Animal behaviour 动物行为 Planet of the apes 猩球探秘 Chimpanzees personas seem more complex thanpeople s 猩猩的行为特征,似乎比人类还要复杂 HUMAN personalities, it is widely agreed by psychologists, can be measured along fivedimensions: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness toexperience. 大多数心理学家都承认人类性格特征一共可分为五个维度:外向、易相处、善于动手、神经反应和继承性。 One person may be more extrovert than another, less agreeable, more conscientiousand so on, and to an extent how well two people will get on can be predicted from howtheir personalities mesh. 甲可能比乙更开朗,或者更勤劳,也可能更固执,等等;就这一点说来,两个人相处是否融洽,取决于二人性格相斥还是相吸。 People who don t get on, though, have the option of avoiding each other. 甲不愿意和乙共处一室,还有选择的余地。 That is not true of animals in zoos. 而动物园里的动物却只能逆来顺受, But they too have personalities. 但是重点在于动物们也有自己的个性。 |