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Play is a serious business 玩耍是一件严肃的事情 Does play help develop bigger，better brains？B investigates 玩耍能否帮助开发更大更好大脑？B调查 Playing is a serious business。Children engrossed in a make-believe world，for cubs play-fighting or kitten teasing a ball of string aren，t just having fun。Play may look like a carefree and exuberant way to pass the time before the hard work of adulthood comes along。Eighty per cent of deaths among juvenile fur seals occur because playing pups fail to spot predators approaching。 游戏是一个严肃的事情。孩子沉溺在里一个假象的世界，为幼崽打闹或者小猫戏弄一个球of线不是只是。游戏可以看想一个无忧无虑and精力充沛的方法去度过这时间在之前这辛苦的工作of成年到来。百分之八十的死亡在之中幼年海豹存在因为游戏的幼崽陷落与地点捕食者的触及 It is also extremely expensive in terms of energy。Playful young animals use around two or three per cent of their energy cavorting，and in children that figure can be closer to fifteen per cent。“even two or three per cent is huge”says j of idaho university。“you just don，t find animals wasting energy like that ”he adds。There must be a reason 它也是非常的昂贵的在里术语of能量。顽皮的幼崽用大约两个或者三个百分比of他们的能量玩耍，and在里孩子that 数目能接近去百分之十五“甚至二或者三百分比是巨大的” “你只是没有发现动物的浪费的能量like that”他补充。这些肯定是原因。 But if play is not simply a developmental hiccup，as biologists once thought，why did it evolve？The latest idea suggests that play has evolved to build big brains。In other words，playing makes you intelligent。Playfulness，it seems ，is common only among mammals，although a few of the large-brained birds also indulge。Animals at play often use unique signs—tailwagging in dogs，for example—to indicate that activity superficially resembling adult behaviour is not really in earnest 但是如果游戏是不是简单的发展的hiccup（小插曲，打嗝），即生物家的一个想法，为什么做它进化？这最近的想法给出了that游戏发展去建立大脑。在里其他的语言，游戏做你智力。游戏，它似乎，是一般的只有在之中动物，其他一些of这大的脑的鸟也沉溺。动物在游戏常常用统一的信号—摆尾在里够，为例子—去表明that行为的表面的模仿成年行为不是真的在里认真的 A popular explanation of play has been that is helps juveniles develop the skills they will need to hunt，mate and socialise as adults。Another has been that it allows young animals to get in shape for adult life by improving their respiratory endurance。Both these i