And humans like to fancy ourselves as well, fancier than a mouse lemur.

而人类也喜欢幻想自己，比狐猴还要幻想自己。

In army terms, mouse lemurs are now at boot camp, undergoing basic training.

用军队术语来说，鼠狐猴现在正在新兵训练营接受基本训练。

But mouse lemurs can live for 14 years in captivity and maybe ten in the wild.

但是鼠狐猴在圈养环境中可以存活14年，在野外也可以活10年。

For Dr Krasnow's plan is to add mouse lemurs to the short and rather random list of so-called model organisms.

克拉斯诺博士的计划是将鼠狐猴添加到所谓模式生物的简短而随机的名单中。

I mean, even a mouse lemur has a frontal cortex that's about the size you'd expect based on their overall brain.

我的意思是，即使是一只狐猴也有一个额叶皮层，它的大小和你根据它们整个大脑的大小所预期的差不多。

The study built up a genetic database by taking blood samples from animals as diverse as tiny mouse lemurs, the gibbons and gorillas.

这项研究通过采集各种动物的血液样本建立了一个基因数据库，这些动物包括小鼠狐猴、长臂猿和大猩猩。

In particular, as they age, mouse lemurs in captivity sometimes develop the plaques and tangles of abnormal protein seen in human Alzheimer's patients.

特别是，随着年龄的增长，圈养的鼠狐猴有时会出现人类阿尔茨海默病患者中出现的异常蛋白质斑块和缠结。

Another potential threat is that, although mouse lemurs do not truly share the mini-me human lookalikeness of monkeys and apes, they are still pretty cute.

另一个潜在的威胁是，尽管鼠狐猴并不像猴子和猿那样长得像人类一样，但它们仍然很可爱。

What is particularly intriguing for Dr Krasnow and his colleagues, though, is that, in captivity at least, mouse lemurs suffer several illnesses which affect humans too.

然而，克拉斯诺博士和他的同事们特别感兴趣的是，即使在圈养中，鼠狐猴也会患上几种同样会影响人类的疾病。

By contrast, a mouse lemur, though it looks and behaves a bit like a mouse, and is not much bigger, is indeed a primate, and so is much more similar to a human being than a rodent is.

相比之下，尽管鼠狐猴的外表和行为有点像老鼠，个头也不大，但它确实是灵长类动物，因此比啮齿类动物更像人类。