12 Facts About Yeti

Yeti is an ape-like creature purported to inhabit the Himalayan mountain range in Asia.

Many dubious articles have been offered in an attempt to prove the existence of the Yeti, including anecdotal visual sightings, disputed video recordings, photographs, and plaster casts of large footprints.

The Yeti is commonly compared to Bigfoot of North America, as the two subjects often have similar physical descriptions.

Yeti is often described as being a large, bipedal ape-like creature that is covered with brown, gray, or white hair, and it is sometimes depicted as having large, sharp teeth.

Yeti was adopted into Tibetan Buddhism, where it is considered a nonhuman animal that is nonetheless human enough to sometimes be able to follow Dharma.

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In 1959, supposed Yeti feces were collected by one of Slick's expeditions; fecal analysis found a parasite which could not be classified.

The United States government thought that finding the Yeti was likely enough to create three rules for American expeditions searching for it: obtain a Nepalese permit, do not harm the Yeti except in self-defense, and let the Nepalese government approve any news reporting on the animal's discovery.

Misidentification of Himalayan wildlife has been proposed as an explanation for some Yeti sightings, including the chu-teh, a langur monkey living at lower altitudes; the Tibetan blue bear; or the Himalayan brown bear or dzu-teh, known as the Himalayan red bear.

However, the Yeti is generally described as bipedal, and most scientists believe Gigantopithecus to have been quadrupedal, and so massive that, unless it evolved specifically as a bipedal ape, walking upright would have been even more difficult for the now extinct primate than it is for its extant quadrupedal relative, the orangutan.

In 2017, Daniel C Taylor published a comprehensive analysis of the century-long Yeti literature, giving added evidence to the explanation building on the initial Barun Valley discoveries.

Importantly, this book under the Oxford University imprint gave a meticulous explanation for the iconic Yeti footprint photographed by Eric Shipton in 1950, the 1972 Cronin-McNeely print, as well all other unexplained Yeti footprints.

Yeti has regularly been depicted in films, literature, music, and video games.