This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Sticks and stones may break some bonesunless you're a young female chimp. In that case, you're more likely to cradle your stick like a dollie. That findi

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I'm going to ask you three multiple choice questions. 我会给你们做三道多项选择题。 Use this device. Use this device to answer. 用这个装置来回答。 The first question is, how did the number of deaths per year from natural disaste

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute. As you probably know, viruses can jump from animals to people, we've gotten flu from birds and pigs, and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is thought to ha

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You might picture Neanderthal cavemen gnaw on bones around campfire. Which wouldnt be inaccurate. But Neanderthal mayhave also dieted on roasted vegetables and known a bit about medicinal plants,too. So says a study in a journal N, the science of nat

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English. The flow of Congolese refugees into western Uganda is raising concerns not only about food security, but also the risk of Ebola virus. Eating primates is a Congolese custom, but

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Abused Chimpanzees Find Home in Sierra Leone Wildlife Refuge For more than 20 years, the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary has cared for abused chimpanzees and chimps whose mothers have died. Victims of the illegal wildlife trade, the animals often arriv

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Conscious planning for the future was thought to be a cognitive behavior unique to humans. Not anymore. Researchers in Sweden have found a zoo chimp th

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The 10 Most Depressing My Life iS Twilight Entries (Homemade Bella womb, remember that? Its broken because theres a telepathic vampire fetus inside.) Some sick bastard out there started a site called My Life is Twilight, where obsessed Twihards could

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To do a job right, you need the right tools. Even a chimp knows that. According to a study in the American Journal of Primatology, chimps in the Congo use multiple tools to capture army ants. Youve probably seen footage of chimps using sticks to harv

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Its good to keep on your toes. Metaphorically, that is. Not when youre actually out for a stroll. Because a new study suggests that it takes nearly twice as much energy to walk on your toes than it does to land on your heel. Humans are among a small

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When your kids misbehave, maybe you tell them to stop acting like chimps. Well, that would be an insult to the familiar common chimp, Pan troglodytes, which actually grows up pretty fast. Now bonobos, the other chimp species, or Pan paniscus, enjoy h

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This is Scientific American 60 second Science, I am Karen Hopkin, This will just take a minute. If youve ever spent time watching chimps at the zoo, youve probably wondered: what are they thinking? Well, the answer might be simple: could be theyre fi

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Bonobos Threatened With Extinction FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And Im Christopher Cruise. Today we tell about an African ape, the bonobo. Bonobos were

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Japanese researchers claimed that chimpanzees are capable of human-like altruism. Kyoto Universitys Primate Research Institute published their findings in the scientific and medical research journal Plus One. Twelve chimpanzees were used in the exper

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I'm going to go off script and make Chris quite nervous here 我打算不按预定的来,这让克里斯很紧张 by making this audience participation. 我打算让观众参与互动 All right. Are you with me? Yeah. Yeah. All right. 懂我的意思

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All Cacilda and I have done is extend this sharing behavior to sexuality. 我和卡希尔达只是将这种分享行为扩展到了性上 So we've argued that human sexuality 我们认为人类的性 has essentially evolved, until agriculture, 直到农

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Good morning everyone. First of all, it's been fantastic being here over these past few days. And secondly, I feel it's a great honor to kind of wind up this extraordinary gathering of people, these amazing talks that we've had. I feel that I've fitt

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WASHINGTON, June 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced a proposal to classify both wild and captive chimpanzees as endangered, a move that could affect future use of chimpanzees in scientific research in the United St

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One of the nice things about being a human being is that when you have a problem, you can appeal for help, and you'll often get it. People actually want to help people. (Unlike chimps, who have a very nasty attitude.) 作为一个人,好处之一就是

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Hello there, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English! Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today we have news -- a lot of news -- about chimpanzees. A new study has found that as chimpanzees grow, they can recognize emotions in other creatu

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