It said that numbers of species have recovered enough to permit whaling.

报告显示，许多鲸类已恢复至允许捕捞的数量。

Whales return to the warmth of western Greenland, amongst them are narwhals.

鲸类纷纷回到温暖的西格陵兰海岸。其中的一种是角鲸。

It is China's only large whale found in coastal waters.

自此，它们成为了我国唯一一种活动于近岸的大型鲸类。

Some whale species are dying off because climate change has affected their supply of food.

由于气候变化影响了鲸类的食物供应，一些鲸类正在灭绝。

Those vertical lines entangle and kill endangered sea turtles and multiple whale species-including the North Atlantic right whales.

这些竖绳缠住并杀死濒临灭绝的海龟和包括北大西洋露脊鲸在内的多种鲸类。

There's a huge difference in the fact that the whales would have sonar and could use that to detect food.

鲸类能够用声纳来探食物的事实带来了巨大。

Rolland and her team studied baleen, a substance found in the upper part of the mouth of some kinds of whale.

罗兰和团队研究了鲸须，一种位于某些鲸类嘴巴上部的物质。

The venture cetaceans can be divided into three big subspecies, each typified by big-name investors.

创业鲸类可分为三大亚种，各以大牌投资人为代表。

The biting sperm whale of Japan is found in deposits that also have dolphins, other whale, very primitive sea lion like animals.

在日本发现的噬抹香鲸所处的沉积层还有海豚、其它鲸类、非常原始的类似海狮的动物。

Without plankton, which is the global term for these tiny organisms, there would be no whales.

没有了这些浮游生物，也就是这些微生物的全球术语，鲸类也就不复存在了。

Regina Asmutis-Silvia is a biologist with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation in Massachusetts. She was not involved in the research, but she says it is important.

瑞吉娜·埃斯穆提斯-西尔维娅（Regina Asmutis-Silvia）是马萨诸塞州鲸类和海豚保护组织的生物学家。她没有参与这项研究，但她说该研究十分重要。

Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures on the anatomy of the Cetacea; and by help of the windlass, hold up a specimen rib for exhibition?

是那个博学的斯塔布，高踞于绞盘顶上，向你发布过有关鲸类解剖学的演讲吗；还是在绞盘的帮助下，吊起过作为样本的肋骨供你观看？

There is a Leviathanic Museum, they tell me, in Hull, England, one of the whaling ports of that country, where they have some fine specimens of fin-backs and other whales.

他们告诉我，在英国的捕鲸港口赫尔，有一家鲸鱼博物馆，那里有几头非常棒的脊鳍鲸和其他鲸类的标本。

And though none of them precisely answer to any known species of the present time, they are yet sufficiently akin to them in general respects, to justify their taking ranks as Cetacean fossils.

尽管它们之中没有一个与现存已知鲸种精确相符，可在大致方面依然与现代鲸类非常相似，足以证明它们有资格跻身鲸类化石之属。

And, the paleontological evidence, the fossil evidence and evidence from looking at the DNA of living whales and other animals now really strongly points to whales being very closely related to hoofed mammals.

古生物学证据、化石证据以及对现代鲸类和其它动物DNA的研究结果现在真的有力地指向鲸类与有蹄类动物的亲缘关系非常接近。

In case you've forgotten middle-school biology: yes, dolphins are whales; they, along with porpoises and a variety of bigger animals that we call whales, all belong to the Cetacean infraorder.

如果你忘记了中学生物学：是的，海豚是鲸鱼；是的，海豚是鲸鱼；是的，海豚是鲸鱼。它们与鼠海豚和各种我们称之为鲸鱼的大型动物都属于鲸类下目。

And the key to that rapid spread, Owen says, might be a newly studied hub of cetacean musical exchange: the uninhabited Kermadec Islands, north of New Zealand, where whales from all over the South Pacific converge en route to Antarctica.

欧文表示，迅速传播的关键，可能是人们最近研究的一个鲸类音交流中心：新西兰以北无人居住的克马德克群岛，南太平洋各地的鲸鱼在前往南极的途中都会聚集在那里。