do ants even need to sleep?” 所以你可能會想：「螞蟻真的需要睡覺嗎？」 Well, they do. 答案是，牠們會。畢竟他也是螞蟻生螞蟻養，又不是天生下來就要做到死…. And the way some ants sleep might make you a little jealous. 而且，有些螞蟻的睡覺方式，可能會讓你有一點羨慕。 Because they can sleep hundreds of times a day. 因為牠們一天可以睡幾百次。 They do not sleep for eight hours in one long stretch. 牠們不是一次連續睡八個小時。 Instead, they take many short periods of sleep throughout the day. 相反地，牠們會把睡眠分成很多段，分散在一天當中。 Researchers have studied the sleep patterns of fire ants, especially their worker ants. 研究人員曾經研究過紅火蟻的睡眠模式，尤其是牠們的工蟻。 They found that a worker fire ant can have about 253 sleep periods in one day. 他們發現，一隻紅火蟻工蟻一天大約可以有 253 次睡眠片段。 Each sleep period is very short, lasting about 1.1 minutes on average. 每一次睡眠都非常短，平均大約只有 1.1 分鐘。 So their daily routine might look something like this. 所以牠們一天的生活可能大概是這樣。 Sleep for a little while. Wake up and go back to work. 睡一下。醒來，繼續工作。 Work for a while. Then take another short nap. 工作一陣子。然後再小睡一下。 Wake up, and get back to work. Then do it all over again. 醒來，再回去工作。然後再重複一次。 It is almost like they have hundreds of tiny naps every day. 這幾乎就像牠們每天都有幾百次小小的午睡。 3.If humans slept like this, we might spend half the day saying, “Wait, did I just wake up?” 如果人類也這樣睡，我們可能有一半的時間都在說：「等一下，我剛剛是不是才睡醒？」 But why do worker ants sleep this way? 但是，為什麼工蟻要用這樣的方式睡覺呢？ Ants do not live alone. 螞蟻不是獨居的動物。 They live together in large colonies, where different ants have different jobs. 牠們生活在大型的群體裡，而不同的螞蟻有不同的工作。 Some ants look for food. Some carry food and other materials. 有些螞蟻負責尋找食物。有些負責搬運食物和其他東西。 Some take care of the young ants. Others help clean and maintain the nest. 有些負責照顧幼蟲。還有一些負責清理和維持蟻巢。 So, the colony needs to keep working even when some ants are resting. 所以，即使有一些螞蟻正在休息，整個蟻群還是需要繼續運作。 In other words, ants do not need everyone to work at the same time. 換句話說，螞蟻不需要所有成員同時工作。 They also do not need everyone to rest at the same time. 牠們也不需要所有成員同時休息。 Their work and rest are spread out across the colony. 牠們把工作和休息分散在整個蟻群裡。 We sometimes think that being hardworking means never stopping. 我們有時候會覺得，努力就代表不能停下來。 Sometimes, taking a break is simply part of keeping going. 有時候，休息只是讓自己能夠繼續走下去的一部分。 Maybe we do not need to learn how to sleep 253 times a day. 我們可能不需要學螞蟻一天睡 253 次。 But maybe we can learn to stop for a moment when we really need to. 但也許我們可以學著，在真的需要的時候，讓自己停一下。 So, the next time you see ants running around and looking busy, remember this. 所以，下次你看到螞蟻一直跑來跑去、看起來忙得不得了的時候，可以記得這件事。 That little ant may have already taken several short naps today. 眼前那隻小螞蟻，今天可能已經睡過好幾次了。 Hundreds of naps a day. Are you jealous? 一天幾百次小睡。你羨慕嗎？ -- 練習 sleep 睡眠 / 睡覺 I didn't get enough sleep last night.（我昨晚睡眠不足。） -- #生活英文 #台語 #紅火蟻 #螞蟻睡覺 #podcast -- Hosting provided by SoundOn