让我们继续讨论动物行为通过讨论动物面临的决定，复杂的决定。
Let's continue our discussion about animal behavior by talking about decisions that animals face, complex ones.
研究基因如何控制动物行为的研究人员不得不面对许多不确定因素。
Researchers studying how genes control animal behavior have had to deal with many uncertainties.
动物行为学专家对进化很感兴趣，所以他们对这个术语的定义很狭义。
Ethologists—specialists in animal behavior—are interested in evolution, so they define the term narrowly.
上节课我们讨论了动物行为的一些模式，今天的课我们将集中讨论动物研究中使用的方法。
Last time, we discussed some patterns of animal behaviour, and in today's lecture we will concentrate on the methods used in the study of animals.
尽管土拨鼠一年中的大部分时间都在冬眠，根据这个案例研究，它们仍然被认为是动物行为研究的优秀对象。
Even though they spend the significant portion of the year hibernating, according to this case study, marmots are still considered excellent subjects for animal behavioral studies.
动物行为学家 Herzau说，这个警示故事的真正意义在于，我们给事物贴上的标签会影响我们对事物的道德反应。
The real point of the cautionary tale, says animal behaviorist Herzau, is that the labels we put on things can affect our moral responses to them.
动物行为学家已经研究这些猴子几十年了。
Animal behaviourists have been studying these monkeys for decades.
动物行为是一项有趣且有吸引力的研究。
由于颤动是不健康的，动物行为学家不认为颤动是一种行为基因。
Since shaking is not healthy, ethologists do not consider Shaker a behavioral gene.
比较心理学是研究动物行为的一个分支。
Comparative psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the study of animal behavior.
基于此项研究，牛津大学研究团队还查阅了动物行为的学术文献。
The Oxford research team based this study on observations in academic literature about animal behaviour.
孩子们享受观看动物行为的乐趣，为这些动物生宝宝而高兴。
Children enjoy seeing how animals behave and are delighted when the animals have babies.
这是脊椎动物首次清楚地显示出动物行为和分子层级变化之间的关系。
This is the first time in a vertebrate animal that you can show such a clear connection between an animal's behavior and the changes at the molecular level.
数百份现代动物园中动物行为的报告都支持建造复杂围场的想法。
Hundreds of reports about the behaviour of animals in modern zoos support the idea of building complex enclosures.
而在接下来的一个月，也就是1975年1月，当地就有数千个动物行为反常的事件发生。
During the following month, in January 1975, thousands of reports of unusual animal behavior were received from the general area.
结果这里上演了一场疯狂的免费大餐，演出了北美野生动物行为中最壮观的一幕。
The result is an avian feeding frenzy that ranks as on of the greatest wildlife spectacles of North America.
工作于俄勒冈州波特兰市的她，善于运用与动物行为相关的专业知识来捕捉对象的内在性格。
Based out of Portland, Oregon, she is able to capture the innate personalities of her subjects using her professional understanding of animal behavior.
炫耀斑点数量对于雌孔雀来说似乎已经“过时”了——Dakin等在《动物行为》中指出。
Such displays may have become “obsolete” as a signal to peahens, the team proposed in Animal Behaviour.
但是马丁·海森伯格说TA们正误入歧途。通过检查动物行为可以知道如何我们的行动是自由的。
They are misguided, says Martin Heisenberg.Examining animal behaviour shows how our actions can be free.
对野生动物行为影响最大的因素可能是下雨，所以下雨也影响到你是否有机会见到它们。
Possibly the single most important influence on the behaviour of wildlife (and therefore your chances of seeing it) is rain.
例如，“爱情”这个词既无法在《牛津动物行为指南》中也无法在《动物行为百科》中找到。
For instance, the word love can be found in neither the index of the Oxford Companion to Animal Behavior nor the Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior.
如果你觉得你对动物行为一无所知，那下面这些难以置信却真实的动物真相可能会让你惊到下巴都掉下来。
If you thought you new a lot about animal behavior, the following unbelievable but true animal facts may cause your jaw to drop.
Daniel Germann是另一位利用机器人来了解真实动物行为的动物学家，他来自苏黎世大学。
Another zoologist who is using robots to understand the behaviour of real animals is Daniel Germann, of the University of Zurich.
通过对研究犬科动物行为的几篇文章进行分析，该研究进一步说明了狗的心智能力类似于两岁到两岁半的儿童。
From an analysis of several studies on canine behavior, the study went on to say that the mental abilities of dogs are similar to those of a child aged between two and two-and-a-half years.
这项非常有成效的结果强有力的证明了，如此先进的机器学习法应该被视为研究动物行为的一种新的相关的工具。
The promising results obtained strongly suggest that advanced machine learning approaches deserve to be considered as a new relevant tool for studying animal behaviour.
但是那仍然是有关动物行为的一个有意思的前沿话题：动物们能够显露出美德，从错误的行为中分辨出正确的吗？
Though that's an interesting frontier in animal behavior: Can animals show virtue, distinguish good from bad ACTS?
动物行为杂志于本月在线发布的一项新的研究结果则表明，捕食者如果尝到了坏味道的肉，就能学会不去招惹闪光的生物。
A new study published online this month in Animal Behaviour, however, reveals that, if a meal tastes bad, predators learn to avoid the blinking.
灵长类动物行为生态学家西尔维亚•阿姆斯勒观察发现雄性黑猩猩会在它们地盘边界巡逻，还会残忍杀害竞争者。
Primate behavioral ecologist Sylvia Amsler observed groups of male chimps patrolling the edges of their territory and targeting rivals for brutal killings.
他告诉笔者，在两个主要门户网站搜狐与新浪举行的网络投票中，超过75%的投票者认为虐待动物行为应被定义为严重罪行。
He told me that polls by the two main news portals, Sohu and Sina, found more than 75% of people support the reclassification of animal abuse as a serious crime.
他告诉笔者，在两个主要门户网站搜狐与新浪举行的网络投票中，超过75%的投票者认为虐待动物行为应被定义为严重罪行。
He told me that polls by the two main news portals, Sohu and Sina, found more than 75% of people support the reclassification of animal abuse as a serious crime.
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