时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(九)月


英语课

To do a job right, you need the right tools. Even a chimp 1 knows that. According to a study in the American Journal of Primatology, chimps 2 in the Congo use multiple tools to capture army ants.


You’ve probably seen footage of chimps using sticks to harvest honey or trap termites 3. But when it comes to collecting ants, the apes are all over the place—sometimes using tools, other times going in barehanded. To investigate these different techniques, a research team spent almost 10 years in the Congo, filming chimpanzees and collecting more than 1000 ant-fishing tools. And they found that the nastier the ant, the more likely the ape is to pick up a stick.


Chimps that tear open a nest with their hands risk getting bitten, and driving the insects away. Instead, many chimps use a series of tools: one to poke 4 a hole in the nest, and another to dip in to gather a few tasty specimens 5. They even pick up tools left behind by other chimps.


Now, would an infinite number of chimpanzees using an infinite number of tools produce a Louis-the-Fourteenth-style table and chairs? It’s doubtful. But they’d probably catch an infinite number of ants.


—Karen Hopkin

 



n.黑猩猩
  • In fact,the color of gorilla and chimp are light-color.其实大猩猩和黑猩猩的肤色是较为浅的。
  • The chimp is the champ.猩猩是冠军。
(非洲)黑猩猩( chimp的名词复数 )
  • Chimps are too scarce, and too nearly human, to be routinely slaughtered for spare parts. 黑猩猩又太少,也太接近于人类,不可以作为人器官备用件说杀就杀。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
  • And as nonprimates, they provoke fewer ethical and safety-related concerns than chimps or baboons. 而且作为非灵长类,就不会产生像用黑猩猩或狒狒那样的伦理和安全方面的顾虑。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
n.白蚁( termite的名词复数 )
  • Termites are principally tropical in distribution. 白蚁主要分布在热带地区。 来自辞典例句
  • This spray will exterminate the termites. 这种喷剂能消灭白蚁。 来自辞典例句
n.刺,戳,袋;vt.拨开,刺,戳;vi.戳,刺,捅,搜索,伸出,行动散慢
  • We never thought she would poke her nose into this.想不到她会插上一手。
  • Don't poke fun at me.别拿我凑趣儿。
n.样品( specimen的名词复数 );范例;(化验的)抽样;某种类型的人
  • Astronauts have brought back specimens of rock from the moon. 宇航员从月球带回了岩石标本。
  • The traveler brought back some specimens of the rocks from the mountains. 那位旅行者从山上带回了一些岩石标本。 来自《简明英汉词典》
标签: SSS chimpanzee
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abortive eruption
aerial photographs
aerophotographic methods
age-corrected basis
alternating direction iteration method
aluminum heat exchanger
annual mean temperature
antipiriculline
apto
auxiliary head
bar structure
Bco.
be in the front line
Bilumyo
bromeliad
bunch-backed
Chagres fever
chamberies
conocarp
consderable
correlogram
coruscate
deward
dimensional array
electric hoist with creep lifting motor
erysipelotoxin
farters
flexible flightconveyor
forecast-type budget
foredone
graecunin
grazing wound
green pike
guard frame
huai
hypoproct
I'm off
inertial fusion power plant
input status register
ires
jessamin
Karauzek
krantzler
left circularly polarized light
leisure sociology
maharajah
main reservoir
mechanical metamorphism
Metaheulandite
methyndamine
metrophotography
microdrosophila (microdrosphila) cristata
miscelle
mobile library
nectarless
negative semidefinite matrix
Nueva Galia
orientation process
outlet control structure
perhapsataron
period inventory
periscopic television
plain ring gage
Poke-Hole
power system black start
press run
profets
quinine acetate
rayuela
rectilined
relevant specification
relocation counter
restart routine
revertex
rhinesuchid
salition
sand-box test
scorbutic diathesis
self-excited series winding
shearer lamb
sintered carbide tool
sorptivity
special coin suspense account
spinning apparatus with variable pressure
spuky
summer fever
synchro resolver transmitter
tank unit terminal
telephone telegram
telescope with reticle
the same thing
TMCHD
tsps
unidirectional heart block
upbind
VDPBF
verticilliums
waterwall panel heater
year of the pig
zygmont