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Did you ever get the feeling your dog was laughing at you? New research suggests maybe he was! Dogs make ?)huffing?noises scientists think is doggie laughter. Dogs make that noise when inviting another animal ?or a person ?to play. They also make it when 2)tossing a toy around by themselves.
Psychologist Patricia Simonet first 3)identified the sound. She recorded various dog sounds on a special machine. The dog laughs seemed different. When she played the sounds back to other dogs, they also reacted differently.
Some pups acted afraid when they heard 4)growls, 5)whines, or barks. But, says Simonet, I’ll the dogs responded 6)positively to the laugh.?They began to play. 7)Gorillas, 8)chimps and rats are also known to laugh. Does laughter mean sense of humor? No one knows for sure yet, but researchers are working to answer the question. Check out these six stories and decide for yourself if the animals?9)antics mean they find things funny!
你是否曾经觉得你的狗在笑你呢？新的研究表明狗可能真的会嘲笑人！科学家们认为狗发出的“呼哧呼哧”声便是它们的笑声。当它们邀请另一动物—或人—一起玩耍，或者当它们自己抛着玩具到处走的时候，也会发出这样的声音。
心理学家帕特里夏·西蒙奈特是辨认出这种声音的第一人。她用一种特殊的机器记录下狗发出的各种声音。这些狗的笑声听起来还真是与别不同。当她将声音播放给其它狗听时，它们也会作出不同的反应。
有些小狗听到吼叫、悲鸣或者吠叫时会表现出害怕的情绪。但帕特里夏说：“所有的狗在听到笑声后都表现得开心和积极。”听到这样的笑声，它们就开始玩耍。据悉，大猩猩、黑猩猩和老鼠也都会笑。会发出笑声，是否意味着动物具有幽默感呢？目前尚无人确知，但研究者们正在寻找问题的答案。读读以下六则小故事，自己想想看，动物们的滑稽行为是否意味着它们发现了好玩的事儿！
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你是否曾经觉得你的狗在笑你呢？新的研究表明狗可能真的会嘲笑人！科学家们认为狗发出的“呼哧呼哧”声便是它们的笑声。当它们邀请另一动物—或人—一起玩耍，或者当它们自己抛着玩具到处走的时候，也会发出这样的声音。
心理学家帕特里夏·西蒙奈特是辨认出这种声音的第一人。她用一种特殊的机器记录下狗发出的各种声音。这些狗的笑声听起来还真是与别不同。当她将声音播放给其它狗听时，它们也会作出不同的反应。
有些小狗听到吼叫、悲鸣或者吠叫时会表现出害怕的情绪。但帕特里夏说：“所有的狗在听到笑声后都表现得开心和积极。”听到这样的笑声，它们就开始玩耍。据悉，大猩猩、黑猩猩和老鼠也都会笑。会发出笑声，是否意味着动物具有幽默感呢？目前尚无人确知，但研究者们正在寻找问题的答案。读读以下六则小故事，自己想想看，动物们的滑稽行为是否意味着它们发现了好玩的事儿！
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Bongo Marie, an African parrot, didn’t get along with Paco, another parrot. Hhe was always 16)picking on Paco,?says Sally Blanchard, a parrot behavior expert from Loveland, Colorado.
One night Blanchard was cooking dinner. Pulling a small hen out of the oven, she set the steaming bird on the kitchen counter to carve. Curious, Bongo Marie moved in for a closer look. “Oh, no. Paco!”the parrot 17)shrieked, tossing her head and laughing like a 18)maniac.
“That’s not Paco,?said Blanchard, laughing herself. She showed Bongo Marie that Paco was in the next room. “Oh...no,?repeated Bongo Marie, this time sounding disappointed. “I’m 19)convinced she knew it was funny,?says Blanchard. The parrot then seemed to laugh at her own joke.
