Penemuan Rambut Yeti, Makhluk Salju di Himalaya Ternyata Berasal dari Kuda

Discovery of Yeti Hair, Snow Creature in the Himalayas Turns Out to be from a Horse.

The search for the Yeti ended last month with only one strand of horse hair, as revealed in the BBC Radio 4 program covering the expedition in the Himalayas. Andrew Benfield, a writer and meditation teacher, has spent years searching for the Yeti with his skeptical friend, a political analyst named Richard Horsey. The pair traveled through India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Bhutan, listening to stories about the legendary creature, and eventually creating the series "Yeti," a BBC Radio 4 series.

This series ends with a cliffhanger in June — a mysterious strand of hair given by an undisclosed source awaits DNA analysis.

The following 'Bahasa' text translated to 'English' while preserving any html tags: "The bonus episode aired on October 20 now reveals that the hair came from a horse."

Benfield told Live Science that the results "didn't taste good" after three years of searching. "A horse is as boring as us," said Benfield. However, DNA analysis does not invalidate the series or the stories of the people they spoke to, according to the couple.

The story of a creature resembling a monkey roaming in the Himalayas has existed for centuries. Western interest in the Yeti, or the Terrifying Snowman, skyrocketed in the early 1950s after British mountaineer Eric Shipton returned from Everest with a photo of giant footprints. Subsequent investigations led by Westerners failed to find scientific evidence of the creature's existence. After working in international development, Benfield disliked the local Yeti stories being ignored just because white explorers couldn't find it.

"He also felt confident after watching the interview with Sir David Attenborough, which was recorded in 2013. Attenborough did not participate in this new radio series."

"There might be something terrifying in the mystery of the Abominable Snowman." said Attenborough."

Dia juga merasa yakin setelah melihat wawancara Sir David Attenborough yang direkam pada tahun 2013. Attenborough tidak ikut seri radio baru ini.

In 2019, Benfield set out to hear firsthand stories about Yeti and invited Horsey, who holds a PhD in cognitive psychology, to join him.
"If I can convince him, I know I am discovering something,"

The word Benfield.

Can I have Yeti Hair?

BBC was involved in 2022, just before the duo headed to Bhutan and Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary, a national park covering 286 square miles (740 square kilometers) that was established, in part, to protect the "Migoi," or Yeti, according to Daily Bhutan. Here, Horsey finally got the story that shook his skepticism, and Benfield got the hair that is said to be from the Yeti.

"Hair Size"

The hair is about 6 inches (15 cm) long. Benfield cut it into two parts and sent one of them to Charlotte Lindqvist, an evolutionary biologist at the University at Buffalo, New York. Lindqvist and her team found that the DNA matched that of the Altai horse, a mountain breed from Asia.

"Study Year 2017"

"Lindqvist also became part of a 2017 study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which analyzed nine alleged Yeti samples and found that eight originated from bears and one originated from a dog. He previously stated that he had no doubt that the creature was merely a myth."

Benfield received the DNA results but has not yet released the other half of the hair, which he says is currently in his kitchen cabinet. He also talked about the vast, untouched, and unexplored nature of the Himalayas, and mentioned that the Yeti story originated from people who are familiar with the region.

"\u201cYou certainly respect the local community's knowledge when you are there because they keep you alive,\u201d said Benfield."

"Who am I to question these people? They are out there every day."

"DNA Evidence"

"Horsey didn't expect that they would come back with DNA evidence, but told Live Science that Yeti is more important to the local community than he had ever imagined. 'We realize that for most people, it doesn't matter if the object exists physically,' said Horsey. 'That's the role it plays in their world.'"

Author Tshering Tashi details the belief of the Bhutanese community in Yeti in an article published in 2020 for Kuensel Online, the national newspaper's web edition in Bhutan. In it, he states that the Bhutanese people believe that Yeti exists, but they are "not in a hurry" to provide evidence.

Source: Live Science

"\u201cAlthough there are certainly biological creatures behind these mythologies, we believe that their forms and appearances will not be as romanticized as in the Western world,\u201d"

write Tashi.

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