Revealing mystery of the legend Yeti

Yeti monster which is similiar with the giant ape that haunts Himalayan mountains evidently exists. But this mysterious animal was not snowman, yet the result of intersection between polar bears and brown bears. This was revealed through new research from scientists at the University of Oxford in England, who think there is a genetic concordance between the polar bear whose has been extinct from the sample which claimed to originate from the Yeti. It was alleged that encourage the emergence of animals known as the Abominable Snowman is alive to this moment in the Himalayas.

The legend of Yeti is one of the eternal mysteries, which elicit curiosity and fear at once. Now, a British scientist has the possibility to be able to solve the puzzle of Yeti an ape creatures that inhabit the Himalayan peaks. Research carried out by Bryan Sykes, a geneticist from the University of Oxford, not only reveal genetic concordance between the samples that considered derived from the  animals which are difficult to found, and other animals that lived more than 40 thousand years ago. These findings also indicate that the animal was still inhabit the Himalaya snowy mountains.

An Oxford University genetics professor Bryan Sykes poses with a prepared DNA sample taken from hair from a Himalayan animal, in this undated photo made available by Britain's Channel 4 television. (Oct.17 2013) (Picture from: http://www.newsday.com/)

"I can not imagine we could obtain the samples from two 'Snow Bear' in the Himalayas," Sykes said, as quoted by the Associated Press, on Thursday, October 17, 2013. To obtain such a rare sample, Sykes asked museums, scientists, and Yeti activists to send the beast samples. From the two samples that he obtained, Sykes perform DNA tests. The first sample derived from the dead animal which was shot by the hunters in the west Himalayas in Ladakh, northern India, and other samples taken from Bhutan which is 1,287 kilometers east of the first sample.

Hairs from two unknown animals in Ladakh and Bhutan were analysed. (Picture from: http://n4sa.com/)

From the analysis of two Yeti's hair samples, Sykes compare it with other animal genomes stored in the DNA sequences database that have been published. Sykes finds matches between the Yeti samples with DNA samples of an extinct polar bear jawbone that found on Svalbard, Norway.

Jawbone specimens was far older than age of two Yeti samples for at least 40 thousand years ago, but there is a possibility of up to 120 thousand years. The estimated bone comes from a time when polar bears and brown bears are still close akin to it and began separated into two different species.

Sykes convinced that the animal which is considered to be a snowman is a cross mating result between the polar bears and brown bears. Since a new sample comes from animals that identified in a younger age, 40 and 10 years ago, Sykes suspect the hybrid animal is still alive in the Himalayas.

The first sample from Ladakh which is derived from mummified of carcasses animal that shot by the hunter about 40 years ago. He considers it very strange beast and terrible so he preserve the animal. The hair beast samples that obtained by Sykes from a France mountain climber who gets the samples from the hunters about 10 years ago.

Suspected Yeti footprints - such as these 
in Nepal - are regularly photographed.
(Picture from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/)

The second sample is a strand of hair found in the bamboo forest by the film maker expedition, also about 10 years ago. "These are the species that have not been recorded for 40 thousand years," Sykes says. "Now we know one of these animals ever to walk there 10 years ago. And we find the kind of beast on both ends of the Himalayas. Perhaps there are still many others out there."

The two of Yeti's hair samples are colored brown and from the Ladakh dead animals show that the creature's tall about 1.5 meters, far short from the image of the mythical Yeti. But Sykes suspected the animals showed other characteristics which may match with the mythical Yeti.

"The fact that the hunter, who has plenty of experience facing a bear, and considered this animal was strange and scary, makes me think this bear species may exhibit different behavior. Maybe more aggressive, more dangerous, or walk more upright than other bears," Sykes said further. Over the centuries, there were numerous the Yeti reports, which is often referred to as the snowman monster. Locals and the explorer claimed to have "face to face" with the monsters.

Purported Yeti scalp at Khumjung monastery. (Picture from: http://en.wikipedia.org/)

Sykes says there are only three known species of bears that living in the Himalayas region, namely the Asian black bear, brown bear, and sun bear. "There is still much research to be done to translate the results of this research. I'm not sure that means there is still a primitive polar bears live in the Himalayas. But there could be a brown bears sub-species in the Himalayan peak, the descended from polar bear ancestors," Sykes said. *** [EKA | FORM VARIOUS SOURCES | TELEGRAPH | AP | BBC | TJANDRA DEWI | KORAN TEMPO 4380]

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