[地名] 奥特斯贝格 ( 德 )

Intelligent Crows Use Tools What do otters, chimpanzees, and one species of crow have in common? All three are animals. They also use tools. Scientists have long known that a crow native to New Caledonia is able to use tools. The birds use them to re

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(九)月

River otters, like other social animals, have to carefully weigh the costs and benefits of hanging out in large groups. A big group makes it easier to catch fish, which seems like a good deal, but there's a downside to social life too. More otters me

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年Scientific American(十)月

For several years something mysterious has been plaguing sea otter populations off the coast of California. The animal may have seizure s, it may shake, it may act like it's weak, uh, it may not seem like it's very aware of its surroundings, and it m

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2007年

Books and Arts; Book Review; 文艺;书评; Otters in the wild 野生水獭 Beguiling carnivores 欺骗性的肉食动物 A muse to poets, a mystery to scientists 诗人的灵感,科学家的谜团 Poets dig my style 诗人尽挖我的风采 Ot

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Science and Technolgy. 科技。 Animal behaviour. 动物习性。 Smarter than the average bear. 一只特别聪明的熊。 The first case of ursine tool use. 第一只会用工具的熊。 PRIMATES apart, few mammals employ tools. Sea otters use r

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(32) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

EXPLORATIONS - Above Ground but Under the Sea: Visiting Some Popular AquariumsBy Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: The glass dome of th

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学英语单词
a g
alarm function
Anderson, Marian
apophlegmatizant
ayllus
backup system library
basal anal cell
behenoxylic acid
bridge rating test
Brusand
burseras
butt seam inspection method
casing elevator/spider
cephalodiprosopus
chechnya (chechenskaya respublika)
clear line
coded order
colascione
common extensor muscle of digits
corn-dollies
default implicit type
Delbastaille's method
digital slope detector
ejaculations
expected loa return date/time
Felizburgo
ferro-electric field effect transistor
focus pack
fonduk
four minute turn
galvanized roofing bolt
genus Leiophyllum
genus roystoneas
grid potentiometer
Gwoza
hydraulic deck machinery
hypoglycemia
hypoparathyroidisms
identical computation
isocyanurate
jet agitation
Kabardinka
king's enemy
Kuhbier
macrophysics
Majari, R.
man of rank
Manych-Gudilo, Ozero
mcinnis
meanest
menswear
mental problems
Meshchovsk
mesonotum
meteorite matter
Mississippian culture
movable-scale indicator
Ni-MH battery
non-irrigation
nonmounted
nontest
Palgrave Pt.
phyllosticta hydrangeae ellis et everhart
prejudice
price index number of primary commodity
primary prescriptive
rated power input
recuse
repeater circuit
ruggiero
samidine
Santa Venerina
service header
setgraphmode
short-tempered
shrink-fit
silenet chain
single event burnout
solenocytic
Spanish button
spray bonding
supporting position
surrogate court
syntactic approach to pattern recognition
tendotransplantatio periostealis
terminal affinity (darlington 1932)
the yards
thin-film waveguide bolometer
thompson's rule
toothed-wheel shaper
tootie
toss into the wastebasket
transverse muscle of nape
triple-crown seasons
ultraviolet absrber
under-rower
usb
valve body
veetols
white tip of rice plant
wine table
xylota steyskali