Monuments to animals - from people in gratitude

From the earliest times, people build monuments to perpetuate an event or in honor of the merits of individuals. They are raised and many representatives of the animal world, and they can be found in all countries of the world. Monuments of animals are different from mammoth to moth Drosophila. Mostly they were honored with such an honor by domestic animals, but many of them were set up by wild animals.

Monuments to the true friends of man

Most of all the sculptures people set their most loyal friends - dogs. It is considered that one of the first such monuments was erected in the city of Corinth in the IV century. BC. According to legend, when enemies approached the city at night, a dog named Soetr raised a noise, woke up the garrison and thereby saved the townsfolk from death.

Monuments to animals often testify to the recognition by man of that great role in the development of science that they played. In St. Petersburg in 1935, the Institute of Experimental Medicine installed on the pedestal the figure of the experimental dog. This was done at the suggestion of the famous academician I.P. Pavlova.

There are monuments to animals who have accomplished real feats. In Alaska in Nome stands a sculpture to a dog-hero named Balt. At the beginning of the last century, an epidemic of diphtheria began in this town. To save children, we needed a vaccine. Dog sled, overcame more than 300 kilometers, on the way back stopped a severe snowstorm. The exhausted dogs could not continue on their way. Then the master Balta attached a bag to the dog's collar with the vaccine and sent it to the people. The dog managed to deliver the medicine to its destination.

Birds on the pedestal

Very many monuments to animals are associated with the events of the distant past. Who does not know that in the IV. BC. Geese rescued from the Gauls Rome. The grateful Romans established a monument to them and since those times have been very respectful of these birds.

In the USA on the Wisconsin River there is a memorial dedicated to the wandering pigeon. And in the American city of Boston, a sparrow was immortalized, which saved the gardens and crops from the invasion of caterpillars. In Ecuador there is a sculpture of hummingbirds. The capital of Mexico - the city of Mexico City - is decorated with a stone eagle. In Salt Lake City (USA) a seagull is immortalized, and in the Canadian city of Grand Prairie there is a monument to a white swan.

For helping people

Many monuments to animals in the world are established for their merits in the development of agriculture and as a token of gratitude to people. In New Zealand there is a sculpture of trout. Thanks to the breeding of this fish, the local people live in abundance.

For valued wool immortalized in stone is a ram in Scotland, and in the city of Uryupinsk - a goat. In the United States, Holland, Germany, a pedestal was put on a pedestal. There are a lot of sculptures around the world for horses, including in Russia.

There are interesting monuments to agricultural pests. For example, in the North American state of Alabama, a memorial to the weevil beetle is installed. This gluttonous insect destroyed all cotton crops in the state and forced farmers to master the cultivation of other crops, which turned out to be much more profitable.