Larger animals require more food than smaller animals, but smaller animals have a higher metabolic rate.

体型大的动物比体型小的需要更多食物，但体型小的动物有更高的代谢率。

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The deep sea typically has a sparse fauna dominated by tiny worms and crustaceans, with an even sparser distribution of larger animals.

深海通常有稀疏的动物群，以微小的蠕虫和甲壳类动物为主，更大的动物分布更少。

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The problem is that larger animals have larger brains.

问题是越大的动物脑袋越大。

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"I think the larger issue is the psychological torment; animals isolated, kept away from others who can give them companionship, fearing what's going to happen next, and animals living in this constant state of confinement."

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Then we got into more deliberate hunting of animals, larger species were hunted and then you started to see humans eating things like mammoth, deer, horse, bison, and reindeer.

我们开始有意识地狩猎捕食,我们开始捕杀巨大的物种,于是你能发现人类食用大型动物,比如猛犸象,鹿,马,野牛及驯鹿

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Small animals often fall prey to the speeding traffic on the highway, while larger animals face other risks.

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The next step for the team is testing the nanofiber spheres in larger animals, then in humans.

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Crucially, OH 65 was found with stone tools and with bones from larger animals that clearly show the marks made by those tools.

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