Moustachioed animals' relationship with whistling thorn acacia trees resembles that of the Lorax with truffulas, researchers say"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees," says the eponymous hairy hero of Dr Seuss's children's book after he climbs out of the stump of a truffula tree. An irate orange figure with a bristling moustache, the Lorax is an environmental activist who wastes no time in berating the axe-wielding Once-ler, a shady money-grabbing interloper who lays waste to the environment to produce peculiar knitted outfits called thneeds.Now researchers say the book may have been inspired by the things Seuss saw on a trip to Kenya, and that the bristly character may have been based on the orange moustachioed patas monkeys indigenous to the area. Continue reading...
Dr Seuss's Lorax 'inspired by orange Kenyan monkeys'
23. červenece 2018 17:30
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/23/dr-seuss-lorax-inspired-by-orange-kenyan-monkeys
Zdroj: The Guardian