除了头部和鳍状肢外，棱皮龟的全身都有鲸脂保护。
Insulation protects the leatherback everywhere but on its head and flippers.
当然并不只是棱皮龟有这种结构，海鸥的腿部也有一个逆流交换系统。
The leatherback is certainly not the only animal with such an arrangement; gulls have a countercurrent exchange in their legs.
棱皮龟通过将鳍状肢底部的血管排列成逆流交换系统来完成这一过程。
The leatherback accomplishes this by arranging the blood vessels in the base of its flipper into a countercurrent exchange system.
成年棱皮龟的体型是最大的海龟的两倍，因此需要更长的时间来冷却。
An adult leatherback is twice the size of the biggest cheloniid sea turtles and will therefore take longer to cool off.
就生理机能而言，棱皮龟从某种程度上来说更像一只爬虫类的鲸，而非海龟。
When it comes to physiology, the leatherback turtle is, in some ways, more like a reptilian whale than a turtle.
棱皮龟的脚蹼比较薄并且呈刀片状，因此，它们就是棱皮龟身体中有可能被冻住的部位。
Because the flippers are comparatively thin and blade-like, they are the one part of the leatherback that is likely to become chilled.
棱皮龟可以通过在水面上晒太阳来为身体获取热量；深色近乎黑色的身体颜色可以帮助它吸收太阳辐射。
A leatherback may be able to pick up some body heat by basking at the surface; its dark, almost black body color may help it to absorb solar radiation.
棱皮龟长到其巨大体型的时间比其他海龟要短得多。
Leatherbacks reach their immense size in a much shorter time than it takes other sea turtles to grow.
棱皮龟没有鲸脂，但它们有和爬行类动物相似的结构：厚且含油的皮肤，下面有一层纤维，再下面是脂肪组织。
Leatherbacks do not have blubber, but they do have a reptilian equivalent: thick, oil-saturated skin, with a layer of fibrous, fatty tissue just beneath it.
棱皮龟显然不把热量当作新陈代谢的副产品，以我们产生内部热量的方式，或者鸟类产生内部热量的方式来产生出来。
Leatherbacks apparently do not generate internal heat the way we do, or the way birds do, as a by-product of cellular metabolism.
请关注委内瑞拉极度濒危的棱皮龟。
Watch out of Venezuela on the critically endangered leatherback turtles.
棱皮龟是世界上最大型的海龟。
“我没想到它是这样一个庞然大物，尤其是棱皮龟，”他说。
"I didn't consider that it's such a huge monster, especially the leatherback," he said.
大象和水牛悠闲的踱步入水，棱皮龟在建造它们的窝：这些都是他的大象，他的水牛，他的龟。
Elephants and buffalo stroll down to the water, and leatherback turtles make their nests: his elephants, his buffalo, his turtles.
上世纪八十年代和九十年代期间，印太地区的棱皮龟数量暴跌90%以上，此后，对棱皮龟生存的关注便因此而明显增加。
Concern for the leatherback grew after populations in the Indo-Pacific crashed by more than 90 percent in the 1980s and 1990s.
一项最新调查[pdf格式文件]表明，在西非加蓬，有15730至41373只雌性棱皮龟在海滩上筑巢产卵。
A new survey [PDF] has revealed that Gabon, west Africa, has between 15, 730 and 41, 373 female turtles using its nesting beaches.
科学家最近发现了世界上数量最多的棱皮龟群体，这无疑唤起了一些信心，或许这种巨型动物并不像以前所认为的那样濒临灭绝。
The world's largest colony of leatherback sea turtles has been identified by scientists, raising hopes that the giant creature may not be as endangered as previously thought.
棱皮龟的第一种、也是最简单的一种保温方式，是通过其较大的尺寸体型，这种通过体积维持高体温的方式被称为巨温性。
Leatherback E turtles have several waysof maintaining its body temperature: The first, and simplest, is size. Maintaininga high body temperature through sheer bulk is called gigantothermy.
他们发现了棱皮龟的三条迁移路线，其中一条是从非洲加蓬到巴西南部和乌拉圭沿海水域的长达7500公里的航程，用时大约150天。
They discovered three migratory routes - including one 4, 699 mile journey straight across the Atlantic from Gabon to the coastal waters off southern Brazil and Uruguay that took 150 days.
这项最新调查是由英国埃克塞特大学和国际野生生物保护学会(WCS)共同主持的，在2002年至2007年期间的三次棱皮龟产卵期内，他们统计了棱皮龟巢穴以及筑巢的雌性棱皮龟数量。
The survey, led by the University of Exeter with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), counted nests and nesting females during three nesting seasons between 2002 and 2007.
这项最新调查是由英国埃克塞特大学和国际野生生物保护学会(WCS)共同主持的，在2002年至2007年期间的三次棱皮龟产卵期内，他们统计了棱皮龟巢穴以及筑巢的雌性棱皮龟数量。
The survey, led by the University of Exeter with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), counted nests and nesting females during three nesting seasons between 2002 and 2007.
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