Life in the Freezer 冰雪童话 - 6
Fur seals also feed out in the open ocean, but they are able to dive to a hundred meters or more.
The patchiness of the krill requires those that live on it to spend a great deal of time searching.
And an albatross will fly hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles, on a single foraging 1 trip.
Out here, birds can’t afford to be fussy 2 and must take whatever food they can find. Almost all of them scavenge to some extent. These birds have found the remains 3 of a small whale. They are the crumbs 4 left behind after a catch by killer 5 whales. Giant petrels, the vultures of the Antarctic, soon dominate the feast.
The biggest of all the scavengers is the wandering albatross. With a wingspan of over three meters, this bird can range over greater distances than any other. It needs the updraft created by waves in order to fly, and only these stormy southern waters provide that in such abundance . Throughout the winter, wandering albatross remain in the south, for although the continent is trapped in ice, there are a few outer islands that always remain beyond its grasp, and these provide the albatross with their nesting sites.
Three thousand pairs of wandering albatross nest on one of them, here in South Georgia.
New Words & Phrases
fussy:过分注意细节的；挑剔的
scavenge:（动物）以废物或腐肉为食
crumb :A small fragment, scrap 6, or portion:
小碎块，裂片，小部分
vulture:秃鹰
wandering albatross:漂泊信天翁
updraft:An upward current of air.
上升气流
- They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps. 他们靠在垃圾场捡垃圾维持着朝不保夕的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The campers went foraging for wood to make a fire. 露营者去搜寻柴木点火。 来自辞典例句
- He is fussy about the way his food's cooked.他过分计较食物的烹调。
- The little girl dislikes her fussy parents.小女孩讨厌她那过分操心的父母。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。