Studies conducted by fish on the energy demands of swimming have shown that the locomotion transition from crawling land mammals to swimming whales , manatees and dolphins came from a sequence of morphological changes .
He sometimes spends up to two to three months on location exploring and photographing the everything from manatees in florida to harp seals in the arctic .
他有时会花两三个月在一个地方探索和拍摄,对象从佛罗里达的海牛到北极的竖琴海豹。
In such places red tides tend to form , some producing toxins that get into the food chain through shellfish and rise up to kill bigger fish ( if there are any left ) , birds and even seals and manatees .
Manatees are born underwater and never leave it-though they must surface to breathe every few minutes .
海牛是在水下出生的,尽管它们需要隔几分钟探出水面做个呼吸,但是它们一辈子不会离开那里。
Many are large animals , such as rhinos , tapirs , elephants , dugongs and manatees .
它们中的许多都是大型哺乳动物,比如犀牛、貘、大象、儒艮和海牛。
Sailors of old sometimes mistook manatees for mermaids , which shows how months at sea quaffing rum and missing female company can cloud one 's vision .
For instance , how terrestrial mammals moved back into the water and evolved into whales , seals and manatees continues to puzzle fish and colleagues .