<funFacts>
	<fact>Tuna can swim up to 50 miles per hour.\n金枪鱼每小时可以游50英里。</fact>
	<fact>The whale shark is the largest fish, at up to 50 ft.\nin length and several tons in weight.\n鲸鲨是最大的鱼，有50英尺多长，数吨重。</fact>
	<fact>There are an estimated 25,000 different species of fish.\n据估计一共有25000种不同的鱼类。</fact>
	<fact>The great white shark is the largest living predatory fish.\n大白鲨是现存最大的食肉鱼。</fact>
	<fact>Only female deep sea angler fish sport a luminous fishing lure on their tops.\n只有母深海安康鱼会在头顶上伸出一根明亮的诱饵。</fact>
	<fact>The age of a fish can be determined by the number\nof growth ''rings'' on its scales.\n鱼鳞片上不断增长的圆环的数量代表着它们的年龄。</fact>
	<fact>A puffer fish inflates itself by pumping water into its stomach.\n河豚把空气抽入胃中来膨胀鱼身。</fact>
	<fact>When inflated, a puffer fish's stomach increases to nearly 100 times its original volume.\n膨胀的时候，河豚的胃可以胀大到平时的100倍。</fact>
	<fact>To allow it to expand, the stomach of a puffer fish is pleated,\nlike a Scottish kilt.\n为了膨胀，河豚的胃是褶皱的，就像苏格兰裙一样。</fact>
	<fact>The deep sea angler is also known as the Common Black Devil\nbecause of its fearsome appearance.\n深海安康鱼由于它们那可怕的外形\n也被当成是黑魔鬼。</fact>
	<fact>A male angler fish attaches himself to a female and lives as a parasite for the rest of his life.\n雄性安康鱼像寄生虫似地把自己和雌性的身体连接在一起度过余生。</fact>
	<fact>Many brightly colored reef fish have poisonous skin, flesh,\nor eggs. The poison comes from the toxic algae that is\ntheir main food source.\n很多色彩艳丽的珊瑚鱼的皮肤、肉以及卵都有毒，这些毒素来自于它们平常所吃的有毒藻类。</fact>
	<fact>At high speeds, a tuna's forward fins fold back into slots and stabilizing finlets are used instead. This helps them produce a lot of power with little effort.\n高速移动的时候，金枪鱼会把前部的鳍收入身体中，而改用坚硬的小鳍，这样可以使它毫不费力地产生巨大的冲力。</fact>
	<fact>Most corals spawn once a year, releasing millions of spores during a particular full moon.\n大多数珊瑚虫都有规律地在每年满月的时候放出成千上万的孢子。</fact>
	<fact>The simple-looking brain coral extends hundreds of stinging tentacles at night to catch small prey.\n那些看似一般的珊瑚虫在晚上会伸出成百上千带刺的触手去捕捉小猎物。</fact>
	<fact>Corals grow very slowly. A brain coral 3 feet across might be several thousand years old.\n珊瑚生长速度很慢，直径三英尺的珊瑚差不多已经有好几千岁了。</fact>
	<fact>Some starfish digest their prey by turning their stomachs inside out, pouring digestive juices onto their victim, and then sucking up the digested remains.\n一些海星在进食的时候，先把胃翻出体外，让胃酸洒在食物上，然后吸干。</fact>
	<fact>Starfish don't use muscles to move their hundreds of tiny suckers; instead, they have a complex hydraulic system with an intake valve for water near their middle.\n海星不用肌肉移动它们那无数的小吸盘，而用身体中间的一套复杂的液压系统和一个进水阀门来代替肌肉。</fact>
	<fact>A jellyfish is 98% water.\n水母全身98%都是水。</fact>
	<fact>One of the deadliest jellyfish on Earth is the Irukandji jelly, which is only 2 cm across but can kill a human with its sting.\n世界上最致命的水母是澳大利亚箱形水母，仅仅直径2cm的就可以杀死一个人。</fact>
