1.This is where parrotfish come in.

这就是鹦鹉鱼场的时刻了。

2.You hear the sound of the parrotfish, like the noise of the waves.

你可听到鹦鹉鱼的声音，就像海浪似的。

3.Can you guess what parrotfish and beaches have to do with each other?

你能猜到鹦嘴鱼和沙滩有何必然的干系吗？

4.Eating rocks is just one way parrotfish help manage seaweed.

吃石头只是鹦鹉鱼打理海藻的一种方式。

5.There is nobody talking. You hear the sound of the parrotfish, like the noise of the waves.

你在水下。没有人说话。你听到鹦嘴鱼的声音，就像海浪的声音。

6.Named for their vibrant scales and beak-like teeth, these parrotfish are devouring a particularly crunchy breakfast: rocks.

他们鲜明的鳞片与喙状齿闻名，这群鹦鹉鱼在忙着吃一种特别脆的早餐：石头。

7.But unlike their neighbors, parrotfish can completely remove even the tiniest scraps of seaweed from the ocean floor.

但它和它邻居不一样的是，鹦鹉鱼能够从海全移除海藻，甚至是其最小的残渣。

8.The parrotfish that remain live in much smaller communities.

幸存的鹦鹉鱼只得生活在更小的群落里。

9.Through a dynamic system of social networks, parrotfish can convey information to other coral-dwelling fish.

通过一个动态社交网，鹦鹉鱼能向其他珊瑚居民传递信息。

10.Parrotfish, for example, favor the brute force approach.

例如，鹦嘴鱼喜欢蛮力方法。机翻

11.Hundreds of butterflyfish, parrotfish, and seahorses darted around her.

数百条蝴蝶鱼、鹦嘴鱼和海马在她周围游来游去。机翻

12.Then the parrotfish has to get rid of all of the crushed limestone—and there's only one way to do that.

然后鹦嘴鱼要处理掉所有碎的石灰石，而它们只有一种处理方式。

13.The lionfish's menu includes herbivores that eat algae, like parrotfish or surgeonfish.

狮子鱼的食物包括藻类为食的食草动物，例如鹦嘴鱼和刺尾鱼。机翻

14.So next time you're lounging on a tropical white-sand beach, maybe think of parrotfish.

所下次你在热带白沙滩闲逛时，也许会想到鹦嘴鱼。机翻

15.And parrotfish exemplify some of the beauty of diverse reproductive strategies.

鹦嘴鱼体现了多种繁殖策略的一些优点。机翻

16.Now that groupers and snappers are woefully overfished, fishermen are targeting parrotfish.

现在石斑鱼和鲷鱼被严重过度捕捞，渔民们开始瞄准鹦嘴鱼。机翻

17.Fortunately, continued research into reef species like the quirky and critical parrotfish can inform new strategies for preserving these essential ecosystems.

幸运的是，对珊瑚礁物种（如古怪而关键的鹦嘴鱼）的持续研究可为保护这些重要生态系统的新策略提供信息。机翻

18.Mottled and striped, teal, magenta, yellow, orange, polka-dotted, parrotfish are a big part of what makes coral reefs so colorful.

斑驳和条纹、蓝绿色、洋红色、黄色、橙色、圆点、鹦嘴鱼是使珊瑚礁如此丰富多彩的重要组成部分。机翻

19.Parrotfish are a distinctive family of fish species with a tough, bony beak so strong that they can bite through rock and coral!

鹦嘴鱼是一类独特的硬骨鱼，骨喙的强度足它们咬碎岩石和珊瑚。

20.[Jo] Yeah, it sounds kind of slimy; not something I want to sleep in. But parrotfish like it really well.

但是鹦嘴鱼真的很喜欢它。机翻