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

对魏斯曼来说，项工作不仅仅是为了理解岩蹄兔交流的细微差别。

And up in the upper branches was a hyrax.

而在高高的树梢上，有一只岩狸。

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。

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

约翰·奥茨，亨特院人类名誉教授表示，树鼩的叫声与众不同。

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，岩为沙番的藏处。

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

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。

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。

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。

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”的绰号（比Hispania更为人知），但也未能更胜一筹。

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。

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。

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

本德：接下来，他们将从野味市场收集到的大部分树鼩样本送去进行DNA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。

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。

" 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."

“我们试图理解一切的意义，为什么岩蹄兔会浪费时间和精力，么大声唱歌，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.

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

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.

是树鼩的叫声，树鼩是一种小型、毛茸茸的哺乳动物，看起来像是土拨鼠和松鼠的混合体——不过没有蓬松的尾巴。

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域成长比例少了约 10%，是相对于用生食和干燥食物养育的蹄兔的数字。

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——可不是闹着玩的。

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.

本德：每种树鼩都有其独特的叫声：由于它们特有的尖叫声，奥茨和一个国际研究团队发现了种哺乳动物的一个新物种。