They were probably subadults, not fully grown, but they were still larger than baby elephants.

它们可能处于亚成体阶段，还没有完全成熟，但仍比大象幼崽要大。

And then the subadults are still growing.

然后未成年仍在不断生长。

And this is really too bad because the subadults, or the teenagers, often cause the most trouble, big surprise.

这比较糟糕，因为往往是这些未成年或青少年（北极熊），造成最多的麻烦，没想到吧。

In lab tests, researchers found they continued to suckle until the spiders became subadults— which is about 40 days after hatching.

在实验室测试中，研究人员发现它们会继续哺乳，直到蜘蛛变成亚成体——也就是孵化后大约 40 天。

When they removed the mother after 20 days, the subadults foraged on their own-- more than they would if mom were there but fewer survived over all.

当他们在 20 天后带走母亲时，亚成体自己觅食——比母亲在场时的觅食要多，但总的来说存活下来的要少一些。