The largest expanse grows in the shallow waters of Shark Bay, in Western Australia.

世界上最大的草海在澳大利亚西部的鲨鱼湾。

In Shark Bay, every male is embedded in a social network consisting of 4 to 14 males.

在鲨鱼湾，每只雄性海豚都会进入一个由4到14只雄性海豚组成的社交网络中。

She's been studying the dolphin population that inhabits Shark Bay… a UNESCO World Heritage site off the coast of western Australia.

她一直在研究鲨鱼湾的海豚种群，鲨鱼湾位于澳大利亚西部海岸，是联合国教科文组织世界遗产保护地。

A marine heatwave in Australian waters in 2010 and 2011 damaged around one third of the world's largest seagrass meadow, in Shark Bay.

2010年和2011年，澳大利亚水域的海洋热浪破坏了鲨鱼湾世界上最大的海草牧场的三分之一。

By studying populations like the Shark Bay dolphins for many years, we start to see the complex ways they maintain their important social relationships.

通过多年来对鲨鱼湾海豚等种群的研究，我们开始注意到它们维持重要社会关系的复杂方式。

To answer this question, I therefore looked at the genetic profiles of more than 400 dolphins in Shark Bay and carried out paternity tests.

为了回答这个问题，我研究了鲨鱼湾400多只海豚的基因档案，并进行了亲子鉴定。

These 4 to 14 males are also known as second order alliances and they are the core social unit of the male bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay.

这4到14只雄性宽吻海豚也被称为二级联盟，它们是鲨鱼湾雄性宽吻海豚的核心社交单位。

While it was previously known that males have to cooperate in order to sire offspring in Shark Bay, it wasn't known which male is the most successful one.

虽然之前已经获悉，鲨鱼湾雄性海豚为了繁衍后代必须进行合作，但却不知道哪只雄性海豚会最成功。

Today, however, Shark Bay is a tourist attraction, or at least as much of a tourist attraction as a place hundreds of miles from anywhere much and dozens of miles from anywhere at all can ever be.

然而，今天，沙春湾成了个旅游胜地，至少是一个不着边际的地方有可能成为的那种旅游胜地。