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Everybody loves chimps…especially their endearing entreaties. Scientists, too, love to listen to chimps chat. And they enjoy sharing these colorful commentaries with their colleagues. Now, anyone with a hankering for primate prattle can listen in. Because researchers from the Netherlands have made available online a digitized catalog of more than ten hours' worth of chimpanzee calls. The recordings are described in a new journal, published by Nature, called Scientific Data.
大家都喜歡黑猩猩，尤其是喜歡他們那惹人憐愛的乞討方式。科學家們也喜歡，喜歡聽黑猩猩聊天，還喜歡與同事分享黑猩猩之間的精彩評論。如今，每個愛好者都可以收聽黑猩猩的閑聊。因為荷蘭研究人員已將黑猩猩的談話錄制成不少于10小時的數字化音頻集子，并放在了網上。英國自然出版集團出版周刊在其新出版的《科學數據》雜志中報道了有關該音頻的消息。
The audio, which includes more than 1000 separate data files, was captured in the early 1970s by the late Hetty van de Rijt-Plooij. She recorded the various screams, barks, and hoocalls made by a group of chimps, including 17 youngsters, living in the wild in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania.
該音頻是已故Hetty van de Rijt-Plooij于20世紀70年代早期錄制的，包括逾1000份獨立數據文件。Hetty van de Rijt-Plooij錄下了一群黑猩猩的各種鳴叫、尖叫、和呼嚎，在這群黑猩猩中，有 17只年幼黑猩猩是坦桑尼亞貢貝國家公園的野生黑猩猩。
Van de Rijt-Plooij and her husband Frans Plooij were planning to study how chimp vocalizations change over the life of an individual. But they ended up focusing on how baby chimps behave, so their extensive recordings have remained largely unexplored.
Van de Rijt-Plooij和她丈夫Frans Plooij當時本打算研究黑猩猩的發音是如何隨著他的成長而變化的，但結果把重點放在觀察幼年黑猩猩上了。這樣一來，盡管他們錄下了大量音頻，但其中大部分是沒被研究過的。
One thing that pops out of this collection is that immature chimps grunt more than their adult counterparts. Which suggests that you don't want to talk to baby Bonzo before he's had his morning banana smoothie.
從這些音頻集里我們可以看出：未成年黑猩猩比成年黑猩猩更會打呼嚕。所以建議在給幼崽邦佐喝香蕉奶昔之前，最好還是不要和他講話了。
