The Proboscis Monkey's giant nose is actually used to attracted mates.

长鼻猴的大鼻子实际上是用来吸引配偶的。

An elephant which was kept for exhibition at London, was often required, as is usual in such exhibitions, to pick up with his trunk a piece of money thrown upon the floor for this purpose.

在伦敦展览的一只大象常常被要求，就像展览中经常做的那样，用长鼻拾起扔在地上的钱币。

Well, the elephant jumps around shaking his trunk, and eventually the elephant hears a voice from inside his trunk.

好吧， 大象跳来跳去摇晃着它的长鼻，最终大象听到从它的长鼻里传来一个声音。

A male proboscis monkey's huge nose acts like a microphone. It makes the monkey's call sound louder.

雄性长鼻猴的大鼻子作用像个麦克风，能让它的叫声听起来。

As he moved away, he would stop every fifteen or twenty feet to wave his trunk.

当它走开后，每走15或20英尺时就会挥长鼻。

The guard soon finding his retreat, attempted in vain to take him from his asylum; for the elephant vigorously defended him with his trunk.

面。卫兵虽然很快找到，没有办法抓到，因为大象用长鼻奋力保护。

Take the proboscis monkey for example — known for its extra-long nose or the spider monkey with extremely long limbs and a tail.

以长鼻猴为例——它的鼻子特别长。或者是有着非常长的四肢和尾巴的蜘蛛猴。

He has two large tusks, which form the ivory of commerce, and a trunk, or proboscis, at the end of the nose, which he uses to take his food with, and for attack or defense.

它有两颗大牙，因此形成象牙贸易，大象用长鼻取得食物、攻击和防卫。

Proboscis monkeys are also excellent swimmers.

长鼻猴也是游泳高手。

In this case, it reconfigures into a new shape called the proboscis.

在这种情况下，它重新配置成一个新的形状，称为长鼻形态。

You can also pretend you're an elephant swinging your trunk.

你也可以假装自己是一只挥动长鼻的大象。

Or, again, why has not any member of the group acquired a long proboscis?

或者，再一次，为什么没有任何成员获得长长的长鼻？

Maybe Size really does matter, at least in the proboscis world.

也许尺寸确实很重要，至少在长鼻的世界里是如此。

Later on, when he saw her consume a side of veal without breaking a single rule of good table manners, he commented seriously that that delicate, fascinating, and insatiable proboscidianwas in a certain way the ideal woman.

后来，当看到她吃着一块小牛肉，丝毫没有违反良好的餐桌礼仪时，认真地评论说，那个娇柔迷人、贪得无厌的长鼻鱼在某种程度上是理想的女人。

Researchers say the boxes have not only attracted bats but also ocelots, coatis, and opossums. Surveillance footage has even shown that the boxes have become a premier location for natural prey and predator activity.

- 研究人员表示， 这些盒子不仅吸引蝙蝠， 还吸引豹猫、长鼻浣熊和负鼠。监控录像甚至显示， 这些箱子已经成为自然猎物和捕食者活动的主要场所。

And of the world's 13 species, eight are threatened, including the Asian small-clawed otter, and the smooth-coated otter, and one called the hairy-nosed otter, which sounds cute, but it might be ferocious.

在全世界13种水獭中，有8种受到威胁，包括亚洲小爪水獭、光滑水獭，以及一种名为长鼻水獭的动物，听起来很可爱，但实际上可能非常凶猛。

Insects of the Lepidoptera order— butterflies and moths— keep their proboscises rolled up tightly beneath their heads when they’re not feeding and unfurl them when they come across some sweet nectar.

鳞翅目昆虫——蝴蝶和飞蛾——在不进食时将它们的长鼻紧紧地卷在头下，并在遇到甜美的花蜜时展开它们。

You've probably seen butterflies flitting from plant to plant on broad wings, sticking their probosces into flowers to drink nectar and maybe picking up a clump of pollen in the process.

你可能见过蝴蝶用宽阔的翅膀从一株植物飞到另一株植物，将它们的长鼻伸入花朵中喝花蜜， 并可能在此过程中捡起一团花粉。

And they found that for at least two days, passing elephants trained their trunks on the samples—especially samples from mature adults—another indication that scent might be a potent navigational cue.

们发现至少在两天内，经过的大象会用它们的长鼻关注这些样本——尤其是来自成熟成年大象的样本——这是气味可能是强大导航线索的另一个迹象。

It's half the size of a horse, looks a little bit like a rhino with a proboscis - a bit of a flexible trunk.

它有马的一半大小，看起来有点像犀牛，长着长鼻——有点灵活的鼻子。