像伶盗龙这类一般被视为恐龙的小型动物其实更可能是不能飞的鸟类。
Small animals such as velociraptors that have generally been thought to be dinosaurs are more likely flightless birds.
比如说，像大象这样的大型动物比小型动物需要更多的食物和能量，而其后代比小型动物更少。
Large animals like elephants, say, they require much more food and energy and have fewer offspring than smaller animals.
灭绝也不仅仅局限于大型动物：小型动物、植物和昆虫的消失，或许不是全部都由于人类的食用而消失。
Nor were extinctions confined to large animals: small animals, plants, and insects disappeared, presumably not all through human consumption.
如果这些大型猫科动物灭绝了，那么它们捕食的小型动物将会使森林中物种的密度过高。
If these great cats become extinct, the smaller animals they prey upon will overpopulate the forests.
海洋拥有巨量的叫做鳞虾的小型动物。
The ocean contains huge amounts of tiny sea - animals called krill.
海洋拥有巨量的叫做鳞虾的小型动物。
The ocean contains huge amounts of tiny sea-animals called krill.
小型动物通常易受攻击。
在有的季节松鼠也取食一些昆虫及其它小型动物。
In some season, squirrel also takes some edible insect and other small-sized animal.
杀死并剥取10只小型动物(兔子，鸡，老鼠)。
介形虫是小型动物，其中大部份都具有两瓣的外壳。
Ostracodes are small animals, most of which have a two valved shell.
自由生活海洋线虫占整个小型动物数量的99.8%。
Free-living Marine nematodes comprised 99.8% of the total meiofauna.
较大的动物每单位质量需要的食物较少，却能比小型动物更有效地储存碳。
The larger animals require less food per unit mass, more efficiently storing carbon than smaller animals.
化石证据显示，中小型动物比较大型物种更有可能在大灭绝中幸存下来。
Fossil evidence suggests that small and medium sized animals were more likely to survive the mass extinction than larger species.
等到它们再大一些，开始捕杀兔子之类的小型动物时，就会应用这些游戏中的技能。
As they get larger, they will use the skills they learned from this play as they begin to hunt small animals, like rabbits.
应用小型动物能量代谢测定方法，测定17只人工饲养朱的标准耗氧率。
Using the method of the determination on the metabolic energy of the small-sized animal, the standard oxygen consumption of the 17 Crested Ibis by artificial feeding have been determined.
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。
Large animals like deer and elk were seen fleeing the fire. Many smaller species were probably unable to escape.
一方面，大型动物的脚相对它们的身体来说就算是小的，当然这是和小型动物相比。
For one thing, big animals' feet are smaller relative to their bodies than are smaller beasts'.
像伶盗龙(velociraptor)这类一般被视为恐龙的小型动物其实更像没有羽毛的鸟类，他说。
Small animals such as velociraptor that have generally been thought to be dinosaurs are more likely flightless birds, he said.
比如，那些在火灾之后取代原有树木的小型植物给一些小型动物提供了极佳的栖息地，比如兔子。
For instance, the small plants that replaced trees after the fire created an ideal habitat for certain small animals like rabbits and hares.
不过我认为最危险的动物都是那些小型动物，比如我刚刚提到的狮子鱼，那名年轻人只是被刺了，并不严重。
But I think the most dangerous ones we have are quite small —things like the lion fish which I just mentioned, he just got stung, but it wasn't anythingterrible.
狼蛛有时候会猎杀一些小型动物，譬如蛇、青蛙或者小鸟，但通常列在它食谱上面的则是蟋蟀、甲虫或者其它的一些昆虫。
A tarantula will sometimes kill a small animal like a snake, frog, or bird, but crickets, beetles, and other insects are more typical prey.
鲨鱼以什么为食，主要是鱼类和其他小型海洋动物？
What do sharks feed on, mainly fish and other small sea animals?
此外，喷出水体中的小型活体动物很可能被热冲击和/或化学冲击杀死或击昏，从而增加了喷口的食物供应。
In addition, it is likely that small live animals in the advected water might be killed or stunned by thermal and/or chemical shock, thereby contributing to the food supply of vents.
然而，一些小型陆生动物可以达到高速。
Still, some small terrestrial animals can achieve high speeds.
我们对珊瑚礁的讨论已经相当深入了；显然，珊瑚礁具有显著的海洋特征，由小型珊瑚动物制造的石灰骨架构成。
So we have been fairly thorough in our discussion about coral reefs, which of course are prominent, oceanic features made of hard limestone skeletons produced by tiny coral animals.
人们在针叶树和某些其它树木的硬化树脂中发现了昆虫，甚至发现了小型无脊椎动物。
Insects and even small invertebrates have been found preserved in the hardened resins of conifers and certain other trees.
对于那些不熟悉可爱的草原田鼠的人来说，这是一种在北美中部草原上发现的小型啮齿动物。
For those unfamiliar with the delightful prairie vole, it is a small rodent found in the grasslands of central North America.
它是一只小型六足草食动物，被称为孔雀鹿，大概有貘那么大。
It is a small six-legged herbivore called a peacock deer, about the size of a tapir.
那就解释了为什么最小型的食草动物，汤普森瞪羚，能以水果为食；虽然水果非常有营养，但是在地面上太稀少，不足以维持体型更大的动物生存。
That is why the smallest of the herbivores, Thomson's gazelle, lives on fruit that is very nutritious but too thin on the ground to support a larger animal.
那就解释了为什么最小型的食草动物，汤普森瞪羚，能以水果为食；虽然水果非常有营养，但是在地面上太稀少，不足以维持体型更大的动物生存。
That is why the smallest of the herbivores, Thomson's gazelle, lives on fruit that is very nutritious but too thin on the ground to support a larger animal.
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