Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination
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今回は、花の「授粉」の話。授粉には、ハチなどの昆虫だけでなく、ハチドリやコウモリといった動物も媒介するんですね。

スピーチは前半の３分１８秒までで、残りは授粉の様子を撮影したハイスピードカメラの映像です。後半だけ見ても楽しいです。花粉症の方はご注意を！?

MOVING ART

→ http://www.youtube.com/user/LouieSchwartzberg?feature=watch

【話題】 「授粉」の美しさ

【時間】７分４１秒

【要約】
Ⅰ．「授粉」の美しさに魅せられた

　ほとんどの人が「授粉」について特に興味を示さないだろう。

　花粉媒介者：ハチ、コウモリ、ハチ鳥、チョウ

　わたしは35年に渡って花の映像を記録しているうちに、「授粉」に魅せられるようになった。

Ⅱ．わたしたちは自然の一部

　ミツバチが減少しているという事実がきっかけだった。

　わたしたちが食べる果物や野菜の３分の１は、「花粉媒介者」の働きに頼っている。

　「炭鉱のカナリア」と同じで、ミツバチが絶滅すればわたしたち人間も絶滅する。花粉媒介者を守らなければならない。

Ⅲ．生命の繁殖

　花粉媒介者を刺激するもの

　　＝報酬

　　＝生き残りこと

　　＝生産すること

　　＝繁殖

　死なない生物は存在しない。

　繁殖・再生が生命を存続させる方法だ。

　「授粉」は動物界と植物界が交差する生命再生の神秘的な瞬間だ。

Ⅳ．映像をみてください。

【語彙】

pollination ：授粉

pollinators ：花粉媒介者

pollen ：花粉

vital ：極めて重要な

seduction ：誘惑

vanishing ：消失、消滅

take it for granted ：当然のことだと思う

intersection ：交差点

co-evolve ：共同進化

regenerate ：再生する

mystical ：神秘的な

【transcript】

It's great being here at TED. You know, I think there might be some presentations that will go over my head, but the most amazing concepts are the ones that go right under my feet. The little things in life, sometimes that we forget about, like pollination, that we take for granted. And you can't tell the story about pollinators -- bees, bats, hummingbirds, butterflies -- without telling the story about the invention of flowers and how they co-evolved over 50 million years.

I've been filming time-lapse flowers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for over 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I'm never going to get tired of. It fills me with wonder, and it opens my heart. Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with. Their relationship is a love story that feeds the Earth. It reminds us that we are a part of nature, and we're not separate from it.

When I heard about the vanishing bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, it motivated me to take action. We depend on pollinators for over a third of the fruits and vegetables we eat. And many scientists believe it's the most serious issue facing mankind. It's like the canary in the coalmine. If they disappear, so do we. It reminds us that we are a part of nature and we need to take care of it.

What motivated me to film their behavior was something that I asked my scientific advisers: "What motivates the pollinators?" Well, their answer was, "It's all about risk and reward." Like a wide-eyed kid, I'd say, "Why is that?" And they'd say, "Well, because they want to survive." I go, "Why?" "Well, in order to reproduce." "Well, why?" And I thought that they'd probably say, "Well, it's all about sex." And Chip Taylor, our monarch butterfly expert, he replied, "Nothing lasts forever. Everything in the universe wears out."

And that blew my mind. Because I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment. It's the mystical moment where life regenerates itself, over and over again.

So here is some nectar from my film. I hope you'll drink, tweet and plant some seeds to pollinate a friendly garden. And always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder. Here are some images from the film.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

ルイ・シュワルツバーグ「授粉の美しさ」