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Don't Count on Dung
Conservationists（自然保护主义者）may be miscalculating the numbers of the
threatened animals such as elephants,say African and American researchers.The error
occurs because of a flaw in the way they estimate animal numbers from the piles of dung
（粪）the creatures leave behind.
The mistake could lead researchers to think that there are twice as many elephants as
there really are in some regions,according to Andrew Plumptre of the Wildlife Conservation
Society(WCS)in New York.
Biologist Katy Payne of Cornell University in Ithaca,New York,agrees.“We really
need to know elephant numbers and the evidence that we have is quite indirect,"says
Payne,who electronically tracks elephants.
Counting elephants from planes is impossible in the vast rainforests of Central Africa.
So researchers often estimate elephant numbers by counting dung piles in a given area.
They also need to know the rate at which dung decays.Because it's extremely difficult to
determine these rates,however,researchers counting elephants in one region tend to rely
on standard decay rates established elsewhere.
But researchers at the WCS have found that this decay rate varies from region to region
depending on the climate and environment.Using the wrong values can lead the census
astray（离开正道）,says Plumptre.
He and his colleague Anthony Chifu Nchanji studied decaying elephant dung in the
forests of Cameroon.They found that the dung decayed between 55 and 65 per cent more
slowly than the dung in the rainforests of neighbouring Gabon.If researchers use decay
rates from Gabon to count elephants in Cameroon,they would probably find more elephants
than are actually around.
This could mean estimates in Cameroon are at least twice as high as those derived from
decay rates calculated locally,says Plumptre."However accurate your dung density
estimate might be,the decay rate can severely affect the result.''
Plumptre also says that the dung-pile census should be carried out over a region similar
in size to an elephant's natural range.The usual technique of monitoring only small,
protected areas distorts numbers because elephants move in and out of these regions,he
says."If the elephant population increases within the protected area,you can not determine
whether it is a real increase or whether it is due to elephants moving in because they are
being poached（入侵偷猎）outside."
Plumptre says that similar problems may also affect other animal census studies that
rely on indirect evidence such as nests,tracks or burrows（地洞）.
The first word"He"in paragraph 6 refers to
A.Andrew Plumptre.
B.Katy Payne.
C.Anthony Chifu Nchanji.
D.the writer of the article.
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Don ' t Count on Dung
" Conservationists（自然保护主义者）may be miscalculating the numbers of the threatened animals such
as elephants."say African and American researchers.The error occurs because of a flaw in the way that they
estimate animal numbers from the piles of dung（粪）the creatures leave behind.
The mistake could lead researchers to think that there are twice as many elephants as there really are in
some regions,according to Andrew Plumptre of the Wildlife Conservation Society(WCS)in New York.
Biologist Katy Payne of Cornell University in Ithaca,New York,agrees."We really need to know ele-
phant numbers and the evidence that we have is quite indirect,"says Payne,who electronically
tracks elephants.
Counting elephants from planes is impossible in the vast rainforests of Central Africa. So researchers of-
ten estimate elephant numbers by counting dung piles in a given area.They also need to know the rate at
which dung decays.Because it's extremely difficult to determine these rates,researchers counting elephants
in one region tend to rely on standard decay rates established elsewhere.
But researchers at the WCS have found that this decay rate varies from region to region depending on the
climate and environment. " Using the wrong values can lead the census astray（离开正道）,"says Plumptre.
He and his colleague Anthony Chifu Nchanji studied decaying elephant dung in the forests of Came-
roon.They found that the dung decayed between 55 and 65 per cent more slowly than the dung in the
rainforests of neighbouring Gabon.If researchers use decay rates from Gabon to count elephants in Cameroon,
they would probably find more elephants than are actually around."This could mean estimates in Cameroon
are at least twice as high as those derived from decay rates calculated locally,"says Plumptre."However
accurate your dung density estimate might be,the decay rate can severely affect the result."
Plumptre also says that the dung-pile census should be carried out over a region similar in size to an ele-
phant's natural range."The usual technique of monitoring only small,protected areas distorts numbers be-
cause elephants move in and out of these regions,"he says."If the elephant population increases within the
protected area,you cannot determine whether it is a real increase or whether it is due to elephants moving in
because they are being poached（入侵偷猎）outside."
