For Weissman, this work isn't only about understanding the nuances of hyrax communication.

对魏斯曼来说，这项工作不仅仅是为了理解岩蹄兔交流的细微差别。

Oates and colleagues analyzed the skulls of tree hyraxes from six museum collections.

Oates 及其同事分析了来自六个博物馆藏品的树蹄兔头骨。

Here's a hyrax call like the ones Oates and his colleagues heard in eastern Nigeria.

这是蹄兔的叫声，就像 Oates 和他的同事在尼日利亚东部听到的那样。

The high mountains belong to the wild goats; the crags are a refuge for the hyrax.

高山为野山羊的住所，岩石为沙番的藏处。

Meet the rock hyrax, sometimes called the rock rabbit or the dassie, common in rocky areas of Africa and the Middle East.

来认识一下岩蹄兔，有时被称为岩兔或蹄兔，常见于非洲和中东的岩石地区。

The hyrax, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

沙番，因为倒嚼不分蹄，就与你们不洁净。

A lot of times, the hyrax is just busy eating leaves, and they don't even turn their heads to someone that's singing.

很多时候，岩蹄兔只是忙着吃树叶，它们甚至不会把头转向唱歌的人。

They seemed to be looking for similarities because everybody accepted that all these hyraxes are the same.

他们似乎在寻找相似之处，因为每个人都承认所有这些蹄兔都是一样的。

The Phoenicians were no more successful, although they bequeathed a memorable nickname to posterity: I-shepan-ha, “land of hyraxes” (more familiar as Hispania).

腓尼基人虽为后世流传下”I-shepan-ha”，“蹄兔之地”的绰号（比Hispania更为人知），但也未能更胜一筹。

Next, they sent off samples of hyraxes, mostly collected from bushmeat markets, to have their DNA sequenced.

Bender：接下来，他们送走了蹄兔样本，主要是从野味市场收集的，以对它们的 DNA 进行测序。