The big cats aren't the only carnivores in town.

大型猫科动物并不是这里唯一的食肉动物。

According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators (animals that kill and eat other animals) in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation.

根据他们最近在《自然》杂志上发表的文章，大型食肉的海洋 生物（一种捕杀猎食其它动物的生物）的总量在 15 的时间里已经减少了平均 80%。

A hungry meat eater would stay away from anything that looks like seaweed.

饥饿的食肉者会躲开任何长得像海藻的东西。

On the African plains, the hyena (hi-EE-nuh) is the ruling predator after the lion.

在非洲大平原上，土狼（hi-ee-nuh）是继狮子之后的主要食肉动物。

People don't like to listen to sad story and it is difficult to realize that humans could have such an impact on such a prehistorically, iconic predators.

人们不喜欢悲伤的故事，很难想象人类会对这种史前标志性的食肉动物产生如此大的影响。

Quick, name the world's largest carnivorous marsupial.

快说出世界上最大的食肉有袋动物的名字。

The four species of piranha that are carnivorous, however, certainly earn their reputation as fiercefish.

有四种食人鱼是食肉 的，当然可以称之为凶猛鱼类。

Polar bears are the largest land carnivore.

北极熊是最大的陆地食肉动物。

Carnivores tend to have simple teeth. Omnivores have more complex teeth. Herbivores have the most complex teeth of all.

食肉动物的牙齿比较简单。杂食动物的牙齿更复杂。食草动物的牙齿是所有牙齿中最复杂的。

They are strictly carnivores unless they're eating berries and we learned that from a lone gray wolf that was tracked recently in northern Minnesota.

它们是严格意义上的食肉动物，除非它们吃浆果，我们从最近在明尼苏达州北部追踪到的一只孤独的灰狼那里了解到这一点。

Oysters can carry a scary flesh-eating bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus.

蚝可能携带一种可怕的食肉菌叫创伤弧菌。

The question is how to lower meat lovers away from tasty beef burgers they are used to, the large size whoppers being among the most popular.

主要的问题是如何使食肉爱好者的性格远离美味的牛肉汉堡，他们已习惯食用最受欢迎的巨型牛肉汉堡。

These tiny critters, co-existed with the giant, meat-eating dinosaurs and probably survived by being nocturnal.

这些小生物与体型巨大的食肉恐龙共同生活在侏罗纪时代，据推测这些小生物可能是通过在夜间活动逃过一劫的。

“He was buying a Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent, ” said Harry quickly.

“他当时正在购买驱除食肉鼻涕虫的药水，”哈利很快地说。

These are large, carnivorous, cricket-like insects whose feet splay out wildly in different directions.

这类节肢动物是大型类似板球的食肉昆虫，其足向不同方向伸展开来。

Woodland carnivores are of all sizes, from insects to animals like owls, and foxes.

林地里的食肉动物有大有小，从昆虫到猫头鹰和狐狸这样的动物。

These four-pound little predators make very nice snacks themselves.

这些四磅重的小食肉动物本身就是非常美味的零食。

But what if you were attacked by a school of these colorful, fast-moving carnivores?

要是被这群色彩鲜艳 、行动迅捷的食肉动物袭击怎么办？

The first theory is to avoid attack by meat-eating animals.

第一个理论是躲避食肉动物的攻击。

In fact, the arctic fox has more pups than any other carnivore on the planet.

实际上，北极狐是地球上产崽最多的食肉动物。