Background Information:
Bigfoot:
北美野人
廣泛流傳于北美洲西北部密林中的一種“野人”,目擊者說,這種北美“野人”身軀巨大,身高達1.8~3.0米,平均2.3米,體重達300多公斤,外形似人,能直立行走,也經(jīng)常在地面上留下巨大的腳印,身上有棕色毛,間或灰色、黑色、白色的毛。
此外喜馬拉亞山區(qū)關(guān)于“野人”或“雪人”的傳說也頗為盛行。關(guān)于“野人”究竟指什么,雖然也有爭論,但是大多數(shù)持“有野人”和“可能有野人”觀點的人認為,它們屬于“人”的可能性極微,或者沒有,很可能是大型的人猿類如“巨猿”的后代。
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The first thing you need to know before you go looking for Bigfoot: if there's one of them out there, there must be thousands, otherwise they would have gone extinct long ago.
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But is there any reason to believe that these creatures actually exit? Every year there are a few dozen new reports of Bigfoot encounters, many from witnesses you would expect to know the difference between a bear and a monster ape walking around on two feet.
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50 years of Bigfoot tracks have been documented, a few showing what some scientists are convinced are the anatomical signatures of a large bipedal primate.
"Do we have pieces of evidences that people claim indicates that there's a giant hairy monster, running around North America? Yes, there's evidence, there's all kinds of evidence. But the question we have to ask isn't whether there's evidence, is any of the evidence any good."
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"I'm compelled to conclude that there's very high probability that this creature exists."
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Real or myth? One thing is for certain: there's something very strange going on. Is the most important zoological discovery in our time is living in secrecy under the nose of modern science? Or a whole lot of imaginative people are stalking our forests, the architects of a carn that has taken on the life of its own.
Word List:
anatomical adj.解剖的, 解剖學(xué)的
bipedal n.兩足動物 adj.兩足動物的
primate n.首領(lǐng), 大主教, 靈長類的動物
zoological adj.動物學(xué)的
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