British scientists have plunged into the study of a sample of hair found in India, which supposedly belongs to "Bigfoot". Experts-genetics are involved in the work
At the summer news without fish, the ghosts of Bigfoot always come to life - the Yeti, the Loch Ness monster and
UFOs. This summer, too, there was a "discovery" of the Air Force of a certain Dilu Marak, who allegedly found hair (wool?) Of a Yeti back in 2003 in northeastern India and presented two hairs to the British. And now they are seriously examined under a microscope, in ultraviolet rays, casts, etc. It was only established that this was definitely not the wool of a mountain bear, wild boar and unknown macaques. Further DNA will show.
True, just in case, scientists save face: they say, maybe this is just an unknown species of monkeys, which is also interesting. After all, they found the teeth of unknown three-meter apes in China 80 years ago - and called them gigantopithecus. And in the jungle, species of monkeys still unknown to biologists may well be found. Maybe which of them tore a piece of wool from a relative …
Stories about the yeti (aka mande barung, aka almastyn, aka maoren, etc.) are known in the folklore of many countries. But so far not a single fanatic search engine has provided convincing evidence of their existence. Moreover, all of the so far known samples of "scalps" and yeti hair turned out to be props made by monks for ritual purposes.
Our burning interest in Bigfoot can be explained simply: we still hope to find a genetically close intelligent creature to us. However, those eager to meet with a "cousin" will have to be disappointed - no yeti exists. Ethology, the science of animal behavior, claims that for a species to survive, there must be at least tens, if not hundreds, of individuals. And such a number of large land animals would inevitably have been discovered and described long ago. Here, in the depths of the ocean, which are practically not studied, species unknown to us may well live - for example, the equally famous and huge sea serpent.
But eyewitness accounts are not always fiction. They really could meet an incomprehensible creature: a monkey escaped from the zoo or a Mowgli child who grew up in the jungle. By the way, it is in the north of India that there is a custom to leave unwanted children or those born with deformities in the wild.