An adult leatherback is twice the size of the biggest cheloniid sea turtles and will therefore take longer to cool off.
成年棱皮龟的体型是最大的海龟的两倍，因此需要更长的时间来冷却。
The leatherback is certainly not the only animal with such an arrangement; gulls have a countercurrent exchange in their legs.
当然并不只是棱皮龟有这种结构，海鸥的腿部也有一个逆流交换系统。
A leatherback may be able to pick up some body heat by basking at the surface; its dark, almost black body color may help it to absorb solar radiation.
棱皮龟可以通过在水面上晒太阳来为身体获取热量；深色近乎黑色的身体颜色可以帮助它吸收太阳辐射。
Insulation protects the leatherback everywhere but on its head and flippers.
除了头部和鳍状肢外，棱皮龟的全身都有鲸脂保护。
When it comes to physiology, the leatherback turtle is, in some ways, more like a reptilian whale than a turtle.
就生理机能而言，棱皮龟从某种程度上来说更像一只爬虫类的鲸，而非海龟。
The leatherback accomplishes this by arranging the blood vessels in the base of its flipper into a countercurrent exchange system.
棱皮龟通过将鳍状肢底部的血管排列成逆流交换系统来完成这一过程。
Because the flippers are comparatively thin and blade-like, they are the one part of the leatherback that is likely to become chilled.
棱皮龟的脚蹼比较薄并且呈刀片状，因此，它们就是棱皮龟身体中有可能被冻住的部位。
Watch out of Venezuela on the critically endangered leatherback turtles.
请关注委内瑞拉极度濒危的棱皮龟。
Reptiles, inhabit, species, leatherback, flipper, lung, shell, predator, hatch.
爬行动物，居住，物种，棱皮，脚蹼，肺，贝壳，捕食，孵化。
"I didn't consider that it's such a huge monster, especially the leatherback," he said.
“我没想到它是这样一个庞然大物，尤其是棱皮龟，”他说。
In the Pacific, the number of leatherback turtles has plummeted in the last three decades.
在太平洋，菱皮龟的数量在过去三十年呈直线下降的情况。
But until now, nobody quite appreciated just how good leatherback turtles were at navigation.
但直到现在，还是没人能够欣赏菱皮龟在航行中的好处。
Elephants and buffalo stroll down to the water, and leatherback turtles make their nests: his elephants, his buffalo, his turtles.
大象和水牛悠闲的踱步入水，棱皮龟在建造它们的窝：这些都是他的大象，他的水牛，他的龟。
Concern for the leatherback grew after populations in the Indo-Pacific crashed by more than 90 percent in the 1980s and 1990s.
上世纪八十年代和九十年代期间，印太地区的棱皮龟数量暴跌90%以上，此后，对棱皮龟生存的关注便因此而明显增加。
One beneficiary of this emerging technology is the leatherback sea turtle, which Marine biologists usually identify by conventional plastic tags.
该项新技术的受益者之一就是棱皮海龟，而在通常情况下海洋生物学家则给它们佩戴传统的塑料识别标签。
The world's largest colony of leatherback sea turtles has been identified by scientists, raising hopes that the giant creature may not be as endangered as previously thought.
科学家最近发现了世界上数量最多的棱皮龟群体，这无疑唤起了一些信心，或许这种巨型动物并不像以前所认为的那样濒临灭绝。
Leatherback E turtles have several waysof maintaining its body temperature: The first, and simplest, is size. Maintaininga high body temperature through sheer bulk is called gigantothermy.
棱皮龟的第一种、也是最简单的一种保温方式，是通过其较大的尺寸体型，这种通过体积维持高体温的方式被称为巨温性。
Leatherback E turtles have several waysof maintaining its body temperature: The first, and simplest, is size. Maintaininga high body temperature through sheer bulk is called gigantothermy.
棱皮龟的第一种、也是最简单的一种保温方式，是通过其较大的尺寸体型，这种通过体积维持高体温的方式被称为巨温性。
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