两只非洲鹦鹉—博格·玛丽和帕可彼此不和。“它总是跟帕可过不去。”来自科罗拉多州拉夫兰的鹦鹉行为研究专家萨莉·布兰查德说。
有一天晚上做饭的时候，布兰查德从烤箱里取出一只热气腾腾的小母鸡，放到厨房工作台上准备切开。好奇的博格·玛丽凑前来想一探究竟。“噢，不。可怜的帕可！”这只鹦鹉突然尖叫起来，摇晃着脑袋，发疯似地狂笑。
“那不是帕可。” 布兰查德说，自已也笑了起来。她让博格·玛丽看清楚帕可正好好地待在隔壁房间呢。“噢……不。”这次博格·玛丽重复这句话时，听起来似乎挺失望的。“我相信玛莉确实是觉得这事儿好玩才笑的。” 布兰查德说。然后，这只鹦鹉好像自嘲起自己的笑话来了。
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Tulip, a rat, loved to play. Given the run of the house, she would 20)scurry over to young Jaak Panksepp to play as soon as he came home from school. Today, Panksepp is a scientist who studies animal emotions and welfare at Washington State University in Pullman. He’s made a surprising discovery.
Rats 21)chirp when they play or look forward to playing. The chirps are too high-pitched for humans to hear. Panksepp heard the rats?sounds with equipment that 22)detects and records the presence of bats, which also make high-pitched sounds.
After playing back the tapes, he wondered, “What if this stuff is laughter?”He 23)tickled some rats with his hand. The bat detector went crazy. The rats were laughing! While he can’t prove rats have a sense of humor, he says, “For rats, laughter is the way they express joy.”
老鼠图莉普很爱玩。要是把房子给它，随它乱跑，小贾克·潘克塞普放学回家时它肯定会马上飞奔着去找他玩。如今，潘克塞普已经是一位在普尔曼华盛顿州立大学研究动物情绪与健康的科学家。他有一项惊人发现。
当老鼠玩耍或想要玩耍时，它们就会唧唧叫。这种叫声音调很高，人类听不到。通过用来监察及记录同样发出高音调叫声的蝙蝠出没的设备，潘克塞普也可以听到老鼠发出的这种声音。
重播录音带后，潘克塞普想：“或许这些声音是笑声？”于是他用手逗弄了几只老鼠，此时蝙蝠监听仪出现了极其明显的反应。这些老鼠在发笑！虽然他不能证明老鼠具有幽默感，但他说：“对于老鼠来说，笑声就是它们表达快乐的方式。”
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Do great apes have a sense of humor? “Definitely,?says Rob Shumaker, a scientist at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. ”
At a zoo where he used to work, Shumaker was 24)hosing down the 25)orangutan enclosure. It was a hot day. Junior, an adult male, begged for a drink. The ape was sitting on a platform higher than Shumaker’s hose could reach, so he 26)flicked him some drops. Delighted, Junior laughed out loud. A long, playful water fight followed.
When Shumaker finally ended the game, Junior appeared to settle down. He actually was 27)biding his time. A huge puddle of water had collected on the platform. Shumaker walked over to say good-bye to Junior, and the laughing ape made one sweep of his arm, 28)drenching Shumaker. “He totally got me!”
大型猿类有没有幽默感呢？“绝对有，”爱荷华州得梅因大型猿类信托研究中心的科学家罗布·舒马克如是说。
一个大热天里，舒马克在以前工作的一家动物园里给猩猩园洒水。成年雄性猩猩朱尼尔想喝水。当时它坐在舒马克的水管够不到的一处高台上，所以舒马克就把一些水朝它甩过去。朱尼尔很高兴，大声地笑起来。接下来就展开了一场好玩又持久的水战。
最后，当舒马克结束这场游戏时，朱尼尔好像也平静下来了。其实，它坐着的那个高台上已经积起了一洼水，它正在静伺良机呢。舒马克走过来和朱尼尔道别，此时这只猩猩笑着横扫了一下臂膀，用水把舒马克弄得浑身上下都湿透了。“它出其不意地把我打得落花流水啊！”
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Ambika is like that 29)annoying practical joker who offers to shake hands and then 30)zaps you with a hand buzzer. Except Ambika is a 57-year-old elephant!
