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》
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absorption chamber
Adenophora khasiana
ageing strengthening
alternative pressure
Amīr Kalay
as red as fire
authorized buyer
autodidactically
auxiliary liftmotor
balancing capacitor
bargnani
be kind
bitter-brackish water desalination
bless my heart
booklike
by standard
corporate securities
Daguinaspis
data terminal function
defining relative clauses
digital versatile disc
dimethylchlorosilane
double drive
double helical bevel gear
drift key
Dupuytren's paste
eccrine bromhidrosis
edgewind
EEFA
electric arraying-puncher
electroabsorption effect
endobronchial
epifluorescent
exigents
external memory address register
flow transient
frozen vegetables
genus gazellas
giambattista
gold-miners
HEALPix
hog cooler
holographic map
homogametic
hydraulic structure monitoring
idling speed
insulating molding plastics
kavadi
level-five
lighting to
load limit
lunar mansion
mahaguas
Maliwatt machine
mcsodermic somite
methylchlorosilane
micro-wave cyclotron
mircoles
Mohr's clamp
morbus constitutionalis
non-synchronous network
on score
open-hands
Oscan
ovarious
palpbra frontalis
palpebral
paroo
phrenicoabdominal
polychytrium aggregatum
poultry slaughter house
predicate logic
profit-sharing bonus
program control mode
PSMA
quadrant analysis
raylle
red imported fire ants
regular meeting
reproduction fund
Sakmarskiy Rayon
section boss
self-determination
send someone up
simsun permutations
Souf, Oued
specified route service notation
spheric condenser-type spectrometer
Srbica
stipendiary judge
strain gauge acceleration transducer
subsidiary cells
tartaric acid
test tube plantlet
thickness of colloidal matter layer
truckling
tymeral
vernier dipth gauge
warmings
wideband repeater
wimpishness
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