On smaller islands, temperatures are typically mild, predators are usually absent and food is scarce.

面积小一点的岛屿，一般是典型温和性气候，也没有食肉动物生存，食物很少。

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However, when studied on the smaller scale of islands, the findings showed something completely different.

然而，如果你在岛屿这样小的尺度研究这个问题，结果看起来会完全不一样。

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But the good news is that a smaller population of seals on the main Hawaiian islands is growing and thriving, he said.

但他同时补充道，夏威夷本岛上生存的少量海豹群体正在兴旺壮大，这是个好消息。

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Even so, one government idea is to gather the people of the smaller islands on to three bigger ones, and defend these behind sea walls.

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The boss of the Virgin business empire owns two of the smaller British Virgin Islands (BVI), and planned to have lemurs living in the forest on one of them, Moskito (also Mosquito) Island.

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