A 31)resident of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., Ambika used to be fed next to a younger elephant named Shanthi. Both received a daily 32)ration of apples, carrots, and sweet potatoes.
“One day Ambika pushed her apples over to Shanthi,”says Marie Galloway, the zoo’s elephant manager. A friendly gesture, right? Shanthi thought so. She took the apples and gave Ambika her carrots. Little did Shanthi know that Ambika’s motives were not so pure.
By trading a few times, Ambika 33)lulled Shanthi into trusting her. One morning the 34)unsuspecting Shanthi reached for the apples and...ha! Ambika kicked her! Shanthi wasn’t hurt, but the joke was on her. “Ambika set her up,?says Galloway.“If f an elephant can have a sense of humor, Ambika has one.?
安碧卡就像那种爱搞恶作剧、说要握手却冷不丁用手提蜂鸣器电你一下的顽皮鬼。不同的只是—安碧卡是只57岁高龄的大象！
安碧卡住在华盛顿特区的国家动物园，以前它的邻居是一只比较年轻的大象珊提。两只大象每天都会得到各自的一份苹果、胡萝卜和甘薯。
“有一天，安碧卡把它自己的那份苹果推给了珊提。”动物园的大象管理员玛丽·加洛韦说。真是一个友善之举，对吧？至少珊提是这么想的。于是珊提就把安碧卡送来的苹果拿走，把自己的胡萝卜给了安碧卡。只是珊提并不知道安碧卡的动机可没那么单纯。
数次交易之后，安碧卡取得了珊提的信任，使它麻痹大意。一天早上，当毫无防备的珊提伸手去够苹果时……哈！安碧卡竟然踢了它一脚！珊提没有受伤，不过这玩笑可是开到它头上了。“安碧卡陷害了它，”加洛韦说。“要是大象也有幽默感的话，那么安碧卡就算其中一个例证了。”
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Flashing a big, toothy 35)grin and making a huffing sound, Buffy the dog 36)waggles her 37)hind end. She stares at her owner Jean Donaldson.
Donaldson is sitting on the floor doing her yoga exercises. She stays very still while twisted like a 38)pretzel. 39)Teetering on one shoulder is a green rubber spider. A 40)weasel 41)squeak toy and two stuffed animals stand at attention on her crossed legs. “Buffy arranges her toys on me every time I do yoga,?says Donaldson. Sometimes they fall off. When they do, Buffy never 42)hesitates. She 43)pounces, grabs the fallen toy with her teeth, and carefully places it back on Donaldson’s body.
“She thinks it’s 44)hilarious,”says Donaldson. “if Buffy were a person, she’s probably draw a mustache on my picture.”
小狗布菲不时露出呲牙咧嘴的大笑脸，发出呼哧呼哧的声音，摇摆着臀部，盯着它的主人吉恩·唐纳森。
唐纳森正坐在地板上做瑜伽练习。她相当稳定地保持着一块扭结形咸饼干似的姿势。一边肩膀上趴着一只摇摇欲坠的绿色橡胶蜘蛛，在她交叉的双腿上警醒地站着一只会咯吱咯吱响的玩具黄鼠狼以及两只动物填充布偶。“每次我做瑜伽时，布菲都会把它的玩具放在我身上。”唐纳森说。这些玩具有时会掉下来。这时候布菲总会毫不犹豫地冲上来用牙咬起掉落的玩具，然后小心翼翼地摆放回唐纳森身上。
“它觉得这样很好玩。”唐纳森说道，“要是布菲是一个人，它说不定还会给我的照片画上一绺胡子呢。”
Did you ever get the feeling your dog was laughing at you? New research suggests maybe he was! Dogs make ?)huffing?noises scientists think is doggie laughter. Dogs make that noise when inviting another animal ?or a person ?to play. They also make it when 2)tossing a toy around by themselves.
