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Childcare is often carried out by females across the animal kingdom.
在动物界常由雌性照顾幼崽。
Mountain gorillas, however, behave differently.
但是山地大猩猩却不同。
Mountain gorillas organize into social groups which frequently contain multiple males who take care of and interact with infants that are not their own.
山地大猩猩会组成社会群体，经常有很多雄性照顾不是自己的幼崽。
MNN reports that researchers recently found that the male mountain gorillas who spent the most time with infants,
MNN报道称研究人员近期发现，相比那些对群体中幼小成员不感兴趣的雄性山地大猩猩
fathered more children of their own, sometimes as many as 5.5 times as many offspring as those males
那些经常花大量时间陪伴幼崽的雄性，它们的后代数量更多，
who didn't exhibit much interest in the young members of the group.
有时是前者的5.5倍之多。
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词语解释
1. behave 行为；表现
例句：I couldn't believe these people were behaving in this way.
我无法相信这些人竟这样行事。
2. offspring 后代
例句：Eleanor was now less anxious about her offspring than she had once been.
这时，埃莉诺已不像以前那样为子女担忧了。
