What are animals thinking and feeling? | Carl Safina

Prevoditelj: Maja Covic Recezent: Matko Bošnjak

Have you ever wondered what animals think and feel?

Jeste li se ikad pitali o čemu životinje razmišljaju i kako se osjećaju?

Let's start with a question:

Krenimo s ovim pitanjem:

Does my dog really love me, or does she just want a treat?

Voli li me moj pas doista ili samo želi poslasticu?

Well, it's easy to see that our dog really loves us,

Lako je vidjeti da nas pas doista voli,

easy to see, right,

lako je shvatiti

what's going on in that fuzzy little head.

što se mota u toj čupavoj glavici.

What is going on?

Što se to mota?

Something's going on.

Nešto se odvija.

But why is the question always do they love us?

No, zašto je pitanje uvijek vole li oni nas?

Why is it always about us?

Zašto je naglasak uvijek na nama?

Why are we such narcissists?

Zašto smo tako narcisoidni?

I found a different question to ask animals.

Imam drukčije pitanje za životinje.

Who are you?

Tko ste vi?

There are capacities of the human mind

Ljudski um ima svojstva

that we tend to think are capacities only of the human mind.

koja smatramo da su karakteristična samo za ljude.

But is that true?

No, je li to zaista tako?

What are other beings doing with those brains?

Što druga bića rade s tim svojim mozgovima?

What are they thinking and feeling?

O čemu razmišljaju i što osjećaju?

Is there a way to know?

Postoji li način da to saznamo?

I think there is a way in.

Mislim da postoji neki način.

I think there are several ways in.

Mislim da postoji više načina.

We can look at evolution, we can look at their brains

Možemo proučiti evoluciju, njihove mozgove,

and we can watch what they do.

i možemo proučavati što oni rade.

The first thing to remember is: our brain is inherited.

Prvo trebamo upamtiti ovo: naš je mozak naslijeđen.

The first neurons came from jellyfish.

Prvi neuroni pojavili su se kod meduza.

Jellyfish gave rise to the first chordates.

Iz meduza su se razvii prvi svitkovci.

The first chordates gave rise to the first vertebrates.

Prvi su se svitkovci kasnije razvili u prve kralježnjake.

The vertebrates came out of the sea,

Kralježnjaci su izašli iz mora,

and here we are.

i evo nas ovdje.

But it's still true that a neuron, a nerve cell, looks the same

Međutim, neuron tj. živčana stanica još uvijek izgleda jednako

in a crayfish, a bird or you.

kod rakova, ptica ili vas.

What does that say about the minds of crayfish?

Što to govori o umu rakova?

Can we tell anything about that?

Možemo li išta o tome kazati?

Well, it turns out that if you give a crayfish

Ispostavilo se da ako raku damo

a lot of little tiny electric shocks

mnogo sitnih električnih šokova

every time it tries to come out of its burrow,

svaki puta kada pokuša izaći iz svog skrovišta,

it will develop anxiety.

kod njega će to razviti anksioznost.

If you give the crayfish the same drug

Ako raku date isti lijek

used to treat anxiety disorder in humans,

koji se koristi za liječenje anksioznosti u čovjeka,

it relaxes and comes out and explores.

on će se opustiti, izaći i istraživati.

How do we show how much we care about crayfish anxiety?

Kako iskazujemo koliko nam je stalo o anksioznosti rakova?

Mostly, we boil them.

Uglavnom tako da ih kuhamo.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Octopuses use tools, as well as do most apes

Hobotnice koriste oruđe, kao i većina čovjekolikih majmuna

and they recognize human faces.

i prepoznaju ljudska lica.

How do we celebrate the ape-like intelligence of this invertebrate?

Kako slavimo tu visoku inteligenciju ovih beskralježnjaka?

Mostly boiled.

Uglavnom ih kuhamo.

If a grouper chases a fish into a crevice in the coral,

Ako kijerna tjera ribu u pukotinu u koralju,

it will sometimes go to where it knows a moray eel is sleeping

ponekad će ići onamo gdje zna da murinka spava

and it will signal to the moray, "Follow me,"

i signalizirat će murinki da je slijedi

and the moray will understand that signal.

i murinka će razumjeti taj signal.

