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Everybody loves chimps²…especially their endearing entreaties³. Scientists, too, love to listen to chimps chat. And they enjoy sharing these colorful commentaries with their colleagues. Now, anyone with a hankering for primate⁴ prattle⁵ can listen in. Because researchers from the Netherlands have made available online a digitized catalog of more than 10 hours’ worth of chimpanzee calls. The recordings⁶ are described in a new journal, published by Nature, called Scientific Data.

The audio, which includes more than 1,000 separate data files, was captured in the early 1970s by the late Hetty van de Rijt-Plooij. She recorded the various screams, barks, and hoocalls made by a group of chimps, including 17 youngsters, living in the wild in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania.

Van de Rijt-Plooij and her husband Frans Plooij were planning to study how chimp¹ vocalizations change over the life of an individual. But they ended up focusing on how baby chimps behave, so their extensive recordings have remained largely unexplored.

One thing that pops out of this collection is that immature⁷ chimps grunt⁸ more than their adult counterparts . Which suggests that you don’t want to talk to baby Bonzo before he’s had his morning banana smoothie.

—Karen Hopkin

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1 chimp
n.黑猩猩
参考例句：
In fact,the color of gorilla and chimp are light-color.其实大猩猩和黑猩猩的肤色是较为浅的。 The chimp is the champ.猩猩是冠军。

2 chimps
（非洲）黑猩猩( chimp的名词复数 )
参考例句：
Chimps are too scarce, and too nearly human, to be routinely slaughtered for spare parts. 黑猩猩又太少，也太接近于人类，不可以作为人器官备用件说杀就杀。来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命 And as nonprimates, they provoke fewer ethical and safety-related concerns than chimps or baboons. 而且作为非灵长类，就不会产生像用黑猩猩或狒狒那样的伦理和安全方面的顾虑。来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命

3 entreaties
n.恳求，乞求( entreaty的名词复数 )
参考例句：
He began with entreaties and ended with a threat. 他先是恳求，最后是威胁。来自《简明英汉词典》 The tyrant was deaf to the entreaties of the slaves. 暴君听不到奴隶们的哀鸣。来自《简明英汉词典》

4 primate
n.灵长类（目）动物，首席主教；adj.首要的
参考例句：
14 percent of primate species are highly endangered.14%的灵长类物种处于高度濒危状态。 The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。

5 prattle
n.闲谈；v.（小孩般）天真无邪地说话；发出连续而无意义的声音
参考例句：
Amy's happy prattle became intolerable.艾美兴高采烈地叽叽喳喳说个不停，汤姆感到无法忍受。 Flowing water and green grass witness your lover's endless prattle.流水缠绕，小草依依，都是你诉不尽的情话。

6 recordings
n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片
参考例句：
a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带 old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐

7 immature
adj.未成熟的，发育未全的，未充分发展的
参考例句：
Tony seemed very shallow and immature.托尼看起来好像很肤浅，不夠成熟。 The birds were in immature plumage.这些鸟儿羽翅未全。

8 grunt
v.嘟哝；作呼噜声；n.呼噜声，嘟哝
参考例句：
He lifted the heavy suitcase with a grunt.他咕噜着把沉重的提箱拎了起来。 I ask him what he think,but he just grunt.我问他在想什麽，他只哼了一声。

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科学美国人60秒 SSS 2014-09-03