Джерело:
The Guardian newspaper: International | guardian.co.uk
Дата публікації:
13/12/2024 16:00
Постійна адреса новини:
http://www.vsinovyny.com/11532622
Roadside colossi: the global allure of a really Big Thing and the Queensland expert plotting their rise
13/12/2024 16:00 // The Guardian newspaper: International | guardian.co.uk
Traditionally considered a US, Canadian and Australian phenomenon, a new survey shows Big Things are far more universal than previously thought
Perched atop a traffic island in Banjarmasin, Indonesia, is a proboscis monkey. Leaping from a roundabout in Mahdia, Tunisia, is a swordfish. Sprouting from an intersection in Kundasang, Malaysia, is a cabbage.
What unites this mammal in the delta city of the jungles of Borneo, fish in the ancient Mediterranean port and vegetable in the hill station of Sabah is size. For these are not things of ordinary proportion – these things are big. And they are just three of almost 10,000 big things scattered upon the face of the Earth that now, for the first time, have been painstakingly mapped and researched.
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