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   Good news for big time networking primates1. Other primates that live in large social groups have more street smarts than their comrades with smaller social circles. So finds in a study in the journal Plus1, researchers tested the circumstances under which lemurs would pilfer2 food from people. The study included rain tail lemurs which come from large social group, as well as lemurs from small group like the Mongols lemurs. The lemurs all have the same brain size so would be presumed to have similar raw intelligence. Human sat in the room with either a plate of food on the table in front of them or behind them, a third group of people was blind folded with a plate in front of them.  Lemurs from large social group tended to steal the food if the people's back was to it.  Lemurs from smaller group went for the food as frequently regardless of its position.  And no lemurs appeared to understand the purpose of a blind fold. The researchers interpret the result as showing that the social factors can influence its species smart. So you could be outwitted by a bird brain, if he has a lot of friends.


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1 primates 9536f12c27d026e37c108bd6fc53dbba     
primate的复数
参考例句:
  • Primates are alert, inquisitive animals. 灵长目动物是机灵、好奇的动物。
  • Consciousness or cerebration has been said to have emerged in the evolution of higher primates. 据说意识或思考在较高级灵长类的进化中已出现。
2 pilfer nAPyP     
v.盗,偷,窃
参考例句:
  • Staff were pilfering behind the bar.店员在柜台后有些小偷小摸的行为。
  • When food stores close,they go to work,pilfering food for resale on the black market.食品店关门后,他们就行动起来,偷食品拿到黑市上出售。

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