音标:[bəˈbu:nz] ;
n. 狒狒( baboon的复数形式 )
n. large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles

It's on foot. It's amazing how quickly you find yourself in isolation. There's nobody here, just the baboons. The morning mist seems to be pretty determined not to lift. No sooner have I begun to make progress on my walk, then the path ahead goes com

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. When farmers and wild animals share land, conflicts can be hard to prevent. But the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is trying to help. The FAO and other groups are developing what t

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This chocolate-crazed story should get you in the mood for an Easter-egg hunt. Look out for a surprise-guest appearance from a famous fluffy animal dear to the hearts of chocolate-lovers everywhere. Jim is one of the very few boys on earth who doesnt

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Theo, the star of our popular story The Monkey Who Loved Chocolate, returns for a new escapade in which the animals at the zoo face a major threat to the comfy lifestyle in the form of Mr Shingles, the new chief zoo keeper. Mr Shingles does not belie

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This is East Africa, the Great Rift Valley, a land in constant upheaval. The flamingos and baboons here at Lake Bogoria live in harmony. They share this landscape and all it has to offer. They may not be compatible. But in the midst of Bogoria's bou

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Imagine a baby alone in the woods, how would he eat? Where would he sleep? As humans, we come into this world completely helpless. Mostly, we just know how to breathe and cry. Animals, on the other hand, stagger to their feet within minutes of birth,

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I can't believe you masking taped the shoe to your leg. 真不敢相信你用胶带把鞋和脚包在一起。 I know but these are Christian Louboutins 我知道,但这双可是名牌鞋 and even all busted up like this they still have the classic

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AS IT IS 2015-07-13 Are Baboons Democratic? 狒狒的群体够民主吗 A team of scientists has found a surprise element to the social structure of baboons: democracy. The animals live in groups with a single male leader. But, apparently, obedience

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Searching for Animal Disease Transmission Researchers are not waiting for the next new disease to emerge. Theyre studying our near and distant primate relatives to try to prevent future epidemics. HIV/AIDS is a well-known zoonotic disease, an illness

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Transcript(by myconsent) The highest peaks of the Drakensberg reach up more than ten thousand feet. Most of the pastures up here are well above 6000. As soon as they arrive, the animals reap the rewards of the long hard climb -- the grass is sweet, n

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This is a patas monkey, military looking with a fine mustache. It's at home in Savannas, where its too dry for jungle trees. Monkeys have been leaving the trees for millions of years, but we are the only ape to do so. Some of what makes us special co

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This is East Africa, the Great Rift Valley, a land in constant upheaval. The flamingos and baboons here at Lake Bogoria live in harmony. They share this landscape and all it has to offer. They may not be compatible. But in the midst of Bogoria's boun

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Dias and his crew were the very first northern hemisphere sailors to make it around the Cape of Good Hope, making Mossel Bay a start point for 500 years of European involvement in South Africa. Dias merely stopped here to replenish supplies and met p

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It's on foot. It's amazing how quickly you find yourself in isolation. There's nobody here, just the baboons. The morning mist seems to be pretty determined not to lift. No sooner have I begun to make progress on my walk, then the path ahead goes com

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Hi, Im Petty Kim. This country is close enough to Antarctica to have its very own species of penguin. Would you believe its South Africa? And thats not all. Here are a few more surprises. South Africa is a country of contrasts in the far north bands

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This is in Africa rarely seen, a lush water world. Some creatures are completely at home here. These are lechwe, antelope with hooves that splay widely enabling them to move at speed through the water. For others, the change is far less welcome. Babo

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

10When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relation to the name of the Lord , she came to test him with hard questions. 2Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan-with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and

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The newest poll results in the US indicated that 75% of Internet users believed that the Internet heightens and increases human intelligence, and that this would make people smarter in the next ten years。 In addition, two-thirds felt that the Inter

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Chimpanzee The most striking single fact about chimpanzees is the flexibility of their social life, the lack of any rigid form of organization. It represents about as far a departure from the baboon type of organization as one can find among the high

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 双语有声阅读

They believe that their first step to controlling fire was the ability to understand and predict its behavior. Later on, hominids learned to contain the fire by adding fuel or extinguishing it. In a final step, they learned how to create fire. Resear

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