The Yeti does not exist.

The evidence stated by those who believe is far too brief to indicate he exists.

The evidence given is too minor. The biggest piece of evidence given is that which gave westerners the idea to believe in the story of the Yeti in the first place. The fact that local people believe in a wildman existing in the mountains. These legends though can be explained away. As if you look at the legends of the area, the legends actually talk of ghost like supernatural beings, this is not similar to the belief in the Yeti as a wild animal. The legends also claim there are many kinds of yeti, but lets face it other than the Langur Monkeys, none of these exist.

Local people also talk of the Yeti, and could be talking of bears or the Langur Monkey, or just making things up, people do in Western lands, about being attacked by aliens, so why not do the same in Tibet and Nepal. There is no doubt some westerners have lied, surely that man, who claimed he was nursed to health by Yeti's was telling a tall tale. So surely locals could be lying too. Just like how when you hear people talking about a famous person from their area, or a match loads claim they were there when they could not possibly of all been there or at the place the guy was. We all know in our own lives of people who lie for their own reasons, or say made up things, so why not have this on a large scale in the Yetilands. The locals who do not make up stories, or think they see a creature, will just go along with the myth being true. Westerners could easily make things up just for attention, or be misled just like most of the local's sightings. Thinking they had seen the Yeti when it was actually a Buddhist Monk, or a ascetic, or a person or animal carrying something. Or it could be the Langur Monkey. Actually the fact that some yetis are said to be shorter than people on some local myths, is exactly the same story as that of the Langur monkey being found up here. So in that case even if the Yeti does not exist there is still a yeti like thing up there, in certainty adding to the world's interest.

Examples of myths that are similar to the yeti in that many people report them but also they do not exist. Are such as the way many Australian Aborigines believed in a species called the Bunyip, so for much of the 19th Century as Aborigines had told them about other species British people and Australians searched for the large mammal. But it did not exist and was never found. (One of the three big Australian inaccuracies, proven to be wrong by the quality of modern science, the other was the fact it was only in the mid 20th Century that Australia's largest lake was found, and also Australian believed they would have a population of many many times more than now in the early 20th Century) So people can get things wrong, so the local population can. There is also that Zambian monster, where in the colonial era, there was trouble about building a dam in Zambia's rivers as local people believed in a Loch Ness Monster style creature, believing quakes were caused by it, but it does not exist and has not been seen even though some said it looks like a whirlwind. So then some claim surely to have seen it. Also there is the final one, that South American alien, myth look at it, is like a merger of the 1990s US popular culture fascination with aliens, and South American rural rustic villages. The myth came in Puerto Rico, the place where these 2 cultures meet, the USA and Latin America as it is a Latin American part of the USA. a myth about a alien style thing that eats chickens and raids chicken coops. This is such a great mixture of the USA X Files style culture element, and Latin America's still a bit more rural than the USA ways. Maybe the fear that it is a US conspiracy is tied in with the the fear US Right Wing death squads of the 1980s in Central America provoked. In a way these myths are not a total loss, as it is like the way all fiction comes from fact, like how the Greek myths about strange animals the ancient Greeks believed in at times, living on the many isles, came from how Greece was a land, of many isles, of many cornucopia style ways on these isles. Look at Scotland, the Highlands and it's many unpeopled green valleys, many unpeopled even before the terrible Highland Clearances, this saw the legend of the Kelpie, a figure coming from the lochs, and taking away people, at night. All these legends came from the actual landscape, and what people's imagination could do with them. Look at Wales and England, they have legends too, like that one about a worm coming from a well. And it is a perfect thing that people could imagine these creatures existing, and in some cases these merge with folklore and even religion, such as beliefs in witches, or werewolves, both of which were believed in as genuinely powerful mythical beings in the Middle Ages. Today there are people in the west who believe in paranormal lies too. Such as weegy boards, people speaking to them from the dead, and astrology. So I say the local myths are from liars, people who think they saw something they did not, people who are wanting to see the yeti, and people who mistake the yeti for a bear or Langur Monkey or even a person in unusual garb.

