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Yeti = bear

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7321447%5E1702,00.html

A JAPANESE mountaineer is attempting to settle once and for all the decades-long debate over the existence of the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, claiming that his years of study have shown that the legendary apelike monster is in fact a brown bear.

Makoto Nebuka, 56, a senior member of the Japanese Alpine Club, plans to publish the results of his 12 years of research which led him to conclude the mysterious creature, known as the "Yeti", is really the endangered Himalayan Brown Bear (Ursus Arctos).
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Nebuka's theory rests on a linguistic discovery: Through a series of interviews with local people in Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan, he has found that "yeti" is a regional dialect word for "meti", meaning bear.
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Ursus Arctos? Last time I checked that beast is a brown bear.

I'm not sure about arguements on biology based on linguistics. What if I claimed that a moa was nothing but a chicken because the polynesian word moa has meant chicken on most islands where the polynesians have brought chickens with them? When a very angry Dinornis maximus comes and turns me into pate, I think my assertion would stand as being incorrect.
 
moa = Dinornis maximus? I've never heard of Moa before, so what is a moa to people who aren't calling chickens moas? I have also yet to see any yeti, especially a yeti that could turn anything into pate. :D
 
Eos of the Eons said:
moa = Dinornis maximus? I've never heard of Moa before, so what is a moa to people who aren't calling chickens moas? I have also yet to see any yeti, especially a yeti that could turn anything into pate. :D
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Like an ostrich, but a little smaller. Big frickin' claws.
 
Hexxenhammer said:

Like an ostrich, but a little smaller. Big frickin' claws.
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That's a cassowary, that you're thinking of. Those are from new Guinea. A moa is another critter altogether, they're from New Zealand.

Dinornis maximus is about 400 lbs, most moa are somewhat smaller though.

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Moa linky
 
I thought the title read Yeti = Beer, I was expecting something much funnier. Drunken Yettie's hanging out with Db-bunk and pillory.

I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and Big Foot was accepted by most people. It was something I never really though about after moving away from that area. I was shocked to find out people thought it was a legend!
 
Maybe yeti = purple frog

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/10/15/purple.frog/index.html

(CNN) -- It's bright purple, bloated and scientists say it's been around since the dinosaurs.

The 3-inch long, short-limbed creature with a pointed snout and a body that looks like a jelly donut was discovered by Indian and Belgian scientists in the Western Ghats Mountains of Southern India and identified as a rare frog.
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Moa?

I thought there were not any moa, anymoa.

An ex-species.
Extinct.
Restin' wid de dodos.
Pushin' up the daiseys,
Sort of a large ex parrot.
 
neutrino_cannon said:


That's a cassowary, that you're thinking of. Those are from new Guinea. A moa is another critter altogether, they're from New Zealand.

Dinornis maximus is about 400 lbs, most moa are somewhat smaller though.

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Moa linky
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Thanks for the link. But my question is, who ate all the moa? The earlier explorers and settlers, the Maori, were able to snack on the turkey sized (and bigger) rattites without extinguishing them. Was it the feathers?

Too bad there ain't no moa.
 
Yeti are Bears

Another sign of laziness on the part of journalists, and eagerness to debunk on the part of extremists.

Somebody took a factoid that supported his position and ran with it.

Not every personal observation is utterly without merit, else we would have no science at all.
 
SRW said:
I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and Big Foot was accepted by most people.
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The only Bigfoot I've ever seen is the Bigfoot Pizza from Pizza Hut, and even that is now an extinct species.
 
tracer said:

The only Bigfoot I've ever seen is the Bigfoot Pizza from Pizza Hut, and even that is now an extinct species.
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I'm talking about the 60's long before there was a Pizza Hut.
 
SRW said:
I thought the title read Yeti = Beer, I was expecting something much funnier. Drunken Yettie's hanging out with Db-bunk and pillory.

I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and Big Foot was accepted by most people. It was something I never really though about after moving away from that area. I was shocked to find out people thought it was a legend!
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Bigfoot = Beer
9.6% alcohol to boot.
 
tracer said:

The only Bigfoot I've ever seen is the Bigfoot Pizza from Pizza Hut, and even that is now an extinct species.
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I thought the BigFoot was from Little Ceasars Pizza?
 
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