Many female harpseals delayed giving birth for up to two weeks as they searched for ice.
许多雌海豹为了寻找冰块而将生产时间推迟了长达两周。
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Harpseals make ice their main habitat, and they give birth on ice, partly as protection from predators on land.
格陵兰海豹主要生活在冰上，并且在冰上产崽。这么做，部分原因是出于躲避陆地上的掠食者。
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In Port au Choix, Newfoundland, and other communities around the gulf, hundreds of desperate harpseals arrived in late winter to give birth on fragments of ice clinging to the shoreline.
冬末时，成百上千只走投无路的海豹来到纽芬兰Port au Choix港及其他沿海湾地区，就在靠海岸线的零零碎碎的冰块上产崽了。