Cephalopods may have evolved complex brains long before our vertebrate relatives.

头足类或许比我们的脊椎动近亲更早演化出复杂的脑部。

Rather than a body map, the cephalopod brain has a behavior library.

章鱼的脑部没有身体地图，却有个行为图书馆。

A cephalopod is a kind of sea creature, like a squid or octopus.

头足类动是一种海洋，如乌贼或章鱼。

Yeah. You do know what cephalopods are, don't you? - Yes, of course I do.

是的，你知道头足类动是什么，对吧？是的，我当然知道。

Guess you could " magnapin" it on their deep " seeded" fear of being on a " cephalopod cast" .

我你可以将其放大他们对捕捞头足类动存在根深蒂固的恐惧上。

How? Like other cephalopods, they can rapidly change the pigmentation patterns on their skin by contracting and relaxing their muscles.

如何？其它头足类动那样，它们可以通过收缩和放松肌肉来迅速改变皮肤上的色素沉着图案。

Fortunately, our soaring cephalopod has a plan.

幸运的是，我们翱翔的头足类动有一个计划。

They based their approach on cephalopods like octopuses and cuttlefish.

他们的方法基于章鱼和墨鱼等头足类动。

Am I saying that cephalopods have better eyes than us?

我是说头足类动的眼睛比我们好吗？

A different modern cephalopod shows us how ammonites swam.

一种不同的现代头足类动向我们展示了菊石是如何游泳的。

And as cameras became widespread, seafarers finally began capturing proof of these high-flying cephalopods.

随着照相机的普及，海员们终于开始捕捉这些高飞头足类动的证据。

But cephalopods–like octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish–they don't have a blind spot.

但是头足类动——比如章鱼、鱿鱼和墨鱼——它们没有盲点。

We're quite lucky, in that ammonites belong to the large group of mollusks called the cephalopods.

我们很幸运，因为菊石属于被称为头足类的一大类软体动。

In ancient times, the shell was cephalopods’ greatest asset.

在古代，贝壳是头足类动 最大的财富。

And that kicked off an evolutionary arms race between fish and cephalopods.

这引发了 鱼类和头足类动之间的进化军备竞赛。

The cephalopods are very old, and they have slipped, protean, through many shapes.

它们形态多变， 经历了多种形态的演变。

In ancient times, the shell was cephalopods' greatest asset.

在远古时代，贝壳是头足类动最大的财富。

Ammonites did have one critical weakness compared to other cephalopods.

与其他头足类动相比，菊石确实有一个严重的弱点。

Scientists believe that this was the very first cephalopod — a group that now includes squids, octopuses, cuttlefish, and nautiluses.

科学家们认为这是最早的头足类动——现在包括鱿鱼、章鱼、墨鱼和鹦鹉螺的类群。

Just look at this kaleidoscope of color of dynamically controlled pigments and reflectors that we see in the cephalopods.

看看我们在头足类动身上看的由动态控制的色素和反射体组成的万花筒。