SSS 2008-08-05
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(八)月
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?
Some good news for, and about, primates 1. Scientists now think there are a lot more gorillas 3 out there than they used to think. A new Wildlife Conservation Society census 4 released on August 5th finds that there are more than 125,000 western lowland gorillas spread out over two northern areas of the Republic of Congo. Western lowland gorillas are found in seven Central African countries. Nineteen-eighties estimates put the population at only about 100,000. And researchers thought that number was down to about 50,000 because of hunting for meat, as well as disease—the dreaded 5 Ebola virus kills gorillas as well as people. But the new census shows a much more thriving population. Factors that have helped gorillas include the remoteness of some of the habitat, which also offered plenty of food, and the successful long-term management of the country’s protected areas. Researchers arrived at the updated numbers by combing rainforests and swamps to count so-called nests. Gorillas construct nests out of foliage 6 every night to sack out. Which answers the age-old question about where an 800-pound gorilla 2 sleeps.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
- Primates are alert, inquisitive animals. 灵长目动物是机灵、好奇的动物。
- Consciousness or cerebration has been said to have emerged in the evolution of higher primates. 据说意识或思考在较高级灵长类的进化中已出现。
- I was awed by the huge gorilla.那只大猩猩使我惊惧。
- A gorilla is just a speechless animal.猩猩只不过是一种不会说话的动物。
- the similitude between humans and gorillas 人类和大猩猩的相像
- Each family of gorillas is led by a great silverbacked patriarch. 每个大星星家族都由一个魁梧的、长着银色被毛的族长带领着。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
- The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。
- The dreaded moment had finally arrived. 可怕的时刻终于来到了。
- He dreaded having to spend Christmas in hospital. 他害怕非得在医院过圣诞节不可。 来自《用法词典》