African Elephants

Ruth has faced a herd of stampeding African elephants, gone swimming with sharks in Australia, and tracked tigers in Nepal.

露丝也曾面对一群愤怒的非洲象，也在澳大利亚和鲨鱼一同游泳，在尼泊尔追踪老虎的痕迹。

Every year, 25000-30000 African Elephants are poached to supply the ivory trade.

每年都有25000到30000只非洲大象因供应象牙贸易而被猎杀。

In a new study of African elephants, researchers have identified four distinct characters that are prevalent with a herd – the leaders, the gentle giants, the playful rogues and the reliable plodders.

在一项对非洲象的新研究中，研究人员发现大象群落中最常见的四种截然不同的性格&领袖性格、温和性格、顽皮性格和可靠耐劳性格。

African elephants have bigger ears.

非洲象的耳朵比较大。

African elephants, unlike their Asian relatives, are not easily domesticated.

同它们的亚洲亲属不同，非洲象很难驯化。

What's the difference between Asian elephants and African elephants?

亚洲象与非洲象有什么不同？

As Asian elephant herds dwindle, African elephants have become the only source of ivory.

随着亚洲象群日渐减少，非洲大象成了象牙的唯一来源。

There was a life-or-death struggle for a pair of African elephants when they were ambushed by a hungry Nile crocodile in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park this summer.

今年夏天，在赞比亚南卢旺瓜国家公园上演的一场不同寻常的“伏击战”中，一条尼罗河鳄鱼紧紧咬住大象的鼻子不放。

In a new study of African elephants, researchers have identified four distinct characters that are prevalent with a herd-the leaders, the gentle giants, the playful rogues and the reliable plodders.

在一项对非洲象的新研究中，研究人员发现大象群落中最常见的四种截然不同的性格——领袖性格、温和性格、顽皮性格和可靠耐劳性格。

In the way of sheer weight, African elephants take the cake.

假如用举起自身重量来衡量力量的大小，那么非洲象能够拔得头筹。

One of the main features of Zimbabwe's wildlife is that quite a large percentage of the world's African elephants are sheltering in the country, at a number between 80000 to 100000.40% of those elephants live in the country's biggest wildlife park, Hwange National Park.

津巴布韦则是是世界上非洲象最集中的国家之一，境内有大约8至10万头大象，其中40%生活在国内最大的野生动物园——万基国家公园内.

Captions will usually tell you where the data came from ( for example, a scientific study of 400 African elephants from 1980 to 2005).

标题通常会告诉你数据的来源（例如,1980年至2005年关于400头非洲象的科学研究）。

Based on bone sizes, researchers estimated that this individual weighed 70 tons-as much as 10 African elephants, the heaviest land animals today.

根据骨头的大小，研究人员估计这只恐龙重70吨，相当于10头非洲象的重量。非洲象是现今最重的陆地动物。

To resume the ivory trade would sound the death knell for the African elephants.

恢复象牙贸易将会敲响了非洲象的丧钟。