So that is that the main pieces of evidence can all be disproven,

The physical evidence people talk of such as faeces parasites, and hair that is of unsubstantiated also footprints, can all be explained away by sun melt making footprints looking large, and by the parasites just being local to that area, and not seen before, as there is not much parasite faces research, in that part of the world, or may be because a yaks or some local wildlife has some separation in it, which means this yak is not the same as others up in the highs a wild yak, that people do not realise even though it looks like others is more separate than other yak than people thought so it has it's own parasite even though it resembles other yaks, or langur monkeys. And of the hair, that could be just a hair of a different species, of yak nobody tested much, or realised is a separate species to other yaks, so needed studying of it's hair. Or the fact the hair looked unusual when found may be because a particular serow or yak up in Bhutan had a unusual thing on it, and maybe had unusual hair on this growth just like you get 2 headed otters, and cows every so often so different as of some genetic mutation you may get unusual looking hair, which has different DNA to the rest of the species as the creature is a anomaly but not a yeti or anything that amazing.

Also surely the Yeti would have been found by now. If scientists are able to know this about the Amur or Siberian Tiger,

The tiger population in the wild was probably lower than 50 in the 1930s, increasing to more than 200 in 1982. Illegal poaching has been brought under better control thanks to frequent road inspections.

A count, taken in 1996 reported 430 Amur tigers in the wild. However, Russian conservation efforts have led to a slightly increase, or at least to a stable population of the subspecies, as the number of individuals in the Siberian Forests was estimated between 431 and 529 in the last count in 2005.

And look how Ostriches were made extinct in the 20th Century in Arabia, with people hunting and killing them, and apparently eating the last ones, and look how, some Tiger species were hunted to extinction in the 20th C and people knew and reported this. With the bodies caught and shown,. You may say bodies in the Himalayas will be harder to find, but Mallory's body was found in 1999, as to were Langur Monkey bodies in the Himalayas in the 1950s.

So surely something should have been found by now. At least one photo should have been taken of the creature.

If Nature documentary people can find loris creatures in Borneo, and hummingbirds in the Peruvian Amazon, and the last surviving camels in Mongolia, how can they not locate a yeti in massive searches.

The fact is it would be surely impossible to miss a species of this size, after so many searches.

The footprints if they indicate a yeti surely would have been in a sense less seen than the monster itself. As footprints are far less easily seen than people.

Surely tourists would have reported the yeti more often. Surely the Chinese government would have found the creature by now, or some plane would have seen something below and recorded the images, surely some person would have bit marks, or a animal with them,

Also allot of reports of the Yeti by locals, may just be jokes, to fool westerners, like how in Australia many locals sometimes tell tourists that some koalas jump off trees and kill people, when this is a lie.

Also what about how when many local people say it is yeti fur, to climbers, the climbers know for a fact it is bear fur. It is just as yetis are in the local myths that many local people so other people worldwide believe in the great myth.

Surely the republic of India or the Nepali state too, would have found it. And surely to have reports of it from far and wide, means it would have been found by now, by being spread so far and wide. Surely most yeti believers would say some of the cases are untrue, and some locations of where it could be, I say it is not true in any way.

Also the way how the Yeti legend spreads so far, across a few countries is just like how the idea of dragons have a myth has spread as it is a fun idea just like the idea of dragons. The idea of the yeti was boosted by Nepal and Tibet spreading the idea with the smaller lands of Bhutan and Sikkim.

Also we never have reports of the Yeti running away from people, so he is not scared of people, if so he would have been seen more often, probably in lowland areas too, like polar bears sometimes enter cities, why not the yeti, so can not exist

There are loads of monster myths, some are like that their are Nessie creatures in lakes smaller than Loch Ness, that everybody knows can not exist, as there are not even any subterranean caverns in the lakes, the yeti is just like that. The chance of the Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot all existing is remote and all have been mentioned for centuries Nessie, and Yeti before 1000 AD, the idea of them both existing is remote and both are untrue. Added to this many legends and saints from that era from Europe to China, claim fanciful myths that few could belive. The Rama and Sita conection to the Yeti is also quite weak in terms of story and link, the idea the story mentions the Yeti is not totally surefire.

Also about the Chinese anatomy dictionary mentioning the Yeti, well I read that many Chinese people in the 19th Century belived that solar eclipses were caused by dragons, China may have been the biggest economy in the world in the 18th Century, but it still has many medieval beliefs and ways, just like Europe in their poverty and ignorance stricken ancien eras, of that century. When China and the west modernised towards more rational and honest science they did not believe in mythical creatures anymore.

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