Chimps demonstrate highly developed skills of communication.
黑猩猩表现出高度发达的交流技能。
Chimps rely heavily upon their body language to communicate.
黑猩猩很大程度上依赖他们的肢体语言来交流。
What does the author say we humans have been doing to chimps?
作者说我们人类对黑猩猩做了什么？
I mean, how do researchers know if elephants or chimps recognize themselves?
我的意思是，研究人员如何知道大象或黑猩猩是否认识自己？
Back in 1999, a team of scientists led by Andrew Whiten showed that chimps from different parts of Africa behave very differently from one another.
早在1999年，由安德鲁·怀滕领导的一组科学家就发现，非洲各地区黑猩猩的行为方式大不相同。
This is not because God created them to poke fun at us; it is because humans and chimps are descended from the same relatively recent primitive ape.
这并不是因为上帝创造它们来嘲笑我们；而是因为人类和黑猩猩都是同一个比较近期的原始猿人的后裔。
Chimps cooperate to hunt and often share the food they have caught.
黑猩猩合作狩猎，并经常分享他们捕获的食物。
For over 40 years, people have been studying chimps both in the wild and in captivity.
40多年来，人们一直在研究野生和人工驯养的黑猩猩。
They say wild chimps communicate 19 specific messages to one another with a "vocabulary" of 66 gestures.
他们说，野生黑猩猩用66个手势组成的“词汇”相互交流19个特定的信息。
Chimps will check to see if they have the attention of the animal with which they wish to communicate.
黑猩猩会检查它们是否得到了希望与之交流的动物的注意。
Only humans and chimps, she said, had a system of communication where they deliberately sent a message to another group member.
她说，只有人类和黑猩猩有一个交流系统，会有意向另一个群体成员发送信息。
The scientists discovered this by following and filming groups of chimps in Uganda, and examining more than 5,000 incidents of these meaningful exchanges.
科学家们通过跟踪和拍摄乌干达的黑猩猩群，并研究了5000多起有意义的交流事件，发现了这一点。
"The vagueness of the gesture meanings suggests either that the chimps have little to communicate, or we are still missing a lot of the information contained in their gestures and actions," she said.
她说：“手势含义的模糊性，要么表明黑猩猩几乎没有什么可以交流的，要么表明我们仍然对它们的手势和行动中包含的很多信息一无所知。”
That is effectively what humans have been doing to our closest relatives -chimps .
实际上是人类一直也是这么对待近亲黑猩猩的。
Provine realized that the reason chimps cannot emit a string of "ho ho ho" is that they cannot make more than a single sound when they exhale or inhale.
普罗文认识到，黑猩猩之所以不能发出一连串的“呵呵呵”声音的原因，在于它们在呼气或吸气时无法发出一个以上的音节。
Humans can talk. Chimps can't.
人类能说话，而黑猩猩不能。
黑猩猩是杂食动物。
Which do you like better, chimps or humans?
黑猩猩有哪些特征最像人类？
Crows use tools and chimps display morality.
乌鸦使用工具，黑猩猩们展示出道德。
Researchers studied hand use in 70 chimps over 10 months.
研究人员利用10个月研究了70个黑猩猩的用手情况。
In each case, males colluded to kill chimps from a neighbouring group.
在每次案例中，雄性黑猩猩们都勾结起来杀害邻群中的黑猩猩。
Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things.
猩猩通过拥抱、拍打和注视周围的一切来沟通。
When the chimps slept close by, I stayed up in the mountains near them.
当大猩猩在附近睡觉的时候，我就会留在靠近它们的地方。
Actually, both humans and chimps are said to have evolved from a common ancestor.
事实上，人类和黑猩猩是进化自同一祖先的。
No other mammals besides humans and chimps carry objects for display, says Martin.
除了人类和黑猩猩，没有其他哺乳动物懂得用物件来佐证实力，马丁说。
When your kids misbehave, maybe you tell them to stop acting like a bunch of chimps.
当你的孩子们行为欠妥时你可能会告诉他们不要表现得像一群黑猩猩一样。
The chimps would not let her within 50 yards of them, and she had observed very little.
黑猩猩拒绝她在50码以内接近它们，而且她几乎没有观察到什么。
Three years earlier Jane had observed chimps fishing for termites with plant stems.
三年前珍妮发现大猩猩用植物茎吊食白蚁。
Three years earlier Jane had observed chimps fishing for termites with plant stems.
三年前珍妮发现大猩猩用植物茎吊食白蚁。
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