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A century ago, the world was still waiting to be fully explored. The public appetite for tales of adventure was only topped by an appetite for seeing the mysterious and wonderful objects that travellers brought back. And the more outlandish the object then the greater the public interest seemed to be. Paul Kitchen is the head of The Natural History Museum at Tring. One of Paul' s favourite exhibits is one that must have appeared to be outlandish in the extreme when it was first unveiled in 1908. Wow. Huge, isn' t he? Go straight up? Yep, up through the trapdoor. Wow, he' s an incredible size, isn' t he? He' s a good size, yeah. I mean how much would this have weighed when he was alive? So these beach masters, and which is what these large bulls are referred to as, and they can weigh up to four tonnes when they' re alive. Four tonnes. It' s a lot of seal, isn' t it? Of flesh and blubber. But you discovered something quite interesting when you were cleaning him, didn' t you? Yeah. And we noticed an old label poking out from underneath the rock that this seal is mounted on, it' s still here. |
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yí gè shì jì qián, shì jiè hái dài wǒ men chōng fèn tàn suǒ rén men duì mào xiǎn gù shì de xìng qù, yě zhǐ xiàn yú xīn shǎng lǚ xíng zhě dài huí lái de shén mì qí miào de wù pǐn. wù pǐn yuè shì xī qí, rén men yuè xìng zhì àng rán. bǎo luó kē qín shì tè líng zì rán lì shǐ bó wù guǎn guǎn zhǎng. bǎo luó zuì xǐ huān de zhǎn pǐn zhī yī, bèi chū cì fā xiàn yú 1908 nián shí, kěn dìng xiǎn de yóu wéi qí tè. tā kě zhēn dà, zhí jiē shǎng qù ma? shì de cóng huó bǎn mén guò qù dà dé jīng rén le shì de fēi cháng dà tā huó zhe de shí hòu yǒu duō chóng? zhèi xiē shā tān dà lǎo, yě jiù shì zhèi xiē jù xíng hǎi xiàng. tā men huó zhe shí zhòng liàng chāo guò 4 gōng dūn sì gōng dūn, shì zhǐ dà jiā huo a sì gōng dūn de ròu hé zhī fáng, dàn shì zài qīng lǐ tā shí, nǐ fā xiàn le yǒu qù de dōng xī, duì ma? shì de, wǒ men fā xiàn hǎi xiàng shēn xià de yán shí dǐ bù, lòu chū yī zhāng jiù biāo qiān. tā hái zài zhè lǐ. |