实用英语2do animals have a culture课文翻译

实用英语2do animals have a culture课文翻译

Do animals have a culture? What do we mean by "culture"? Recently social scientists have begun to ask if culture is found just in humans, or if some animals have a culture too. When we speak of culture, we mean a way of life that a group of people have in common. Culture is the forms of behavior (行为)hat help people to live together. It is also the forms of behavior that make one group of people different from another group.
Human beings use tools, cooperate with one another, and communicate with language. But these aspects(方面) of human behavior, or "culture", can also be found in the lives of certain animals, Animals can make tools, for example. We used to think that the ability to use tools was the dividing line between human beings and other animals. Lately, however, we have found that this is not the case. Chimpanzees(黑猩猩) can not only use tools but actually make tools themselves. Animals can also share knowledge with each other and use their own language to communicate. So it may be important for us to know that the line dividing us from animals is not as clear as we used to think.

动物有它们自己的文化吗?我们说的“文化”又是什么意思?最近社会行为学家开始探索一个问题：文化是只存在于人类之间吗?或者说有些动物也有它们的文化呢?当我们说到文化的时候,我们指的是一种为群体所共有的生活行为.文化是一种行为方式,它不仅能够使人们生活在一起,还能让群体与群体之间相互区别.
人类使用工具,相互帮助,并用语言交流.但是人类这些方面的行为,或者说文化,同样也存在于一些动物的生活中.动物也能自己制造工具,比如说,我们过去常认为人类区别于其他动物的分水岭就在于是否具有使用工具的能力.但是最近,我们发现这点实际上并不成立,因为黑猩猩不仅也能够使用工具,还能在真正意义上自己制造工具.动物之间也会使用自己的语言进行交流,并相互分享彼此的经验.所以,我们与动物之间的分界线并不像我们之前所想的那样泾渭分明,知道这一点对我们来说可能也是很重要的.

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