fur seal

基本解釋

Today it is fueling the astonishing resurrection of the Antarctic fur seal, as well as the slow but steady recovery of several whale species.
如今它正支持著一些幸存動(dòng)物們的復(fù)活回歸，這其中南極軟毛海豹的繁衍聲勢(shì)驚人，而許多鯨類的數(shù)量雖然增幅不快卻也有穩(wěn)定回升。
Antarctica is home to many seal species such as this fur seal. Its large eyes are designed to seek out prey in dim waters and are a slightly different shape to a land mammal's.
南極是許多種海豹的棲息之地，就像這只毛皮海豹，它的大眼睛是用來(lái)在黑暗的海水中追尋獵物的，與陸地哺乳動(dòng)物的眼睛形狀稍有不同。
"The behaviours that we observe will impact upon the genetic diversity of fur seal populations and may have helped them recover so successfully from near extinction only 100 years ago," said Hoffman.
霍夫曼說(shuō)：“我們觀察到的海狗行為將影響海狗基因的多樣性，這也可能是它們?cè)?00年前瀕臨滅絕又重新繁盛的原因。

Box and book together weigh as much as a pair of fur seal pups: 12.5 kilograms.
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In addition to its beginning-of-the-world astonishing beauty, expect two active volcanoes, tens of thousands of Southern Elephant Seals (biggies with really big noses), Antarctic and Sub Antarctic Fur Seals, predatory Leopard Seals, the rarer, slender and pale Crabeater, the plentiful Weddell Seal, and the rare, small, sort-of-sexy Ross Seals famous for their trilling and siren-like sounds.
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a type of seal (= a mammal that eats fish and lives partly in the sea) with ears, found in the Pacific and southern oceans, that has often been hunted for its thick fur

any of various eared seals, esp of the genus Arctocephalus, that have a fine dense underfur and are hunted as a source of sealskin