But despite their usefulness, predator-foiling eyespots don't occur naturally in mammals.

尽管眼斑很有用，但阻止捕食者的眼斑并不会在哺乳动物身上自然出现。

Peahens – that's a female peacock - prefer male peacocks with lots of eyespots on their tail.

雌孔雀喜欢屏尾上眼状斑多的雄孔雀。

A variety of species have evolved eyespot markings that thwart deadly adversaries-some frog derrieres feature eyespots, as do the backends of some fish.

各种各样的物种都进化出了能挫败致命对手的眼斑标记，比如有些青蛙的臀部长出眼斑，就像某些鱼类尾巴上有眼斑一样。

The eyespots on the wings of a peacock butterfly, for example, divert attention towards less important regions of the insect's body.

例如，孔雀蛱蝶翅膀上的眼点会让捕食者的注意力转移到它身体不太重要的区域。

Over the four-year experiment, the researchers found that not one of the hundreds of cows with eyespots on their keisters was killed by an ambush predator.

历经四年实验，研究人员发现，在数百头屁股上有眼斑的牛中，没有一头被埋伏的捕食者杀死。

" Farmers can potentially paint their cattle with artificial eyespots or cross marks. But we recommend the eyespots because that was the best result."

“农民可能会在牛上画上人工眼斑或十字记号。但我们推荐眼斑，因为这个效果最好。”

Eyespots, sure. The patterns on the wings of moths and butterflies that are generally believed to scare off predators because they look like big eyes?

眼睛昆虫，当然，飞蛾和蝴蝶身上的图案通常会被认为可以吓退捕食者，因为它们看起来像是大大的眼睛。

And when blue light shines onto the eyespot of an algae cell, a channel opens, sending an electrical signal that makes little flagella flap and propels the algae towards sunlight.

当蓝光照射到藻类细胞的眼点上时， 一个通道打开，发出电信号， 使小鞭毛拍打并推动藻类朝向阳光。