The moray may go into the crevice and get the fish,

Murinka će možda ući u pukotinu i uhvatiti ribu,

but the fish may bolt and the grouper may get it.

ali riba se može naglo izmaći i u tom je slučaju može uloviti kijerna.

This is an ancient partnership that we have just recently found out about.

Ovo je drevna suradnja koju smo tek nedavno otkrili.

How do we celebrate that ancient partnership?

Kako slavimo to drevno partnerstvo?

Mostly fried.

Uglavnom tako da ih pržimo.

A pattern is emerging and it says a lot more about us

Javlja se obrazac ponašanja koji govori mnogo više o nama

than it does about them.

nego o njima.

Sea otters use tools

Morske vidre koriste oruđe

and they take time away from what they're doing

i odvajaju vrijeme od toga što rade

to show their babies what to do, which is called teaching.

kako bi pokazale svojim mladuncima što treba raditi, a to se zove podučavanje.

Chimpanzees don't teach.

Čimpanze ne podučavaju.

Killer whales teach and killer whales share food.

Kitovi ubojice podučavaju i dijele hranu.

When evolution makes something new,

Kada evolucija stvori nešto novo,

it uses the parts it has in stock, off the shelf,

koristi dijelove koje već ima otprije,

before it fabricates a new twist.

prije nego što stvori nešto novo.

And our brain has come to us

Naš mozak se razvijao

through the enormity of the deep sweep of time.

tijekom milijuna godina.

If you look at the human brain compared to a chimpanzee brain,

Ako usporedite ljudski mozak i mozak čimpanze,

what you see is we have basically a very big chimpanzee brain.

možete vidjeti da imamo vrlo veliki mozak čimpanzi.

It's a good thing ours is bigger, because we're also really insecure.

Dobro je da je naš mozak veći, s obzirom da smo također vrlo nesigurni.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

But, uh oh, there's a dolphin,

Ovo je dupin,

a bigger brain with more convolutions.

ima veći mozak s više vijuga.

OK, maybe you're saying, all right, well, we see brains,

Možda si mislite "Vidimo mozgove,

but what does that have to say about minds?

ali što to govori o umovima?"

Well, we can see the working of the mind

Pa, djelovanje uma možemo uočiti

in the logic of behaviors.

u logičnosti ponašanja.

So these elephants, you can see,

Ovi se slonovi ovdje

obviously, they are resting.

očigledno odmaraju.

They have found a patch of shade under the palm trees

Pronašli su malo hlada pod palmama

under which to let their babies sleep,

gdje im mladunčad može spavati,

while they doze but remain vigilant.

dok oni drijemaju, ali su istovremeno na oprezu.

We make perfect sense of that image

Ova slika nam je sasvim jasna

just as they make perfect sense of what they're doing

kao što je njima sasvim jasno to što rade

because under the arc of the same sun on the same plains,

jer ispod istog sunca, na istim tim ravnicama,

listening to the howls of the same dangers,

slušajući zavijanje istih opasnosti,

they became who they are and we became who we are.

oni su postali to što jesu, a mi smo postali to što mi jesmo.

We've been neighbors for a very long time.

Vrlo smo dugo susjedi.

No one would mistake these elephants as being relaxed.

Nitko ne bi rekao da ovi slonovi izgledaju opušteno.

They're obviously very concerned about something.

Očigledno su vrlo zabrinuti zbog nečega.

What are they concerned about?

Što ih to brine?

It turns out that if you record the voices of tourists

Pokazalo se da ako snimite glasove turista

and you play that recording from a speaker hidden in bushes,

i pustite snimku preko zvučnika skrivenog u grmlju,

elephants will ignore it, because tourists never bother elephants.

slonovi će to ignorirati, jer ih turisti nikada ne uznemiravaju.

But if you record the voices of herders

No, ako snimite glasove pastira

who carry spears and often hurt elephants in confrontations at water holes,

koji nose koplja i često ranjavaju slonove tijekom sukoba na pojilištima,

the elephants will bunch up and run away from the hidden speaker.

slonovi će se okupiti i pobjeći od skrivenog zvučnika.

