The Yeti, also known as the Abdominal Snowman is a white hairy
Sasquatch that lives in the cold regions of the Himalayan Mountains. This man-bear is the closes relative to the Bigfoot; in fact if you search the internet, the most common result for Yeti has to do with Bigfoot. Visually, the Yeti is not a snowman creature at all, it is said to resemble a hybrid of a human-gorilla. Description: The Yeti is said to stand about 11 feet tall. There used to be a lot of pre-historic creatures that were giants, like Dinosaurs, Terror Bird, it’s a large carnivorous, flightless bird. Also, animals like the Gigantopithecus, which is a giant ape that is closely related to the orangutan that roamed the bamboo forests, jungles and mountains of China, India and Vietnam during the Miocene to Pleistocene period. Because teeth fossils were discovered of this giant ape, people quickly linked it to the Yeti and Bigfoot. On Animal Planet, there is an article that says that the purpose of the Yeti is to protect evil-doers. It supposedly is the guardian of the Himalayas Mountains. The Yeti scares people with its huge glowing eyes and menacing howls. People have even caught shadows of the Yeti vaguely walking in the forest or swinging on trees as it “protects” something on video, and in photographs. History/Hypothesis: Even before finding information about the yeti, you have to ask yourself, why hasn’t something so fascinating been found. As a group we figure that, if something so monstrously tall, really did exist, why hasn’t anyone discover it yet, or if they saw sightings, where are the is the factual evidence. Not videos and pictures of gorilla swinging on trees and random shadows of creatures or tall humans walking, but clear photo that you can identify as being a Yeti, like in drawings. When did this mythological creature arise in the imaginations of the human mind? Has it been a myth carried on through ancient times, like the Greek myths? Apparently, the first reported sighting of the Yeti is said to date back to 1832, when a mountain hiker B.H. Hodgson of Nepal witnessed a tall beast covered in dark hair walking on two feet. Since G.H’s sighting, the evidence of the Yeti has hit an all-time fever pitch, like extraterrestrial, reports of the Yeti Sighting keeps piling up. Adventurers have now taken the Himalayan Mountain as a destination spot for Yeti searching, from 1950 up to today. Hypothesis #1: The most reasonable data that has been found of the Yeti existence is in 1951, when Eric Shipton photographed strange footprints on Mount Everest. However, it could have been any other Himalayan wildlife with really big feet. Shipton claimed that the Footprints were made by the Yeti, and so did others, who found hair and fecal samples and more footprint photograph that could have also been from a Himalayan wildlife. Hypothesis # 2: Like Eric Shipton, another Mountaineer, Sir Edmund Hilary an explorer and the first climber to scaled Mount Everest, when in search of evidence of the Yeti and discovered a helmets shaped hide in 1960 that he claimed was the scalp of the Yeti. It was a claim after all, because Scientists later discovered that the helmet shaped hide was made from a Serow, a Himalayan animal similar to a goat. Hypothesis # 3: In an article written by Rossella Lorenzi on Discoverynews.com, it states that in 1985 a mountain climber name Peter Byrne claimed that a Monk at a Pangboche temple in Nepal told him that he had a Yeti’s hand that had been preserved for many years. Byrne then broke of a 3.5 inches digit and carried it to London. In London, he told people that the finger was the Yeti finger, so they believed him and put it in a museum. In 2008, scientist walking around a the Hunterian Museum in London saw the finger and asked primatologist William Charles Hill if they could do some experiment on the finger to find any DNA that would identify the finger belonged to a Yeti or Giant ape. The scientist discovered that the finger bone belonged to human and that mystery was solved. Group’s opinion “Theories”: After compiling hypothesis of these mountain adventures, we have come up with a few theories. Frist, there is money to be made of this legend, just like every other myth and legend, such as mermaid, Bigfoot, UFOs, there is an enterprise made for this type of unknown legend. Money from the video games, the television shows, movies, books, and scholarly articles, read and bought by Yeti enthusiast. Because, people want to have their fantasies and far-fetch mental concoction be proven. Theory 2 is that the Yeti is really the Gigantopithecus, the extinct giant ape, survived and moved to the Himalayan Mountains and turned white over thousands of years through adaptation. And lastly, to the native people of Himalayas Mountain, the Yeti is a divine being that guards the Himalayan Mountains from evil-doers. The Yeti is protecting them from something terrible. And he only comes out of hiding, when there is trouble for the Himalayan people. Whether these theories are truth or not, the Yeti is a pop culture icon. Furthermore, there are already problems established within the Yeti’s legends. Although there are physical evidence found from the Himalayan Mountains, like foot-prints, a scalp, some hair and fecal samples, and a finger bone, there is no factual data to link any of these findings to the Yeti. The discoveries are all too vague to be taken as creditable evidence that the Yeti in fact does exist. So we have come to the conclusion that the Yeti is nothing more than an urban legend. The only existence it has is in the minds of those who believe the legends are real.
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