I have never been in a zoo where you could touch giraffes or get this close to elephants and hippos.
我从来没有来过这样的动物园，在这里你可以抚摸长颈鹿、也可以很近距离观察大象和河马。
Pink sandstone elephants stand to attention on granite plinths. Fountains leap, as more elephants squirt jets of water.
花岗岩底座上整齐地立着几只粉色砂岩大象。更多的大象喷出一串串水流，引起喷泉跃动。
These remarkable findings suggest the elephants have built up a memory capacity to make distinctions between human voices.
这些非凡的研究发现表明大象已经具备了区分人类声音的记忆能力。
Older, more experienced grandmothers were better at telling whether other elephants were strangers or friends just by their calls.
年纪更大、经验更丰富的祖母更善于通过其他大象的叫声来判断它们是陌生人还是朋友。
But in recent years people have set their sights on the more distant past, when Europe's forests were filled with elephants, rhinoceroses and big cats.
但近年来，人们把目光投向了更遥远的过去，那时候欧洲森林里到处都是大象、犀牛以及大型猫科动物。
A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the unexpected conclusion that the African elephant is divided into two distinct species.
一项针对古代和现代大象的研究得出一个出人意料的结论：非洲大象已经分化成两个不同的物种。
The elephants are dancing to music.
大象随着音乐跳舞。
How many elephants are there in the group?
这群大象有多少头？
Whales and elephants also use sound to communicate.
鲸鱼和大象也用声音交流。
I didn't know anything about elephants, so I asked an expert for help.
我对大象一无所知，所以向一位专家求助。
Noiselessly the elephants disappear into the protection of the jungle.
大象无声无息地消失在丛林的保护之中。
Although they are big animals, elephants can move silently when necessary.
虽然大象是大型动物，但在必要时它们可以悄悄地移动。
And, like many zoos around the world, the TECC encourages elephants to paint.
和世界上许多动物园一样，泰国大象保护中心鼓励大象作画。
As soon as hunters appear, the elephants become silent, watchful and suspicious.
一旦猎人出现，大象就变得沉默、警惕且多疑。
The number of Asian elephants in China has increased from 170 in the 1970s to about 300 nowadays.
中国的亚洲象数量从20世纪70年代的170头已经增加到现在的300头左右。
A large group of around 100 elephants visit the forest every year and stay there for a few months.
多达百来头的一大群大象每年都会来到这片森林，并在那里待上几个月。
The local people have learned to live peacefully with the elephants, one of the wildlife treasures in the world.
当地人已经学会了与世界上的野生动物瑰宝之一——大象和平共处。
Humans may encourage the animals to play instruments, but the elephants make their own songs; they don't just copy their trainers or other people.
人类会鼓励大象演奏乐器，但大象会自己创作音乐；它们不只是模仿驯兽师或其他人。
How many of us go through life like the elephants—believing that it was beyond our ability to do something only because we failed once or some times before?
我们中有多少人过着像大象一样的生活——仅仅因为之前失败过一次或几次，就认为自己的能力无法完成某件事？
African elephants are the largest of Earth's land mammals.
非洲象是地球上最大的陆生哺乳动物。
Rich in wildlife, including forest elephants and gorillas.
林区野生生物丰富，森林象和大猩猩栖息其中。
Why do you like the elephants? — Because they're very interesting.
你为什么喜欢大象？—因为它们非常有趣。
Of all animals, elephants have the longest pregnancy-it lasts 22 months.
大象是所有动物中怀孕时间最长的——持续22个月。
Today, farmers who once hunted elephants now work for their preservation.
现在，很多猎杀过大象的农民已经投入到象群保护工作之中。
With rain forests shrinking, hungry elephants foraged farmland, destroying crops.
随着雨林不断缩小，饥饿的象群闯入农田觅食，毁坏了庄稼。
African elephants migrate in search of water sources during the annual dry season.
每年旱季非洲的大象为寻找水源而迁移。
We are not like rats dropped into a psychologist's maze or elephants thrust into a circus.
我们既不是被心理学家扔进迷宫里做实验的老鼠，也不是被抓进马戏团里表演的大象；
We are not like rats dropped into a psychologist's maze or elephants thrust into a circus.
我们既不是被心理学家扔进迷宫里做实验的老鼠，也不是被抓进马戏团里表演的大象；
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