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The giant shearwater flocks hunt the krill swarms
龐大的水雉鳥群大量捕食磷蝦，
sometimes diving to depths of forty meters to reach them.
有時它們潛到40米深。
A large humpback eats three tons of krill a day.
一頭成年座頭鯨每天能吃掉3噸磷蝦。
The polar seas in summer are the most productive on the planet
夏季的極地海域是地球上最多產的，
and the whales gorge themselves round the clock.
鯨魚晝夜不停地在此進食。
The fat reserves they lay down now will keep them alive during the year to come
它們現在積累的脂肪可以支持到明年再來，
but it may not always be this way.
不過也可能不會再來了。
Fish and krill stocks are declining so rapidly that spectacles like this may soon be part of history.
魚和磷蝦的產量正在迅速減少，像這樣的景象可能很快將成為歷史。
Once the mother and calf have reached their feeding grounds, they will separate.
一旦母鯨和小鯨到達他們的給養地，它們就要分開。
With luck, the calf will make the epic journey across the oceans from equator to pole another seventy times
如果幸運的話，小座頭鯨還要把從赤道到極地的史詩般旅程重復70次，
cruising back and forth between the shallow seas where life proliferates so abundantly on our planet.
讓我們在淺海之間來回巡游，贊嘆于地球生命的豐富多彩。
