Sea otter fur, for example, is about a thousand times denser than human hair.

，獭皮，獭皮比人类的毛发要浓密大约一千倍。

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只獭工作。

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。

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

这只獭被救起时只有一周大，它的粉丝很多。

Sea otters are pretty petite compared to other marine mammals.

与其它洋哺相比，獭的体型相当娇小。

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獭。

It was a magnificent sea otter from the genus Enhydra, the only exclusively marine quadruped.

倒下来的是一只很好看的水獭，一只水兽，它可能是住在中的唯一的四足兽了。

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

像狮、獭、象和北极熊这样的哺都从洋中捕食，所以它们会摄取大量的盐。

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.

这些特殊的种被称为洋哺，鲸鱼、豚、豹、鼠豚、牛、獭、北极熊和其他一些水生哺，它们依靠洋生存，但也需要呼吸空气。

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

而且他提到岸上没有发现死獭表明獭是被捕食者杀害并吞食的。

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獭。

Sea otters are one of the few marine mammals to use tools.

獭是少数使用工具的洋哺之一。

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.

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%的食显然不少了。

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，比使用工具时，獭是个中翘楚。

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

一些洋哺会有很多时间在陆地上，獭和北极熊。

However, the fact that dead sea otters are seldom found supports the predator hypothesis.

但是，事实上很少发现死水獭支持了捕食者假说。

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

来的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。

That's going on right now and today we're taking you to an aquarium in California， where two adult sea otters are helping rehabilitate abandoned pups so they can learn how to survive in the wild.

这周就是獭宣传周，今天我们将要带你去往位于加州的一个水族馆，那里的两只成年獭正在帮助被遗弃的小崽子们让它们学会何在野外生存。

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獭数量急剧下降的理论的。