primates

Because we primates are primarily visual creatures, perhaps the best way for us to make sense of the brain is to see it clearly.

作为灵长类的我们，很大程度上是视觉生物。因此，想要了解我们大脑最好的办法，就是能清晰地看到它的样子。

Digital Primates has been the major driving force so far, but we do hope that this will become a community owned project as we move forward.

DigitalPrimates到目前为止一直是主要的推动力量，但是我们希望随着我们的不断前进，这个项目最终变为社区所有。

Worst-case scenario, this is one of these animals that deals with annoying primates by trying to stomp them into paste.

最坏的情况是，被打的动物很生气，后果很严重，它要把你这个讨厌的灵长类动物，踩成浆糊。

But if human primates will be crawling on it, a finish coat would be warranted.

但是，如果人类灵长类动物将它爬行，一面漆是否有根据。

Another set of experiments a year later on monkeys showed that the same principle could be applied to primates .

一年以后在猴子身上做了另一组实验，说明了同样的原理也可以适用于灵长类动物身上。

It may be a self-protection strategy, as it seems to be among other primates that show signs of sadness.

从其他灵长类动物来看，表现出悲伤可能是一种自我保护的策略。

Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights.

在我所知道的所有灵长类动物中，似乎只有人类是畏高的。

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little "stringy things" off of it. That's how the primates do it.

剥香蕉的时候请从底部剥，而且你没必要把那上面的细丝撕下来，因为那些灵长类动物经常那样做。

She said the importance of these primates for understanding the skills necessary for the evolution of modern humans was unparalleled.

她说，对灵长类的研究，对理解现代人类的进化所需掌握的必要技能是无与伦比的。

Monkey (animal), any of about 160 species of primates that have grasping hands, forward-facing eyes, and highly developed brains.

猴（动物），任何的约160种灵长类动物有把握手中，未来面临的眼睛，和高度发达的大脑。

The moral sense of fairness is hardwired into our brains and is an emotion shared by most people and primates tested for it.

讲求公平的道德感，在我们脑中已根深柢固，也是多数人类及灵长类共通的情感，这是有实验根据的。

A. It seems to me that the controversy is about whether other primates have grammar in their communications.

在我看来，这是关于灵长类动物在交流过程中，它们使用的语言是否存在语法的争论。

"Nonhuman primates don't lie to you, " said Dr. Grove, who is a neuroscientist. "We know exactly how much they are eating. "

“非人灵长类动物不会撒谎”，神经科学家格罗夫博士说，“我们可以确切地知道它们的进食量”。

Although non-human primates have been a source of infection for humans, they are not thought to be the reservoir.

虽然非人类灵长目是人类感染的一个来源，但它们似乎不是宿主。

Photo of the Day: Best of May 2008 Japanese macaques, also called snow monkeys, live farther north than any other non-human primates.

2008年5月最佳每日一图。日本猕猴，也称为雪猴子，生活在很远北部地区比其他任何非人类灵长目动物。

look at the primates closest to humans to see that laughter is clearly not unique to us.

我们只需看看与人类最相近的灵长类动物就能知道笑声并不是人类独有的。

The guy explained that he was a scientist who studied primates, so he knew what was behind this whole pheromone business.

那个家伙解释说他是一名研究灵长类动物的科学家，因此他对这个派对背后与费洛蒙相关的科学原理了如指掌。

Human vision like that of other primates has evolved in an arboreal environment.

人类的视觉，和其它灵长目动物的一样，是在丛林环境中进化出来的。

Working with primates, Giesler and his colleagues studied neurons in the STT that fired after histamine was applied to the skin of a foot.

以灵长类动物为实验对象，吉斯勒和他的同事们把组胺作用于其脚上的皮肤，研究STT中被激活的神经细胞。

This seems to benefit muriqui males, which age more slowly than other male primates do and live longer than other monkeys.

这一点似乎对雄性绒毛蛛猴有利，因为与其他灵长类的雄性相比，它们衰老得较慢，而且寿命也较其他猴子长。