如何避免成为猎豹的盘中餐?(上)
日期:2022-02-16 20:00

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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Jason Goldman.

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这里是科学美国人——60秒科学系列,我是我是杰森·戈德曼8&kC1A4%u5GfiofzP

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The cheetah is the rarest big cat in Africa.

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猎豹是非洲最稀有的大型猫科动物C0JEDm0&^0.L&8x7

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Less than 7,000 adults remain on the planet.

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地球上还剩下不到7000只成年猎豹xHNi]SY8[4npT]@#

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Think of it this way: for every cheetah on the planet, there are more than four Starbucks coffee shops.

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可以这样想:地球上每有一只猎豹,就有4家以上的星巴克咖啡店mnWv0IF00sgHy~

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The most important cheetah stronghold is in Central Namibia.

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猎豹最重要的中心地在纳米比亚中部|td*3]=_=iiP01zJnWmT

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But the cheetahs there don’t live within national parks.

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但那里的猎豹并不生活在国家公园里%e=-HcB|_w_mJZoBUgx

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They live on privately owned farmland.

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他们生活在私有的农田里z33zBMXe(w2TL|N90552

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“There were farmers having huge problems with cheetahs, losing a lot of livestock, and there were other farmers who actually didn’t have any problem at all.”

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“有些农民在猎豹上遇到了很大的问题,他们失去了很多牲畜,而有些农民实际上根本没有遇到任何问题|n1WLCx@)qh_sRt。”

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Ecologist Joerg Melzheimer from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin assumed, at first, that all farmers had cheetah trouble.

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起初,柏林莱布尼茨动物园和野生动物研究所的生态学家约尔格·梅尔茨海默(Joerg Melzheimer)认为,所有的农民都有猎豹的麻烦uI#~JDrG7APbERMA-NdG

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It was just that some were more likely to complain about it.

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But after tracking 50 collared cheetahs, he began to suspect that there really was a pattern to their killing.

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但在追踪了50只带项圈的猎豹后,他开始怀疑猎豹的杀戮确实有某种模式Z,npBP^I6BTK9m2

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By the time his team had data from 106 cheetahs, collared over the course of a decade, not only was he certain that cheetahs were more likely to kill in some places than in others but that he could solve the problem.

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当他的团队在十年的时间里收集了106只带项圈的猎豹的数据时,他不仅确定猎豹在某些地方比在其他地方更有可能捕杀,而且他可以解决这个问题[eJ|Y*]PtY

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“We indeed found these communication hubs of cheetahs, which are spread evenly across the landscape with a high activity of cheetahs within the hubs.”

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“我们确实发现了这些猎豹的通信中心,它们均匀地分布在整个地区,在中心内猎豹的活动非常活跃G=45V3s1D;&24nVNw,O。”

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Cheetahs are an asocial species, but they still need to trade information.

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猎豹是一种非群居物种,但它们仍然需要交换信息(#,%I&VdgA3Xv7

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“They don’t meet physically—typically not.

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“猎豹不会身体接触——通常不会7908M8+ObhpZNnu3cd

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But they leave marks at prominent landmarks where they use urine or feces to communicate with each other.”

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但它们会在显著的地标上留下标记,在那里它们会用尿液或粪便相互交流|V*S)59_!E。”

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Think of it as a coffee shop for cats, where animals trade gossip.

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把它想象成猫咪咖啡馆,动物们在这里交换小道消息IL8SSU~Mo]#OQw_1z5dA

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