	<fact>Many jellyfish are ''vertical commuters.'' They sink to deep water during the sunniest part of the day and move back to\nthe surface to feed at other times.\n很多水母是垂直运动爱好者，一天中最热的时候它们会下潜到深水，并在其他时间浮上来进食。</fact>
	<fact>Oysters have primitive ''eyes'' that sense light. They can tell when something is moving nearby and shut their shells tight for safety.\n牡蛎用原始的"眼睛"感觉光线，有东西靠近时它们可以察觉到，然后把壳闭得紧紧的。</fact>
	<fact>''Black'' pearls range from gray to black. Some may also contain shades of blue, green, yellow, pink or purple.\n黑珍珠的颜色从灰色到黑色的都有，其中一些也包含蓝色，绿色，黄色，粉红或者紫色的光泽。</fact>
	<fact>The earliest pearl farmers were Chinese.In the 5th century, some placed tiny images of Buddha inside mollusks to produce pearled statuettes.\n最早养珠的是中国人，在5世纪的时候，人们把刻有菩萨的小图片放入蚌肉内，用来制作珍珠材质的菩萨雕像。</fact>
	<fact>Puffer fish are greedy. Supposedly, if a lot of food is available,\na puffer fish will eat until it seems nearly stunned.\n河豚很贪吃，如果有一大堆食物在面前，河豚很可能吃到撑死。</fact>
	<fact>Despite their delicate appearance, puffer fish have bony mouth plates that help them crunch up shellfish, crabs, or any other creatures that end up in their mouths.\n虽然河豚外表优雅，但他们那有着许多牙齿的嘴巴却能够咀嚼贝类，螃蟹和其他生物。</fact>
	<fact>Barracudas often hunt in packs and can be found in schools of several thousand.\n梭子鱼通常集体觅食，因此一个梭子鱼群体的数量可能上万。</fact>
	<fact>Humans don't know how to tell a male barracuda from a female by appearance.\n人们不知道如何从外形上判断梭子鱼的性别。</fact>
	<fact>Barracudas have sharp teeth that can shred nearly any fish they catch.\n梭子鱼的牙齿非常尖锐，可以把任何捉住的鱼都撕成碎片。</fact>
	<fact>The largest barracuda ever caught weighed 85 pounds, in the Republic of Kiribati in 1992.\n最大的梭子鱼是1992年在基里巴斯共和国捕捉到的，重达85磅。</fact>
	<fact>Marlin whack their bills around to stun prey that is swimming in a school.\n马林鱼能挥舞着他们的大鳍，打晕那些聚集在一起的猎物。</fact>
	<fact>As adults, yellow boxfish are solitary creatures, usually living along deeper coastal slopes with many crevices to hide in.\n成年的黄色箱子鱼是很孤独的，通常他们都生活在深海的石头缝中。</fact>
	<fact>Boxfish are voracious eaters. When kept in captivity, they need both green and meaty foods on a regular basis.\n箱子鱼是饕餮之徒，被放在鱼缸里的时候，它们经常需要蔬菜和肉。</fact>
	<fact>Yellow boxfish can be difficult to keep as aquarium pets. If provoked, they release toxins that can kill other fish in the tank.\n黄色箱子鱼很难作为观赏鱼来饲养，它一旦发怒，就会释放出毒素来杀死水箱内的其他鱼。</fact>
	<fact>As it searches for the small invertebrates to eat, the yellow boxfish blows tiny jets of\nwater to stir up the sand or mud of the seafloor.\n黄色箱子鱼会用嘴把水喷射出来，搅动海床上的\n泥沙，然后吃掉藏在里面的小脊椎动物。</fact>
	<fact>Boxfish are not edible - they are poisonous to humans.\n箱子鱼有毒，因此不可食用。</fact>
	<fact>Boxfish do not have overlapping scales like other fish, but instead have a rigid box-like body case made of fused bony plates.\n箱子鱼的鳞片不像其他鱼类那样重叠覆盖着，而是有着一个硬骨板构成的像箱子一样的坚硬外壳。</fact>
	<fact>Boxfish are slow and awkward swimmers, and are easily caught\nby divers; however they have been known to jump straight out\nof open aquariums.\n箱子鱼游起来又慢又笨拙，因此很容易被潜水者\n逮住，但是它们会从未封闭的鱼缸中跳出来。</fact>
