Sklenená nádoba

Na druhé ráno priniesla Chiara k Pasta akváriu sklenenú nádobu. Nádoba mala skrutkovací uzáver. Vo vnútri bol živý krab.

On the second morning, Chiara brought a jar to Pasta's tank. The jar had a screw lid. Inside was a live crab.

Chiara pustila nádobu do vody. Pomaly klesala. Pasta sa nevrhla.

Chiara dropped the jar into the water. It sank slowly. Pasta did not lunge.

Polly sa usadila na okraji. Krab sa pohyboval vo vnútri nádoby. Pasta sa dotkla nádoby jedným ramenom. Jej ramená môžu ochutnať to, čoho sa dotknú.

Polly perched on the rim. The crab moved inside the jar. Pasta touched the jar with one arm. Her arms can taste what they touch.

Pasta uchopila nádobu dvoma ramenami. Pomaly ju otočila. Tretie rameno pracovalo na uzávere.

Pasta gathered the jar with two arms. She turned it slowly. A third arm worked at the lid.

Chobotnice dokážu otvárať nádoby so skrutkovacím uzáverom. Robia to v laboratóriách od 50. rokov. Cítia závity svojimi prísavkami. Potom otočia uzáver.

Octopuses can open screw-top jars. They have done it in labs since the 1950s. They feel the threads with their suckers. Then they turn the lid.

Pasta otočila uzáver. Odskočil. Krab sa pokúsil uniknúť. Ale Pastino štvrté rameno už čakalo. Krab bol preč.

Pasta turned the lid. It popped off. The crab tried to escape. But Pasta's fourth arm was waiting. The crab was gone.

Chiara si zapísala na svoj clipboard. "Tri minúty. Zlepšuje sa."

Chiara wrote on her clipboard. "Three minutes. She is getting fast."

Chobotnice sú veľmi zvláštne. Majú tri srdcia. Ich krv je modrá. Žijú len tri až päť rokov. Pasta mala už dva.

Octopuses are very strange. They have three hearts. Their blood is blue. They live only three to five years. Pasta was already two.

Všetko, čo sa kedy naučí, sa naučí v čase, ktorý jej zostáva.

She would learn everything she would ever know in the time she had left.