So over the 200 years of whaling, when we were busy killing and removing these carcasses from the oceans, we likely altered the rate and geographic distribution of these whale falls that would descend into deep oceans, and as a result, probably led to a number of extinctions of species that were most specialized and dependent on these carcasses for their survival.
ウナギに似た 体から粘液を出す ヌタウナギなど 400種に上る奇妙な生物の ご馳走になるのです だから200年に渡る捕鯨は 鯨を殺し 海から死骸を奪い 深海に沈むべき鯨骨生物群集の 発生頻度や地理的分布を乱したことでしょう その結果 餌として鯨の死骸に特化し 依存した種を幾つも 絶滅に追い込んだことでしょう