Psychologist Patricia Simonet first 3)identified the sound. She recorded various dog sounds on a special machine. The dog laughs seemed different. When she played the sounds back to other dogs, they also reacted differently.
Some pups acted afraid when they heard 4)growls, 5)whines, or barks. But, says Simonet, I’ll the dogs responded 6)positively to the laugh.?They began to play. 7)Gorillas, 8)chimps and rats are also known to laugh. Does laughter mean sense of humor? No one knows for sure yet, but researchers are working to answer the question. Check out these six stories and decide for yourself if the animals?9)antics mean they find things funny!
你是否曾经觉得你的狗在笑你呢？新的研究表明狗可能真的会嘲笑人！科学家们认为狗发出的“呼哧呼哧”声便是它们的笑声。当它们邀请另一动物—或人—一起玩耍，或者当它们自己抛着玩具到处走的时候，也会发出这样的声音。
心理学家帕特里夏·西蒙奈特是辨认出这种声音的第一人。她用一种特殊的机器记录下狗发出的各种声音。这些狗的笑声听起来还真是与别不同。当她将声音播放给其它狗听时，它们也会作出不同的反应。
有些小狗听到吼叫、悲鸣或者吠叫时会表现出害怕的情绪。但帕特里夏说：“所有的狗在听到笑声后都表现得开心和积极。”听到这样的笑声，它们就开始玩耍。据悉，大猩猩、黑猩猩和老鼠也都会笑。会发出笑声，是否意味着动物具有幽默感呢？目前尚无人确知，但研究者们正在寻找问题的答案。读读以下六则小故事，自己想想看，动物们的滑稽行为是否意味着它们发现了好玩的事儿！
1
你是否曾经觉得你的狗在笑你呢？新的研究表明狗可能真的会嘲笑人！科学家们认为狗发出的“呼哧呼哧”声便是它们的笑声。当它们邀请另一动物—或人—一起玩耍，或者当它们自己抛着玩具到处走的时候，也会发出这样的声音。
心理学家帕特里夏·西蒙奈特是辨认出这种声音的第一人。她用一种特殊的机器记录下狗发出的各种声音。这些狗的笑声听起来还真是与别不同。当她将声音播放给其它狗听时，它们也会作出不同的反应。
有些小狗听到吼叫、悲鸣或者吠叫时会表现出害怕的情绪。但帕特里夏说：“所有的狗在听到笑声后都表现得开心和积极。”听到这样的笑声，它们就开始玩耍。据悉，大猩猩、黑猩猩和老鼠也都会笑。会发出笑声，是否意味着动物具有幽默感呢？目前尚无人确知，但研究者们正在寻找问题的答案。读读以下六则小故事，自己想想看，动物们的滑稽行为是否意味着它们发现了好玩的事儿！
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Bongo Marie, an African parrot, didn’t get along with Paco, another parrot. Hhe was always 16)picking on Paco,?says Sally Blanchard, a parrot behavior expert from Loveland, Colorado.
One night Blanchard was cooking dinner. Pulling a small hen out of the oven, she set the steaming bird on the kitchen counter to carve. Curious, Bongo Marie moved in for a closer look. “Oh, no. Paco!”the parrot 17)shrieked, tossing her head and laughing like a 18)maniac.
“That’s not Paco,?said Blanchard, laughing herself. She showed Bongo Marie that Paco was in the next room. “Oh...no,?repeated Bongo Marie, this time sounding disappointed. “I’m 19)convinced she knew it was funny,?says Blanchard. The parrot then seemed to laugh at her own joke.
