Experts said that it was remarkable that the animal had actually lived so long before ending up at the Taiji Whale Museum, in Higashimuro District, in southern Japan's Wakayama Prefecture.
专家表示,这只海豚到太地町鲸鱼博物馆定居之前,能存活这么长时间已经很令人惊奇.太地町鲸鱼博物馆位于日本和歌山县南部的东牟娄郡.
Controversially, the creature was captured during the annual dolphin hunt in the town of Taiji.
这只海豚是在太地町一年一度的海豚捕猎期间捕获的,这一点颇具争议性.
The town and the hunt was made notorious by the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," which shows fishermen herding dolphins into a cove either to be captured for aquariums or killed for meat.
2009年奥斯卡获奖纪录片《海豚湾》致使太地町的捕猎活动臭名昭著.纪录片中展示了渔民们的捕猎活动,他们在一个小海湾里围捕海豚,要么把它们抓起来送进水族馆,要么就杀掉吃肉.
It was reported that 1,218 dolphins and small whales were captured there in 2011, though it did not specify how many of those captured were killed.
据报道,在2011年海豚捕猎活动中捕到了1218只海豚和小鲸,但没有明确说明其中有多少只被杀.
But the rare albino was one that did survive.
不过这只罕见的白化海豚是幸存者.
Since then it has become the subject of a detailed study by the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology and the Institute of Cetacean Research who recently published a paper on the fascinating creature.
其后,这只海豚成为了东京大学海洋科学技术专业和日本鲸类研究所的详细研究课题,他们近期还发表了一篇关于这一迷人生物的论文.
