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的细微差别。

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

亨特院人类名誉教授约翰奥茨说蹄兔的叫声与众不同。

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。

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.

这是蹄兔的叫声，就像 Oates 和他的同事在尼日亚东部听到的那样。

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。

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。

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”I-shepan-ha”，“蹄兔之地”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.

Oates 及其同事分析了来自六个博物馆藏品的树蹄兔头骨。

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，因为每个人都承认所有这些蹄兔都是一样的。

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

Bender：接来，他们送走了蹄兔样本，主要是从野味市场收集的，以对它们的 DNA 进行测序。

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，甚至蹄兔已被证明表现出与其社会环境和人际关系相关的重要健康结果。

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

这一分析的结果证实了他们的理论：生活在这两条河之间的非洲蹄兔在基因上是不同的。

" 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."

“我们试图理解这一切的意义，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。”

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.

Weissman 认为鼻息的渐强， 加上越来越刺耳的声音，使歌曲无法忽视并引起其他蹄兔的注意——这是有道理的。

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.

这是一种树蹄兔的叫声，它是一种毛茸茸的小型哺乳动物，看起来像土拨鼠和地松鼠的杂交种——减去浓密的尾巴。

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。

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，了解非洲蹄兔为何歌唱， 以及它们如何创作歌曲，可以揭示人类语言和人类音乐的进化起源——这可不是小事。

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.

Bender：每种树蹄兔都有其独特的叫声：由于它们独特的尖叫声，Oates 和一个国际研究团队发现了一种新的哺乳动物。

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类动物之一是始祖马，这是一种小型有蹄类动物， 其化石最早是在英格兰发现的，并出于某种原因因其与岩蹄兔的相似性而得名。