Background Information:
Bigfoot:
北美野人
广泛流传于北美洲西北部密林中的一种“野人”,目击者说,这种北美“野人”身躯巨大,身高达1.8~3.0米,平均2.3米,体重达300多公斤,外形似人,能直立行走,也经常在地面上留下巨大的脚印,身上有棕色毛,间或灰色、黑色、白色的毛。
此外喜马拉亚山区关于“野人”或“雪人”的传说也颇为盛行。关于“野人”究竟指什么,虽然也有争论,但是大多数持“有野人”和“可能有野人”观点的人认为,它们属于“人”的可能性极微,或者没有,很可能是大型的人猿类如“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, 解剖学的
bipedal n.两足动物 adj.两足动物的
primate n.首领, 大主教, 灵长类的动物
zoological adj.动物学的
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