	<fact>Yellow boxfish have strong teeth that grow continuously. When kept in an aquarium, they need to be given hard-shelled food\nto keep their teeth worn down.\n黄色箱子鱼的牙齿很强壮且不断生长，因此呆在水族馆的箱子鱼需要坚硬的食物来打磨它们的牙齿。</fact>
	<fact>As they age, some yellow boxfish develop a protruding hump over their upper lip.\n随着年龄的增长，一些黄色箱子鱼的上颚会长出凸出的瘤。</fact>
	<fact>As yellow boxfish age, their spots grow smaller, and turn from black to a brownish color. Sometimes the spots even turn white with a black border.\n伴随着黄色箱子鱼成长，它们身上的斑点会变小，并且从黑色变成棕色，有些时候甚至会变成带有黑色边框的白色。</fact>
	<fact>More than 90% of the pacific herring caught by the commercial fishing industry is used for the roe (eggs). Herring eggs found on kelp are also harvested commercially.\n在捕鱼产业中，超过90%的青鱼被用在了取卵上。从海草中收集青鱼卵也是收益颇丰的行业。</fact>
	<fact>Schools of pacific herring spend the daylight hours near the bottom of the sea and move up toward the surface in the evening to feed.\n青鱼群白天呆在海底，只有在晚上才浮上水面觅食。</fact>
	<fact>Herring travel in very large schools, some of which\ncan contain several million individual fish.\n青鱼通常成群结队地活动，一个青鱼群可能有好几百万条。</fact>
	<fact>Pacific herring gulp air from the surface, store it in their swim bladders, and expel it as bubbles that other herring can hear. The fish use the sound to communicate with one another after dark.\n青鱼吸入空气并保存在鱼鳔中，然后变成气泡排出，让其他青鱼能够听到。这种声音是青鱼在黑暗之中保持联络的方式。</fact>
	<fact>The humphead wrasse can change sex from female to male.\n曲纹唇鱼可以从雌性变成雄性。</fact>
	<fact>Humphead wrasse can be caught quite easily at night, especially by divers who enter the caves in which the fish sleep.\n夜晚，捕捉曲纹唇鱼非常容易，特别是找到它们睡觉的地方。</fact>
	<fact>Humphead wrasse mature slowly, and can take more than five years to become adults.\n曲纹唇鱼生长缓慢，长到成年差不多需要超过五年的时间。</fact>
	<fact>The humphead wrasse is one of the largest reef fishes in the world.\n曲纹唇鱼是世界上最大的礁石鱼之一。</fact>
	<fact>The humphead wrasse is also known as the Napoleon wrasse.\n曲纹唇鱼又被称为拿破仑鱼。</fact>
	<fact>Humphead wrasse have a slow breeding rate and a long lifespan. Because the population replenishes itself so slowly, fishing poses a great threat and the species is currently endangered.\n曲纹唇鱼的生长周期很长但寿命也很长，由于曲纹唇鱼群体数量增长速度很缓慢，因此捕鱼业对于它们的生存来说是一个很大的威胁。</fact>
	<fact>The male humphead wrasse is blue, green, or purple, while juveniles and females are reddish orange and white.\n成年雄性曲纹唇鱼有蓝色，绿色或者紫色，而幼年和雌性的曲纹唇鱼则是红色，橙色和白色。</fact>
	<fact>Humphead wrasse use their teeth to crush shells and dead coral rubble in order to find food.\n曲纹唇鱼通过他们的牙齿捣碎贝壳和死亡的珊瑚礁来觅食。</fact>
	<fact>The humphead wrasse is one of the few animals that consumes toxic creatures like boxfish. They also eat animals that destroy coral reefs, such as the crown of thorns starfish.\n曲纹唇鱼是少数几种吃有毒生物，譬如箱子鱼的动物之一，它们也吃那些毁坏珊瑚礁的动物，比如皇冠刺海星。</fact>
