It did not take long for the independent science to choke on the
noisy claims made recently by Sapunov. This does no one any favors.
Three independent tests properly done is one thing. This is quite
another. However, this is all about the increasing visibility of the
subject in the media and they will soon learn to go to the science
first tp see what is real.
Yes there is a real population and a number of excellent
observations, the most recent of three creatures by river based
fishermen. Actual DNA will be a bonus that will end scientific
neglect.
I expect that we will have published reports in North America on a
number of samples already long collected rather soon. There are now
a number of serious initiatives out there as well as an unlimited
number of cameras out looking often by complete accident.
Hundreds of yetis
live in Siberia, claims boffin
Discovery ... a
professor found hair samples in a remote cave belonging to a 'mystery
human-like mammal'
Published: 02nd
November 2012
A SCIENTIST has put
his Bigfoot in it after claiming that hundreds of yetis live in a
large area of southern Siberia.
Controversial
professor Valentin Sapunov has infuriated academics after he said DNA
checks on hair samples from a remote cave showed it belong to a
mystery human-like mammal.
Now he has gone
further by asserting a population of 200 Yetis are alive and well in
the forested Kemerovo, Khakassia and Altai regions of Siberia.
Professor Sapunov said
there have been no confirmed sightings of yetis because the animals
have an acute sense of danger.
A population of 200
would allow them to successfully reproduce, said the academic from
the Russian State Hydro-meteorological University.
But other Russian
experts ahave slammed Sapunov’s theories.
Oleg Pugachev,
Director of the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Science,
said: “Let me make it clear - Sapunov is blatantly lying.
“He came with some
bits of hair to the Institute, and spent a lot of time in my office
complaining that official science wants nothing to do with it and
no-one wants to test them.
“He asked me to
help. I took a pity on him and ordered our DNA specialists to carry
out a test.
“They did not manage
to extract any genealogical material because there were no hair
bulbs.
“The structure of
the hair showed that they could have belonged to a goat, and a bear,
and to other animals.
“That’s the end of
it. What Snowman is he talking about?”
Sapunov hit back
saying there is more evidence of the Yeti than for many officially
documented species, some of which are reported to exist on the basis
of a single bone.
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