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New Zealand exhibits one of the world's steepest streets

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New Zealand exhibits one of the world's steepest streets Baldwin Street is located in Dunedin. Many tourists usually visit the city to go up the street. The city of Dunedin, New Zealand, boasts one of the steepest residential streets in the world. Located 3.5 miles from the center, Baldwin Street is 350 meters away and is one of the city's attractions. For every 2.86 meters traversed horizontally, the inclination of the street increases by 1 meter. Japanese Yui Okuda ascends Baldwin Street, one of the steepest in the world.  (Photo: Natacha Pisarenko / AP) Many tourists usually visit the city to go up the street.  (Photo: Natacha Pisarenko / AP) Baldwin Street is located in Dunedin.  (Photo: Natacha Pisarenko / AP)
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Meet the closest living relative of the extinct dodo

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The pigeon of nicobar lives on an island in the indian ocean (FOTO: FLICKR/STEVE WILSON)             Have you ever seen a pigeon flying around? No? Perhaps because he is not the kind of pigeon that eats ladies' crumbs in the squares: he is the living animal that has the closest kinship of the dodo - the bird that made its last appearance recorded in the 17th century and which is already extinct (less Alice in Wonderland and the Ice Age). To the dodo's fate, the colorful and fabulous feathers were all with the other part of the family. The explanation for so much glamur is that the pigeon-of-nicobar lives in a region without natural predators, in the Nicobar Islands (Indian Ocean), soon it can show itself at will. The sad part is that, like its ancestor, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the species is already almost threatened with extinction. (FOTO: FLICKR/ C. P. EWING) (FOTO: FLICKR/ STEVE WILSON) (F...
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