	<fact>Humphead wrasse can live to be more than 30 years old.\n曲纹唇鱼的寿命可以超过30岁。</fact>
	<fact>The humphead wrasse gets it name from the prominent hump the fish develops on its forehead after it reaches maturity.\n曲纹唇鱼是因成年后会在前额长出凸出的肉瘤而得名的。</fact>
	<fact>Great white sharks can detect electric fields by using the sensors in their snouts.\n大白鲨能够用嘴巴来探测带电区域。</fact>
	<fact>Great whites, like many other sharks, hatch from eggs while still inside their mother's body. The female shark then gives birth to live shark pups.\n和大多数鲨鱼一样，幼鲨在母体内孵化出来然后被排出体外。</fact>
	<fact>While most other fish are cold-blooded, great white sharks use a heat exchange system in their blood vessels to keep their body temperature warmer than that of the surrounding water.\n与大多数冷血鱼不同，大白鲨的血管里有一个热交换系统，以保持它们的体温高于周围海水的温度。</fact>
	<fact>Great white sharks have a keen sense of smell and can detect prey from long distances away. \n大白鲨有着敏锐的嗅觉，能够在很远的距离就感觉到猎物。</fact>
	<fact>The average great white shark is 10 to 15 feet long,\nwhile larger specimens can reach 21 feet in length.\n大白鲨平均有10到15英尺长，而个别能长到21英尺。</fact>
	<fact>The great white shark is an 'apex predator', which means it\nis at the top of its food chain and has no natural enemies.\nIt is the only apex predator that has never been tamed by man.\n大白鲨是顶级掠食高手，也就是说它处于食物链的最上级，没有天敌，这也是唯一一种没有被人类驯服的掠食动物。</fact>
	<fact>One of the best spots to see the great white shark is a\nchannel off the coast of South Africa known as Shark Alley.\n观察大白鲨最好的地方是位于南非海岸边一个被称为鲨鱼谷的的海沟。</fact>
	<fact>Although Australia has a reputation as a great place to see great white sharks, they are actually uncommon there and their numbers in Australian waters are on the decline.\n因为澳大利亚是大白鲨的最佳观赏地，澳大利亚被世人瞩目，但事实上在澳大利亚水域，大白鲨也很少见，且数量在减少之中。</fact>
	<fact>The leopard shark is also known as the cat shark.\n豹鲨也被称为猫鲨。</fact>
	<fact>While young, leopard sharks live in shallow waters, where their leopard-like spots offer good camouflage. When they grow large enough, they live in deep water and their spots disappear.\n年幼的时候，居住在浅水区的豹鲨身上类似于猎豹的斑点能够提供很好的伪装，但长大后，它们生活在深水区，且伪装也消失了。</fact>
	<fact>Leopard sharks are not a danger to humans. There is only a\nsingle report of a leopard shark incident in the International\nShark Attack File, and no bite was involved.\n豹鲨对人类无法构成威胁，在国际鲨鱼袭击案件中也只有一起是豹鲨造成，并且没有咬人。</fact>
	<fact>Leopard sharks form schools, and often spend time in these groups alongside smoothhound and dogfish sharks.\n豹鲨集体行动，并且经常和星鲨构鲨一起活动。</fact>
	<fact>The oldest leopard shark on record was a male\nthat reached 24 years of age.\n记录中最老的豹鲨是24岁。</fact>
	<fact>Leopard sharks are born in litters of as many as 30 pups.\n豹鲨一胎最多可生30条幼鲨。</fact>
	<fact>At birth, leopard sharks are eight or nine inches long. As adults, they can reach lengths of up to seven feet!\n刚出生的豹鲨只有8到9英寸长，但是成年后可以长到7英尺。</fact>
