Krill, shrimp like creatures. By weight they're the most abundant animals on the planet. A single swarm can contain two million tons of them 磷虾,一种小型虾类,如果按重量计算 他们是地球上最多量的动物,一群就可达200万吨
It has been a warm and safe place in which to grow up 在这个地方长大温暖而安全
With the grains come nutrients, which act as fertilizer and they transform the shallow sea into a rich fishing ground 风把带着养分的沙尘,像肥料一样撒进大海, 把这片浅海变成了富饶的渔场.
This hardly seems a good place to rear young 看上去这里不是抚育后代的好地方
The desert of Bahrain seems a very unlikely place 巴林的戈壁沙漠
to find a crowded bustling colony of seabirds 看上去不象是能有大量海鸟筑巢的地方
But every year, a hundred thousand socotra cormorants gather here to breed. 可每年大约有10万只黑喉鸬鹚在这里繁殖
The fish have taken refuge close to the beach where the water is only a few centimeters deep. 鱼儿们太靠近沙滩,而那里的水才几厘米深
Tail slapping is a method dolphins often use to stun their prey 用有力的尾巴击晕猎物是海豚们常用的方法