The African elephant is in a desperate plight.
非洲象正面临绝境。
They placed the African elephant on their endangered list.
他们把非洲大象列为濒危动物。
Semba, her mother, is a 30-year-old African elephant.
她的母亲森巴是一头30岁的非洲象。
Unlike other animals, the African elephant is to a great extent the builder of its environment.
与其他动物不同，非洲象在很大程度上是环境的建设者。
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。
Unit 2 Is it an African elephant?
第二单元是非洲的大象吗?。
The African elephant is the largest animal on land.
非洲象是陆地上最大的动物。
African elephant having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks.
耳朵大而飘、有象牙的非洲大象。
The African Elephant eat grass roots, tree barks, leaved branches and fruits.
非洲象吃草根，树皮，带叶的树枝和果实。
That would be the equivalent of a human lifting around the weight of an African elephant.
这就好比于人类举起一头非洲象。
The world has two kinds of typical elephant - African elephants and Asian elephants.
有两种典型的象——非洲象和亚洲象。
There are two kinds of elephant, the African elephant and the Asian elephant (or Indian elephant).
大象有两种，分别 是非洲象和亚洲象（也叫印度象）。
The debate over whether the African elephant is one or two species has been going on for about a decade.
关于非洲象是一个还是两个物种的争论已经持续了差不多十年。
A turn of the page reveals a stunning, double-page gouache painting of an African elephant and her calf.
作者翻页揭示了一个非洲大象和她迷人的小腿，双页的水粉画。
The 18-year-old African elephant got behind and pushed the car out of trouble and out of the enclosure.(See photo)
这时，动物园一头名为"Five"的18岁非洲象走到车后，帮忙推动汽车，并将汽车推出了围场。
Genetic researchers may have resolved a long-standing dispute by proving there are two species of African elephant.
遗传学研究人士证明非洲象是两个物种，从而可能解决一个长期存在的争论。
An African elephant can weigh more than 6 tons (5, 443 kilograms) and stand as tall as 12 feet (4 meters) at the shoulder.
一头非洲象的体重会超过6吨(5 443kg)，站立时的肩高可以达到12英尺(4米)。
Mashatu reserve has an impressive population of African elephant, eland and ostrich. the baobab trees are also plenty in the region.
马沙图保护区有数量惊人的非洲象、大角斑羚和鸵鸟，还有很多猴面包树。
The African elephant was removed from the vulnerable list and was listed as "near threatened," although its status varied depending on location.
非洲大象已从脆弱的名单中被排除和被列为“接近威胁”，但其地位状况因其所在地的不同有所差异。
In 1861, Arab traders captured a 2-year-old African elephant calf on the plains of Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, and sold him to a European animal collector.
1861年，阿拉伯贩子从阿比西尼亚平原(现今的埃塞俄比亚)捕获了一头两岁大的非洲象幼仔，将其倒手卖给了欧洲的动物收购者。
"We'd have to review the evidence to see whether we need to split the African elephant into two entries on the Red List of Threatened Species," he told BBC News.
“我们必须检查证据，看看是不是必须在濒危动物名单上把非洲象分成两个条目，”他对BBC新闻说。
"This alarming level of illegal hunting could drive the African elephant to extinction across much of Africa in just 15 years," said Robbie Marsland, director of IFAW UK.
令人震惊的非法狩猎将会在15年内把非洲大部分地区的非洲象带向灭绝。英国国际爱护动物基金会理事robbieMarsland说道。
Differences were discovered between mammoth and African elephant in amino-acid positions that are otherwise invariant over several billion years of combined mammalian evolution.
中氨基酸的位置，否则不变的联合哺乳动物进化的数十亿年的庞大和非洲象之间的差异被发现。
Ever wonder why you've never seen an elephant quickstep across African plains or do the tango in Thailand?
你有没有好奇过，为什么不管是非洲草原还是泰国，都没见过一头大象快步或跳探戈？
In the most telling comparison, 100% of volunteers noticed the movement of an elephant in the African bush. Only 72% noticed the movement of a minivan in a similar piece of bush.
在绝大部分的口述比较中，100%的志愿者察觉到了非洲灌木丛中大象的移动，但察觉到汽车移动的只有72%。
In the most telling comparison, 100% of volunteers noticed the movement of an elephant in the African bush. Only 72% noticed the movement of a minivan in a similar piece of bush.
在绝大部分的口述比较中，100%的志愿者察觉到了非洲灌木丛中大象的移动，但察觉到汽车移动的只有72%。
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