"We really appreciate all you've done for us, but now you need to let us die," intoned a 170-ton blue whale through a series of deep and mournful vocalizations.

“十分感谢你们为我们所做的一切，但现在希望你们让我们死吧，”一头170吨重的蓝鲸用深沉而又悲伤的声音说道。

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Eventually the heavy equipment gets the job done, and the whale is lowered onto the snow - and the Shared joy is obvious.

这笨重的设备终于完成了使命，而这头鲸被放到了雪地上——到处都在分享这种快乐。

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But why would a female whale stick around for so long after she's done adding to the gene pool?

但是为什么雌性鲸鱼在添加到基因库后，会持续这么长时间呢？

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Deliberately sinking a dead whale is done for scientific studies because it is so rare to find the carcasses at sea.

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Even if Norway can win the argument about minke whale harvesting being sustainable, it is still up against a well funded political lobby that seems to regard hunting any whale as unethical - unless done by American or Russian native peoples.

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