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Ancient animal behaviour 远古动物行为 Jurassic lark 侏罗纪雨燕 How the pterosaur caught its supper 翼龙是如何逮到晚餐的 PALAEOETHOLOGY, working out how long-extinct animals behaved, is a subject whosepractitioners can never, definitively, be proved right. 古行为学，作为一门研究那些早已灭绝的动物的行为的学科，其研究者永远不可能证明自己的理论是确凿无误的， But that does not stop them trying. 但这一点从来没有阻止过他们对真相的探索。 The latest effort, to be presented laterthis month to the International Symposium on Pterosaurs in Rio de Janeiro, is an attempt byMichael Habib of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, and Mark Witton at theUniversity of Portsmouth, in Britain, to work out how one of the most peculiar of the flyingreptiles of the Jurassic earned its living. 本月晚些时候，将于里约热内卢举行的国际翼龙目研讨会将展示该领域最新一项研究成果，南加州大学的Michael Habib和普利茅斯大学的Mark Witton进行了该项研究，目的在于弄清楚侏罗纪最神奇的飞行类爬行动物之一是如何捕捉食物的。 Anurognathus and its relatives have been known for 90 years. | 
