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时差N小时:猴子如何示爱?(上)

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Marmosets are small primates.

绒猴是小型灵长类动物。
Think of a monkey with huge fuzzy ears.
想象一只有巨大、毛绒绒耳朵的猴子。
Primatologists have often wondered whether nonhuman males evaluated their potential mates,or whether their sex drive was more like an on/off switch.
动物学家时常困惑:雄性动物选择“另一半”或者控制性欲是否更像是一个开关键。

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We may think of animals as just responding to sexual invitations without thinking, but a study conducted in both the U.S. and Germany shows this isn't necessarily so.

我们可能认为动物只是不假思索地对性邀请做出反应,但美国和德国的一项研究表明,事实并非如此。
Male marmosets having their brains scanned were given sniffs of genital-gland secretions from ovulating females.
雄性绒猴开始用大脑扫描,嗅着正在排卵的雌性动物生殖腺的分泌物。
That's a scent that should trigger a mating response in the brain, and it did!
这种气味会引起大脑里的交配反应,这样它们才会进行交配。
But guess what else happened?
但你猜还会发生什么情况?

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n. 气味,香味,痕迹
vt. 闻出,发觉,使

 
potential [pə'tenʃəl]

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adj. 可能的,潜在的
n. 潜力,潜能

 
response [ri'spɔns]

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n. 回答,响应,反应,答复
n. [宗

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switch [switʃ]

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n. 开关,转换,鞭子
v. 转换,改变,交换

 

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