The animals were feeding on sea grass.

视频中它们正在吃海草。

Their habitats in coral reefs, sea grasses and mangroves across the world are increasingly under threat.

它们在世界各地的珊瑚礁、海草和红树林的栖息地正日益受到威胁。

To map them, Carlos will use another charismatic denizen of sea grass ecosystems: sea turtles.

为了绘制海草的地图，卡洛斯将有请海草生态系统的另一个有魅力的居民：海龟。

This black coral, this barrel sponge, the oldest animal on Earth, or this meadow of sea grass.

这片黑珊瑚，这块海绵，是地球上最古老的动物，或这片海草草地。

So there's definitely something going on, on probably a microbial level, that's helping them break down this sea grass.

所以，一定有某些东西在发挥作用，可能是在微生物水平上，帮助鲨鱼分解这些海草。”

And they're also probably playing a large role in nutrient transport in those sea grass meadow ecosystems as well.

但是在这些海草场生态系统的营养运输中，它们可能也发挥着重要作用。”

They use their fins to climb around sea grass and shallow reefs while they're on the hunt for small fish.

它们用鱼鳍爬过海草和浅水暗礁，捕食小鱼。

So, the sea grass community just dies.

所以，海草群落就死了。

The plant-eating sea mammal called Marium gained fame after she was filmed being fed milk and sea grass by her handlers.

它的名字叫做玛丽亚姆，它被饲养员喂食牛奶和海草视频发布后，受到了人们的广泛关注。

This creates the conditions for sea grass beds and shellfish to thrive.

这为海草床和贝类的繁衍创造了条件。

The animals were feeding on sea grass. Every so often, they came up to the surface of the water to breathe.

它们正在吃海草。每隔一段时间，它们就浮出水面呼吸。

And she can eat up to 88 pounds of sea grass a day.

她每天最多可以吃掉 88 磅的海草。

Often he thought long strands of drifting sea grasses were his lost cedar-fibre rope.

他常常认为长长的漂流海草是他丢失的雪松纤维绳索。

But sea grasses are also important for other species, you have sport and game fish, who use seagrass beds for their juvenile nurseries.

但海草也是其它动物赖以生存的植物，人们用来捕获和垂钓的鱼就用海草床来培育幼鱼。

But sea grasses are also important for other species, you have sport and game fish, who use seagrass beds for those or juvenile nurseries.

海草对其他物种也很重要，有的鱼用海草床来做运动和游戏，或者用作幼鱼的托儿所。

But about 10 years ago, scientists documented a dainty relative of the hammerhead shark, known as a bonnethead shark, consuming copious amounts of sea grass.

但是大约10年前，科学家记录了双髻鲨（又称锤头鲨）的一种体型小巧的近亲吃掉大量海草的情况。

Sea grass die off like this, people really should care about, because it's about our natural heritage, it's about our national heritage.

海草就这样死去， 人们真的应该关心，因为这关乎我们的自然遗产， 关乎我们的民族遗产。

The animals gained media attention last year after images spread of Thai animal doctors holding a sick baby dugong and hand-feeding her milk and sea grass.

去年，这些动物引起了媒体的关注。这与相关图片的传播有关，图片内容是泰国兽医抱着生病的儒艮幼崽，用手喂其吃奶和海草。

The algae bloom depletes the oxygen from the water, in turn killing the fish and has also killed more than half of the lagoon sea grass.

藻类大量繁殖耗尽了水中的氧气， 进而杀死了鱼类， 还杀死了一半以上的泻湖海草。

They graze on underwater plants like sea grasses and algae for up to eight hours a day, grabbing the plants and pulling them into their mouth with their prehensile upper lip.

它们以海草和海藻类水下植物为食，每天进食长达八小时，它们会抓住这些植物，并用可以缠绕的上唇将其拉进嘴里。