单词 | vervet |
例句 | This doesn’t mean that vervets are stupid: they are very sophisticated when it comes to questions that have to do with other vervets. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A vervet, in other words, is very good at processing certain kinds of vervetish information, but not so good at processing other kinds of information. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We do this because, like vervets, we are a lot more attuned to personal cues than contextual cues. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We would be taken to an uninhabited island, Lolue, where I could watch vervet monkeys. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z If vervets hear a baby vervet’s cry of distress, they will look immediately not in the direction of the baby, but at its mother — they know instantly whose baby it is. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I next acquired a vervet monkey, Kobi, and a dwarf mongoose, Kip. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They can hear the call of a male vervet and recognize whether it comes from their own group or a neighboring group. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The animals slipped through the grassland like the vervet monkeys near the leopard cave. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They watched her with suspicion, but accepted her as part of the scenery much as they accepted the impalas and vervet monkeys. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z On a long wooden table, I joined a handful of other volunteers to cut up carrots, apples and oranges for the vervet monkeys and baboons. At a Namibian sanctuary, you don’t just see the wildlife — you care for them Durban is Tesoriere: palm trees, vervet monkeys draping themselves along the far fence, warmer than is ideal, and sometimes they just let you in without paying. Johannesburg by Pool 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Days are spent on the beach or in the forest, spotting vervet monkeys, monitor lizards and “changalulus” – my kids’ term for millipedes and possibly my favourite word of all time. 'My best travel discovery of 2016' 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Wiese told Kruger Sightings that she was with her uncle and two friends just after breakfast when nearby vervet monkeys started making alarm calls, indicating a predator was nearby. Leopard walks through South African restaurant while hunting its breakfast, incredible video shows 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z It is a vervet monkey, not a velvet monkey. A Rwandan Game Park Defying the Odds 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Bella, a macaque that lived with a woman in her home until she got cancer, lives next door to Mr. Blueberries, a vervet monkey who was surrendered by a woman after her husband died. This Va. roadside zoo is unaccredited. Its owner says that’s what makes it humane. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The zoo is home to species including an African grey parrot, a vervet monkey, giant lizards known as Nile monitors, a desert tortoise, a horned viper snake and a Nubian spitting cobra. Fears over scores of zoo animals caught in Sudan crossfire 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z But bountiful evidence now shows that culture exists in a wide variety of species, from bighorn sheep and vervet monkeys to meerkats and cranes. Bumblebees Show Off Their Own Puzzle-Solving Culture 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z But they tolerate the vervets, if they stay put. Celebrities: Monkeys near Florida airport delight visitors 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Tourists access the site by boat, then wander on foot to photograph giraffes and buffalo, gazelles and impalas, vervet monkeys and sometimes hyenas—all of which are now stranded because of the lake’s rise. Human-hippo conflicts are exploding in this pristine patch of Kenya 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The Caribbean island's green vervet monkeys are as iconic as its historic fortresses and black sand beaches. The island fighting its monkeys 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Local nurses told her the Johannesburg hospital to which she must be transferred was very far away — and infested with vervet monkeys. Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The ubiquity of dragons across time and space may be related to fears inherited from some of humans’ most adorable ancestors: vervet monkeys. Here Be Dragons 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z In Africa, vervets are eaten by leopards, eagles and snakes. Celebrities: Monkeys near Florida airport delight visitors 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z In 2016, for example, a vervet monkey caused a nationwide blackout in Kenya after tripping a transformer, cutting off power to some 4.7 million homes and businesses. A Rising Threat to Wildlife: Electrocution 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z Mine was a pair of vervet monkeys goofing around at Victoria Falls and a lone warthog snuffling through plastic outside the national park’s entrance. A $1,100 safari through three African countries? Yes, it's real 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Baby vervet monkeys learn to recognize the alarm calls of starlings flying above — most often when the birds are warning about a predator that also threatens monkeys. These wily bats learn by spying on other species 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Our village is surrounded by mango trees, so baboons and vervet monkeys are regular visitors during the mango season. How 9 National Geographic Explorers Got Their Start 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z In Africa, vervet males leave their birth troop when they reach sexual maturity at 5 years and join another. Celebrities: Monkeys near Florida airport delight visitors 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Ants tend to move seeds about a meter, vervet monkeys less than 850 meters, and trumpeter hornbills as far as 2000 meters. ‘This is amazing!’ African elephants may transport seeds farther than any other land animal 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z All of the other Khan Younis animals except the monkeys—four vervets and a macaque, which are bound for the Israeli Primate Sanctuary Foundation—went to the New Hope Centre sanctuary in Jordan. Animals Rescued From the 'World’s Worst Zoo' 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Several African primates—like vervets and mandrills—sport vibrant colors for a very specific reason. Some Monkeys Have Blue Testicles—Here's Why 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Then there were the monkeys — two macaques and three vervets. Gaza’s last tiger leaves ‘the world's worst zoo’ 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z But her group is building an enclosure for vervets captured for treatment or because they wandered too far. Celebrities: Monkeys near Florida airport delight visitors 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The 1960s saw a “cognitive revolution” in psychology, and in time animal researchers saw “semantics” in vervet monkey yawps for leopards. A chimp with a Scottish accent? You cannae be serious, says new study 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z A monkey who sees a dangerous snake gives a ‘chuttering’ call that causes other vervets to stand up, scanning the ground for the snake. Here's What Would Happen If Animals Could Talk 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z In Africa, vervet monkeys recognize predator alarm calls by superb starlings. Decoding the Cacophony of Birds’ Warning Calls 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z But he was disappointed: vervets, the long-tailed monkeys he studied for months on end, did not learn calls from their elders. Peter Marler, Graphic Decoder of Birdsong, Dies at 86 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z “There is also an inherent risk of injury when handling wildlife. Monkeys can act defensively and may bite or scratch. Mammals, including vervet monkeys, may harbor diseases transmissible to humans including rabies,” the statement said. Celebrities: Monkeys near Florida airport delight visitors 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z I asked him, for example, if he would also consider filing a suit on behalf of a captive vervet monkey or a tortoise or a rat. Should a Chimp Be Able to Sue Its Owner? 2014-04-23T09:00:54Z All told, vervets have words meaning ‘leopard’, ‘eagle’, ‘snake’, ‘baboon’, ‘other predatory mammal’, ‘unfamiliar human’, ‘dominant monkey’, ‘subordinate monkey’, ‘watch other monkey’, and ‘rival troop’. Here's What Would Happen If Animals Could Talk 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The question that scientists studying the vervets in South Africa wanted to answer was this: Whom do the young monkeys watch? ScienceTake: For These Monkeys, Mother Knows Best 2014-03-24T18:33:50Z Similarly, vervet monkeys are more likely sound their alarm calls when their are other vervet monkeys around, and less likely when they’re alone. Wolves Howl For Friends, Challenging A Popular Theory of Animal Communication 2013-09-03T15:15:40.067Z The United States has no native monkeys, but the smallish vervets have roamed Dania Beach since the late 1940s after a dozen brought from West Africa fled a now long-closed breeding facility and roadside zoo. Celebrities: Monkeys near Florida airport delight visitors 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The first part discusses some new findings of adopting local food preferences in vervet monkeys. Animal culture: insights from whales 2013-04-28T02:15:00.400Z One possibility is that monkeys learn new traditions by imitating dominant individuals; in female-dominated vervet monkeys, whatever cleaning method was used by the dominant females might then ultimately spread throughout the group. When Faced With A New Problem, Vervet Monkeys Look To Mom 2012-04-25T22:45:00.220Z They found that the young mostly copied their mothers, which fits with the structure of vervet society. ScienceTake: For These Monkeys, Mother Knows Best 2014-03-24T18:33:50Z They were farmers in Carhartt work gear, Amish men and the occasional woman — one whose pet vervet monkey sipped a Sprite. Exotic Animals Business Faces Restrictions 2012-01-10T15:03:33Z Ultimately, Williams wants Florida to allow the release of captured vervets. Celebrities: Monkeys near Florida airport delight visitors 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z As the data collected were observational, rather experimental data like those collected in the vervet monkey study, initially it might seen problematic to tell whether the whales really were learning from each other or not. Animal culture: insights from whales 2013-04-28T02:15:00.400Z Primatologist Erica van de Waal and her colleagues presented six different groups of wild vervet monkeys with a new problem: dirty grapes. When Faced With A New Problem, Vervet Monkeys Look To Mom 2012-04-25T22:45:00.220Z An Army video also obtained by the group shows a vervet monkey spasming after a physostigmine injection. Army to phase out animal nerve-agent testing 2011-10-13T23:53:00Z The scientists also found that Bale monkeys are quite different to their closest relatives, other green or vervet monkeys belonging to the same genus. Mysterious monkey 'loves bamboo' 2010-04-01T08:47:00Z Scientists studying wild vervet monkeys in South Africa found that the animals were better able to learn a task when it was demonstrated by a female. Monkeys learn more from females 2010-03-17T10:56:00Z It is tempting to think of the vervet calls as words for “leopard,” “snake” or “eagle,” but that is not really so. 2010-01-12T05:23:00Z Taken together, van de Waal’s study shows that the mother may be a more important source of social learning for vervet monkeys than any other group member, regardless of the dominance status of the mother. When Faced With A New Problem, Vervet Monkeys Look To Mom 2012-04-25T22:45:00.220Z And the biologists who analyzed the vervet calls, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney of the University of Pennsylvania, detected another significant element in primates’ communication when they moved on to study baboons. 2010-01-12T05:23:00Z |
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