当人们说夏天要把皮肤晒成古铜色时,他们通常并不是说要晒成红毛猩猩那样。
When people talk about getting an all-over tan for summer, they're not usually talking about getting an all-over orangutan.
红毛猩猩的家在一片森林里。
鲁森说,“红毛猩猩因怕水出了名。”
"Orangutans are famous for their fear of water," says Russon.
猜一猜,红毛猩猩在想什么?
医院目前共看护着23只红毛猩猩幼仔,它们之前均被母亲遗弃或虐待。
All 23 baby orangutans treated there were rejected or abused by their mothers.
我们把最凶悍动物奖颁给了20岁的红毛猩猩,它的视力在失明十年后得以恢复。
But our winner is Aman, the 20-year-old orangutan who had his eyesight restored after 10 years of blindness. He looked in the mirror, saw his cheeks and went ballistic!
红毛猩猩是高度智能化的类人猿,可以发现在这些岛屿上的野生婆罗洲和苏门答腊岛。
Orang Utans are highly intelligent apes and can be found wild on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
它们的水性非常差,以致有些动物园已经不再以壕沟做围护,因为溺死的红毛猩猩太多了。
They're such lousy swimmers that some zoos have stopped surrounding enclosures with moats –too many orang-utans have drowned.
相较而言,红毛猩猩拥有更少一些的“震动体制”,即他们只能从他们的声带中发出更少的音调。
"Orangutans, by comparison, had fewer" vibration regimes "- meaning they could get fewer tones from their vocal cords."
有一天,我们看到青春期红毛猩猩Sif趟进深水,蹲下来,然后用胳膊和腿做出简单的划水动作往前冲。
"One day we saw an adolescent orang-utan called Sif wade into deep water, hunker down and then lunge forward making simple paddling movements with her arms and legs," says Russon.
虽然在动物王国中,没有我们料想中的语言,姿势(倭黑猩猩和红毛猩猩其实也在用),我们是万物的灵长。
Though nothing in the animal kingdom is using what we think of as language, gestures used by bonobos and orang-utans come close.
然而30岁的Moksha Bybee在炎夏中迎来了她最最特殊的游泳搭档--一只年仅7岁的红毛猩猩。
But 30-year-old Moksha Bybee has the most unusual of swimming partners - a seven-year-old urangutan who clings to her as she dives beneath the surface.
在这样的小船上工作对三十名多种国籍工作人员来说很艰难。他们在甲板下贴上红毛猩猩的海报,在厕所内刷了向日葵。
It is tough work for the multinational crew of 30 in this rough-and-ready little boat, prettified below deck with posters of orang-utans and sunflowers painted in the toilets.
现在,我们与黑猩猩在系谱图上同享一个一个支脉。人科所包含的范围已经扩展,包括其他的“类人猿”——黑猩猩、大猩猩和红毛猩猩。
Now we and chimps must share a twig in the family tree, and the Hominidae has been expanded to encompass the other "great apes" -chimps, gorillas, and orangutans.
现在,我们与黑猩猩在系谱图上同享一个一个支脉。人科所包含的范围已经扩展,包括其他的“类人猿”——黑猩猩、大猩猩和红毛猩猩。
Now we and chimps must share a twig in the family tree, and the Hominidae has been expanded to encompass the other "great apes" -chimps, gorillas, and orangutans.
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