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vagalumes

English

firefly

Last Update: 2014-12-09
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luciferina de vagalumes

English

firefly luciferin [chemical/ingredient]

Last Update: 2014-12-09
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isso tudo é bioluminescência. como eu disse: exatamente como vagalumes.

English

that's all bioluminescence. so, like i said: just like fireflies.

Last Update: 2015-10-13
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há um caso que começamos a entender melhor, o caso dos vagalumes.

English

there is one case that we have begun to understand better, and it's the case of fireflies.

Last Update: 2015-10-13
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vishniac trabalhou com todos os tipos de espécimes, de protozoários para vagalumes para aminoácidos.

English

he worked with all sorts of specimens, from protozoa, to fireflies to amino acids.

Last Update: 2016-03-03
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as árvores, árvores ribeirinhas, estão cheias de vagalumes comunicando-se com luzes.

English

the trees, mangrove trees, are filled with fireflies communicating with light.

Last Update: 2015-10-13
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esta bactéria tem a propriedade especial de gerar luz, ela gera bioluminescência, da mesma forma que os vagalumes geram luz.

English

this bacterium has the special property that it makes light, so it makes bioluminescence, like fireflies make light.

Last Update: 2015-10-13
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mas eu espero que vocês tenham se convencido, com este vídeo noturno, que os vagalumes estavam de fato muito bem sincronizados.

English

but i hope you've convinced yourself now, with this nighttime video, that they really were very well synchronized.

Last Update: 2015-10-13
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especificamente, são os vagalumes machos piscando juntos em perfeita sintonia, em perfeito sincronismo, para reforçar a mensagem dirigida às fêmeas.

English

specifically, it's male fireflies who are all flashing in perfect time together, in perfect synchrony, to reinforce a message to the females.

Last Update: 2015-10-13
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e nós costumamos ver os animais mais misteriosos pela janela que se pode descrever. estas luzes piscando: um mundo de bioluminescência, como vagalumes.

English

and we used to see the most mysterious animals out the window that you couldn't describe: these blinking lights -- a world of bioluminescence, like fireflies.

Last Update: 2015-10-13
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mas na Ásia do sudoeste, em lugares como a tailândia, malásia ou bornéo, eles tem um comportamento cooperativo lindo, que ocorre entre os vagalumes machos.

English

but in southeast asia -- places like thailand or malaysia or borneo -- there's a beautiful cooperative behavior that occurs among male fireflies.

Last Update: 2015-10-13
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vocês vêem vagalumes na américa do norte, e como muitas coisas norte-americanas, eles tendem a ser operadores independentes. eles ignoram um ao outro.

English

if you see fireflies in north america, like so many north american sorts of things, they tend to be independent operators. they ignore each other.

Last Update: 2015-10-13
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vagalume

English

firefly

Last Update: 2014-01-24
Usage Frequency: 23
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