	<fact>The leopard shark, found along the western coast of North America, is often confused with the zebra shark that lives in the waters of Australia and Southeast Asia. Both sharks are commonly referred to as leopard sharks.\n豹鲨活动于北美西海岸，人们经常将它和生活在澳大利亚以及东南亚水域里的斑马鲨混淆，而这两种鲨鱼通常都被称作豹鲨。</fact>
	<fact>Leopard sharks spend much of their time near the ocean floor. They move into shallow, muddy bays with the rising tide to look for food.\n豹鲨大部分时间都呆在海底，潮水上涨时，它们就跟着游到满是淤泥的狭窄海湾里。</fact>
	<fact>The leopard shark adapts well to life in an aquarium. In\ncaptivity, the sharks can live for as long as 20 years if\nthey are captured when young.\n豹鲨很好的适应了水族馆的生活，如果年幼时候就被捕捉，那么在水族馆里它们可以呆上20年。</fact>
	<fact>Leopard sharks are timid, swim slowly, and have very small teeth. Divers can approach them easily while they rest on the ocean floor.\n豹鲨胆小，游速缓慢并且牙齿细小，潜水者可以很容易地在海底接近休息中的豹鲨。</fact>
	<fact>The queen triggerfish likes to eat sea urchins. The fish blows water underneath the urchins to dislodge them from rocks.\n姬鳞豚喜欢吃海胆，它们把水吹到海胆下面，让海胆从岩石上脱离开来。</fact>
	<fact>The queen triggerfish's flamboyant markings help to hide the location of its eyes and conceal the fact that it is a predator.\n姬鳞豚身上艳丽的斑点可以帮助隐藏它的眼睛，并且掩盖它的掠食性。</fact>
	<fact>In the wild, queen triggerfish are loners. It is difficult to keep more than one triggerfish in the same aquarium because they will fight with one another.\n野生的情况下，姬鳞豚是孤独的。在同一个水箱里，很难让两条姬鳞豚和平共处。</fact>
	<fact>Queen triggerfish are very poor swimmers and propel themselves mainly by rippling their dorsal fins. They only use their tail\nfins for emergencies.\n姬鳞豚是很差劲的游泳者，它摇动自己的背鳍前进，只有在紧急情况下，才会使用自己的尾鳍。</fact>
	<fact>The very strong teeth of the queen triggerfish often stick\nout of the fish's mouth, and are sometimes called fangs.\n姬鳞豚那强壮的牙齿经常从嘴巴里戳出来，\n那是毒牙。</fact>
	<fact>The queen triggerfish gets its name from its ability to lock its dorsal fin spine into an upright position as a means of defense. The fin cannot be flattened by force, but a slight push on its shorter 'trigger' spine causes it to collapse.\n姬鳞豚因它那在防御的时高高竖起的坚硬背鳍，而被称为女王“触发器”。背鳍很难被外力所压平，但是只需要施加轻微的压力在那块被称为“触发器”的短小脊骨上，背鳍就可以收回。</fact>
	<fact>Queen triggerfish often chew and break the plastic tubing in an aquarium or redecorate the tank by moving plastic plants. \n水族馆里，姬鳞豚经常会嚼碎或者拖动水箱里的塑料管材。</fact>
	<fact>Queen triggerfish are beautiful but very aggressive. They have even been known to bite an owner's hand when it is placed inside the aquarium!\n姬鳞豚十分漂亮但极具攻击性，曾经有人把手伸入水箱时被姬鳞咬伤手。</fact>
	<fact>Butterfly fish use their pointed snouts to reach into small crevices and feed on tiny invertebrates.\n蝴蝶鱼用它们针一般的嘴巴搜索微小的缝隙去寻找那些赖以为食的小动物。</fact>
	<fact>Butterfly fish usually mate for life, and the male and female raise their young together. If one butterfly fish dies, its mate may die as well.\n蝴蝶鱼通常成对生活，并且一起养育下一代，如果其中一条蝴蝶鱼死了，那么另一条也会很快死去。</fact>
