澳大利亚中小学听力练习之动物也喜欢打游戏

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　　[00:00.00] At the Aquarium of the Pacific in California, the penguins have something in common with bird keeper Sara Mandel's cats.

　　[00:12.58] Both animals like games on a tablet computer.

　　[00:17.68] "I had actually purchased this game in the app store for my cats," said Mandel.

　　[00:25.19] Then, she wanted to see if the aquarium’s penguins would like the game as much as her cats did.

　　[00:34.77] Mandel asked her supervisor if she could show the game to the birds.

　　[00:42.00] "He laughed at me," she said.

　　[00:45.41] But the penguins did show an interest in the tablet computer with the cat game, Mandel said.

　　[00:54.02] "I showed him [her supervisor], and he was pretty shocked."

　　[00:58.01] Mandel said the penguins like playing with the electronic device as much as people do.

　　[01:06.25] She explained how the tablet helps her care for the penguins.

　　[01:11.50] "While they're kind of hanging out there, I can look at their flippers. I can make sure everything is good and healthy, and I can even sneak a scale right underneath where Lily [the name of a penguin] is standing."

　　[01:22.67] Penguins are not the only animals that have used tablet computers.

　　[01:29.03] At Zoo Atlanta, in the American state of Georgia, orangutans, gorillas, and sun bears have also worked with the technology.

　　[01:41.67] In Britain, a group of researchers have shown touch screen tablets to parrots and tortoises.

　　[01:50.91] With the parrots, the researchers use tablets to see how the birds explore and react to something new.

　　[02:00.48] The touch screens helped researchers study how tortoises learn to move around a space.

　　[02:08.32] Anna Wilkinson is a researcher at the University of Lincoln.

　　[02:14.05] She explained that a tortoise's neck length is a sign of whether the tortoise is comfortable in its surroundings.

　　[02:24.30] The longer the neck, the more at ease the animal is.

　　[02:29.67] While working with the screen, Wilkinson described the tortoise's neck as "nice and long."

　　[02:37.89] "The touch screens are fantastic because they give you a lot of flexibility. You can present animals with all sorts of different stimuli...They are also incredibly good because you can remove humans from the equation."

　　[02:49.88] Wilkinson added that she used the electronic device to train other animals, including dogs.

　　[02:58.61] Sara Mandel explained that people can be less dependable than a computer when providing help to animals, such as feeding them at a set time.

　　[03:11.79] She noted that humans can also distract the animals in a way that machines do not.

　　[03:19.70] Researchers said the animals have short attention spans and become tired easily.

　　[03:27.81] Like humans, Mandel said, the younger penguins are more interested in the game on the tablet.

　　[03:37.45] The older penguins quickly lose interest.

　　[03:41.88] I'm John Russell.

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