Not only do elephants know that there are humans,

Ne samo da slonovi znaju da su to ljudi,

they know that there are different kinds of humans,

nego razlikuju drukčije skupine ljudi,

and that some are OK and some are dangerous.

i znaju da su neki uredu, a neki opasni.

They have been watching us for much longer than we have been watching them.

Promatraju nas mnogo dulje nego mi njih.

They know us better than we know them.

Znaju nas bolje nego mi njih.

We have the same imperatives:

Imamo jednake nagone:

take care of our babies, find food, try to stay alive.

brinuti se za bebe, tražiti hranu, preživljavati.

Whether we're outfitted for hiking in the hills of Africa

Bilo da smo opremljeni za planinarenje po afričkim brdima,

or outfitted for diving under the sea, we are basically the same.

ili da smo opremljeni za ronjenje pod morem, u suštini smo jednaki.

We are kin under the skin.

U srodstvu smo.

The elephant has the same skeleton,

Slon ima jednaki kostur,

the killer whale has the same skeleton,

kit ubojica ima jednaki kostur,

as do we.

kao i mi.

We see helping where help is needed.

Možemo vidjeti kako pružaju pomoć kada je to potrebno.

We see curiosity in the young.

Vidimo znatiželju u mladunaca.

We see the bonds of family connections.

Vidimo kako su obitelji povezane.

We recognize affection.

Prepoznajemo ljubav.

Courtship is courtship.

Udvaranje je udvaranje.

And then we ask, "Are they conscious?"

A potom se pitamo, "Jesu li oni svjesni?"

When you get general anesthesia, it makes you unconscious,

Kada primite opću anesteziju, postanete nesvjesni,

which means you have no sensation of anything.

što znači da nemate nikakav osjećaj ni za što.

Consciousness is simply the thing that feels like something.

Svjesnost je samo sposobnost da osjećamo nešto.

If you see, if you hear, if you feel, if you're aware of anything,

Ako vidite, čujete, osjećate, ako išta uočavate,

you are conscious, and they are conscious.

tada ste svjesni, kao što su i oni.

Some people say

Neki ljudi tvrde

well, there are certain things that make humans humans,

da postoje određene stvari koje ljude čine ljudima,

and one of those things is empathy.

a jedna od tih stvari je empatija.

Empathy is the mind's ability to match moods with your companions.

Empatija je sposobnost uma da uskladi vaše raspoloženje s onima drugih ljudi.

It's a very useful thing.

To je vrlo korisno.

If your companions start to move quickly,

Ako se ljudi oko vas počnu ubrzano kretati

you have to feel like you need to hurry up.

imat ćete potrebu da požurite.

We're all in a hurry now.

Sada smo svi u žurbi.

The oldest form of empathy is contagious fear.

Najstariji oblik empatije je zarazan strah.

If your companions suddenly startle and fly away,

Ako se ljudi oko vas odjednom uplaše i pobjegnu,

it does not work very well for you to say,

nije najbolja solucija da ostanete na tom mjestu,

"Jeez, I wonder why everybody just left."

"Ajme, pitam se zašto su svi pobjegli."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Empathy is old, but empathy, like everything else in life,

Empatija je stara, ali kao i sve u životu,

comes on a sliding scale and has its elaboration.

ovisi o raznim faktorima i ima više oblika.

So there's basic empathy: you feel sad, it makes me sad.

Postoji osnovna empatija: ti si tužan, i to mene čini tužnim.

I see you happy, it makes me happy.

Vidim da si sretan i to mene čini sretnim.

Then there's something that I call sympathy,

Postoji nešto što ja zovem sućut,

a little more removed:

to je malo drukčije:

"I'm sorry to hear that your grandmother has just passed away.

"Žao mi je što ti je baka nedavno preminula."

I don't feel that same grief, but I get it; I know what you feel

"Ne osjećam jednaku tugu, ali je razumijem; znam kako se osjećaš

and it concerns me."

i to me brine."

