Yeti

The Yeti or Abominable Snowman (or Jigou for Himalayan Tibetans) could be a cryptid interpreted as a giant ape related to the Bigfoot, the Yowie in Australia, the Kunk in the Andes and other similar myths present in many cultures. In the complete absence of evidence, there are only accounts that describe it as a bipedal giant ape believed to be located in the forested areas of the Himalayas, but other sources indicate that it could be a similar variety of woolly white bear. to the polar bear

Investigations

Boceto del Yeti The Himalayas.

People who believe in its existence consider it a distant relative of the orangutan that inhabited this mountain range millions of years ago, and that due to the characteristics it would present, it is possibly related to the Bigfoot, the Yowie and the Kunk. However, there is no conclusive evidence of the existence of this primate. Even other research links the yeti to bears. Remains supposedly belonging to the yeti are preserved in some monasteries in Nepal, but later it has been shown to belong to a type of local goat. On the other hand, the existence of apes of such a size is very doubtful. Those who deny it, such as paleontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga, affirm that primates in general and apes in particular only live in places where there are fruits all year round, that is, in tropical areas. Furthermore, there are no large primates in the steppes, nor in the Mediterranean pine forests, nor in the coniferous forests; only small apes, as there is not enough food available.

In 2008, a Japanese research group headed by the scientist Yoshiteru Takashi, leader of the Japanese Yeti project, traveled for forty-two days through the high mountain region of Dhaulagiri IV, recording the alleged footprints of about 45 cm in length of the elusive primate. Takashi assures that he will return to Nepal and Tibet in the next few years and will not leave the project until his group obtains reliable proof of the existence of the most wanted legendary being on the planet. The yeti is also called "The Golden Monkey".

On the other hand, Reinhold Messner, the first climber to climb Mount Everest without oxygen, the first to do so alone, the first to crown the fourteen eight-thousanders, considered the best climber in the world, accustomed to living in the area, after making a sighting He dedicated a few years to his study and has written a book on the subject, identifying the being with the jemo or jemong, the Tibetan brown bear, a large, nocturnal animal that can walk on two legs, of variable color, always solitary except when looking for a partner or during breeding, being greatly feared by its great strength by the inhabitants of the area, since it has caused many deaths. Other sources indicate the same thing: it would be a bear similar to the Norwegian polar brown bear of the woolly type adapted to heights.

It must be said that in all the reports of sightings, more than one individual is never mentioned. Therefore, a very important objection is the fact that the survival of any species requires the existence of a population of a certain size, with individuals of various ages and including juvenile forms, which have never been reported, which makes it very difficult to justify a concealment of such a population for a long time, as asserted.^{[citation required]}

Alleged yeti relics in Buddhist monasteries

Suposed scalp of a yeti, at the Khumjung monastery in Nepal.

Remains supposedly belonging to the yeti are preserved in some monasteries in Nepal, but have later been shown to belong to a local goat species. In the Buddhist monasteries of Khumjung, Pangboche and Namché Bazaar, in Nepal, it is said that they keep the scalps of yetis as relics, in addition to a supposedly incorrupt hand in that of Pangboche. In 1961, after a study of Khumjung's scalp, it was revealed that it belonged to another species of animal, a relative of the chamois, the Himalayan serau (Capricornis thar) and not to a primate. a stranger. The object in question is a type of hood that monks often use in ritual dances. Those of the other monasteries were similarly made. These artifacts are venerated and are considered authentic relics by the monks of the monastery, because they are old, counting more than three hundred years.^{[citation required]}

Chuchuna

The chuchuna is the Russian version of the yeti. It would supposedly live in the eternal cold of Siberia and, like the yeti and the Bigfoot, it is said that it would be very difficult to see it. Nikolayev proposed as an explanation that the Chuchunas would be one of the last survivors of the aborigines.

Evidence against its existence

Scientists led by evolutionary biologist Charlotte Lindqvist of the State University of New York at Buffalo took a closer look at the mitochondrial DNA of the many samples of suspected Yeti remains. In all, the scientists analyzed twenty-four samples, including nine believed to be from the creature.

The results demonstrated that the Himalayan brown bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus) is one of the first branching clades within the brown bear lineage, while the Tibetan brown bears ( Ursus thibetanus laniger) diverged much later. A clade is a grouping that contains a common ancestor and all descendants, living and extinct, of that ancestor.

The estimated times of divergence of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan bear lineages overlap with glaciation events in the Middle and Late Pleistocene, suggesting that extant bears in the region are descendants of populations that survived in local roosts during the Pleistocene ice ages.

Of the nine Yeti samples, eight turned out to be from bears native to the area, while the other sample came from a dog. Similar studies of hair samples supposedly related to the large North American hominin, the sasquatch (Bigfoot), have revealed that those fibers came from bears, horses, dogs, and a variety of other creatures, including humans.

