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Elephant’s Talk
大象的私语
Kellan
Did you hear what one elephant said to the other? No. This is not a joke. It’s the subject of scientific study. CNN’s Jeanne Moos reports on what researchers overheard while monitoring herds of elephants.
凯伦
你听到过大象与伙伴之间的谈话吗？不，这绝不是玩笑。它是一项科研课题。科学家在追踪象群活动时，偷听了它们的谈话，CNN记者珍妮·默丝做了如下报道。
Jeanne Moos, CNN correspondent
Ever wonder what elephants talk about? Neither did we, until we heard from acoustic biologist Katie Payne. She speaks elephant.
What does it mean again?
珍妮·默丝，CNN记者
你想过大象会聊些什么吗？我们可从未想过，直到从声学生物学家卡帝·佩恩那里听到了象语。她在模仿大象的语言。
这又是什么意思？
Unidentified female
Let’s go.
女被访者
我们走吧。
Moos
Prepare for a close encounter with the animal mind. New York’s Wildlife Conservation Society sponsored Payne’s lecture, eavesdropping on giants.
默丝
请准备好同动物的思想做一次亲密接触吧。纽约野生生物资源保护学会为佩恩题为《偷听巨人的谈话》的演讲提供资助。
Unidentified female
This ear flopping means terribly exciting.
女被访者
大象扇动耳朵表示它们异常兴奋。
Moos
The cause of the excitement, elephants mating. Payne and fellow researchers shot this footage in Africa from atop an observation post.
默丝
大象因为交配而兴奋。佩恩与同事们在非洲观察站顶摄下了这组镜头。
Unidentified female
This is interesting. When you see the male stand up like that, you realize that the exercise that they train elephants to do in circuses and zoos, to stand on their hand legs is not all the artificial.
女被访者
这很有意思。当你看到雄象这样站着，你会明白在马戏团和动物园对大象进行前脚站立训练完全不是人类臆想出来的。
Moos
Acoustically speaking, what happens before and after mating is most interesting. The female announcing she’s ready and willing. And afterward, elephants come to sniff the spot where the mating took place. The experts don’t know what they’re saying, though one audience member hazarded a guess.
默丝
从象的叫声判断，交配前后发生的事情最有意思。雌象宣布她准备好了并且很愿意。交配后，大象情侣会走过去用力嗅嗅交配地点。专家们不知道它们在说些什么，但一个观众还是大胆地猜了猜。
Unidentified female
I think it’s gossip.
女被访者
我想它们在闲聊。
Moos
And listen in on a conversation between two females greeting one another after a long separation.
During the lecture, the audio malfunctioned, so Payne took over.
默丝
好的，让我们来偷听一下两位久未谋面的雌象相逢时的谈话吧。
讨论过程中，音响系统发生了故障，佩恩就用象语替它们把话说完。
Unidentified female
I’ll do it…
女被访者
我会做的。
Moos
Payne’s claim to fame was a discovery that as much as two-thirds of what elephants communicate is infrasound, below the frequency of human hearing.
默丝
大象交流时发出的声音，有三分之二多是次声波的，低于人类听觉频率。佩恩因这一发现而知名。
Unidentified female
This is very low energy that we cannot hear down here.
女被访者
这声音很微弱，我们什么也听不到。
Richard Lattis, Wildlife Conservation SOC.
理查德·拉提斯，野生动物保护学会
如果你们离它们足够近，就能感觉到这些微弱的震动声。
Moos
In a recording made at a zoo, the elephant seemed silent, but speeding up the tape 10 times raises the pitch 2 1/2 octaves, making the elephant sounds audible to the human ear. No wonder she called her book “Silent Thunder”. Infrasound can travel for several miles. Here, we think our herd is so smart, communicating with our cell phones and email. The mother of the animated elephant Dumbo sang to her child.
默丝
从一盘在动物园录的磁带中，我们看到大象似乎很沉默，但是将磁带的转速增加10倍，同时将单调提高2 1/2个八度，人耳就可以听到大象发出的声音了。佩恩将她的书命名为《寂静的霹雳》一点都不奇怪。次声波能传播数英里。我们认为人类非常聪明，能够用移动电话和电子邮件进行交流。而动画片《达姆博》中的象妈妈会为她的孩子唱歌。
Moos
But listen to the cry of a real baby. An adult from another family was manhandling the infant. To the rescue, the infant’s own family. The saddest elephant voices we heard came from elephant’s attempting to resurrect an infant that had died. One young male was particularly upset.
默丝
还是让我们听一听真实世界中象宝宝的哭泣吧。另一家族的成象在虐待象宝宝。为了拯救它，象宝宝家族集体出动。我们听过最悲惨的象声发自那些试图将象宝宝救活的大象们。一个年轻的雄象特别伤心。
Unidentified female
And he attempted to liftthe body 57 different times.
女被访者
他将象宝宝的尸体卷起了57次。
Moos
Payne doesn’t thing elephants string together sounds the way we do words, but researchers have identified 71 calls with specific meanings.
默丝
佩恩认为大象将声音连贯起来的方式与我们组织语言的方式不同，但研究者已经弄清楚大象的71种叫声和它们具有的特殊含义。