座头鲸以每小时1.6公里的速度从阿拉斯加游到夏威夷。
Humpback whales swim at a speed of 1.6 kilometers an hour from Alaska to Hawaii.
人类从座头鲸身上借用了音乐灵感。
销量最高的专辑《座头鲸之歌》于1970年公开发行。
The top-selling album, Songs of the Humpback Whale, was made public in 1970.
即使是座头鲸也喜欢用它们的右颚从海底刮沙鳗鱼。
Even humpback whales prefer to use the right side of their jaws to scrape sand eels from the ocean floor.
例如，1919年，在加拿大温哥华岛附近捕获了一条座头鲸，它有一对长达1米多的腿状附肢，还有完整的整套肢骨。
In 1919, for example, a humpback whale with a pair of leglike appendages over a metre long, complete with a full set of limb bones, was caught off Vancouver Island in Canada.
也许我应该试试座头鲸语。
座头鲸不仅仅自己唱，它们还模仿别的鲸的歌声。
Humpback whales not only sing, they imitate the singing of other whales.
鲸鱼的种类还包括蓝鲸，座头鲸，灰鲸和白鲸。
Some of the kinds of whales are the blue whale, the humpback, the gray whale, and the white whale.
所有的雄性座头鲸们在某个特定的时间段都唱同一首歌。
All the males in a humpback whale population usually sing just one song at any given time.
在南非附近，一头有着四十吨力气的座头鲸冲出了水面。
Forty tons of gleaming muscle, a humpback whale blasts out of the water near South Africa.
九月份，在英国东北海岸的法尔恩群岛发现了座头鲸的身影。
In September, a humpback whale was spotted near Farne Islands, off the coast of North-East England.
这只充满好奇心的小座头鲸径直游到我面前来了个亲密接触。
This curious calf swam right up to me for a close encounter.
座头鲸鳍部前缘的波纹结构能帮助它优雅灵活的穿梭于海水之中。
Ripples on the leading edge of humpback fins help the whales slice through water with grace and dexterity.
(当时)死去的鲸是一条怀孕的座头鲸，被发现时颅骨都被撞碎了！
The dead whale, a pregnant humpback, was found to have had its skull crushed.
由此产生的泡沫将猎物围起来，于是座头鲸便狼吞虎咽吃掉猎物。
The resulting bubbles pen in prey fish, which the whales gobble up.
雄性座头鲸以“嗓门大”“身型长”“擅长复杂歌曲”闻名于世界。
Male humpback whales are famed for the loud, long and complex songs they make during the mating season.
模型显示花更长时间进行“挑尾”捕食的座头鲸更有可能是自学的。
Those models assumed that humpback whales that spend more time with lobtail feeders were more likely to pick up the method themselves.
一项研究发现文化传播落后于新英格兰海岸线座头鲸之间捕食技巧的传播。
And a study finds that cultural transmission is behind the spread of a hunting technique among humpback whales off New England.
几群在基因上说有差异的座头鲸，彼此隔绝的生活南太平洋，没什么基因交流。
Several genetically different groups of humpbacks, separate populations with little interchange among them, live in the South Pacific.
据科学家所说，这头史前的海洋爬行类比座头鲸还长，它的牙齿有黄瓜那么大。
The massive prehistoric sea reptile was longer than a humpback whale and had teeth the size of cucumbers, scientists say.
座头鲸不像齿鲸亚目鲸或齿鲸，它们是须鲸亚目、无害的大海兽，嘴里只有须鲸板。
Unlike orca, which are odontocetes or toothed whales, humpbacks are mysticetes, harmless leviathans with only baleen plates in their mouths.
一项新的研究显示，南太平洋的座头鲸像人类一样，按照季节变化着追求的音乐潮流。
A new study reveals that, just like humans, humpback whales in the South Pacific follow musical trends that change by the season.
的确，你有理由不相信，如果听过座头鲸怪异的叫声，你就会知道那绝不像春雨蛙的叫声。
I mean, if you've ever heard the eerie song of the humpback whale [whale song], you know that it don't sound like no spring peeper [frog sound].
这头杀人鲸游过来的时候，这只勇敢的鳍足类动物跳上了座头鲸庞大的肋腹部，躲在它的腋窝下。
As the killer whales moved in, the plucky pinniped leapt on to the vast ribbed belly of a humpback, and nestled in the animal's armpit.
一项研究发现，每年都有歌声从一群座头鲸那里东传到另一群那里，从澳大利亚到法属波利尼西亚。
A study finds that each year, songs spread from one group of humpback whales to another, moving eastward from Australia to French Polynesia.
一项研究发现，每年都有歌声从一群座头鲸那里东传到另一群那里，从澳大利亚到法属波利尼西亚。
A study finds that each year, songs spread from one group of humpback whales to another, moving eastward from Australia to French Polynesia.
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