红毛猩猩的故事

• 作 者: 陈江华
• 出 处: 大科技(科学之谜)
• 发表日期: 2007年03期
• 关键词: 红毛 印度尼西亚 发出声音 哲学家 马来语 雨林 森林 静坐 臂比

红毛猩猩浑身红毛,手臂比腿长,只生活在印度尼西亚的雨林里。它们不太爱发出声音,常常静坐不动,像是在思考中的哲学家,因而在马来语中称它们是“森林的人”。它们大部分时间都生活在树上。母猩猩和孩子感情深厚,相依为命六七年才会分离,而公猩猩只在发情时期才踏进母猩猩的领地。

Orangutans are red-haired and have longer arms than their legs. They only live in the Indonesian rain forest. They don’t love to make sounds, they often sit still, like philosophers in thought, and in Malay they call them “people in the forest.” They live in the trees most of the time. The female orangutan and the child have deep feelings and can only be separated when separated by life. The male orangutan only enters the territory of the mother orangutan during the estrus period.