As these carcasses sink, they provide a feast to some 400-odd species, 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.
当遗骸下沉时， 超过400种生物会迎来它们的大餐， 所以在200年的捕鲸活动里， 我们在匆忙杀戮， 从海洋中移除这些遗骸的同时， 我们也很可能改变了这些鲸鱼下沉物的 产生率和地理分布， 而这可能会导致一些 专门食用和非常依靠这种遗骸生存的