Musical Mammals Think humans are the only creatures capable of grooving to a beat? Think again. Turns out a growing number of animals are just as musically inclined. 人類(lèi)是唯一能夠隨著節(jié)拍起舞的生物嗎？不是。事實(shí)上，越來(lái)越多的動(dòng)物顯示出音樂(lè)天賦。 Now, you may already know that parrots and other birds that mimic human speech are also good at keeping time to a musical beat. Scientists think it’s a side effect of repeating human speech sounds. 現(xiàn)在你可能已經(jīng)知道鸚鵡和其他一些能夠模仿人類(lèi)語(yǔ)言的鳥(niǎo)類(lèi)也擅于把握音樂(lè)節(jié)拍?？茖W(xué)家認(rèn)為這是它們重復(fù)人類(lèi)語(yǔ)言而產(chǎn)生的副作用。 But researchers have found that both sea lions and bonobos are also capable of bopping to a beat. Researchers beat a drum at around 280 beats per minute and found that bonobos were able to pick up the beat and play it on a specially designed drum. 但是，研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，海獅和倭黑猩猩也有樂(lè)感。研究人員以每分鐘約280次的速度擊鼓，發(fā)現(xiàn)倭黑猩猩能夠跟上節(jié)奏，并在一個(gè)特制的鼓上演奏出來(lái)。 Now, given that bonobos are closely related to humans, their rhythmic ability might not sound very surprising. In the wild, bonobos are known to beat on hollow trees. But sea lions are a different story they’re not known to follow or pick up a beat. 由于倭黑猩猩是人類(lèi)的“近親”，它們具有節(jié)奏感也許并不稀奇。在野外，倭黑猩猩以能在中空的樹(shù)上擊打出節(jié)奏而聞名。但海獅卻不一樣，人們可從不知道它們能跟上節(jié)拍。 Beyond the fact that teaching a sea lion to groove to a beat is pretty cool, it also suggests that the ability may be much more widespread in the animal kingdom than we’ve assumed, and that keeping time to a beat is not limited to animals able to mimic human speech. 訓(xùn)練海獅“聞拍起舞”十分有范兒，除此之外，這也表明動(dòng)物界中有樂(lè)感的動(dòng)物也許要比我們認(rèn)為的多，能跟上節(jié)拍的動(dòng)物也不僅限于能夠“學(xué)舌”的動(dòng)物。 So we may not yet be at the point where we’ll see rock bands with seals or apes on drums, but when it comes to music, humans and other animals appear to have more in common than meets the eye. 也許目前我們還看不到一個(gè)由海豹或猩猩組成的搖滾樂(lè)隊(duì)，但是，在音樂(lè)方面，人類(lèi)和其他動(dòng)物似乎比表面上看起來(lái)有更多共同點(diǎn)。 inclined 有（某種）天賦的 capable of 可以…的 rhythmic 有節(jié)奏的 assumed 認(rèn)為 widespread 普遍的 hollow 中空的;空心的 creatures 生物 mimic 模仿 bonobos 倭黑猩猩