所有的猿类中最具攻击性的是倭黑猩猩。
倭黑猩猩被正式归类为侏儒黑猩猩。
人们并没有看到过野生倭黑猩猩比其他种类黑猩猩更经常或者更灵活的使用工具,因此这一研究结果也颇为有趣。
The findings are interesting because wild bonobos have not been seen to use tools as often or as flexibly as their chimpanzee relatives.
至少那些为数不多被认真观察过的野生倭黑猩猩并不会过度混交。
Wild bonobos (those few that have been watched carefully, at any rate) do not seem overly promiscuous.
‘黑猩猩和倭黑猩猩大量时间在树上活动,而大猩猩却不这样,’施密特说。
'Chimps and bonobos spend a lot of time in the trees. And gorillas do not, ' Schmitt said.
如果雌性倭黑猩猩和黑猩猩的确在工具使用上技高一筹,我很想知道这也许是女性无助感的来源?
If both female bonobos and chimps are better at tool use than males, I wonder where the learned helplessness of human females comes from.
黑猩猩使用暴力是因为它们想要权利,对别的黑猩猩取得控制。而倭黑猩猩使用暴力是为了防止受制于人“,哈尔说到。”
"The chimpanzees are violent because they want power, they try to have control and power over others while bonobos are using violence to prevent one for dominating them," Hare continued.
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.
凯威尔和施密特指出,由于行走方式与黑猩猩和倭黑猩猩有着根本的不同,大猩猩缺少这些特征。
Kivell and Schmitt suggested these features may be absent in gorillas as they knuckle-walk in a fundamentally different way from chimps and bonobos.
相比之下,黑猩猩和倭黑猩猩行走更灵活,“手腕呈弯曲状,而不是折叠起来,”她说。
By contrast, chimps and bonobos walk more flexibly, 'with their wrists in a bent position as opposed to being stacked-up,' she said.
黑猩猩和倭黑猩猩——动物中人类的最亲,和人类一样,有着短暂声音组成的更长的连续笑声。
Chimpanzees and bonobos - our closest relatives of the group tended, like the humans, to have longer series of laughs, each made up of shorter calls.
它们生活在母系社会中,当然在倭黑猩猩的世界也有雄性,但负责做主的却是雌性,可想而知,它们的世界比黑猩猩平静多了。
It lives in a matriarchal society - there are blokes, but the birds are in charge - and it is more peaceful than the chimpanzee world.
对于那些处于最底层的倭黑猩猩来说,只有母亲能帮他们当上父亲,培育下一代。
For those at the bottom, mum's assistance may be the only thing that allows them to father the next generation.
研究人员得出这样的结论,黑猩猩和倭黑猩猩的前肢腕关节功能,超出拳步行走的范畴,增加了他们在树枝上活动的稳定性。
The chimpanzees and bonobos have a more extended-wrist way of knuckle-walking which gives them added stability on branches, the researchers concluded.
普通黑猩猩非常好斗而且极度自私,倭黑猩猩却喜欢玩耍而且乐于分享,而这种特质是普通黑猩猩年幼时才有的。
While common chimps can be aggressive and incredibly self-serving, Bonobos are playful and even prone to sharing, traits that common chimps display mainly when they're young.
当然人类是好这一口的,跟我们的近亲倭黑猩猩一样。
Humans do it, of course. As do bonobos, our close relatives.
一个假设是倭黑猩猩的坏境食物充足,所以它们不需要使用工具寻觅食物。
One hypothesis for this is that the bonobo environment is so rich in food, that they don't need to use tools.
类似的规律在猩猩、倭黑猩猩和现代人身上都存在。
Similar patterns have been observed in chimpanzees, bonobos and modern humans.
事实上倭黑猩猩的混交行为便是佐证。
在倭黑猩猩的社会里,这种母亲方面的帮助是可以接受的,因为雄猩猩生下来后就呆在原来的队伍里不走了。
This type of maternal support is possible in bonobo societies because males tend to stay with the group they were born into.
黑猩猩、大猩猩和倭黑猩猩就拥有自我意识、情感和高级认知能力。
Chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos possess self-awareness, feelings and high-level cognitive powers.
凡是饲养了倭黑猩猩的动物园,五年时间里,这些所谓的素食物种会杀死所有拜访的野生动物。
In every zoo that kept them, these allegedly vegetarian creatures had killed visiting wildlife in the past five years.
倭黑猩猩顾名思义是猩猩的一种,它们住在刚果并且是和人类最为相似。
The bonobo is a type of ape. It lives only in the Congo and it's one of our closest living relatives.
虽然等级制度很明显,可是倭黑猩猩的社会常常被认为是平等的。
This may seem obvious but bonobo societies are often portrayed as egalitarian affairs.
这些适应性特征,即大步伐走路和弓形脚底,正是现代人类以及与我们有遥远亲缘关系的大猩猩、黑猩猩、倭黑猩猩等类人猿之间的重要区别。
These adaptations -- long legs and arches in our feet -- represent major differences between us and our distant primate relatives including gorillas, chimps and bonobos.
“如果食物很少,不容易分享,倭黑猩猩可以解决这个问题,”Hare说。
"If the food is quite sparse and it's not easy to share, [bonobos] can solve the problem," hare says.
HARE的研究主要集中在黑猩猩和倭黑猩猩上。
在另一项试验中,科学家们发现倭黑猩猩只有在参与社会互动时才会这么做。
In another experiment, the scientists found bonobos only Shared when doing so led to a social interaction.
在另一项试验中,科学家们发现倭黑猩猩只有在参与社会互动时才会这么做。
In another experiment, the scientists found bonobos only Shared when doing so led to a social interaction.
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