Comments on: What’s In Your Yeti Collection?

By: DWA

DWA — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:27:18 +0000

And, gee, we wouldn’t think the moniker “snowman” had anything to do with this white-yeti stuff, would we…?

Does someone, in their yeti collection, have, say, access to a yeti database? If there’s something like that out there, I’d love to know about it. I think that the evidence I’ve read for an unknown primate in the Himalayan region seems pretty compelling. But I haven’t seen anything like the BFRO or the TBRC have to back that up.

By: MattBille

MattBille — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:53:53 +0000

Added thought: the color confusion in popular culture seems likely related to the mistaken assumption that the yeti lives in the snowfields. If you live in a snowy area all or most of the time, white fur makes sense. If you live in the high forested valleys (which is more likely, since there is food there) and only transit snowy areas, then you are more likely to go with a brownish coat. There are exceptions (e.g., pandas), but most mammals dress to fit their environment.

By: MattBille

MattBille — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:49:36 +0000

A note on color and culture: in the Yeti episode of Jonny Quest (the original series from the 70s), the bad guys using yeti disguises wore brown fur. The real yeti, who had a brief appearance at the end of the episode, was white.

By: Maine Crypto

Maine Crypto — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:15:49 +0000

Last night in Belfast, I was interested to hear you talk about the fact that the abominable snow man is often portrayed as white but is, in fact, brownish or redish in color. It is too bad there is yet another highly popularized misconception about a cryptid.