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Other creatures benefit from the whales' industry-sea birds forage in their wake. As the whales drive the krill closer to the surface, it comes within reach of birds that are not particularly skilled
Humpback whales. During the brief summer they gorge themselves on krill. When the krill swarms are near the surface, the humpbacks collect them by lunging . They simply open their cavernous mouths and
This is Whats Trending Today... Three million years may seem like a long time. But when you consider that planet Earth is more than 4.5 billion years old, it is a pretty short period of time. And it is over that shorter time period that the whales in
This is AP News Minute. The 2 frontrunners in the polls in New York ending their party's races so far have cast their ballots in today's New York primary. Hillary Clinton voted with her husband in Chappaqua, New York while Donald Trump voted at a syn
THIS IS AMERICA - Playing in the Sun and Sea at Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we tell you about two islands in Massachusetts, in the New
My name is Maurice Manuwatu, and I am from here, Kaikoura. It's an amazing place and historically Maori have been here for over 800 years. Matakoura was a god that had this magical sword. And he carved the mountains, he shaped the peninsula around he
Then as we got closer, I could see what it was. It was a California gray whale cow. The California gray whale is one of the largest animals on the planet. A fully-grown female known as a cow can easily weigh up to 35 tons, the equivalent of eleven fe
EXPLORATIONS - November 27, 2002: Keiko the Whale By Jerilyn Watson VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we te
Scientists: Bowhead Whales Are 'Jazz Singers of the Arctic' Bowhead whales have many unusual qualities. They can live for 200 years. They have the largest mouths of any living animal, yet only eat very small ocean creatures through a filter-feeding p
Blue whales off the California coast make calls that, sped up 10 times, sound like (sound of two-part call). The original is a wall-rattling frequency too low for us to hear. Scientists analyzed around 2,500 of those calls, and found that the second
By Cynthia Kirk ENVIRONMENT REPORT -June 21, 2002: International Whaling Commission This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Delegations from around the world attended a yearly meeting of t
The researchers will sail for Antarctica early next month, in an expedition funded by the Australian and New Zealand governments. The scientists hope their journey to the Southern Ocean will help to disprove Japan's claims that whales have to be kill
And as upon the invasion of their valleys, the frosty Swiss have retreated to their mountains; 正如冷淡的瑞士人,一遇外族入侵他们的河谷,便都撤到他们的大山上去一般, so, hunted from the savannas and glades of the mi
Of all the pre-adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, 至于在迄今所已发掘的亚当以前的大鲸中,上一章所提到的那条亚拉巴马鲸应该算是最大的了, and that wa
Ere entering upon the subject of Fossil Whales, I present my credentials as a geologist, by stating that in my miscellaneous time I have been a stone-mason, 在着手处理化石鲸这题目之前,我得呈缴我的地质学家的证状,以证明我
What in the devil's name do you want here? roared the Guernseyman, flying into a sudden passion. 你究竟要干什么呀?那个革恩齐人突然动了火,高声咆哮道。 Oh! keep coolcool? yes, that's the word! why don't you pack those whale
Out of the way, Commodore! cried one, to a great dromedary that of a sudden rose bodily to the surface, and for an instant threatened to swamp us. 闪开些,艇长!这个叫道,因为他看到突然有一只象单峰大骆驼似的东西冒出了
Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life. 抹香鲸的情况远比不上一切已被捕获的大鲸,关于它的生活情形仍是一片空白。 Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classificat
BOOK I. (Folio) CHAPTER IV. (Hump Back).--This whale is often seen on the northern American coast. 第一篇(对开型) 第四章(座头鲸)...这种鲸常见于北美洲沿海一带。它经常在那边被捉到后,拖进了港埠。 He has been fre
But a few strokes, full of sparks, were given, when the exceeding strain effected the rest. 有几下子,由于用力过猛,火星迸发。 With a terrific snap, every fastening went adrift; the ship righted, the carcase sank. 可怕的啪嗒一声