【英语时差8,16】不怕火的猩猩-下

 They believe that their first step to controlling fire was the ability to understand and predict its behavior. Later on, hominids learned to contain the fire by adding fuel or extinguishing it. In a final step, they learned how to create fire. Researchers believed that understanding fire was a distinctly human trait that evolved long after the chimpanzee and hominid lines split on the family tree. These findings suggest that understanding fire is not so uniquely human after all. Of course, scientists don’t expect to see chimps¹ roasting burgers at a tailgate party anytime soon. But this information does give us an understanding of our closest cousins and ourselves.

1 chimps   

（非洲）黑猩猩( chimp的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Chimps are too scarce, and too nearly human, to be routinely slaughtered for spare parts. 黑猩猩又太少，也太接近于人类，不可以作为人器官备用件说杀就杀。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
• And as nonprimates, they provoke fewer ethical and safety-related concerns than chimps or baboons. 而且作为非灵长类，就不会产生像用黑猩猩或狒狒那样的伦理和安全方面的顾虑。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命