And then if we're motivated to act on sympathy,

Ako smo motivirani da djelujemo u skladu sa sućuti,

I call that compassion.

to nazivam suosjećanjem.

Far from being the thing that makes us human,

Ne samo da empatija nije to što nas čini ljudskim bićima,

human empathy is far from perfect.

ona nije nimalo savršena.

We round up empathic creatures, we kill them and we eat them.

Okupljamo empatična stvorenja, ubijamo ih i jedemo.

Now, maybe you say OK, well, those are different species.

Možda tvrdite da su to drukčije vrste.

That's just predation, and humans are predators.

To je samo predatorstvo, a ljudi su predatori.

But we don't treat our own kind too well either.

No mi se niti prema svojoj vlastitoj vrsti ne ophodimo dobro.

People who seem to know only one thing about animal behavior

Ljudi koji poznaju samo jednu komponentu ponašanja životinja

know that you must never attribute human thoughts and emotions

znaju da nikada ne bismo smjeli pridavati ljudske misli i osjećaje

to other species.

drugim vrstama.

Well, I think that's silly,

Ja smatram da je to glupo,

because attributing human thoughts and emotions to other species

jer pridavanjem ljudskih misli i osjećaja drugim vrstama

is the best first guess about what they're doing and how they're feeling,

najbolje možemo pogoditi što one rade i kako se osjećaju,

because their brains are basically the same as ours.

jer su njihovi mozgovi u načelu jednaki našem.

They have the same structures.

Imaju iste strukture.

The same hormones that create mood and motivation in us

Isti hormoni koji stvaraju raspoloženja i motivaciju kod nas

are in those brains as well.

nalaze se i u njihovim mozgovima.

It is not scientific to say that they are hungry when they're hunting

Nije znanstveno ako kažemo da su gladni kada love,

and they're tired when their tongues are hanging out,

i da su umorni kada im jezici vise,

and then say when they're playing with their children

i onda reći kada se igraju sa svojim mladuncima

and acting joyful and happy,

i ponašaju radosno i sretno,

we have no idea if they can possibly be experiencing anything.

nemamo pojma o tome mogu li oni uopće išta osjećati.

That is not scientific.

To nije znanstveno.

So OK, so a reporter said to me,

Jedan novinar mi je rekao,

"Maybe, but how do you really know that other animals can think and feel?"

"Možda, ali kako zaista znate da druge životinje mogu misliti i osjećati?"

And I started to rifle through all the hundreds

Počeo sam brzinski prelijetati preko stotinu

of scientific references that I put in my book

znanstvenih poveznica koje sam uvrstio u svoju knjigu

and I realized that the answer was right in the room with me.

i onda sam shvatio da se odgovor nalazio u toj istoj sobi.

When my dog gets off the rug and comes over to me --

Kada se moj pas digne s tepiha i priđe mi,

not to the couch, to me --

ne kauču nego meni,

and she rolls over on her back and exposes her belly,

i izvali se na leđa da otkrije trbuh,

she has had the thought, "I would like my belly rubbed.

prije toga je pomislila, "Želim da me počeše po trbuhu.

I know that I can go over to Carl,

Znam da mogu doći do Carla,

he will understand what I'm asking.

on će razumjeti što ga tražim.

I know I can trust him because we're family.

Znam da mu mogu vjerovati, jer smo obitelj.

He'll get the job done, and it will feel good."

On će to napraviti i sjajno ću se osjećati."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

She has thought and she has felt,

Ona je mislila i osjećala,

and it's really not more complicated than that.

i istina zaista nije kompliciranija od toga.

But we see other animals and we say, "Oh look, killer whales,

Međutim, vidimo druge životinje i kažemo, "Oh vidi, kit ubojica,

wolves, elephants:

vukovi, slonovi:

that's not how they see it."

oni to ne doživljavaju na isti način."

That tall-finned male is L41.

Ovaj mužjak s visokom perajom je L41.

He's 38 years old.

Ima 38 godina.

The female right on his left side is L22.

Ženka s njegove lijeve strane je L22.

She's 44.

Ona ima 44 godine.

