For example, the diversity of zooplankton is immeasurable.

例如，浮游动物的多样性是不可估量的。

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

是的，浮游动物，即海洋里微小的动物，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，但却以磷虾和浮游动物等微小生物食。

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

所以首先，你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，这些鸟似乎会在北西洋中部停留，在那里它们会尽情地吃鱼和浮游动物，未来的长途旅行做准备。

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量的营养物质，这助长了巨的、局部的浮游植物量繁殖，这反过来又吸引了量美味的浮游动物。

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

而其它多数是独立生长的海藻，被称浮游植物，还有被称浮游动物的小动物。

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量塑胶微粒，而且我们发现在这些海域里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和其它动物也同样如此。

Zooplankton live in the twilight zone.

浮游动物生活在微光区。

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和最丰富的，就生物量而言，迁徙者通常是小鱼，如刚毛鱼和灯鱼，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量被称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你认是耳朵的东西。

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

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

Here, phytoplankton build their tiny bodies  from photosynthesis, and in the open ocean these in turn are fed upon by a whole food chain  of zooplankton, krill, fish, sharks and whales.

在这里，浮游植物通过光合作用构建它们微小的身体，而在开阔的海洋中，这些又成了整个食物链中浮游动物、磷虾、鱼类、鲨鱼和鲸类的食物。

" So fish from every level of the food chain—herbivores, planktivores, omnivores, even predatory piscivores—were all being attracted by this sound." The details are in the journal Nature Communications.

“因此，来自食物链各个层面的鱼类——食草动物、浮游动物、杂食动物，甚至食肉动物——都被这种声音所吸引。 ” 详情发表在《自然通讯》杂志上。

And there they let themselves drift with the stream and have their favorite food zooplankton washed into their mouths, popping out of the sand like a synchronized performance.

它们在那里随波逐流， 最喜欢的食物浮游动物被冲进嘴里，然后像一场同步表演一样从沙子中冒出来。

But also microplastics can have toxic effects on zooplankton, and the health of these organisms essential for the functioning of all aquatic food webs.

但微塑料也可能会对浮游动物产生毒性影响，而这些生物对于所有水生食物网的运作至关重要。