Even humpback whales prefer to use the right side of their jaws to scrape sand eels from the ocean floor.
即使是座头鲸也喜欢用它们的右颚从海底刮沙鳗鱼。
Human beings borrow ideas in music from humpback whales.
人类从座头鲸身上借用了音乐灵感。
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.
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。
All the males in a humpback whale population usually sing just one song at any given time.
所有的雄性座头鲸们在某个特定的时间段都唱同一首歌。
Japanese whale hunters plan to capture 50 humpback whales in the Antarctic in the coming months.
日本捕鲸者计划下月在南极捕捉50头驼背鲸。
In September, a humpback whale was spotted near Farne Islands, off the coast of North-East England.
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。
Ripples on the leading edge of humpback fins help the whales slice through water with grace and dexterity.
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。
The massive prehistoric sea reptile was longer than a humpback whale and had teeth the size of cucumbers, scientists say.
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。
A new study reveals that, just like humans, humpback whales in the South Pacific follow musical trends that change by the season.
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 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。
He worked with a team of biologists who have spent years tagging humpback whales near Brazil and tracking them as they migrate to Antarctic waters.
他在一个由多名生物学家组成的组里工作，他们用多年时间研究巴西附近的座头鲸并且追踪他们迁徙至南极海域的路线。
Most of all, the researchers would like to understand why humpback whales, of all species, resemble humans in their love for ever-changing yet conformist fashion.
研究人员尤其想弄明白，在所有物种中，为什么只有座头鲸对于多变而古板的时尚的热爱跟人类如此相似。
Baleen whales, including the humpback whales and blue whales, are toothless and instead use hairlike structures called baleen to filter tiny prey such as krill from seawater.
长须鲸包括座头鲸和蓝鲸都是没有牙齿的，它们用一种类似毛发般的细小结构——鲸须作为替代捕食方法，利用它们过滤海水中的食物，例如磷虾。
Fueling the evolution of cetacean communication is an ability, observed in dolphins, humpback whales and sperm whales, to pass songs and codas between generations and individuals.
通过观察海豚、驼背鲸和抹香鲸得知，促进鲸目动物通信进化的是一种在每代以及每个个体间传递鸣叫和强音的能力。
Not only that, but when a wave threatened to return the seal to danger, the humpback used its massive flipper (at five metres, the longest in the animal kingdom) to nudge it back on.
不仅如此，当一个浪头即将把海豹扫回险境之时，座头鲸还利用它的巨大的鳍状肢(五米长，动物王国中最长的)把它轻轻地推了回来。
A humpback whale, which was freed from almost certain death by three men off the coast of California, repaid the favour to its rescuers with a breathtaking display of breaches and dives.
有三个人在加利福尼亚海岸线附近解救了一头被困的座头鲸。这头鲸鱼上演了一场令人惊艳的水上跳跃表演，来答谢自己的恩人。
Mr Payne, 75, is best known for his 1968 discovery and recordings of songs by humpback whales, and for finding that some whale species can communicate with each other over long distances.
佩恩先生，75岁，最为知名的是他在1968年发现座头鲸并为其歌声录音，还发现一些鲸鱼物种可以相距遥远仍可彼此沟通。
But important questions remain, he says. For example, male humpback whales sometimes sing as they move in and out of competitive groups, but researchers don't know what role the songs play in mating.
但重要的问题还是，他说，比如，雄性驼背鲸有时候在进入或离开一个竞争性群体时唱歌，但研究者不清楚唱歌在其中起什么作用。
Long believed to exist only in the brains of humans and other great apes, in 2006 spindle cells were discovered in the same brain areas in humpback whales, fin whales, killer whales, and sperm whales.
长久以来梭形细胞被认为只存在于人类和其他类人猿的大脑中，直到2006梭形细胞也在座头鲸、长须鲸、虎鲸和抹香鲸大脑的同样区域上被发现。
Humpback whales swim at a speed of 1.6 kilometers an hour from Alaska to Hawaii.
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 not only sing, they imitate the singing of other whales.
座头鲸不仅仅自己唱，它们还模仿别的鲸的歌声。
The top-selling album, Songs of the Humpback Whale, was made public in 1970.
销量最高的专辑《座头鲸之歌》于1970年公开发行。
Humpback whales near Hawaii. Curtsinger says whales seem to be looking him in the eye when he approaches.
夏威夷附近海域的驼背鲸。克钦格说，鲸鱼在靠近他的时候好像一直用眼睛盯著他。
Humpback whales, protected under a 1966 worldwide moratorium by International Whaling Commission after years of overhunting, are renowned for their complex songs and acrobatic displays .
座头鲸以会“唱动听的歌曲”和表演杂技而著称。多年来，座头鲸被人类过度捕猎，1966年，国际捕鲸委员会出台捕杀禁令以保护这一物种。
Humpback whales, protected under a 1966 worldwide moratorium by International Whaling Commission after years of overhunting, are renowned for their complex songs and acrobatic displays .
座头鲸以会“唱动听的歌曲”和表演杂技而著称。多年来，座头鲸被人类过度捕猎，1966年，国际捕鲸委员会出台捕杀禁令以保护这一物种。
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