They've known each other for decades.

Oni se znaju desetljećima.

They know exactly who they are.

Točno znaju tko su.

They know who their friends are.

Znaju tko su im prijatelji.

They know who their rivals are.

Znaju tko su im protivnici.

Their life follows the arc of a career.

Život im se odvija poput karijere.

They know where they are all the time.

Svo vrijeme znaju gdje se nalaze.

This is an elephant named Philo.

Ovo je slon Philo.

He was a young male.

Bio je mladi mužjak.

This is him four days later.

Ovo je on nakon četiri dana.

Humans not only can feel grief, we create an awful lot of it.

Ljudi ne samo da osjećaju tugu, već je mogu i prouzročiti u velikim količinama.

We want to carve their teeth.

Želimo izrezbariti njihove zube.

Why can't we wait for them to die?

Zašto ne možemo pričekati da uginu?

Elephants once ranged from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea

Slonovi su nekoć obitavali od obala Sredozemnog mora

all the way down to the Cape of Good Hope.

pa sve do Rta dobre nade.

In 1980, there were vast strongholds of elephant range

Godine 1980. još su postojala velika uporišta gdje su slonovi obitavali

in Central and Eastern Africa.

u središnjoj i istočnoj Africi.

And now their range is shattered into little shards.

Sada se njihov prostor sveo na sitna područja.

This is the geography of an animal that we are driving to extinction,

To je zemljopis životinje koja će izumrijeti,

a fellow being, the most magnificent creature on land.

biće blisko nama, najveličanstveniji stvor na zemlji.

Of course, we take much better care of our wildlife in the United States.

Naravno, mnogo bolje brinemo za divlji svijet u SAD-u.

In Yellowstone National Park, we killed every single wolf.

U nacionalnom parku Yellowstone, istrijebili smo apsolutno sve vukove.

We killed every single wolf south of the Canadian border, actually.

Istrijebili smo svakog vuka južno od granice s Kanadom.

But in the park, park rangers did that in the 1920s,

No u Yellowstoneu su to učinili čuvari parka 1920-ih,

and then 60 years later they had to bring them back,

a 60 godina poslije morali su ih vratiti,

because the elk numbers had gotten out of control.

budući da se broj jelena oteo kontroli.

And then people came.

Zatim su došli ljudi.

People came by the thousands to see the wolves,

Nekoliko tisuća ljudi došlo je vidjeti te vukove,

the most accessibly visible wolves in the world.

koji su danas postali najpristupačniji za promatranje.

And I went there and I watched this incredible family of wolves.

Otišao sam tamo i promatrao tu nevjerojatnu obitelj vukova.

A pack is a family.

Čopor je obitelj.

It has some breeding adults and the young of several generations.

Ima nekoliko odraslih rasplodnih jedinki i mladunčad od nekoliko generacija.

And I watched the most famous, most stable pack in Yellowstone National Park.

Promatrao sam najslavniji i najstabilniji čopor u parku.

And then, when they wandered just outside the border,

Zatim, kada su samo malo odlutali preko granice parka,

two of their adults were killed,

dvoje odraslih bilo je ubijeno,

including the mother,

uključujući i majku,

which we sometimes call the alpha female.

koju ponekad nazivamo alfa ženkom.

The rest of the family immediately descended into sibling rivalry.

Među ostalim članovima obitelji odmah se razvilo suparništvo.

Sisters kicked out other sisters.

Jedne su sestre izbacile iz čopora druge sestre.

That one on the left tried for days to rejoin her family.

Ona s lijeva danima se pokušavala ponovo pridružiti svojoj obitelji.

They wouldn't let her because they were jealous of her.

Nisu je puštali jer su bili ljubomorni na nju.

She was getting too much attention from two new males,

Dobivala je previše pažnje od dvoje mužjaka,

and she was the precocious one.

i rano je postala spolno zrela.

That was too much for them.

To je za njih bilo previše.

She wound up wandering outside the park and getting shot.

Na kraju je odlutala izvan parka gdje su je upucali.

The alpha male wound up being ejected from his own family.

Alfa mužjaka odbacila je njegova vlastita obitelj.

