For Weissman, this work isn't only about understanding the nuances of hyrax communication.

对魏斯曼来说，这项工作不仅仅是为了理解岩交流细微差别。

Oates and colleagues analyzed the skulls of tree hyraxes from six museum collections.

Oates 及其同事分析了来自六个博物馆藏头骨。

Here's a hyrax call like the ones Oates and his colleagues heard in eastern Nigeria.

这是叫声，就像 Oates 和他同事在尼日利亚部听到那样。

The high mountains belong to the wild goats; the crags are a refuge for the hyrax.

高山为野山羊住所，岩石为沙番藏处。

Meet the rock hyrax, sometimes called the rock rabbit or the dassie, common in rocky areas of Africa and the Middle East.

来认识一下岩，有时被称为岩或，常见于非洲和中岩石地区。

The hyrax, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

沙番，因为倒嚼不分，就与你们不洁净。

A lot of times, the hyrax is just busy eating leaves, and they don't even turn their heads to someone that's singing.

很多时候，岩只是忙着吃叶，它们甚至不会把头转向唱歌人。

They seemed to be looking for similarities because everybody accepted that all these hyraxes are the same.

他们似乎在寻找相似之处，因为每个人承认所有这些是一样。

The Phoenicians were no more successful, although they bequeathed a memorable nickname to posterity: I-shepan-ha, “land of hyraxes” (more familiar as Hispania).

腓尼基人虽为后世流传下”I-shepan-ha”，“之地”绰号（比Hispania更为人知），但也未能更胜一筹。

Next, they sent off samples of hyraxes, mostly collected from bushmeat markets, to have their DNA sequenced.

Bender：接下来，他们送走了样本，主要是从野味市场收集，以对它们 DNA 进行测序。

Rodents, horses, whales, and even hyraxes have been shown to exhibit important health outcomes that correlate with their social environment and relationships.

啮齿动物、马、鲸鱼，甚至已被证明表现出与其社会环境和人际关系相关重要健康结果。

Results from this analysis confirmed their theory: the hyraxes living between those two rivers were genetically distinct.

这一分析结果证实了他们理论：生活在这两条河流之间非洲在基因上是不同。

" We've tried to understand the meaning of all this-why a hyrax would waste time and energy and expose himself to predators by singing such a loud song."

“我们试图理解这一切意义，为什么岩会浪费时间和精力，这么大声地唱歌，将自己暴露在捕食者面前。”

Weissman thinks that the snort crescendo, together with the increasing harshness, make the songs impossible to ignore and grabs the attention of other hyraxes—which makes sense.

Weissman 认为鼻息渐强， 加上越来越刺耳声音，使歌曲无法忽视并引起其他注意——这是有道理。

This is the call of a tree hyrax, a small, furry mammal that looks like a cross between a groundhog and a ground squirrel—minus the bushy tail.

这是一种叫声，它是一种毛茸茸小型哺乳动物，看起来像土拨鼠和地松鼠杂交种——减去浓密尾巴。

And a 2004 study similarly observed that hyraxes raised on cooked foods experienced roughly 10% less growth in facial areas involved in chewing compared to those given raw and dried foods.

2004 年也有一项类似研究，观察到用烹饪过食物养育咀嚼相关面部区域成长比例少了约 10%，这是相对于用生食和干燥食物养育数字。

He believes that understanding why hyraxes sing, and how they construct their songs, could reveal something about the evolutionary origins of human speech and human music—which is no snorting matter.

他认为，了解非洲为何歌唱， 以及它们如何创作歌曲，可以揭示人类语言和人类音乐进化起源——这可不是小事。

Each species of tree hyrax has its own unique call: due to their distinctive shrieks, Oates and an international team of researchers discovered a new species of the mammal.

Bender：每种有其独特叫声：由于它们独特尖叫声，Oates 和一个国际研究团队发现了一种新哺乳动物。

One of the first perissodactyls we know of was Hyracotherium, a small ungulate whose fossils were first discovered in England and named, for some reason, for its supposed resemblance to the rock hyrax.

我们所知道最早奇类动物之一是始祖马，这是一种小型有类动物， 其化石最早是在英格兰发现，并出于某种原因因其与岩相似性而得名。

A study on small rodents called hyraxes for example found that animals raised on softer cooked food instead of raw or dried food had less growth in the bones of their jaws and lower faces.

例如，一项针对称为非洲小型啮齿动物研究发现，以较软熟食代替生或干食物饲养动物下颌和下脸骨骼生长较少。