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11th October 2011 10:51
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All about the Yeti
A Russian region in Siberia on Monday confidently proclaimed that its mountains are home to yetis after finding "indisputable proof" of the existence of the hairy beasts in an expedition.
The local administration of the Kemerovo region in the south of Siberia said in a statement on its website that footprints and possibly even hair samples belonging to the yeti were found on the research trip to its remote mountains.
"During the expedition to the Azasskaya cave, conference participants gathered indisputable proof that the Shoria mountains are inhabited by the 'Snow Man'," the Kemerovo region administration said in a press-release.
The expedition was organised after Kemerovo's governor invited researchers from the United States, Canada, and several other countries to share their research and stories of encounters with the creature at a conference.
"They found his footprints, his supposed bed, and various markers with which the yeti marks his territory," the statement said. The collected "artifacts" will be analysed in a special laboratory, it said.
Yetis, or Abominable Snowmen, are hairy ape-like creatures of popular myth, that are generally held to inhabit the Himalayas.
But some believe Russia also holds a population of yetis, which it calls Snow Men, in remote areas of Siberia.
Kemerovo region's Shoria is a sparsely populated territory in Western Siberia that has historically been a territory of coal and metal mining.
The region, the administrative center of Kuznetsk coal basin, has pursued the elusive Yeti for several years as it tries to develop tourism into its mostly industrial economy.
Considering the latest findings, the region may "create a special research center to study the Yeti" in the regional university and "create a journal" dedicated to the science of the Yeti, the administration's statement said.
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11th October 2011 11:22
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Re: All about the Yeti
A conference has announced that given recent evidence they are 95 percent convinced the yeti, a mythical or perhaps actual primate, exists in the cold wilds of Siberia. Scientists and cryptozoologists (those who have a fascination for the 'study of hidden species' such as Bigfoot) met in the Kemerovo region of Russia to exchange information on the yeti, also known as the Abominable Snowman, and to conduct fieldwork. According to a statement from the conference, members found new evidence of the yeti's cryptic existence.
"During an expedition to the Azasskuyu cave, conference members collected irrefutable evidence of the habitation of the Snow Man in the Shoria Mountains. They found his footprints, his supposed bed, and various markers with which the yeti marks his territory," reads a statement from the conference.
A Russian scientists, Anatoly Fokin, also found several hairs that he said may belong to the yeti. 'Yeti hairs' collected in the Himalayas recently turned out to be those of a goral, a wild ungulate. The hairs from Russia will be analyzed as well.
Conference members, however, did not come away with photographs, video, or most importantly for skeptics an actual yeti—living or dead—to prove its existence, but still stated there was 95 percent certainty of its existence.
Some media outlets have labeled the conference largely a publicity stunt to attract tourists to the remote region, currently dominated by coal and metal industries. Conference members came from as far afield as the US, Canada, Spain, Sweden and Mongolia.
However, some well-respected scientists, such as Jane Goodall, have said it's possible a large undiscovered primate still exists and is the source of sightings around the yeti, sasquatch, or Sumatra's orang pendak.
Although newly discovered mammals are usually rodents or bats, there have been new monkeys discovered in Africa, Asia, and South America recently. Still these are small animals, nothing close to the reputed size of a yeti.
"We have concluded that these living beings are in principle human beings because they can even talk and communicate with people," Igor Burtsaev who initiated the conference recently said. "They are another species that differ from us, of course. Yetis are well adapted to nature. Their life style is similar to that of animals. They do not use tools, clothes or fire but are quite intelligent." Burtsaev believes these 'beings' may be long-surviving populations of Neanderthals, which most scientists say went extinct over 30,000 years ago.
The conference was the first in half a century to bring yeti experts together. There is talk of creating a yeti research center in Russia.
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13th October 2011 19:31
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