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Humpback whales sing most frequently where and when they breed. But researchers have just discovered that whales can sing complex songs even when diving and foraging, when its neither the time nor the place for mating behaviour. The study is publishe

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Baleen allows the non-toothed whales to strain sea water for the fish and crustacean pray. Alexander Werth of Hampden Sydney College of Virgina avoided a Jonah like journey, and still managed to analyze how baleen works. Two kinds of whales sport bal

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Why, Ned! I replied. You still aren't over your old fishing urges? 怎么。我回答，尼德，您还没有打消您哪打鲸鱼的老念头吗？ How could a whale fisherman forget his old trade, sir? 先生，打鲸鱼的人能够忘记他从前的

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That's what I've been telling you, Ned. 我刚才对您说过了，尼德。 All the more reason to get to know them, Conseil answered. 那要认识它们就更有理由了。康塞尔回答。 Look! Look! the Canadian exclaimed, his voice full of ex

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Near eleven o'clock in the morning, while on the surface of the ocean, the Nautilus fell in with a herd of baleen whales. 早上十一点左右，诺第留斯号在大洋面上， This encounter didn't surprise me, because I knew these animals were b

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With Ned and Conseil, I went to sit on the platform. The coast to the east looked like a slightly blurred mass in a damp fog. 我坐在平台上，有尼德兰和康塞尔陪着。东岸好像有一大块东西，在湿雾中隐约显现。 Leaning a

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If, on the other hand, we do know every living species. 这说法还是比较今人情服的。 We must look for the animal in question among those marine creatures already cataloged, and in this event I would be inclined to accept the existence of a

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While I was observing this phenomenal creature, two jets of steam and water sprang from its blowholes and rose to an altitude of forty meters, 当我观察这只奇怪动物的时候，两道水和汽从它的鼻孔吐出来，直喷到叫十米的高度

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In an instant the frigate's deck would become densely populated. 战舰的甲板上马上就挤满了人，水手和军官像水流一般地从布棚下涌出来了。 The cowls over the companionways would vomit a torrent of sailors and officers.Wit

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Even less likely, Ned. The devilfish is merely a mollusk, and even this name hints at its semiliquid flesh, because it's Latin meaning soft one. 尼德兰，那更不对了。章鱼是软体动物，单是这个名字就已经表明它的肌肉一点也

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That's just where you're mistaken, professor, Ned replied. 教授；这是因为您搞错了。尼德兰说。 The common man may still believe in fabulous comets crossing outer space, or in prehistoric monsters living at the earth's core, 一般的人

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He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. 它似乎是个仇恨鲸者,犹如有些人是仇恨人类者一样。 Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; 它很怕羞,始终独

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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

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How then? The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales, without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure in other and more essential particulars. 那