五十年前,在坦桑尼亚的Gombe一个身材消瘦的年轻英国妇女正穿过这里的热带雨林保护区时,她偶遇了一个正弓身在一个白蚁洞前的黑家伙。
Fifty years ago, a slender young Englishwoman was walking through a rainforest reserve at Gombe, in Tanzania, when she came across a dark figure hunched over a termite nest.
虽然生活在这里的大猩猩的行为与生活在茂密雨林中的大猩猩或许不一样,但贡贝鸟兽自然保护区的大片空旷土地仍是野外研究的理想场所。
The more open country of the Gombe Stream Reserve is ideal for field study, though the behavior of apes living there might not be the same as that of apes in the dense forests.
按英亩来算,有些保护区,例如那些位于雨林,热带草原或者红树林沼泽的地方- - -平均每亩保护的物种要比其他保护区多的多。
Acre for acre, some sanctuaries-such as those in rainforest, tropical grassland or mangrove swamps-offered a lot more species protection per acre than others did.
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