As winter was coming in,

Kako se približavala zima,

he lost his territory, his hunting support,

izgubio je svoj teritorij, podršku u lovu,

the members of his family and his mate.

članove svoje obitelji i družicu.

We cause so much pain to them.

Nanosimo im toliko boli.

The mystery is, why don't they hurt us more than they do?

Prava je zagonetka zašto oni nas ne ranjavaju više nego mi njih.

This whale had just finished eating part of a grey whale

Ovaj kit upravo je pojeo dio sivog kita

with his companions who had killed that whale.

sa svojim suradnicima koji su ubili tog kita.

Those people in the boat had nothing at all to fear.

Ovi ljudi na brodu nisu imali nikakvog razloga za strah.

This whale is T20.

Ovaj kit je T20.

He had just finished tearing a seal into three pieces with two companions.

Upravo je rastrgao tuljana na tri dijela s drugom dvojicom kitova.

The seal weighed about as much as the people in the boat.

Taj je tuljan težio otprilike koliko i ljudi na brodu.

They had nothing to fear.

Nisu imali razloga bojati se.

They eat seals.

Oni jedu tuljane.

Why don't they eat us?

Zašto ne jedu nas?

Why can we trust them around our toddlers?

Kako to da im možemo vjerovati kada su nam u blizini djece?

Why is it that killer whales have returned to researchers lost in thick fog

Kako to da su se kitovi ubojice vraćali istraživačima izgubljenima u gustoj magli

and led them miles until the fog parted

i vodili ih miljama dok se magla nije dignula

and the researchers' home was right there on the shoreline?

a njihovi domovi ih dočekali na obali?

And that's happened more than one time.

To se dogodilo nekoliko puta.

In the Bahamas, there's a woman named Denise Herzing,

Denise Herzing živi na Bahamima,

and she studies spotted dolphins and they know her.

proučava pjegave dupine i oni je poznaju.

She knows them very well. She knows who they all are.

Oan ih jako dobro poznaje. Zna tko je svatko od njih.

They know her. They recognize the research boat.

Oni poznaju nju. Prepoznaju istraživački brod.

When she shows up, it's a big happy reunion.

Kada se ona pojavi, nastupa veliko radosno okupljanje.

Except, one time showed up and they didn't want to come near the boat,

Međutim, jednom se pojavila, a oni se nisu htjeli približiti brodu

and that was really strange.

što je bilo jako neobično.

And they couldn't figure out what was going on

Nisu mogli shvatiti što se događa

until somebody came out on deck

dok netko nije izišao na palubu

and announced that one of the people onboard had died

i priopćio da je jedna osoba na brodu umrla

during a nap in his bunk.

tijekom spavanja u svome ležaju.

How could dolphins know that one of the human hearts

Kako su dupini mogli znati da je jedno srce osoba na brodu

had just stopped?

upravo prestalo kucati?

Why would they care?

Zašto bi ih to brinulo?

And why would it spook them?

I zašto bi ih to uplašilo?

These mysterious things just hint at all of the things that are going on

Ove zagonetne stvari samo nagovještavaju sve ono što se događa

in the minds that are with us on Earth

u umovima koji s nama dijele Zemlju

that we almost never think about at all.

a o kojima mi gotovo nikad ne razmišljamo.

At an aquarium in South Africa

U akvariju u Južnoj Africi

was a little baby bottle-nosed dolphin named Dolly.

nalazila se beba pliskavice zvana Dolly.

She was nursing, and one day a keeper took a cigarette break

Još je sisala mlijeko i jednoga je dana čuvar uzeo pauzu za cigaretu.

and he was looking into the window into their pool, smoking.

Pušio je i promatrao njihov bazen kroz staklo.

Dolly came over and looked at him,

Dolly mu je prišla i pogledala ga,

went back to her mother, nursed for a minute or two,

potom se vratila majci, dojila par minuta,

came back to the window

i onda se vratila staklu

and released a cloud of milk that enveloped her head like smoke.

i ispustila oblak mlijeka koji joj je obavio glavu poput dima.

