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The truth is we don't know what the main cause ofextinction of Steller's sea cow was.
真實(shí)的情況是，我們并不知道虎頭海牛滅絕的主要原因是什么。
There are problems with each of the theories thatyou read about.
閱讀中的每一個(gè)理論都是存在一些問(wèn)題的。
First, the sea cows were massive creatures.
首先，海牛是非常龐大的生物。
They were up to nine meters long and could weigh over ten tons, just enormous.
它們通常都會(huì)達(dá)到9米長(zhǎng)，而且重達(dá)10噸，體型巨大。
A couple of sea cows could feed a small Siberian village for months.
幾個(gè)海牛就夠一個(gè)西伯利亞小村莊吃幾個(gè)月了。
And the population of the native Siberian people wasn't very large.
況且西伯利亞本地人的人口也不是很大。
So while the Siberians certainly did hunt the sea cows, they didn't need to hunt a lot of them.
所以就算是西伯利亞人當(dāng)時(shí)的確捕殺了海牛，那他們也不會(huì)捕很多。
So it's unlikely they were the ones who brought the sea cows to the point of extinction.
由此看來(lái)他們并不是造成海牛滅絕的原因。
Second, about a hypothetical decrease in kelp caused by ecological disturbances.
其次是關(guān)于生態(tài)干擾造成的海藻減少的這個(gè)假設(shè)。
Well, if something severe really happened in the ecosystem near Bering Island sometimebefore 1768,
如果說(shuō)1768年之前，白令島附近真的發(fā)生了嚴(yán)重的生態(tài)問(wèn)題，
it would have affected not just the kelp, but also other parts of the ecosystem.
那么這個(gè)問(wèn)題所影響的就不僅僅是海藻了，生態(tài)系統(tǒng)里的其他生物一定也會(huì)受到影響。
For example, it would have caused the decline in other marine animals, like whales.
比如說(shuō)它就會(huì)造成其他海洋動(dòng)物，像鯨魚數(shù)量的下降。
But fishing ships in the area did not report a whale decline.
但是該地區(qū)的捕魚船只并沒(méi)有給出鯨魚數(shù)量下降的報(bào)告。
Since there is no indication of broader ecosystem problems, the kelp was probably growingjust fine, and the sea cows did not experience food shortage.
由于并沒(méi)有更廣泛的生態(tài)問(wèn)題，海藻很可能就生長(zhǎng)的很好并且海牛也沒(méi)有經(jīng)歷食物短缺。
Third, it might seem like the European traders were responsible because the sea cows becameextinct soon after the Europeans arrived.
第三，因?yàn)楹ＥＴ跉W洲人到來(lái)不久就滅絕了所以歐洲商人的這個(gè)理由看起來(lái)似乎看起來(lái)挺合理的。
But, actually, by the time that the Europeans arrived, the sea cow population was alreadyquite small.
但是實(shí)際上，在歐洲人到來(lái)之前海牛的數(shù)量已經(jīng)非常的小了。
We have evidence that the sea cow population was at its largest hundreds of years beforethe 1700s.
現(xiàn)在有證據(jù)表明海牛在16世紀(jì)之前的數(shù)量達(dá)到了它的頂峰。
So something was causing a serious and on-going decrease in the sea cow population longbefore Europeans arrived in the Bering Island area.
所以在歐洲人到達(dá)白令島之前，一定有一個(gè)東西引起了海牛數(shù)量嚴(yán)重、持續(xù)的下降。
Whatever this something was, it should be considered the main cause of the extinction, notthe European traders who were just the last to arrive.
不管這個(gè)東西是什么，它都應(yīng)該是海牛滅絕的主要原因，而不是歐洲商人。
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