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The finch whisperers

机译:芬奇耳语者

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When you watch Kazuo Okanoya on stage, bobbing up and down, chirping, you know he is passionate about his work. His lab at the University of Tokyo is alive with the sound of the birds that inspire his performance - row upon row of cages full of Bengalese finches. You can see why he is so taken by them. They are beautiful and good-natured, and they sing like a dream. Okanoya was brought up in rural Japan surrounded by farm animals as well as his own menagerie of pet hamsters, turtles, hermit crabs, chipmunks and finches. "As a child, I loved animals more than humans," he says. That he ended up studying birds is hardly surprising. But what he has discovered certainly is. He set out to explore how singing cements the intense bond between pairs of Bengalese finches and underpins their devoted parenting. Instead, his experiments might have implications for one of evolution's most enduring mysteries: the emergence of human language.
机译:当您在舞台上观看冈野和夫的来回摆动,鸣叫时,您会知道他对自己的工作充满热情。他在东京大学的实验室充满活力,激发了他的表演的鸟儿的声音-满是孟加拉雀的成排的笼子。您可以看到为什么他被他们如此对待。他们美丽而善良,他们唱歌像梦一样。冈谷是在日本农村长大的,周围种有牲畜,还有自己的宠物仓鼠,乌龟,寄居蟹,花栗鼠和雀科的雏鸟。他说:“小时候,我爱动物胜于人类。”他最终研究鸟类并不奇怪。但是他发现的肯定是。他着手探讨唱歌如何巩固成对的孟加拉雀之间的紧密联系,并为他们专门的育儿奠定基础。取而代之的是,他的实验可能对进化论最持久的谜团之一产生了启示:人类语言的出现。

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    《New scientist》 |2014年第2955期|37-40|共4页
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    Kate Douglas;

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  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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