Plumptre says that similar problems may also affect other animal census studies that rely on indirect evi--
dence such as nests,tracks or burrows（地洞）.
The first word"He"in Paragraph 6 refers to________.
A.Andrew Plumptre
B.Katy Payne
C.Anthony Chifu Nchanji
D.the writer of the article
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Don't Count on Dung（粪便）
Conservationists（自然保护主义者）may be miscalculating the numbers of the threatened animals such as elephants,say African and American researchers. The error occurs because of a flaw in the way they estimate animal numbers from the piles of dung（粪）the creatures leave behind.
The mistake could lead researchers to think that there are twice as many elephants as there really are in some regions according to Andrew Plumptre of the Wildlife Conservation Society(WCS)in New York.
Biologist Katy Payne of Cornell University in Ithaca,New York,agrees,"We really need to know elephant numbers and the evidence that we have is quite indirect,"says Payne,who electronically tracks elephants.
Counting elephants from planes is impossible in the vast rainforests of Central Africa. So researchers often estimate elephant numbers by counting dung piles in a given area. They also need to know the rate at which dung decays because it's extremely difficult to determine these rates. However,researchers counting elephants in one region tend to rely on standard decay rates established elsewhere.
But researchers at the WCS have found that this decay rate varies from region to region depending on the climate and environment. "Using the wrong values can lead the census astray（离开正道）,"says Plumptre.
He and his colleague Anthony Chifu Nchanji studied decaying elephant dung in the forests of Cameroon.They found that the dung decayed between 55 and 65 percent more slowly than the dung in the rainforests of neighbouring Gabon.If researchers use decay rates from Gabon to count elephants in Cameroon,they would probably find more elephants than are actually around.This could mean estimates in Cameroon are at least twice as high as those derived from decay rates calculated locally,says Plumptre"However accurate your dung density estimate might be,the decay rate can severely affect the result."
Plumptre also says that the dung-pile census should be carried out over a region similar in size to an elephant's natural range.The usual technique of monitoring only small,protected areas distorts numbers because elephants move in and out of these regions,he says"If the elephant population increases within the protected area,you cannot determine whether it is a real increase or whether it is due to elephants moving in because they are being poached（入侵偷猎）outside."
Plumptre says that similar problems may also affect other animal census studies that rely on indirect evidence such as nests,tracks or burrows（地洞）.
The first word"He"in paragraph 6 refers to______.
A.Andrew Plumptre
B.Katy Payne
C.Anthony Chifu Nchanji
D.the writer of the article
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A Very Slow Ride
The surface of the earth may seem very stable to you.But you might be amazed if you
knew some of the things that are going on under that surface.
The earth has an outer shell of rigid pieces called tectonic plates（地壳构造板块）.The
plates include both ocean floor and dry land.Some have whole continents on top of them.
The continents on top of the plates are just going along for a slow ride,moving only about
four inches per year. But even this small movement causes three types of big interactions.
One type is ocean ridges.These ridges develop in places where two plates are moving
away from each other. As the plates separate , hot magma（岩浆）flows up to fill the
space. New crust（地壳）builds up on the plate boundaries and causes ocean ridges.
These ridges form long mountain ranges,which only rise above the ocean surface in a few
places.
Another type of reaction-trenches-occurs between two plates that are moving toward
each other.As the plates meet,one bends downward and plunges underneath the other.
This forms deep ocean trenches.The Marianas Trench off Guam in the western Pacific
Ocean has a depth of more than 36,000 feet.This is the lowest point on the ocean floor.
If the leading edges of the two colliding plates carry continents,then the layers of rock in the
overriding plate crumple（变皱）and fold. A plate that carried what is now India collided with
the southern edge of the plate that carried Europe and most of Asia.This caused the
Himalayas,the world's highest mountains.
The third reaction is transform faults（转换断层）.These faults occur where two plates
that are traveling in opposite directions slide past each other.Severe earthquakes can
occur. The San Andreas Fault in California is a good example of this type of movement.
This passage is mostly about
A.effects of movements of the earth's plates.
B.different types of continents.
C.the Marianas Trench.
D.transform faults.