Yeti in popular culture

Some examples of the yeti or one of its variants in popular culture products:

Comic

• Tintin in Tibet, album by Tintin, character created by the Belgian hystorietist Hergé, where the young journalist has a meeting with the yeti in the mountain range of Tibet while looking for his friend Tchang

Cinema

• The Snow Creature (1954), film directed by W. Lee Wilder
• Ju jin yuki otokoor Half Humanor Beast Man Snow Man (1955), film directed by Ishiro Honda
• Man Beast (1956), film directed by Jerry Warren
• The Abominable Snowman (1957), film directed by Val Guest)
• The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961), short animated by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble
• Ostroznie, Yeti! (1961), film directed by Andrzej Czekalski
• Series The Volcano Monster:
  1. The Volcano Monster (1963), film directed by Jaime Salvador
  2. The terrible snow giant (1963), film directed by Jaime Salvador
• The Zoo Robbery (1973), film directed by John Black and Matt McCarthy
• Shriek of the Mutilated (1974), film directed by Michael Findlay
• Yeti, the 20-dry giant (1977), film directed by Gianfranco Parolini
• Ajooba Kudrat Ka (1991), film directed by Shyam Ramsay and Tulsi Ramsay
• To Catch to Yeti (1995), telefilm led by Bob Keen
• Yeti: A Love Story (2006), film directed by Adam Deyoe and Eric Gosselin
• Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon (2008) telefilm led by Paul Ziller
• In the 2008 film The mummy: the tomb of the emperor Dragon, Lin, the daughter of the sorcerer Zi-Yuan, has a bond of friendship with the Yetis. In fact, these creatures help the protagonists against the Emperor's forces during their stay in the Himalayas.
• Pryachsya (2011), film directed by Johnny O'Reilly
• Abominable Christmas (2012), lively telefilm led by Chad Van De Keere
• Yoko (2012), film directed by Franziska Buch
• Deadly Descent: Abominable Snowman (2013), telefilm led by Marko Mäkilaakso
• Frostbite (2013), film directed by Bridget Machete
• Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives (2014), telefilm directed by Leon Rawlski
• Unbeaten Path (2016), short run by John Holowach
• Smallfoot (2018), animated film directed by Karey Kirkpatrick and Jason Reisig, where a tribe of yetis lives isolated at the top of the mountains; some legends indicate the existence of a race of "smallfoot", so Migo, the protagonist, comes out of his home to seek proof of his existence.
• The Yeti Took my Father's Wellington (2018), short run by Steve Woodier
• Abominable (2019), animated film directed by Jill Culton and Todd Wilderman
• Missing Link (2019), animated film directed by Chris Butler
• Abominable (2020), film directed by Jamaal Burden

Literature

• Esau, the great novel about the Yetiwritten by Philip Kerr, this novel tells the story of an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the missing link, near the forbidden mountain of Machhapuchhare.

Video Games

• In the series of Metal Slug specifically Metal Slug 3 video games, there is a sublevel consisting of an ice and snow-infested cave of Yetis which throw iced air and freeze the player to then hit him with a bolt-like bone, being completely defeated that cave is invaded by the zombies of the level, from this delivery the Yetis is sporadically included in the game.
• In SkiFree, a classic computer video game for Microsoft Windows, in the three game modes, when traveling 2000 meters, yetis appear trying to eat the player and are extremely difficult to dodge.
• The Yetis are creatures that recurringly appear as enemies in some deliveries of the Final Fantasy saga as FF VI.
• The Yeti is also a popular myth within the Grand Theft Auto game: San Andreas. For years fans speculated and spread rumors on the internet about the existence of this creature within the game, which supposedly lives in the forests or Mount Chilliad, the highest mountain on the map. However the only way to get the monster inside the game is to install mods in the PC version, like the popular Misterix Mod.
• In the game Red Dead Redemption, in the DLC Undead Nightmare appear 5 Bigfoot, when you kill them, with the last of them you will have a conversation, the one being the last of them (since the hunts) he asks to end his suffering.
• In the game Plants vs zombies, a zombie called "Zombie Yeti" can appear at night and/or fog levels.
• In the universe of Warcraft, there are huge and voracious humanoid beasts called Wendigos, who live on the frozen continent of Northrend and keep similarity with the abominable snowman.
• In the city Devias de Mu Online there are 2 types of Yeti, the normal Yeti and its strongest version Yeti Elite.
• In the Castlevania video game: Dawn of Sorrow, the Yeti appears as a secret enemy at the entrance of the castle, which only appears if a dish of food is thrown.
• The first person shooter Battlefield 4 possesses easter eggs related to the Yeti myth, from footprints on some snowy terrain to swarms that can be heard far away.
• The Far Cry 4 open world game has a DLC called Valley of the Yetis.
• In the 7th season of Fortnite a new icy area was added to the map where the Yeti cave was hidden. The site housed many useful resources such as supplies, items and an Alatormenta aircraft. An epic skin called "Trog" was also released. That character is clearly an Yeti.
• The Darkstalkers fight saga, based on characters of horror of literature and popular folklore, has among its playable characters Sasquatch, which although it is the name given to the American Bigfoot, for its form and stage, obviously corresponds to the Yeti.