时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:60秒科学


英语课

We all know that elephants aren’t really scared of mice. But a new study shows that they’re really not crazy about something even smaller: ants. In fact, elephants dislike ants so much that they avoid acacia trees that harbor the tiny, six-legged nectar-suckers.


On the savanna 1, acacia trees growing in regions that get a lot of elephant traffic tend to get eaten. But researchers noticed that one species of acacia was not much bothered by elephants. And that the untouched acacia was a favorite ant habitat.


So the scientists stripped the ant-covered acacia of their bodyguard 2 bugs 3, and sure enough, the elephants chowed down. In addition, when the insects were placed on previously 4 ant-free acacias, the elephants took a pass.


But how can teeny, tiny ants repel 5 a big old elephant, which is, after all, about a billion times more massive? The answer is in the trunk. Or rather, not in the trunk. Because, as you can probably relate, elephants really hate to have ants up their noses.


The research is published in the journal Current Biology.  And it suggests that adding ants could help preserve wooded areas on the savanna. Because ants will ruin any picnic, even for pachyderms.—Karen Hopkin

 



n.大草原
  • The savanna is also the home of meat-eaters--the lion,leopard,and hyena who feed on the grasseaters.大草原也是食肉动物的家乡--狮子、豹、鬣狗--它们都是以草食动物维持生命的。
  • They sped upon velvet wheels across an exhilarant savanna.他们的马车轻捷地穿过一片令人赏心悦目的大草原。
n.护卫,保镖
  • She has to have an armed bodyguard wherever she goes.她不管到哪儿都得有带武器的保镖跟从。
  • The big guy standing at his side may be his bodyguard.站在他身旁的那个大个子可能是他的保镖。
adj.疯狂的,发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 );病菌;虫子;[计算机](制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的)错误
  • All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞,都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
v.击退,抵制,拒绝,排斥
  • A country must have the will to repel any invader.一个国家得有决心击退任何入侵者。
  • Particles with similar electric charges repel each other.电荷同性的分子互相排斥。
学英语单词
a forxa galicia
a niche in the temple of fame
abstinence of war
acme thread gauge
ad hockeries
air burst
alpi
amyl valerate
arm turn
b.n.f.jet test
Beatenberg
bobbin box
braver
bronze vessel
Cidocetine
clicking sound
cocked body
color coding
counter chaim
counter ring
cross-promotions
crystallization power
cylinder temperature
Delphinium cheilanthum
diabetes insipiduss
die entrance angle
dried full cream milk
drooker
electric pressure ga(u)ge
emergency trip header
encinal
equivalent principle
erament
exanthema leprosum
family amygdalaceaes
fed-ex
fedrilate
furacilin
Gama, I.
genus Paralithodes
gerald rudolph fords
gingivitis marginalis suppurative
glaucogenin
glavered
hack lever
hanwells
horizontal mixer
hydraudic chuck
imprison
inert diluent gas
infliction of body
kernel grammar
Laburnum alpinum
lamarckisms
larrousse
light casting
lycopodiaceae
magazine compact edition
Magnolia liliiflora
matrotroph
Medwin Pt.
metallurgy of ferrous metals
methyldihydromorphine
multiplex paralyses
Newcombe
Nuhaka
Palaecanthocephala
parameter tags
pendulum generator
percentage reduction of area
pitch selector
platynaspidius babai
premonitorily
pseudosematic color
Punnett square method
radix anterior nervorum spinalium
royl
sayall
shortest distance
Simkara
spearer
starch up
steam cured concrete
strollingly
sulfonated soybean oil
sympolar
tail-in
Taraxacum perplexans
tcheky
temperature indicator
the northwest
Timken Test
topological Abelian group
two-path circuit
unionization
untutoredly
vesicular exanthema of swine
water pheasant
wheat berries
wide angle aerial camera
wubbing
Zacharias