Cheeky Monkey 顽皮的猴子

Cheeky Monkey

顽皮的猴子

By Paddy Clark, BBC

Watch out! Santino's on the warpath

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Background:

瑞典的研究人员发现动物园里的黑猩猩自己搬运并储藏石块儿然后用之抛向园内的游客，以此

事实证明尚未发现的动物有提前计划和安排事情的能力。

Questions:

请在听下面 录音的时候试着回答这些问题。这是一个用来帮助你提高听力技能的练习。

1. Where does Santino live?

2. What is Santino’s living area in the zoo like?

3. What did he do before attacking the visitors?

4. Why were visitors safe from his attacks?

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Cheeky Monkey

顽皮的猴子

The chimp

黑猩猩

at the centre of this study, an alpha male

超南，男人中的男人

in his 30s called

Santino, lives at Furuvik Zoo to the north of Stockholm.

His war against the visiting public began in the 1990s, when he got into the habit

形成了习惯

of

collecting stones from the moat

壕沟

surrounding his artificial island

人造小岛

.

Santino would stack these up

囤积

during the morning, and then wait for visiting time, when the

bombardment

炮击（用石头击打游人）

would begin.

One zoo-keeper

动物园饲养员

said some of the attacks were like hailstorms

雹暴

. However, the

chimp was not only capable of this unusual example of forward planning

制定远景计划

, he also

managed to break lumps of concrete

水泥

into manageable-sized missiles

导弹

by checking for

their weak points.