Parental care is common behaviour amongst birds and mammals.

亲子护理是鸟类和哺乳动物中的常见行为。

However, some species provide extended parental care.

然而，一些物种会提供延长的亲子护理。

But if it was smarter, then it could practice more extensive parental care.

但如果它更聪明，它就能对后代进行更精心的照顾。

The efforts put into parental care reflect the time and energy parents put into rearing offspring.

动物照顾幼崽的努力反映了其在抚养幼崽方面投入的时间和精力。

Tiny humans require a ton of parental care before we're ready to be on our own.

在我们准备好独自生活之前，小小的人类需要大量来自的父母照顾。

This is the only species known to have post-hatch parental care among all turtles, which is pretty amazing.

这是所有海龟中已知的唯一一种孵化后会抚育后代的物种，这非常令人惊讶。

That requires longer parental care, which requires more intelligent parents, which over time selects for parents with bigger brains.

这需要父母更长时间的照顾，这需要更聪明的父母，随着时间的推移，他们会选择大脑更大的父母。

If you want to have intensive parental care, you can only take care of a limited number of offspring.

如果你想提供作为父母的精心呵护，你只能照顾有限数量的后代。

Greater flamingoes invest in parental care: a male and female incubate a single egg for approximately one month.

雄性和雌性孵化一个蛋大约一个月。

If you want to have lots of offspring, you have to have little or no parental care. Sauropods took that route.

如果你选择拥有很多后代，父母的呵护只能少之又少了。波塞东龙选择了那条路。

Yeah, parental care in beetles is pretty rare.

赛克斯：是的，甲虫的父母照顾非常罕见。

So in most insects, there's very little parental care.

赛克斯：所以在大多数昆虫中，父母的照顾很少。

If you put in a lot of parental care, then you don't have the resources to make lots and lots of babies.

如果在抚养方面投入太多，那用来繁殖大量后代的精力就会不足。

That is tricky, for many species that provide parental care are irritatingly long-lived.

这很棘手，因为许多提供父母照顾的物种都非常长寿。

Is it A) A high degree of parental care.

是 A) 高度的父母关怀。

And or B) a low degree of parental care.

和/或 B) 低程度的父母照顾。

So this really provided great evidence for the idea of parental care being required for these animals.

所以这确实为这些动物需要父母照顾的想法提供了很好的证据。

With things like Tyrannosaurus Rex, you have bigger brains, you have the option for more complex behaviors, especially when it comes to parental care.

对于霸王龙，它们拥有更大的大脑，可以选择更加复杂的行为，尤其是亲代育雏方面。

Parental care, in other words, is a one-way evolutionary street because it generates a problem that only it can solve.

换句话说，育儿是一种单向进化，因为它会产生一个只有它才能解决的问题。

Some species, such as most egg-laying reptiles give no parental care, just leaving their eggs to hatch and the offspring to fend for themselves.

有些物种，如大多数产卵爬行动物，没有父母的照顾，只是让它们的蛋孵化，后代自己照顾自己。