关于动物的14个误解 个个让你惊掉下巴[4]

MYTH: Goldfish can't remember anything for longer than a second.
误解十二：金鱼对任何事情的记忆都不超过一秒。

Goldfish actually have pretty good memories.
金鱼其实记忆力相当好。

They can remember things for months, not seconds like many people say.
它们对事物的记忆力可长达数月，而不像许多人所说的只有数秒。

MYTH: Humans got HIV because someone had sex with a monkey.
误解十三：人类得艾滋病是因为有人和猴子发生性关系。

The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, almost certainly didn't jump to humans through human-monkey sex.
人体免疫缺损病毒，即艾滋病毒，基本可以肯定不是通过人和猴子的性交传播给人类的。

Based on the virus' genetic similarity to a strain of simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV, that infects chimpanzees, most experts think the virus jumped to humans through hunting primates for bush-meat food.
基于艾滋病毒与黑猩猩之间传播的一种猿猴免疫缺损病毒的基因相似性，多数专家认为该病毒是通过猎杀灵长类动物以获取野味食物而传播给人类的。

This interaction may have led to blood-to-blood contact – perhaps through an open cut on the hunter – and the transfer of a new strain that could silently infect people.
在捕猎过程中可能会有血液接触——也许是通过猎人身上的一道伤口——从而导致人类不知不觉地传染上了这种新疾病。

MYTH: Any shark that stops swimming will suffocate and die.
误解十四：停止游泳的鲨鱼都会窒息而死。

You often hear sharks can breathe only when swimming pushes water over their gills.
你经常听说鲨鱼只有在游泳时才能呼吸，因为游起来时水才能从鱼鳃流出。

That's true of a lot of sharks, but many others – like bottom-dwelling nurse sharks – can pump oxygen-rich water over their gills without swimming.
很多鲨鱼都是如此，但也有很多其他鲨鱼——比如住在海底的护士鲨——就算不游泳，富含氧气的水也可以从鱼鳃流出。

All sharks lack swim bladders, however, so if they stop swimming they will sink to the bottom. Luckily a shark's body is incompressible and rapid descents or ascents don't harm them.
但是，所有的鲨鱼都没有鱼鳔，所以如果不游泳的话他们就会沉到海底。幸运的是，鲨鱼的身体不会被压缩，迅速的沉降和上浮都不会伤害到它们。

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