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2013-12-23

【Aiden in English】

The closest thing to Seychelles is Hawaii, except Seychelles, which is in the Indian Ocean, while Hawaii is in the Pacific. Our tour took Mom and me to the National Botanical Gardens in Victoria, the capital city of the Republic of Seychelles. Victoria is located in Mahe, the largest island in the nation.

There were exotic flowers and trees like trumpet pitchers, screw pines, Coco de Mer, Spanish daggers, cannonball trees, and many more. Ninety-five percent of the trees here were not originally from this island. If you closed your eyes and walked forward, it would be like walking into a minefield. Plants that were green, red, white, and yellow all seemed to blend into a colorful painting, while different sizes of fruits hang from the trees.

Coco de Mer, the most interesting coconut tree, had a butt-shaped coconut. It was huge! Its coconut could weigh up to 30 kilogram/66 lb and seem twice the size of a human head. In addition to its dioecism, what really intrigued me was how long it took to grow. First 15 years, the sapling only grew leaves. Then it added another 10 years to grow the trunk. Finally, it took eight years to expand and ripen its nuts.

On the way out to Beau Vallon Bay, something caught my eye. There were bats roosting on one of the palm fronds. They fly in the daytime using their ears to fly around and are known as the flying fox. At night, they went hunting since the bats were nocturnal and could see in the dark. I found it different from what I knew about bats.

In addition, our local guide had even eaten one and it tasted like a chicken to him. Generally speaking, if someone else cooked the flying fox, the locals would eat it. If the locals had to cook it themselves, they would probably prefer chicken because the bat's insides looked like human organs!

Sometimes even the most different creatures will have something similar to each other, like the shape of the coconut and the insides of the flying fox to our human body.

【红霞译文】

塞舌尔共和国看上去很像夏威夷，只不过两者地域不同：一个位于印度洋，另一个则在太平洋，今天我和妈妈要去首都维多利亚参观国家植物园，而维多利亚座落在全国最大的马埃岛上。

塞舌尔国家植物园内有很多奇特的花卉和树种，最为常见的如瓶子草、兜树、海椰子、凤尾兰、炮弹树等，其中95%以上的植物并非本地特有，在这里如果你闭上眼睛摸黑前行，就好像掉进了地雷区劈里啪啦被树撞来撞去，周围绿、红、白、黄色奇花异草共同描绘，各种大小的果实结满枝头。

海椰子形如人的屁股，因此特别引人注目，其块头出众，有的甚至重达30公斤／66磅，差不多有两个人头那么大。海椰子雌雄异株，生长周期更加触目惊心，从种子发芽成苗长出叶子需要15年漫长岁月，然后还得花上10年功夫修心养性壮大树干，末了再继续投资8年大好时光方才展示出丰收的喜悦。

离开植物园前往美谷湾之前，什么东西恍然从我眼前一闪而过，原来是善食棕榈叶子的狐蝠，它们白天靠听觉飞行，晚间像其它夜行蝙蝠一样出来觅食，我从没有听说过这种动物。

另据导游介绍，他曾经吃过狐蝠，感觉如同鸡的味道，通常说来当地人只吃别人烹饪而不吃自己做的的狐蝠，否则他们情愿吃鸡，因为狐蝠内脏长得太像人的器官﹗

海椰子的形状和狐蝠的脏器都与人某些部位相像，可见世界之大无奇不有，宇宙间两个极不相干的事物有时竟会莫名其妙地表现类似的特质。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2012: Youth Ctr @ Sea, Chile(智利游轮少年中心)