Animal cognition

We've been talking about animal cognition-the study of animal intelligence.

我们已经说过动物认知了——动物智力的研究。

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The study, which will be published in the July issue of Animal Cognition, comes just weeks after an expert in animal behaviour claimed we will one day be able to talk to animals using mobile phone-sized gadgets.

这项研究将会发表在7月份的《动物认知》上。而几个星期之前还有另一位研究动物行为的专家说，未来我们将使用手机大小的电子产品和动物进行语言交流。

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According to a study published in Animal Cognition, the copycat behavior of chimps leads to new traditions that are often specific to only one group of the animals.

一项发布在《动物认知》上的研究表示黑猩猩盲目模仿的行为会产生新的传统，而这些传统只针对黑猩猩当中的一部分。

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Particular emphasis will be placed on the comparison of behavior within an evolutionary framework, animal cognition, and on the genetic, neural, and hormonal mechanisms underlying behavior.

重点将放在进化、动物认知以及动物基础行为的遗传、神经和激素机制等的框架内对动物行为的比较上。

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The study is in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition.

这项研究在实验心理学期刊：动物的学习和认知栏目中发表。

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It may sound like the setup to a joke, but it is actually one of the thorniest questions facing science today. Over the past decade, researchers on animal cognition have come up with some ingenious solutions to the testing problem.

这听起来可能像是故意开玩笑，其实它是科学界当下面临的最棘手的难题之一。过去十年间，研究动物认知能力的科研人员想出了一些有独创性的解决方法。

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That's according to a study in the journal Animal Cognition. [ Lisa Lit, Julie Schweitzer and Anita Oberbauer, "Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes"]

这一结论来自发表在《动物认知力》杂志上的一篇论文[Lisa Lit，Julie Schweitzer and Anita Oberbauer，“Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes”]。】

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But a study just published in Animal Cognition, by Volker Deecke of the University of St Andrews, in Britain, has added a fifth and rather surprising one.

但英国圣安德鲁大学的Volker Deecke在《动物认知》上刚发表的研究指出了第五种会用工具的动物，而且是令人相当意外的一种。

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It is quite puzzling, therefore, why the field of animal cognition has such a long history of claims about the absence of capacities based on just a few strolls through the forest.

因此，在动物认知领域中，人们仅仅在森林中溜达几步便声称动物缺乏某些能力的历史为何如此之长令人相当费解。

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Some bioethicists are disturbed by the possibility that human cells implanted into animals may behave unexpectedly, and could affect an animal's brain or cognition.

一些生物伦理学家担心，植入动物体内的人类细胞可能会出现意料之外的反应，并可能影响动物的大脑或认知。

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Over the past decade, researchers on animal cognition have come up with some ingenious solutions to the testing problem.

过去十年间，研究动物认知能力的科研人员想出了一些有独创性的解决方法。

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The pattern of human basic cognition of animal words in linguistics reflects people's cognitive views and the role of human gene.

人类对动物词汇的认知模式表现了人类的认知观及人类基因的作用。

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As they report in Animal Cognition, "person-oriented behaviour" did sometimes take place when either the stranger or the owner hummed, but it was more than twice as likely to occur if someone was crying.

正如他们在《动物的认知》中描述的一样，不管是陌生人还是狗的主人哼唱小曲儿，有时候狗的确会对人类的这些活动作出一定回应，但哭泣的人吸引到狗注意的概率比唱歌的人要高出两倍以上。

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