For example, the diversity of zooplankton is immeasurable.

例如，浮游动物的多样性是不可估量的。

Here, your light-sensitive eyes take in a buffet of small crustaceans and gelatinous zooplankton.

这，双对光敏感的眼睛看到的是充满小型浮游生物胶状浮游生物的大餐。

Polyps look a bit like underwater flowers, using their tentacles to catch and eat zooplankton.

珊瑚虫看起来有点像水中花，它们用触手来捕食浮游生物。

Yes, the zooplankton – tiny little animals in the sea – mistake the microplastics for food and eat them.

是的，浮游动物，即海洋微小的动物，错把塑胶微粒当作食物吃掉。

Despite their colossal size, they feed on tiny creatures such as krill and zooplankton.

它们虽然体型庞大，但却以磷虾浮游动物等微小生物为食。

So first, you really need to appreciate how tiny zooplankton are.

所以首先，要需要意识到浮游动物有多小。

In contrast, while heading south, the birds appear to stop off in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, where they indulge on fish and zooplankton, preparing themselves for their long journey ahead.

相反，在向南飞行时，这些鸟似乎会在北大西洋中部停留，在它们会尽情地吃鱼浮游动物，为未来的长途旅行做准备。

We have echo sounders to detect zooplankton and fish, acoustic Doppler current profilers for measuring the currents in the water, wet-lab fluorometers for measuring chlorophyll and organic matter, and a few other specialist sensors as well.

我们可以通过探测仪来检测浮游生物鱼类，并通过声学多普勒流速剖面仪来测量水下洋流，通过荧光检测仪检测叶有机物，以及使用其他专业传感器进行检测。

Then, a few million years ago, changing ocean currents brought tons of nutrients up from the depths, which fueled huge, localized phytoplankton blooms, which in turn attracted enormous concentrations of scrumptious zooplankton.

然后，几百万年前，不断变化的洋流从深处带来了大量的营养物质，这助长了巨大的、局部的浮游植物大量繁殖，这反过来又吸引了大量美的浮游动物。

Much of the rest is unattached algae, known as phytoplankton, and tiny animals, known as zooplankton.

而其它大多数是独立生长的海藻，被称为浮游植物，还有被称为浮游动物的小动物。

Productive areas attract zooplankton, and that in turn attracts fish.

这些多产地区能够吸引浮游生物，并反之吸引鱼类。

In a 2017 study out of Sweden, researchers exposed a zooplankton called Daphnia magna to a bunch of plastic nanoparticles.

在2017年瑞典的一项研究中，研究人员将一种水蚤暴露在塑料纳米颗粒中。

We're already finding that there's a lot of microplastics in the sea and that some of these microplastics are actually being ingested by the zooplankton that live there.

我们已经在海洋中找到大量塑胶微粒，而且我们发现在这些海域生存的浮游动物已经摄入了这种塑胶微粒。

For instance, scientists studying zooplankton in the Arctic saw that during the long, dark winter months, zooplankton responded to moonlight instead.

例如，研究北极浮游动物的科学家发现，在漫长黑暗的冬季，浮游动物反而对月光有反应。

Algae need light, so must live near the surface—as must the zooplankton and other animals that need the phytoplankton.

海藻需要光线，所以必须生活在接近海面的区域—还有需要浮游植物的浮游动物其它动物也同样如此。

It happens from the smallest animals to some of the largest and the most abundant, in terms of biomass, migrators are typically small fish like bristlemouths and lantern fish that are following the vertical migrations of the zooplankton.

从最小的动物到一些最大最丰富的，就生物量而言，迁徙者通常是小鱼，如刚毛鱼灯鱼，它们跟随浮游动物的垂直迁徙。

Researchers found that zooplankton move up and down in the water by as much as 200 feet just from clouds passing overhead.

研究人员发现，浮游动物在水中上下移动的距离相当于从我们头顶 200 英尺的地方掠过的云层。

The sonar was actually detecting huge masses of tiny animals known as zooplankton ascending from the depths to the surface every night and returning down again.

声纳实际上探测到了大量被称为浮游动物的微小动物，它们每天晚上从深处上升到水面，然后再返回。

Creatures like zooplankton don't even have what you would consider to be ears.

像浮游动物这样的生物甚至没有认为是耳朵的东西。

They say, oh boy, that zooplankton… just don't even bring it up with me.

他们说，哎呀，个浮游动物啊… … 千万别跟我提起这个，我简直… … 我简直… … 对，我连谈都不想谈。