(单词翻译:单击)
In doing so, she introduces us to a marvelous zoetrope of animals—not just primates, but venomous intersex moles, filicidal mother meerkats, and postmenopausal orcas.
在此过程中，她向我们介绍了一系列奇妙的动物--不仅有灵长类动物，还有会分泌毒液的双性鼹鼠、会杀害后代的母猫鼬和绝经后仍会存活的虎鲸。
Where Cooke and de Waal come together is on the subject of bonobos, our lesser-known close relations, and what their biological blueprint may have to tell us about our own.
库克和德瓦尔观点的共同之处是，倭黑猩猩--这一我们不太为人所知的近亲--以及倭黑猩猩的生物图谱，可能会揭示我们我们自己的生物图谱。
Bonobos, rain-forest dwellers that live wild exclusively in the Democratic Republic of Congo, were distinguished from chimps only in 1929.
倭黑猩猩是一种居住在热带雨林的野生动物，仅活动于刚果民主共和国，直到1929年才与黑猩猩区分开来。
Before that, they had been deemed pygmy chimpanzees, and were believed to mirror chimps in all ways save their diminutive size.
在此之前，它们一直被认为是侏儒黑猩猩，并且被认为除了矮小的体型之外，它们在所有方面都与黑猩猩高度相似。
Behaviorally, the species are poles apart.
在行为上，这两个物种是截然不同的。
A bonobo troop is organized around ranking coalitions of females; power is stratified according to matriarchal authority, and so is access to food.
倭黑猩猩群体是由雌性猩猩组成的等级联盟; 权力是根据母系氏族的权威来划分的，食物的获取也是如此。
High-up bonobo mothers make matches between their own sons and females to whom they are allied.
地位较高的倭黑猩猩母亲会为自己的儿子和与其结合的雌性猩猩牵线搭桥。
They wield this control even though males are larger and stronger than females.
即使雄性猩猩比雌性猩猩体型更大，也更强壮，黑猩猩母亲也会运用这种控制力。
What gels the community is not physical coercion, implicit or otherwise; it is sex.
凝聚群落的不是身体上的强迫，不是含蓄的或是其他的什么东西；而是性。
Bonobos are rightly famous for engaging in frequent sexual activity, much of it nonreproductive (occurring in same-sex pairings or during windows when females cannot conceive).
倭黑猩猩以频繁的性行为而闻名，其中大部分是非生殖性行为(发生在同性伴侣或雌性无法受孕的窗口期)。
They kiss. They French kiss.
它们会亲吻。会法式热吻。
Females are said to orgasm, which was once thought a rarity in the animal kingdom, though evidence now supports the theory that female chimps, orangutans, rhesus monkeys, stumptail and Japanese macaques, and even tiny tamarins also experience pleasure and possibly climax.
据称雌性猩猩会高潮，这曾经被认为是动物界的罕见现象，但现在有证据能支持这样的观点: 雌性黑猩猩、红毛猩猩、恒河猴、短尾猴、日本猕猴，甚至是体型较小的金丝猴也能体验到快感，甚至能达到高潮。
Had we learned of bonobos first, de Waal observed in 2006 in Scientific American, we would “most likely believe that early hominids lived in female-centered societies, in which sex served important social functions, and in which warfare was rare or absent.”
德瓦尔在2006年的《科学美国人》期刊上评论道，如果我们靠着对倭黑猩猩的浅显了解，我们“很可能会相信，早期的原始人生活在以女性为中心的社会中，性行为具有重要的社会功能，很少或根本没有战争。”
Our picture of the monopolist alpha-male chimp might also have changed if a wider set of observations had colored it.
如果有更广泛的观察为其增色，我们对垄断的雄性黑猩猩的印象可能也会改变。
