BBC 6分钟英语学习 黑猩猩的表情和我们一样吗？

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I'm Rob and I'm Sam. Having your photograph appear on the cover of a magazine makes you famous around the world.

But imagine if that photo showed you hugging and playing with wild chimpanzees.

That's exactly what happened to

Jane good All, who shot to fame in 1965 when she appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine.

Jane introduced the world to the social and emotional lives of the wild chimpanzees of Gombe in eastern Tanzania.

Jane spent years living among families of wild chimpanzees.

Her observations changed the way we view our closest animal relatives, and made us think about what it means to be human.

In this program, we'll be hearing from the iconic environmentalist and good Or, she reflects on how attitudes have changed as science has uncovered the deep connections between humans and the great apes, large primates, including chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, who are closely related to humans.

And of course, we'll be learning some related vocabulary along the way, as well as Doctor good All the national geographic photographs also made the chimpanzees of Gombe famous.

People around the world became interested in the lives of a family of chimps living in a remote corner of Africa.

When gombe's alpha female died in 1972, she was so well loved that she had an obituary in the Times newspaper.

But what was her name? That's our quiz question Which chimpanzees obituary appeared in the Times?

Was it a photo? B Flow or C Freud?

Well, 1972 is a bit before my time, rob, I wasn't even born then, but I think it's B Flow.

OK, sam, we'll find that later, if you were right.

Now, when Jane 1st visited Tanzania in the 1960s, most scientists believe the only animals capable of making and the using tools with humans.

But what Jane witnessed about the behavior of one chimpanzee, who she named Grey Beard turn this idea on its head.

Here she recalls that famous day to jim Al Calili for the podcast of BBC Radio Falls Discovery program, the Life Scientific I could see this black hand picking grass stems and pushing them down into the turmite mound and pulling them out, with termites clinging on with their jaws.

And the following day, I saw him pick a leafy twig and strip the leaves.

So not only was he using objects as tools, but modifying those objects to make tools.

Jane Observe the chimpanzee grey Beard, finding small wooden branches called twigs and modifying them, changing them slightly in order to improve them.

By stripping away the leaves from twigs and using them to collect ants and termites to eat.

Grey Beard had made a tool, an instrument, or simple piece of equipment, e.g.

a knife or hammer, that you hold in your hands and use for a particular job.

Previously, it was believed that animals were incapable of making tools on their own.

What Jane saw was proof of the intelligence of wild animals.

Jane Goodell studies convinced her that chimps experienced the same range of emotions as humans, as she explains here to BBC Radio Force the Life Scientific I wasn't surprised that chimps had these emotions.

It was fascinating to realize how many of their gestures are like ours.

So you can watch them without doing anything about them.

And when they greet with a kiss and embrace, they pat one another in reassurance.

They hold hands. They seek physical contact to alleviate nervousness or stress.

You know, it's so like us holding hands, embracing and kissing.

With some of the chimpanzees gestures movements made with hands, arms or head to express ideas and feelings in the same way as humans.

The chimpanzees would pat each other, touch someone gently and repeatedly with a hand held flat.

Much of their behavior was human like, just as I would hug a friend to reassure them.

The chimps used physical contact to alleviate stress, make pain or problems less intense or severe.

In fact, chimps are so alike us that sometimes they even get their name in the newspaper.

Yes, sam, you mean the quiz question I asked you earlier, which chimpanzee had the obituary published in the Times, and I guessed it was b Flow.

And that's absolutely right. Well done, sam, give yourself a pat on the back.

Ah Ha. Okay. In this program, we've been

hearing about legendaries, zoologists and activist Jane Goodall, and her experiences living among great apes, primates like chimpanzees, who are humans closest animal

relatives. Jane witnessed the chimpanzees of Gombe modify or slightly alter objects like leaves and twigs, to make tools, hand held instruments used for a particular job.

Many of the chimpanzees gestures, body movements made to communicate and express emotions, like kissing and patting, touching someone gently and repeatedly with a flat hand, were almost human.

And just like us, the chimps sought physical contact to alleviate or reduce the severity of nervousness and stress.

And that's all for this program.

Bye for now. Bye, bye.

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