But the secret to its insulation power is in its texture.

海獭毛保温的秘密在于毛的纹理。

We're basically working with nine sea otters behind the scenes right now.

我们基本上就为目前这屏幕后的9只海獭工作。

Rescued when she was only a week old, this sea otter had a huge following.

这只海獭被救起时只有一周大，它的粉丝很。

Hearing is also tough for otters, in the noisy underwater environment.

由于水下环境非常嘈杂，海獭的听觉也会受限。

A sea otter in the style of girl with the pearl earring by Johannes Vermeer.

一只戴着约翰尼斯·弗米尔珍珠耳环的女孩风格的海獭。

These special species are called marine mammals, whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises, manatees, sea otters, polar bears and a few other aquatic mammals that rely on the ocean to survive but also need to breathe air.

这些特殊的物种被称为海洋哺乳动物，鲸、海豚、海豹、鼠海豚、海牛、海獭、北极熊和其他一些水生哺乳动物，它们依靠海洋生存，但也需要呼吸空气。

Mammals who get their food from the sea such as the sea lion, sea otter, walrus, and polar bear, ingest large amounts of salt.

像海狮、海獭、海象和北极熊这样的哺乳动物都从海洋中捕食，所以它们会摄取大量的。

Furthermore, he mentions that the absence of dead sea otters on shores indicates that sea otters were killed and eaten by predators.

而且他提到海岸上没有发现死海獭表明海獭是被捕食者杀害并吞食的。

Otter fur is spiky, so it traps insulating air molecules.

海獭毛尖锐，能够困住保温空气分子。

Capuchins, chimpanzees and sea otters, among others, are known to use rocks to crack open, respectively, nuts and shellfish.

已知卷尾猴、大猩猩和海獭分别用岩石来敲开坚果和贝类。

And don’t miss the rescued sea otters chowing their way back to good health on fresh clams.

千万别错过那些大口咀嚼着新鲜贝类而重拾健康的获救海獭。

Rubbing the face is a grooming behaviour, it's a really important behaviour for otters they have the densest fur in all of the animal kingdom, and rely on that fur to keep themselves warm in the cold water.

揉脸是一种梳理行为，这对海獭来说是一个非常重要的行为， 它们拥有所有动物中最浓密的皮毛，并依靠这些皮毛在冷水中保持温暖。

When it comes to more practical matters like using tools, the sea otter is front and center.

当涉及到更实际的问题，比如使用工具时，海獭是个中翘楚。

Sea otters wind up eating anywhere, depending on what treatments they're doing, between 25 and 35 percent of their body weight a day which is obviously a lot of food.

海獭能在任何地方进食，这取决于它们正在接受什么样的治疗，每天相当于它们体重重量25%-35%的食物显然不少了。

Sea otters are pretty petite compared to other marine mammals.

与其它海洋哺乳动物相比，海獭的体型相当娇小。

Some marine mammals spend lots of time on land like sea otters and polar bears.

一些海洋哺乳动物会有很时间在陆地上，如海獭和北极熊。

The sea otters are coming in with a variety of injuries, illness, orphaned pups.

来的海獭要么受了各种各样的伤，要么患了各种疾病，又或是被遗弃的幼崽。

The reading and the lecture are both about theories of the rapid decline in sea otter populations.

阅读文章和演讲都是关于海獭数量急剧下降的理论的。

A healthy sea otter's fur never allows their skin to be wet, so grooming that fur and keeping it really clean is really important.

健康的海獭的皮毛永远不会让它们的皮肤湿透，所以梳理并保持皮毛清洁是非常重要的。

The passage states that pollution was the cause of the declining population of sea otters, while the lecture states that predation is the most likely cause of the decrease in sea otter populations.

文章说污染是导致海獭数量减少的原因，而演讲则指出捕食是海獭数量减少的最可能的原因。