Somehow, this baby bottle-nosed dolphin

Toj je bebi pliskavici nekako

got the idea of using milk to represent smoke.

sinula ideja da bi mlijeko moglo predstavljati dim.

When human beings use one thing to represent another,

Kada ljudska bića koriste jednu stvar da bi prikazali nešto drugo,

we call that art.

to onda zovemo umjetnost.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

The things that make us human

Stvari koje nas čine ljudima

are not the things that we think make us human.

nisu one za koje mislimo da nas čine ljudima.

What makes us human is that,

Ovo nas čini ljudima:

of all these things that our minds and their minds have,

od svih stvari koje posjeduju naši i njihovi umovi,

we are the most extreme.

mi smo najekstremniji.

We are the most compassionate,

Mi smo najsuosjećajnija,

most violent, most creative

najnasilnija, najkreativnija,

and most destructive animal that has ever been on this planet,

i najdestruktivnija životinja koja je ikada živjela na ovome planetu,

and we are all of those things all jumbled up together.

mi smo sazdani od svih tih izmješanih karakeristika.

But love is not the thing that makes us human.

No ljubav nije to što nas čini ljudima.

It's not special to us.

Nije rezervirana samo za nas.

We are not the only ones who care about our mates.

Ljudi nisu jedini koji brinu za svoje partnere.

We are not the only ones who care about our children.

Nismo jedini koji brinemo za svoju djecu.

Albatrosses frequently fly six, sometimes ten thousand miles

Albatrosi često lete šest, katkad i deset tisuća milja

over several weeks to deliver one meal, one big meal,

tijekom nekoliko tjedana kako bi donijeli jedan veliki obrok,

to their chick who is waiting for them.

svojem ptiću koji ih čeka.

They nest on the most remote islands in the oceans of the world,

Gnijezde se na najudaljenijim otocima u oceanima,

and this is what it looks like.

i to izgleda ovako.

Passing life from one generation to the next is the chain of being.

Prenošenje života s jedne generacije na sljedeću predstavlja vijenac postojanja.

If that stops, it all goes away.

Ako to stane, sve se urušava.

If anything is sacred, that is, and into that sacred relationship

Ako je išta sveto, onda je to upravo ovo, a tu svetu vezu

comes our plastic trash.

ulazi naše plastično smeće.

All of these birds have plastic in them now.

U svim tim pticama sada se nalazi plastika.

This is an albatross six months old, ready to fledge --

Ovo je šestomjesečni albatros, samo što nije dobio perje --

died, packed with red cigarette lighters.

uginuo je napunjen crvenim upaljačima.

This is not the relationship we are supposed to have

Ovo nije veza kakvu bismo trebali imati

with the rest of the world.

s ostatkom svijeta.

But we, who have named ourselves after our brains,

No mi, koji smo si nadjenuli ime po našem mozgu,

never think about the consequences.

nikada ne razmišljamo o posljedicama.

When we welcome new human life into the world,

Kada se radujemo novom ljudskom životu u svijetu,

we welcome our babies into the company of other creatures.

uvodimo svoje bebe u društvo drugih živih bića.

We paint animals on the walls.

Slikamo životinje po zidovima.

We don't paint cell phones.

Ne slikamo mobitele.

We don't paint work cubicles.

Ne slikamo radna mjesta.

We paint animals to show them that we are not alone.

Slikamo životinje da pokažemo kako nismo sami.

We have company.

Imamo društvo.

And every one of those animals in every painting of Noah's ark,

Svaka od tih životinja na svakoj slici Noine arke,

deemed worthy of salvation is in mortal danger now,

dostojna spasenja sada je u životnoj opasnosti,

and their flood is us.

a njihov opći potop smo mi.

So we started with a question:

Započeli smo pitanjem:

Do they love us?

Vole li oni nas?

We're going to ask another question.

Postavit ćemo drugo pitanje.

Are we capable of using what we have

Jesmo li mi sposobni upotrijebiti to što imamo

to care enough to simply let them continue?

da nam bude dovoljno stalo da im jednostavno dopustimo da nastave dalje?

Thank you very much.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)