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Il vecchio Billy è il cavallo più vecchio mai esistito e questo è il suo cranio: è vissuto fino a 62 anni! Billy nacque nel 1760 e lavorò tirando chiatte lungo il fiume e sollevando merci dalle barche per la Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company in Warrington.
Dopo aver lavorato per molti anni, visse nei campi ai lati del fiume Mersey, dove fu una celebrità locale per la sua vecchiaia. Si fece ritrarre dall’artista Charles Towne nel 1822, pochi mesi prima di morire, e nel 2023, 200 anni dopo la sua morte, fu realizzato un libro illustrato su di lui.
I denti anteriori possono aiutare a capire l’età di un cavallo, e più si incontrano su un pendio, più è probabile che il cavallo sia vecchio.
Potresti dirci qual è la persona, l’animale o l’albero più vecchio che conosci?
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23 Sep, 2023
The oldest tree in Europe is a 1,235-year-old oricate pine (Pinus heldreichii).
This majestic tree is located in Calabria, a region in southern Italy, and measures more than 10 meters in height and 160 centimetres in diameter.
This tree was named Italus after the legendary king of the Oenotrians, an ancient civilisation of Italic origin who originally inhabited Calabria.
In his Fabularum Liber, Gaius Julius Hyginus recorded the myth that Italus was a son of Penelope and Telegonus (a son of Odysseus).
Moreover, According to Aristotle in his Politics, Italy owes its name to this legendary king.
Carmelo Pizzuti, an official of the national park where the Italus tree is located reports that:
“When the ancient Greeks arrived on our shores, they knew that there was already an Enotrian people, their king was Italus. We can say that, in a sense, Calabria was the first Italy, and on this basis, we chose the name for the oldest tree in the park.”