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Background: 瑞典的研究人员发现动物园里的黑猩猩自己搬运并储藏石块儿然后用之抛向园内的游客，以此事实证明尚未发现的动物有提前计划和安排事情的能力。
Questions:请在听下面录音的时候试着回答这些问题。这是一个用来帮助你提高听力技能的练习。
1. Where does Santino live?
2. What is Santino’s living area in the zoo like?
3. What did he do before attacking the visitors?
4. Why were visitors safe from his attacks?
Cheeky Monkey 顽皮的猴子
The chimp 黑猩猩 at the centre of this study, an alpha male 超南，男人中的男人 in his 30s called Santino, lives at Furuvik Zoo to the north of Stockholm.
His war against the visiting public began in the 1990s, when he got into the habit 形成了习惯 of collecting stones from the moat 壕沟 surrounding his artificial island 人造小岛.
Santino would stack these up 囤积 during the morning, and then wait for visiting time, when the bombardment 炮击（用石头击打游人） would begin.
One zoo-keeper 动物园饲养员 said some of the attacks were like hailstorms 雹暴. However, the chimp was not only capable of this unusual example of forward planning 制定远景计划, he also managed to break lumps of concrete 水泥 into manageable-sized missiles 导弹 by checking for their weak points.
The researchers 研究人员 say Santino's behaviour shows convincingly that our fellow apes consider the future in a very complex way.
It implies 暗示 that they have a highly-developed consciousness 高级意识, and are capable of the lifelike simulation 如同人类的模仿能力 of potential events 潜在的活动.
However, despite his extraordinary abilities 惊人的能力, there was one thing Santino was not so good at: aiming 瞄准目标.
He rarely managed to hit 击中 visitors, and on the rare occasions when he succeeded, there was no serious damage.
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Answers
1. Where does Santino live?
He lives at Furuviz Zoo near Stockholm in Sweden.
2. What is Santino’s living area in the zoo like?
His enclosure is a man-made island surrounded by water.
3. What did he do before attacking the visitors?
He picked up stones before the visitors arrived, and made piles of them ready to throw.
4. Why were visitors safe from his attacks?
Santino has a poor aim and usually misses his target when he throws a stone.
hailstorms 雹暴
forward planning 制定远景计划
