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A Student of African Wildlife
非洲野生动物研究者
It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa.
清晨5点45分，太阳刚从东非的贡贝国家公园的上空升起。
Following Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest.
按照简研究黑猩猩的方法，我们一行人准备去森林里拜访它们。
Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped people understand how much they behave like humans.
简研究这些黑猩猩家族已经很多年了，她帮助人们了解了黑猩猩跟人类的行为是多么的相似。
Watching a family of chimps wake up is our first activity of the day.
我们当天的首项任务就是观察黑猩猩一家是如何醒来的。
This means going back to the place where we left the family sleeping in a tree the night before.
这意味着我们要返回前一天晚上我们离开时黑猩猩一家睡觉的大树旁。
Everybody sits and waits in the shade of the trees while the family begins to wake up and move off.
大家坐在树荫下等待着，这时候猩猩们睡醒了，准备离开。
Then we follow as they wander into the forest.
然后这群黑猩猩向森林深处漫步而去，我们尾随其后。
Most of the time, chimps either feed or clean each other as a way of showing love in their family.
在大部分的时间里，黑猩猩或互相喂食，或彼此擦身，这在它们家族里是表达爱的方式。
Jane warns us that our group is going to be very tired and dirty by the afternoon and she is right.
简预先提醒我们，到下午的时候我们就会又脏又累。她说对了，。
However, the evening makes it all worthwhile.
但是到傍晚的时分我们就觉得这一切都是值得的。
We watch the mother chimp and her babies play in the tree.
我们看到黑猩猩妈妈跟它们的幼子们在树上玩耍，。
Then we see them go to sleep together in their nest for the night.
后来看见他们一起回窝睡觉了。
We realize that the bond between members of a chimp family is as strong as in a human family.
我们明白了猩猩家族成员之间的联系像人类家庭一样紧密。
Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp behaviour.
在简之前没有人全面了解黑猩猩的行为。
She spent years observing and recording their daily activities.
她花了多年的时间来观察记录黑猩猩的日常活动。
Since her childhood she had wanted to work with animals in their own environment.
从孩童时代起，简就想在动物生活的环境中研究它们。
However, this was not easy.
但是，这不是一件简单的事。
