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 年有一项类似的研究，观察到用烹饪过的食物养育的蹄兔咀嚼相关的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的蹄兔的数字。

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”，“蹄兔之地”的绰号（比Hispania更为人知），能更胜一筹。

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，岩蹄兔只是忙着吃树叶，它们甚至不会把头转向唱歌的人。

" 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的意，为什么岩蹄兔会浪费时间和精力，这么大声地唱歌，将自己暴露在捕食者面前。”

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蹄兔交流的别。

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

来认识一下岩蹄兔，有时被称为岩兔或蹄兔，常见于非洲和中东的岩石地区。

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

奥茨及其同事分析了来自六个博物馆收藏的树鼩颅骨。

And up in the upper branches was a hyrax.

而在高高的树梢上，有一只岩狸。

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.

一项关于小型啮齿动物豪猪的研究发现，喂食软煮熟食物而不是生食或干粮的动物，其下颌和面部骨骼的生长较少。

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.

我们所知道的最早的奇蹄目动物之一是原蹄兽，这是一种小型有蹄类动物， 其化石最早在英国被发现，并因某种原因被命名为“类似岩鼠” 的动物。

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.

维斯曼认为， 这种哼声渐强， 加上越来越刺耳的声音，使得这些歌曲无法被忽视， 并吸引了其他岩狸的注意力——这说得通。

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，甚至蹄兔都被发现其健康状况与所处的社会环境和关系密切相关。

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， 了解岩狸为何歌唱以及它们如何构建歌声，可能会揭示人类语言和音乐进化起源的一些信息——这可不是闹着玩的。

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

沙番，因为倒嚼不分蹄，就与你们不洁净。

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

分析结果证实了他们的理论：生活在那两条河之间的树鼩在遗传上是不同的。

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

高山为野山羊的住所，岩石为沙番的藏处。

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

这是在尼日利亚东部听到的类似约翰·奥茨和他的同事所听到的树鼩叫声。

John Oates, a professor emeritus of anthropology at Hunter College, says hyrax calls are like none other.

约翰·奥茨，亨特学院人类学名誉教授表示，树鼩的叫声与众不同。

They found that the hyraxes sampled from between the Volta River in eastern Ghana and the Niger River in western Nigeria had differently shaped snouts and inner nostrils from the species of hyraxes to their east and west.

他们发现，采样自加纳东部的沃尔特河与尼日尔西部的尼日尔河之间的树鼩，其吻部和内鼻孔形状与东边和西边的树鼩物种有所不同。

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，因为大家都认为所有的树鼩都是一样的。