A young Cape fur seal forages amid bull kelp near Gansbaai, South Africa.

一只年轻的海豹在南非干斯拜附近的巨藻丛中觅食。

The Antarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus gazella, would be hunted to the verge of extinction.

南极软毛海豹学名Arctocephalus gazella，由于这样的捕猎而濒临绝种。

Fur seal populations here have rebounded to merely modest levels after a hunting bloodbath in the early 19th century brought the subspecies to the brink of extinction.

在19世纪初期，这里的海狗曾遭到大肆捕杀，几乎灭绝，目前海狗的数量也仅有所适当回升。

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.

南极是许多种海豹的栖息之地，就像这只毛皮海豹，它的大眼睛是用来在黑暗的海水中追寻猎物的，与陆地哺乳动物的眼睛形状稍有不同。

Dean Miller, an Australian fur seal biologist, was the first person to spot the large white object floating past Macquarie island in the far south-west corner of the Pacific Ocean.

澳大利亚软毛海豹生物学家迪恩·米勒首先发现一个巨大的白色物体漂过太平洋遥远西南角的麦夸里岛。