Strong emotional bonds between mothers and infants increase children's willingness to explore the world—an effect that has been observed across the animal kingdom, in people, monkeys and even spiders.
母亲和婴儿之间强烈的情感纽带增强了孩子探索世界的意愿——这一效应在动物领域、人类、猴子甚至蜘蛛身上都有被观察到。
Dr Catherine Hobaiter, who led the research, said that this was the only form of intentional communication to be recorded in the animal kingdom.
领导这项研究的凯瑟琳·霍拜特博士说,这是动物王国中唯一被记录的有意图的交流方式。
Now, for animals other than birds, the care of young by both parents is pretty unusual in the animal kingdom.
现在,对于鸟类以外的动物来说,父母双方都照顾孩子在动物界是很罕见的。
An overview of some research into lateralisation: the dominance of one side of the body over the other creatures across the animal kingdom have a preference for one foot, eye or even antenna.
有关侧化的一些研究的概述:在动物界中,身体一侧对其他生物的支配通常是由一只脚、一只眼睛,甚至是一根触角来完成的。
Creatures with the highest testosterone levels rule the animal kingdom.
睾酮水平最高的生灵统治着动物王国。
Two of them —eating and breathing — are shared by members of the animal kingdom.
其中的两项——吃和呼吸,和动物王国的成员一样。
In the case of the animal kingdom, we often call this type of thing "natural selection."
在动物王国里,我们通常把这类事情称为自然选择。
We, of the animal kingdom, have gifts to bring to the Earth and to humans when we come.
我们,来自动物王国,来时就给地球和人类带来礼物。
For more than 40 years, I have studied some of our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.
四十多年来,我一直在研究动物王国里与我们最相近的一些动物。
WHEN it comes to prospecting for advanced materials, the animal kingdom rarely comes to mind.
从高级材料研究角度来看,动物王国很少受到青睐。
Whenever a behavior is common in the animal kingdom, biologists suspect it has an adaptive function.
无论哪种行为在动物王国都是常见的,生物学家猜想它有一种适应功能。
One way to find out is to look to the animal kingdom, where there are no gender-specific playthings.
有一种方法能弄明白,就是去观察动物王国,那里没有具有性别差异的玩具。
Without a doubt, the human trait that sets us apart the most from the animal kingdom is our extraordinary brain.
毋庸置疑,人类脱离动物界的最显著特征是我们非凡的大脑。
And I think that comes from having the highest quality of food in the animal kingdom, and that's because we cook.
我认为,因为我们烹调来源于动物王国的最高质量的食物,才有了发达的大脑。
This love applies to the human kingdom, the animal kingdom, the elemental kingdom and the plant kingdom alike.
这种爱同样适用于人类王国,动物王国,自然王国和植物王国。
Cheetahs, the champion sprinters of the animal kingdom, have non-retractable claws that give a similar advantage.
猎豹是动物中的短跑之王,它的脚爪是不能伸缩的,这给猎豹提供了类似的优势(译注:即和地面的接触面积更大)。
Of all the eyes in the animal kingdom, the human eye isn't the most efficient but it is still amazingly adaptable.
与动物王国中所有动物们的眼睛比起来,人类的眼睛并不是最高效的,但却具有令人惊叹的适应性。
The time has come for humans to accept that this planet is hosting the human kingdom and the Animal kingdom "equally."
时间已经到来,人类应接受这个星球必须“同等”对待人类王国和动物王国。
An UPDATED family tree of the animal kingdom could radically change the way we think about the evolution of species.
最近更新的动物界系谱树可能从根本上改变我们对物种进化的思维方式。
The researchers are homing in on a particular enzyme called amblox which makes the axolotl unique in the animal kingdom.
研究人员把伤口复原的原因归之于一种特殊的酶,这种酶叫做amblox,在动物王国中,只有蝾螈才有这种独一无二的物质。
Far from being just an anecdote from the animal kingdom, these networked cows are part of an exciting technological trend.
这绝不仅仅是动物王国的一则轶事,这些联网牛还是互联网技术发展趋势的一部分,而这一发展趋势振奋人心。
You might think chickens are way down the pecking order in the animal kingdom when it comes to emotional intelligence.
也许在你看来,动物世界里按“情商”论资排辈的话,鸡类可能将名落孙山。
And we, the Beings of the Animal Kingdom, have been reduced by humans to mere commodities to be traded off for profit.
我们动物王国的众生,被人类只当成商品进行盈利交易,已经减少了很多。
The elephant has the longest memory of any member of the animal kingdom and can even remember where other elephants have died.
大象拥有动物王国最长的记忆,它们甚至能记住同类死亡的地点。
o "It's no mistake that some of the earlier work on collective intelligence does borrow from the animal kingdom," she said.
“对集体智慧的早期研究借鉴于动物王国,这种说法是正确的,”她说。
Our purposes are different from yours, however, complementary, and considered by us, of the animal kingdom, just as important.
我们的目的与你们的不同,然而,我们认为其对动物王国的互补性是同样重要的。
Other specialists in the field even suggest UV vision may turn out to be the rule rather than the exception in the animal kingdom.
该领域的其他专家甚至表示,在动物王国,能够看到紫外线是一个规律,而不是例外。
Though nothing in the animal kingdom is using what we think of as language, gestures used by bonobos and orang-utans come close.
虽然在动物王国中,没有我们料想中的语言,姿势(倭黑猩猩和红毛猩猩其实也在用),我们是万物的灵长。
That's because women have a strong motivation to hide the fact that they're fertile, unlike other members of the animal kingdom.
原因就是,人类女性对自己的生育繁殖能力一直有隐藏的动机,而其他种类的动物则恰恰相反。
Although the creatures represent a wide range of the animal kingdom, they all appear to belong to the same dear, blunt-nosed family.
虽然这些生物代表了广泛的动物王国,但这里他们都属于可爱的,钝头家族。
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