Yeti

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Yeti

• The Yeti is supposedly found in the Himalayan
  Mountains in Nepal
• They roam the mountainsides to go from valley to
  valley
• Sightings go back to ancient times
• Native sherpas still tell stories about
• the scary, ape-like, monsters

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Physical Characteristics

• The Abominable Snowman
• is said to look like this
• Its fur is actually not white
• but a dark brown
• They stand nine feet tall and
• look very much like a giant,
• hairy, ape-like, man

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The Name

• The Name Yeti actually means Magical Creature
  in the native Sherpas language
• How we got the name Abominable Snowman, no one
  really knows
• Most scientists think that we accidentally
  translated Yeti to ugly creature when we
  changed ugly to abominable. Thus, the abominable
  snowman.

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Common Evidence

• Yeti Poop
  Footprints
• Some Scientists say that this Many
  footprints have
• Yeti poop is not of any been
  found over the
• animal known to man course
  of 200 years

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The Yeti is Real!
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Eureka!

• Anthony B. Wooldridge found
• and photographed these footprints.
• They are approximately 250 mm long.
• Probably the most well-known evidence for belief
  in the Yetis existence is a film shot by
  Bigfoot hunters Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin on
  Oct 20, 1967.

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More Evidence

• Yeti Scat picked up November 24, 2002. Weight was
  one pound, four ounces.  
• The Shipton Photo, taken by Eric Shipton on the
  Menlung Glacier in 1951. It remains unexplained
  to this day.

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Even More Evidence

• A Yeti
• researcher
• took this photograph
• when he was
• looking for yeti tracks.

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Incidents

• One Sherpa girl, who was tending
• her yaks, described being surprised
• by a large ape-like creature with
• black and brown hair. It started to
• drag her off, but seemed to be
• startled by her screams and let
• her go. It then savagely killed two
• of her yaks. She escaped with her
• life and the incident was reported
• to the police, who found footprints.

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Incidents (ctd.)

• Also, in many instances, people that have
  ventured into the woods have found missing cows,
  yaks, dogs, and other animals that are mutilated.
  Though very disgusting, this is a seemingly habit
  of the Yeti. They take particular interest in
  only eating the left eye, left ear, and soft part
  of the nose. The tendrils of the animals are also
  taken out. This ritual is similar to Bigfoot.
  In the area, there is also always a pile of
  sticks or stones in the form of a pyramid or
  teepee. Scientists have begun to think that this
  is a territorial marker.

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The Ending

• Like this picture
• implies, people may
• be oblivious to it but
• the Yeti is real!

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Bibliography

• Straus , William L. Abominable Snowman. 8 June
  1956. 17 Oct. 2005 lthttp//www.rfthomas.clara.net/
  papers/abominable.htmlgt.
• Kathmandu Sunday Post . Yeti The Giant Cousin of
  Ramapithecus.
• 28 July 2002. 17 Oct. 2005 lthttp//www.rfthomas.c
  lara.net/papers/yeticousin.html gt.
• Wooldridge, Anthony B. First Photos of the Yeti
  An Encounter in North India. 17 Oct. 2005
  lthttp//www.rfthomas.clara.net/papers/wooldridge.h
  tml gt.
• Bigfoot a.k.a. Abominable Snowman of the
  Himalayas, Mapinguari (the Amazon), Sasquatch,
  Yowie (Australia) and Yeti (Asia).
• 15 July 2005. 17 Oct. 2005 lthttp//skepdic.com/bi
  gfoot.html gt.