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  在高山草地上，一只黑熊悠闲地坐着，似乎在享受着周围的宁静。它那厚重的毛发在阳光下闪烁，展现出坚韧而温暖的质感。黑熊是北美最常见的熊类之一，但其复杂的行为和生存策略常常让人感到惊奇。   黑熊是一种典型的杂食性动物，它们的饮食偏好使其在多元化的生态环境中得以生存。它们不仅以浆果、坚果为食，还会捕食小型哺乳动物。这样的饮食方式并不仅仅是为了生存，更是在自然选择中形成的适应性行为。黑熊具有出色的记忆力，能够在广阔的领地中记住水源和食物的分布，这种记忆力甚至比一些人类的记忆还要出色。在温暖的季节里，它们会不断寻找食物，以储存能量准备即将到来的冬季。   我们常常认为黑熊是一种孤傲并且危机感极强的生物，但它们却在某种程度上是社交的。研究显示，它们之间会通过不同的叫声、气味和姿势进行沟通。这种高度的社交行为帮助它们在寻找伴侣或警惕潜在威胁时，能有效地传达信息。...

Minakshi Thakur is publisher of translations and Indian languages at Westland Books. She set up Harper Perennial (HarperCollins India’s imprint for literature in translation) and Harper Hindi (Harper’s list for books in Hindi). She has published some of India’s most iconic writers, including Krishna Sobti, Geetanjali Shree (Winner of the International Booker Prize 2022), Vinod Kumar Shukla, Intizar Husain (shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize), lyricist-filmmaker Gulzar, Urdu poet-screenwriter Javed Akhtar, Chetan Bhagat and Amish, Kiran Nagarkar, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, Manoranjan Byapari, Perumal Murugan, among others. At Westland Books, she set up set up EKA, a 360-degree publishing programme for books in Indian languages, translations into English from the languages and vice versa, and translations between Indian languages. She has published three collections of poems and a novel. Her Hindi poetry collection Neend Ka Akhiri Pul was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Young Writer’s Prize. Her first novel in English (Lovers Like You and I) was shortlisted for the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize. She was a writer in residence at Chateau da Lavigny (Fondation Heinrich Maria and Jane Ledig-Rowohlt, Switzerland) in 2014, the Toji Cultural Centre writer’s residency in Wonju, Korea (2014), and a Sangam House Fellow (Bangalore) in 2012. She has also trained in Indian classical music for over two decades.

  在生活的快节奏中，我们往往忽视了大自然中那些微小而又奇妙的细节。比如，动物们打哈欠这一行为，看似简单，却承载着深厚的生物学意义。这只悠闲的小狗在舒适的床上打着哈欠，仿佛是在向我们传达一种放松与放下的状态。不知道有人有没有注意到，人类的打哈欠常常是在疲惫或无聊时出现，而在动物世界中，这一行为的含义却更加复杂。   研究表明，打哈欠不仅仅是一种无意识的生理反应，它可能与社交行为及情绪状态息息相关。在狗狗之间，打哈欠可以被视为一种沟通方式，显示出它们的放松和安全。在某些情况下，当一只狗看到另一只狗打哈欠，也会跟着模仿，这种现象被称为“社会传染”。科学家们认为，这种现象不仅存在于狗狗中，也出现在人类之间，揭示了情感和同理心的共鸣。  ...