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【英语时差8,16】大象拥有超强记忆力

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Don: Ready, Ya?l?
Ya?l: Yep.
D: Here goes 3.1415 9265 3589 7932 3846 2643 3832 79. Ta da!
Y: Wow, you really can recite pi to the thirtieth decimal place. Very impressive, Don! You must have the memory of an elephant.
D: Thanks, Ya?l, but do elephants really have good memories? Or is that just a saying?
Y: Oh, it's real. In fact, a study on elephant memory shows that having a strong memory   helps elephants survive in the wild.
D: What do you mean?
Y: Well, scientists studying elephants in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park in Africa  knew that some elephants lived through a terrible drought from 1958 to 1961. Now  cut to 1993, when there's a second severe drought. Some elephant groups left the  park, but only those with members who were old enough to have possibly   remembered the earlier drought. The group that stayed in the park was composed of  younger elephants.
D: I see. And I assume that the elephants that left the park in 1993 were better able to  survive.
Y: Right. The elephants that left the park lost only ten- percent of their calves1. But the  group that stuck it out lost forty-percent of its young.
D: So in this case, at least, evolution selects for elephants that have memories strong  enough to remember stuff from their childhood.
Y: Yep. For elephants, memory is a survival tool.  

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1 calves bb808da8ca944ebdbd9f1d2688237b0b     
n.(calf的复数)笨拙的男子,腓;腿肚子( calf的名词复数 );牛犊;腓;小腿肚v.生小牛( calve的第三人称单数 );(冰川)崩解;生(小牛等),产(犊);使(冰川)崩解
参考例句:
  • a cow suckling her calves 给小牛吃奶的母牛
  • The calves are grazed intensively during their first season. 小牛在生长的第一季里集中喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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