两只非洲鹦鹉—博格·玛丽和帕可彼此不和。“它总是跟帕可过不去。”来自科罗拉多州拉夫兰的鹦鹉行为研究专家萨莉·布兰查德说。
有一天晚上做饭的时候，布兰查德从烤箱里取出一只热气腾腾的小母鸡，放到厨房工作台上准备切开。好奇的博格·玛丽凑前来想一探究竟。“噢，不。可怜的帕可！”这只鹦鹉突然尖叫起来，摇晃着脑袋，发疯似地狂笑。
“那不是帕可。” 布兰查德说，自已也笑了起来。她让博格·玛丽看清楚帕可正好好地待在隔壁房间呢。“噢……不。”这次博格·玛丽重复这句话时，听起来似乎挺失望的。“我相信玛莉确实是觉得这事儿好玩才笑的。” 布兰查德说。然后，这只鹦鹉好像自嘲起自己的笑话来了。
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Tulip, a rat, loved to play. Given the run of the house, she would 20)scurry over to young Jaak Panksepp to play as soon as he came home from school. Today, Panksepp is a scientist who studies animal emotions and welfare at Washington State University in Pullman. He’s made a surprising discovery.
Rats 21)chirp when they play or look forward to playing. The chirps are too high-pitched for humans to hear. Panksepp heard the rats?sounds with equipment that 22)detects and records the presence of bats, which also make high-pitched sounds.
After playing back the tapes, he wondered, “What if this stuff is laughter?”He 23)tickled some rats with his hand. The bat detector went crazy. The rats were laughing! While he can’t prove rats have a sense of humor, he says, “For rats, laughter is the way they express joy.”
老鼠图莉普很爱玩。要是把房子给它，随它乱跑，小贾克·潘克塞普放学回家时它肯定会马上飞奔着去找他玩。如今，潘克塞普已经是一位在普尔曼华盛顿州立大学研究动物情绪与健康的科学家。他有一项惊人发现。
当老鼠玩耍或想要玩耍时，它们就会唧唧叫。这种叫声音调很高，人类听不到。通过用来监察及记录同样发出高音调叫声的蝙蝠出没的设备，潘克塞普也可以听到老鼠发出的这种声音。
重播录音带后，潘克塞普想：“或许这些声音是笑声？”于是他用手逗弄了几只老鼠，此时蝙蝠监听仪出现了极其明显的反应。这些老鼠在发笑！虽然他不能证明老鼠具有幽默感，但他说：“对于老鼠来说，笑声就是它们表达快乐的方式。”
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Do great apes have a sense of humor? “Definitely,?says Rob Shumaker, a scientist at the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. ”
At a zoo where he used to work, Shumaker was 24)hosing down the 25)orangutan enclosure. It was a hot day. Junior, an adult male, begged for a drink. The ape was sitting on a platform higher than Shumaker’s hose could reach, so he 26)flicked him some drops. Delighted, Junior laughed out loud. A long, playful water fight followed.
When Shumaker finally ended the game, Junior appeared to settle down. He actually was 27)biding his time. A huge puddle of water had collected on the platform. Shumaker walked over to say good-bye to Junior, and the laughing ape made one sweep of his arm, 28)drenching Shumaker. “He totally got me!”
大型猿类有没有幽默感呢？“绝对有，”爱荷华州得梅因大型猿类信托研究中心的科学家罗布·舒马克如是说。
一个大热天里，舒马克在以前工作的一家动物园里给猩猩园洒水。成年雄性猩猩朱尼尔想喝水。当时它坐在舒马克的水管够不到的一处高台上，所以舒马克就把一些水朝它甩过去。朱尼尔很高兴，大声地笑起来。接下来就展开了一场好玩又持久的水战。
最后，当舒马克结束这场游戏时，朱尼尔好像也平静下来了。其实，它坐着的那个高台上已经积起了一洼水，它正在静伺良机呢。舒马克走过来和朱尼尔道别，此时这只猩猩笑着横扫了一下臂膀，用水把舒马克弄得浑身上下都湿透了。“它出其不意地把我打得落花流水啊！”
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Ambika is like that 29)annoying practical joker who offers to shake hands and then 30)zaps you with a hand buzzer. Except Ambika is a 57-year-old elephant!
