pachyderms

and it suggests that adding ants could help preserve wooded areas on the savanna. because ants will ruin any picnic, even for pachyderms.

研究显示，在草原上增加一些蚂蚁会有助于保护草原上的树林，因为蚂蚁能毁掉任何野餐，即使这些野餐属于大象。

the pachyderms were paired up. only if they pulled together could they get the food.

大象们被配好对，只有它们同时拉绳子才能获得食物。

That is how a34-year-old female Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo showed researchers that pachyderms can recognize themselves in a mirror-complex behaviour observed in only a few other species.

这就是布朗克斯动物园中34岁的亚洲雌象“快乐”向研究者们展示厚皮类动物能在镜子中认出自己的方式。这种复杂行为仅在少数几个物种身上能观察到。

nothing could break up a line of infantry or send horses into a panic faster than a charging pack of pachyderms.

没有什么比一群冲锋的厚皮动物更能攻破步兵的防线或者更快地使马陷入恐慌之中。

surplus pachyderms impose a particular burden on the poor, trashing their crops and attacking water sources, children and old people.

大象过剩对生活贫困的人们构成了额外的负担，他们与人类争抢水源，袭击老人和儿童。