Australian wildlife officials have begun disposing of hundreds of dead pilot whales.

澳大利亚野生动物官员开始处理数百只领航鲸的尸体。

In 1995 David Thurston monitored pilot whales that beached after following squid ashore.

1995年，大卫·瑟斯顿监控到巨头鲸在追踪岸边的鱿鱼后搁浅。

About 200 pilot whales died in the Australian state of Tasmania in late September.

9月底，约有200头领航鲸在澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚州死亡。

One scientist called that incident even more unusual than the pilot whales getting stuck.

一位科学家称，这一事件比领航鲸被困更不寻常。

The whales are pilot whales, which weigh between 1,000 and 2,000 kilograms and measure over 6 meters.

这些鲸鱼是领航鲸，体重在1000到2000公斤之间，体长超过6米。

Experts speculate the social nature of pilot whales may have played a part in the mass stranding.

专家推测，领航鲸的社交天性可能是导致其大规模搁浅的原因之一。

The International Whaling Commission says pilot whales are the species that most often is beached in large numbers.

国际捕鲸协会表示，领航鲸是最经常被大量搁浅的物种。

A pilot whale washed ashore in Thailand's southern Songkhla province with nearly 18 pounds of plastic in its stomach.

一只领航鲸在泰国南部宋卡省海岸搁浅，其胃里有近18磅塑料。

All right, next we take you to Dunsborough, Australia, where wildlife officials saved 130 pilot whales after a pod beached themselves.

接下来我们带你去邓斯伯勒，在澳大利亚，野生动物官员在一群鲸鱼搁浅后拯救了130头领航鲸。

More than 650 pilot whales have beached themselves here over the past week.

过去一周，超过 650 头领航鲸在这里搁浅。

Hundreds of pilot whales had been stranding themselves on a beach in New Zealand.

数百头领航鲸搁浅在新西兰的海滩上。

The short-finned pilot whale and the striped dolphin are the two that are celebrated.

短鳍领航鲸和条纹海豚是其中最为著名的两种。

For the last few days, officials and local fishermen in Tamil Nadu have battled to save the group of short-finned pilot whales.

几天来，泰米尔纳德邦官员和当地渔民们努力拯救这群短肢领航鲸。

Other than humans, only short-finned pilot whales and killer whales live three or more decades after menopause, some even reaching their 90s.

除了人类外，只有短鳍巨头鲸和虎鲸在更年期过后还能活30,40年，有些甚至能活到90岁高龄。

As recently as February of 2017, 650 pilot whales beached themselves on one stretch of coast in New Zealand.

就在 2017 年 2 月，650 头领航鲸在新西兰的一段海岸搁浅。

The following morning another 240 pilot whales beached themselves in the same area for no clear reason, bringing the total number up to 656.

第二天早上，又有 240 头巨头鲸无缘无故地在同一地区搁浅，使总数达到 656 头。

And then we have the the dolphins and also some pilot whales and killer whales that are also new species to this area.

然后我们有海豚，还有一些领航鲸和虎鲸，它们也是该地区的新物种。

Pilot whales are big but they're not really gigantic so they can generally just be dragged back out to the sea or cut into smaller pieces to be disposed of.

巨头鲸体型很大，但它们并不是真正的巨无霸型，所以它们通常可以被拖回海里，或者被切成小块处理掉。

In modern times, mass strandings usually involve toothed whales - like pilot whales and sperm whales - not baleen whales, like most of the ones found at Cerro Ballena.

在现代， 大规模搁浅通常涉及齿鲸——如领航鲸和抹香鲸——而不是须鲸，就像在 Cerro Ballena 发现的大多数鲸鱼一样。

It's a call that's more similar in structure to the ones orcas and pilot whales make to identify a family or social group than to the social whistles of marine dolphins.

这种叫声在结构上更类似于逆戟鲸和领航鲸用来识别家庭或社会群体的叫声，而不是海豚的社交哨声。