A 31)resident of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., Ambika used to be fed next to a younger elephant named Shanthi. Both received a daily 32)ration of apples, carrots, and sweet potatoes.
“One day Ambika pushed her apples over to Shanthi,”says Marie Galloway, the zoo’s elephant manager. A friendly gesture, right? Shanthi thought so. She took the apples and gave Ambika her carrots. Little did Shanthi know that Ambika’s motives were not so pure.
By trading a few times, Ambika 33)lulled Shanthi into trusting her. One morning the 34)unsuspecting Shanthi reached for the apples and...ha! Ambika kicked her! Shanthi wasn’t hurt, but the joke was on her. “Ambika set her up,?says Galloway.“If f an elephant can have a sense of humor, Ambika has one.?
安碧卡就像那种爱搞恶作剧、说要握手却冷不丁用手提蜂鸣器电你一下的顽皮鬼。不同的只是—安碧卡是只57岁高龄的大象！
安碧卡住在华盛顿特区的国家动物园，以前它的邻居是一只比较年轻的大象珊提。两只大象每天都会得到各自的一份苹果、胡萝卜和甘薯。
“有一天，安碧卡把它自己的那份苹果推给了珊提。”动物园的大象管理员玛丽·加洛韦说。真是一个友善之举，对吧？至少珊提是这么想的。于是珊提就把安碧卡送来的苹果拿走，把自己的胡萝卜给了安碧卡。只是珊提并不知道安碧卡的动机可没那么单纯。
数次交易之后，安碧卡取得了珊提的信任，使它麻痹大意。一天早上，当毫无防备的珊提伸手去够苹果时……哈！安碧卡竟然踢了它一脚！珊提没有受伤，不过这玩笑可是开到它头上了。“安碧卡陷害了它，”加洛韦说。“要是大象也有幽默感的话，那么安碧卡就算其中一个例证了。”
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Flashing a big, toothy 35)grin and making a huffing sound, Buffy the dog 36)waggles her 37)hind end. She stares at her owner Jean Donaldson.
Donaldson is sitting on the floor doing her yoga exercises. She stays very still while twisted like a 38)pretzel. 39)Teetering on one shoulder is a green rubber spider. A 40)weasel 41)squeak toy and two stuffed animals stand at attention on her crossed legs. “Buffy arranges her toys on me every time I do yoga,?says Donaldson. Sometimes they fall off. When they do, Buffy never 42)hesitates. She 43)pounces, grabs the fallen toy with her teeth, and carefully places it back on Donaldson’s body.
“She thinks it’s 44)hilarious,”says Donaldson. “if Buffy were a person, she’s probably draw a mustache on my picture.”
小狗布菲不时露出呲牙咧嘴的大笑脸，发出呼哧呼哧的声音，摇摆着臀部，盯着它的主人吉恩·唐纳森。
唐纳森正坐在地板上做瑜伽练习。她相当稳定地保持着一块扭结形咸饼干似的姿势。一边肩膀上趴着一只摇摇欲坠的绿色橡胶蜘蛛，在她交叉的双腿上警醒地站着一只会咯吱咯吱响的玩具黄鼠狼以及两只动物填充布偶。“每次我做瑜伽时，布菲都会把它的玩具放在我身上。”唐纳森说。这些玩具有时会掉下来。这时候布菲总会毫不犹豫地冲上来用牙咬起掉落的玩具，然后小心翼翼地摆放回唐纳森身上。
“它觉得这样很好玩。”唐纳森说道，“要是布菲是一个人，它说不定还会给我的照片画上一绺胡子呢。”