LONDON (Reuters) - Choosy Antarctic female fur seals go to great lengths to find the right mate.

最新的科研成果显示，雌性海狗（又名“毛皮海狮”或“毛皮海豹”）在择偶时十分挑剔，它们会竭尽全力寻找最合适的配偶。

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Though clumsy on land Arctocephalus pusillus , or Cape fur seals, epitomize grace underwater.

虽然海豹在陆地上是笨拙的， 但是在水底下是优美的。

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New Zealand fur seals swim warily above a great white shark, the largest predatory fish in the seas.

新西兰的海豹警惕地在白色大鲨鱼的上面游动，大白鲨是海里最大的食肉鱼类。

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Travelling down the shoreline we come upon a colony of Cape fur seals.

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Scientists made the discovery while observing hundreds of great white attacks on fur seals off South Africa.

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Once hunted to near extinction, some 3m fur seals now inhabit the island.

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