Chimps are truly selfish.

黑猩猩真的很自私。

Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves.

野生黑猩猩要自己寻找食物。

Chimps demonstrate highly developed skills of communication.

黑猩猩表现出高度发达的交流技能。

Chimps rely heavily upon their body language to communicate.

黑猩猩很大程度上依赖他们的肢体语言来交流。

Chimps behave in ways quite similar to those of human beings.

黑猩猩的行为方式与人类非常相似。

What does the author say we humans have been doing to chimps?

作者说我们人类对黑猩猩做了什么？

It was evidence, the team said, that chimps have their own cultures.

研究小组说，这证明黑猩猩有自己的文化。

Each population, each community, even each generation of chimps is unique.

每个种群，每个群落，甚至每一代黑猩猩都是独一无二的。

I mean, how do researchers know if elephants or chimps recognize themselves?

我的意思是，研究人员如何知道大象或黑猩猩是否认识自己？

Chimps will cooperate in certain ways, like gathering in war parties to protect their territory.

黑猩猩会以特定的方式合作，比如聚集在战场上保护自己的领地。

Back in 1999, a team of scientists led by Andrew Whiten showed that chimps from different parts of Africa behave very differently from one another.

早在1999年，由安德鲁·怀滕领导的一组科学家就发现，非洲各地区黑猩猩的行为方式大不相同。

This is not because God created them to poke fun at us; it is because humans and chimps are descended from the same relatively recent primitive ape.

这并不是因为上帝创造它们来嘲笑我们；而是因为人类和黑猩猩都是同一个比较近期的原始猿人的后裔。

Chimps cooperate to hunt and often share the food they have caught.

黑猩猩合作狩猎，并经常分享他们捕获的食物。

For over 40 years, people have been studying chimps both in the wild and in captivity.

40多年来，人们一直在研究野生和人工驯养的黑猩猩。

They say wild chimps communicate 19 specific messages to one another with a "vocabulary" of 66 gestures.

他们说，野生黑猩猩用66个手势组成的“词汇”相互交流19个特定的信息。

Chimps will check to see if they have the attention of the animal with which they wish to communicate.

黑猩猩会检查它们是否得到了希望与之交流的动物的注意。

Only humans and chimps, she said, had a system of communication where they deliberately sent a message to another group member.

她说，只有人类和黑猩猩有一个交流系统，会有意向另一个群体成员发送信息。

The scientists discovered this by following and filming groups of chimps in Uganda, and examining more than 5,000 incidents of these meaningful exchanges.

科学家们通过跟踪和拍摄乌干达的黑猩猩群，并研究了5000多起有意义的交流事件，发现了这一点。

"The vagueness of the gesture meanings suggests either that the chimps have little to communicate, or we are still missing a lot of the information contained in their gestures and actions," she said.

她说：“手势含义的模糊性，要么表明黑猩猩几乎没有什么可以交流的，要么表明我们仍然对它们的手势和行动中包含的很多信息一无所知。”

That is effectively what humans have been doing to our closest relatives -chimps .

实际上是人类一直也是这么对待近亲黑猩猩的。

Provine realized that the reason chimps cannot emit a string of "ho ho ho" is that they cannot make more than a single sound when they exhale or inhale.

普罗文认识到，黑猩猩之所以不能发出一连串的“呵呵呵”声音的原因，在于它们在呼气或吸气时无法发出一个以上的音节。

Humans can talk. Chimps can't.

人类能说话，而黑猩猩不能。

Chimps are omnivorous10.

黑猩猩是杂食动物。

Chimps avoid single combat.

黑猩猩从不单独作战。

One-girl Camp Set Up Near chimps.

一个女孩在大猩猩旁边安顿下来。

Which do you like better, chimps or humans?

黑猩猩有哪些特征最像人类？

Crows use tools and chimps display morality.

乌鸦使用工具，黑猩猩们展示出道德。

Researchers studied hand use in 70 chimps over 10 months.

研究人员利用10个月研究了70个黑猩猩的用手情况。

Female chimps also tend to be better at tool use than male chimps.

大多数雌性黑猩猩比雄性更善于使用工具。