	<fact>The butterfly fish finds its food at the water's surface.\nIt can even use its large pectoral fins to leap out\nof the water and catch insects.\n蝴蝶鱼在水面捕食，甚至可以使用胸鳍在水面上跳跃起来捕食小虫子。</fact>
	<fact>Many butterfly fish have dark vertical bands across their eyes and large dark spots on their bodies or rear fins. This coloring confuses predators by making it hard to tell the fish's head\nfrom its tail.\n许多蝴蝶鱼有黑色垂直的条纹覆盖它们的眼睛，还有很大的黑色斑点遍布身体以及鱼鳍，这种颜色会让掠食者很难分清它的头和尾巴。</fact>
	<fact>Butterfly fish usually travel alone or in pairs. They have a very limited range, and do not stray far from their homes.\n蝴蝶鱼通常单独或者成对活动，它们的活动范围很小并且不会远离它们的巢穴。</fact>
	<fact>Butterfly fish become inactive at night. As they hide themselves away for the evening, their bright daytime colors turn paler.\n蝴蝶鱼在晚上不活跃，它们将白天的身体颜色转变得苍白，更好地隐蔽自己。</fact>
	<fact>Butterfly fish are skittish and can be difficult to keep in home aquariums. Inappropriate tank conditions upset them; some have even been known to stop eating and starve themselves to death.\n蝴蝶鱼很脆弱因此很难在鱼缸里生活，它们会因为对鱼缸的环境不适应而烦躁不安甚至拒绝进食而死去。</fact>
	<fact>The coral cod is usually found in caves and under ledges.\n珊瑚东星斑通常呆在洞穴或者暗礁下面。</fact>
	<fact>The coral cod is also known as the tomato cod. \n珊瑚东星斑又被称作土豆东星斑。</fact>
	<fact>The coral cod is often confused with the tomato trout, but the two fish have differently shaped tails.\n珊瑚东星斑和土豆鲑鱼很难区别，不同的是它们的尾巴形状。</fact>
	<fact>The coral cod is not a true cod at all,\nbut is actually a type of grouper.\n珊瑚东星斑不是真正的东星斑，而属于鲶鱼科。</fact>
	<fact>The juvenile African pompano has long filaments at the ends of its fins. These get shorter as the fish ages.\n年轻的短吻丝鱼在鳍的尾端有长长的丝，随着年龄的增大，丝会变短。</fact>
	<fact>The African pompano is also called the threadfish and\nthe Cuban jack.\n短吻丝鱼也被称作丝鱼或者古巴旗。</fact>
	<fact>Young African pompano stay in shallow reef areas, while adults can be found around deep shipwrecks.\n幼小的短吻丝鱼通常呆在浅水礁石区，而大的则一般在深海的海难船附近。</fact>
	<fact>The African pompano is highly prized by sport fishermen, who consider it an excellent fighter. When hooked, the African pompano engages in a distinctive corkscrew-like thrashing pattern.\n短吻丝鱼在捕鱼者看来是一个非常优秀的斗士，当上钩的时候，短吻丝鱼会用独特的陀螺一样的动作挣扎。</fact>
	<fact>Despite its name, the African pompano is not from Africa. The fish can be found in U.S. waters, and is common along the Atlantic coast and in Florida.\n虽然从名字上看，短吻丝鱼是非洲的，但事实并不是这样，这种鱼生活在美国，在亚特兰大海岸和佛罗里达都很常见。</fact>
	<fact>African pompano are not pompano at all, but are in a completely separate genus that includes fish known as jacks. However, juvenile African pompano look a lot like true pompano, and both fish are in the same family, Carangidae. \n短吻丝鱼不属于参鲳鱼，而是属于另外一种完全不同的鱼种。尽管如此，年幼的短吻丝鱼看上去有点像鲳参鱼，这两种鱼都属于同一个科——鱼科。</fact>
	<fact>John dory are very expensive fish for food.\n海鲂是很贵的食用鱼。</fact>
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