之后，科学家们穿开绳子，这样就需要两头大象同时拉绳子的末端来移动桌子，如果猛拉其中一端而帮友没有这么做，将不能获得食物。

Then the scientists threaded the rope so that it would take two elephants, pulling both ends at the same time, to move the table. If one yanked an end without its helpmate doing so, no reward.

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同样来自海岸研究中心的查尔斯-马友说：“我们要对付的是个大家伙，50吨重，50英尺长，它或许根本就不知道我们是来帮它的。”

"We're dealing with a huge animal," said Charles Mayo, center for Coastal Studies. "Fifty, say 50 tons, 50 feet in length." It probably doesn't know we're trying to help it.

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