Irish Dolphins may have a unique dialect
Irish scientists monitoring dolphins living in a river estuary in the southwest of the country believe they may have developed a unique dialect to communicate with each other.
对生活在该国西南部一个河口的海豚进行监控的爱尔兰科学家们相信，这里的海豚已经形成了一种本水域海豚特有的土语用以互相交流。ult
The Shannon Dolphin and Wildlife Foundation (SDWF) has been studying a group of up to 120 bottle-no dolphins in the River Shannon using vocalisations collected on a computer in a cow shed near the River Shannon.
香农海豚与野生物基金会已经利用香农河附近一个牛棚中的电脑收集到的海豚的声音研究了
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As part of a rearch project, student Ronan Hickey digitid and analyd a total of 1,882 whistles from the Irish dolphins and tho from the Welsh dolphins on a computer and parated them into six fundamental whistle types and 32 different categories. Of the categories, he found most were ud by both ts of dolphins -- but eight were only heard from the Irish dolphins.
作为研究项目的一部分，Ronan Hickey佩恩 贝格利同学在电脑上将总计1882份爱尔兰海豚和威尔士海豚的哨音数字化并进行了分析，进而将这些哨音划分为6大类32小类。在这32小类中，他发现大部分哨音两种海豚都会使用——但是有8种只有爱尔兰海豚才会使用。
waffle"We are building up a catalogue of the different whistle types they u and trying to associate them with behaviour like foraging, resting, socialising and the communications
voproof groups with calves," project leader Simon Berrow said. "Esntially we are building up what is like a dictionary of words they u or sounds they make."
“我们正在为它们所使用的不同种类的哨音建立一个目录，并试着将这些哨音someone like you什么意思和它们诸如觅食、休憩、社交的行为以及幼崽与海豚群的交流方式联系起来。”项目主管Simon Berrow说，“事实上我们似乎正在为海豚使用的词语或是发出的声音编写一本字典。”
Berrow, a marine biologist, said the dolphins' clicks are ud to find their way around and locate prey. The whistles are communications. "They do a whole range of other sounds like barks, groans and a kind of gunshot," he said. "The gunshot is an inten pul of sound. Sperm whales u it to stun their prey.
Berrow是一名海洋生物学家，他说海豚的咔嗒声是用来识别方向以及定位猎物的。而它们的哨音则是用来交流的。“它们会发出许多其他类似于吠叫、呻吟以及射击声的声音，”他说，“所谓的射击声是一种猝发脉冲。抹香鲸就是用这种脉冲来击昏它们的猎物。”
"When I first heard it控股英文 I was surprid as I thought sperm whales were the only species who ud it. We can speculate the dolphins are using it for the same reason as the sperm whales," Berrow said.
“当我第一次听到这个结论时我震惊了，因为我一直以为这是抹香鲸的独家本领。我们可以推断，海豚也是出于同样的原因使用这种脉冲。”Berrow说。
References in local legend indicate there have been dolphins in the Shannon estuary for generations and they may even have been resident there as far back as the 6th century.
根据当地传说，海豚在香农河河口已经生存了好几代，甚至它们可能早在公元上海学化妆6世纪就在那繁衍生息了。
They are regularly en by pasngers on the Shannon ferry and an estimated 25,000 tourists every year take special sighteing tours on local boats to visit them.
乘坐香农河渡船的乘客常能看到它们的身影。预计每年有2, 5000名游客专门去当地泛舟观光旅游，为的就是一睹它们的芳容，倾听它们神秘的“爱尔兰语”。
本文要点：
● 注意专业术语的规范表达，如whistle翻译成“哨音”，click翻译成“咔嗒声”等
● 引申法的使用
● 科普文语言的幽默性。如“sperm whales were the only species who ud it”一句，翻译成“这是抹香鲸的独家本领”
