在一条蜿蜒曲折布满小动物大小的坑洼的泥路上，我看到了样子像旧工具棚的屋子。
On a winding dirt road dotted with potholes the size of small animals, I spotted what looked like an old tool shed.
因此，脊椎动物的无氧能量储备与动物的大小成正比。
Thus the anaerobic energy reserves of a vertebrate are proportional to the size of the animal.
一根骨头是来自牛一般大小的哺乳动物的肋骨；另一根是来自山羊一般大小的哺乳动物的腿骨碎片。
One bone was a piece of rib from a cow-sized mammal; the other, a leg bone fragment from a mammal the size of a goat.
海狸鼠会伤害当地大小像猫的动物。
几十年来，毛皮贸易一直控制着海狸鼠的数量，但在20世纪80年代末，海狸鼠毛制品市场崩溃，导致这种猫大小的动物的数量疯涨。
The fur trade kept nutria in check for decades, but when the market for nutria collapsed in the late 1980s, the cat-sized animals multiplied like crazy.
山羊般大小的动物是如何进化成地球上最大的生物的？
How did animals the size of a goat evolve into the largest creatures on Earth?
一只岩兔，一种像海狸那样大小的动物在大门口附近的山岩上跑过，奇怪的是它竟然是大象的近亲。
A rock hyrax, an animal the size and shape of a beaver but, oddly enough, a relative of the elephant, was sunning itself on a rock by the front gate.
倘若两数的差距足够大，人类则可以轻松区分大小，那么动物们也具备这样的能力吗？
Humans can do this with ease - providing the ratio is big enough - but do other animals share this ability?
从1825年开始圣诞讲座就是这所古老学会的固定节目，今年的讲座探究的其中一个话题，就是为什么动物的行为和他们的大小有关。
A fixture at the venerable research institute since 1825, this year's lectures investigate, among other things, why size matters in animal behaviour.
中华龙鸟化石的某些部分保存十分完好，科学家们甚至发现了包含色素的细胞结构，他们认为这种猫类大小的史前动物是彩色的，甚至还拥有一条带条纹的尾巴
Some of its fossils are so well preserved that scientists can see traces of cell structures that contained pigments. The finding led to colorful views of the cat-size animal, down to its striped tail.
据说，驯养动物留下的碳足迹和它们的爪子大小不相称。
It claims that the carbon footprint left by domesticated animals is out of proportion to the size of their PAWS.
之前的想法一直是，在霸王龙形成庞大体型的进化过程中，它们需要调整全身骨骼的大小，以便能够适应食肉动物的行动。
The thinking has been that as tyrannosaurs developed to a truly giant size, they needed to modify their entire skeleton so they could function as predators.
几个闲荡的警察在一座飞机库大小的楼房周围晃悠着，楼房的周围飘着一个巨大的热气球，气球上画着世界野生动物基金的熊猫图案。
A few bored policemen mill around outside a building the size of an aircraft hangar, outside which bobs a large balloon with the WWF panda on it.
他们的研究表明，即使在他们的少年时期，这种长脖子的草食动物已经有一块巨大的、晚餐大平盘大小的髋骨(详见下图)。
Their research shows that even in its youth, the long-necked, plant-eating animal had a huge, dinner-platter-size hip bone (detail at right).
股骨的长度，必然与动物，大小成正比。
I would argue that the length of the femur must be proportional to the size of the animal.
这种动物体型只有霸王龙的九十分之一或百分之一大小，但却具有霸王龙其他所有的重要特征，硕大的头部、强健的肌肉还有短小的前肢。
Here we have an animal that's one 90th or one 100th the size of T. Rex, but with all the signature features, the big head, the strong muscles and the tiny little arms.
在研究中，珀拉德和他的同事丹尼尔·布鲁姆斯坦(Daneil Blumstein)检视了八种不同种类的啮齿动物，它们生活的社会群体的大小和复杂程度各异。
For the study, Pollard and colleague Daniel Blumstein examined eight different species of rodents that live in social groups of different sizes and complexities.
在美国的家庭里，各种大小形状的动物都受到红地毯般的礼遇。
In homes across the U.S., animals of all shapes and sizes get the red carpet treatment.
拍照小技巧：当拍摄对象的大小不容易看出来的时候——例如拍摄一座山，一片水域，一处雪景——在画面中加入一样可以确知大小的对象，例如一个人，一辆车，一只动物等。
Photo Tip: When your subject is of indeterminate size-a mountain, a body of water, a snowscape-add a sense of scale by including something of known size, such as a person, a car, a tree, or an animal.
动物衰老的速度曾经被认为是与其体型大小相关的。
The rate at which an animal aged was once believed to be related to its size.
为了弄清楚这在自然界中是否适用，迪克森和朋友们研究了各种各样大小各异的动物的影片。
To find out whether that applies in nature, Dickerson and PALS studied films of various animals of different sizes.
事实上，但是它们比实际相同大小的哺乳动物的骨头密度要高得多。
In fact, they're more dense than the bones of mammals of the same size.
事实上，令人不敢相信的是，一只蜜蜂，其毫克大小的脑，可以同哺乳动物一样执行诸如迷宫和景观导航任务。
Indeed, it is humbling to think that a honeybee, with its milligram-size brain, can perform tasks such as navigating mazes and landscapes on a par with mammals.
鸣鸟的骨头可能是中空的，但是它们实际上比相同大小的哺乳动物的骨头的密度要大得多。
Songbird bones may be hollow, but they're actually denser than the bones of mammals of the same size.
普瓦捷大学古灵长目动物和古人类研究所主任帕特里克.维格诺德告诉BBC新闻说这些猫科动物和现在的狮子差不多大小。
Patrick Vignaud, director of Poitier University's Institute of Palaeo-primatology and Human Palaeontology, told BBC News the cats were about the same size as modern lions.
他们发现动物脑面积的大小和动物的身体以及社会化的习性有着密切的关系。
They discovered that there is a strong link between the size of a brain relative to an animal's body and how sociable that creature is.
“它们几乎会吃大小适中的每一类脊椎动物，但它们更偏爱吃禽类和哺乳动物。”曾合作撰写了350页研究报告的美国地质勘探局生物学家戈登·瑞达说。
"They will eat almost every vertebrate of the right size, but they mostly prefer birds and mammals," said USGS biologist Gordon Rodda, who co-authored the 350-page study.
“它们几乎会吃大小适中的每一类脊椎动物，但它们更偏爱吃禽类和哺乳动物。”曾合作撰写了350页研究报告的美国地质勘探局生物学家戈登·瑞达说。
"They will eat almost every vertebrate of the right size, but they mostly prefer birds and mammals," said USGS biologist Gordon Rodda, who co-authored the 350-page study.
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