- The largest expanse grows in the shallow waters of Shark Bay, in Western Australia.
世界上最大的草海在澳大利亚西部的鲨鱼湾
- These vast aquatic grasslands stretch for fifteen hundred square miles
这片广大的海洋牧场 面积可达1500平方英里
- and, like terrestrial prairies, they support herds of grazers -- Dugongs.
像陆地上的大草原一样 这里也养育了大量的食草动物--儒艮
- Dugongs are the largest herbivores in the sea.
儒艮是海洋里最大的食草动物
- They can be three meters long and weigh half a ton
可以长到3米长,半吨重
- and they eat nothing but seagrass, mostly the fleshy risomes, which they excavate with their mobile lips.
它们除了海草什么都不吃 他们不停移动嘴唇,把海草的肉质根茎送到口中
- A herd can clear a patch of seagrass the size of a football pitch in a single day.
这群儒艮可以在一天内吃掉足球场般大小的海草
来自《行星地球 第一季 第九集 Planet Earth S01E09 海洋》第 91 行