In fact, the rituals of corvids may have acted as the inspiration for our own.

事实上，鸦科的仪式可能是我们人类仪式的灵感来源。

Kaeli Swift is a behavioral ecologist who studies crows and other corvids at the University of Washington.

Kaeli Swift 是一名行为生态学家，在华盛顿大学研究乌鸦和其他乌鸦。

Crows and jays, part of a bird family called corvids, gather near dead flockmates in what can almost look like a noisy wake.

乌鸦和松鸦， 一种叫做鸦科的鸟类， 聚集在死去的鸟群附近， 看起来就像是嘈杂的尾声。

Like people, some animals, including the corvids, the family of birds that houses the crows, ravens, magpies and jays, also seem to pay special attention to their dead.

有些动物和人类一样，包括鸟类的亲戚，鸦科，包括乌鸦、渡鸦、喜鹊、松鸦都特别关注牠们死去的同伴。

Primates, corvids and cetaceans also have attributes of culture, if not language or organised religion (though Jane Goodall, a noted zoologist, sees chimps as expressing a pantheistic pleasure in nature).

灵长类动物、鸦科动物和鲸目动物即使没有语言或有组织的宗教，也具有文化属性（尽管著名动物学家简·古道尔认为黑猩猩在自然界中表达了泛神论的快乐）。

Clark's nutcracker, a member of the crow family, buries up to 100,000 seeds in a season and remembers where it put them months later--but does not make tools, as other corvids do.

克拉克胡桃夹子是乌鸦家族的一员，它在一个季节里埋藏多达 100,000 颗种子，并在几个月后记住它们放在哪里，但它不像其他鸦科动物那样制造​​工具。