In those ecosystems heavily impacted by whaling, the populations of smaller species increased.

在这些深受捕鲸影响的生态系统中，规模较小物种的数量有所增加。

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Large animals like deer and elk were seen fleeing the fire. Many smaller species were probably unable to escape.

像鹿或者麋鹿这些大型动物在火灾中都逃脱了，但是很多小型动物却不能逃脱。

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Smaller species survived, the large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction.

体形庞大、生长缓慢的动物往往成为狩猎的目标，并且很快被狩猎到灭绝。

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The sizes of herbivorous dinosaur species were biased toward giants, while carnivorous dinosaurs had nearly as many smaller species as large ones.

MSN: Dinosaurs were just born to be giants, research shows

Gabon holds about 13% of the forests of Central Africa but it is home to around 40, 000 forest elephants, a smaller species that are attractive to poachers because their ivory is tinged with pink and is very hard.

BBC: Poaching boom sees thousands of elephants killed in Gabon

However, the unknown species are composed disproportionately of groups of macroinvertebrates, with tens of thousands of species of smaller crustaceans, molluscs (snails) worms and sponges awaiting discovery.

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