The 'Abominable Snowman', how do you know its not female?

Question

I mean it could be female. Big Foot or Paul Bunyan is the male.

Like y'all went and saw her anatomy.

What did it do so abominable?

Answer 1

Then it would be one hairy snowbabe, or snowchick.

Answer 2

I believe that we've tread most of the earth and maybe yettis used to exist, but there's no modern day evidence that supports the myth. As for nessy, since there are unexplored regions of the deep ocean, it is quite possible. I saw a picture somewhere that fisherman pulled up a prehistoric-like creature,quite big too. It was a while back though.

Answer 3

The "Abominable Snowman" is a term coined by sensationalist media to describe an unknown species of creature that has been sighted and referred to in folklore all around the world.

If any species of creature is to exist, it has to reproduce. Nothing is immortal. It will either reproduce asexually, in which case gender discernment is utterly useless, or it will reproduce sexually, in which case there must be *both* males and females of the species, or it will reproduce sexually with itself, becoming hermaphroditic, in which case gender discernment is also useless.

Thus the nomenclature "Abominable Snowman" is using the term "man" in the sense of "mankind", not in the sense of "man - person with exterior plumbing."

Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, and Abominable Snowman are all names which apply to the same species of creature, or perhaps very related species of creature, occurring at different places around the globe, but all sharing reportedly very similar characteristics.

Answer 4

Men, being sexist, feel that the lady Abominable is back at the cave, raising the children

Answer 5

Then it would be called the" Amiable Snowman"

Answer 6

Cause it doesn't have boobs and it is a snowman not a snow woman...now God, that is a different story!!!!

Answer 7

because of his great big dangling furry abominable snowgun.

Answer 8

it could be, but he's a little too furry for me to take a look down there, if you know what i mean ;)

Answer 9

if it's snow MAN it's male

Answer 10

The appellation "Abominable Snowman" did not come into existence until 1921, in that year Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury lead the Royal Geographical Society's "Everest Reconnaissance Expedition"[ from which he authored "Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921" in his book he wrote, amongst the details of the expedition, of an account, whilst crossing the "Lhakpa-la" at 21,000 feet where, he later wrote, he found footprints in the snow. Howard-Bury stated that these tracks "were probably caused by a large 'loping' grey wolf, which in the soft snow formed double tracks rather like a those of a barefooted man". However Howard-Bury also stated that "our coolies at once volunteered that the tracks must be that of "The Wild Man of the Snows", to which they gave the name "metoh-kangmi" . "Metoh" translates as "man bear" and "Kang-mi" translates as "snowman"

Confusion exists between Howard-Bury's use of "metoh-kangmi", the words his Boatia Sherpa's had used[ and recited in his book[ and the account provided in H.W. Tilman's book "Mount Everest, 1938" where Tilman had used the words "metch" (it has been suggested that "metch" does not exist in Tibetan and "kangmi" when relating the details of and the eventual creation of the term "Abominable Snowman" Further weight is added to the notion that "metch" is a misnomer, is provided by Prof. David Snellgrove from London School of Oriental Studies and a recognised authority on the Tibetan language (1956), dismissed the word "metch" stating that it was impossible to conjoin the consonants "t c h" in Tibetan." . Documentation does seem to suggest that there are very few examples of the term "metch-kangmi", the term seems to stem from just the one source in 1921. It has been suggested that "metch" is a misspelling of "metoh".

The involvement of Mr. Henry Newman, who contributed for many years to "The Statesman" in Calcutta using the pen-name "Kim" , spoke with the porters of the "Everest Reconnaissance expedition" on return to Darjeeling, and for whatever reason Newman either by artistic license or a mistranslation of "Metoh" as "filthy" or "dirty", which as has been demonstrated it does not mean, created the term "Abominable". Some credence to the suggestion that Newman's artistic predilection[ played a role is the statement made by H.W. Tilman in his book, that "As he (Newman) wrote long after in a letter to The Times: The whole story seemed such a joyous creation I sent it to one or two newspapers'

"Whatever effect Mr. Newman intended, from 1921 onwards the Yeti-or whatever various native populations choose to call it- became saddled with the description "Abominable Snowman," an appellation which can only appeal to the music-hall mind than to mammalogists, a fact which has seriously handicapped earnest seekers of the truth" , a view supported by and Sanderson

"It cannot be denied however that Mr. Newman put the Yeti "on the map". During the twenties and thirties sightings of both of prints and of the animal itself occurred right across the Himalaya from the Burmese frontier to the Karakoram, not all of them by credulous witnesses."
The 1954 Pangboche Scalp Investigation
The Pangboche Hand and Yeti "Scalp", 1954
The Pangboche Hand and Yeti "Scalp", 1954
Dr. Biswamoy Biswas examining the Pangboche Yeti scalp during the Daily Mail Snowman Expedition of 1954
Dr. Biswamoy Biswas examining the Pangboche Yeti scalp during the Daily Mail Snowman Expedition of 1954

The Daily Mail "Snowman Expedition" of 1954, on March 19th printed an article, where the expedition teams obtained and submitted specimens of hairs from the scalp in Pangboche monastery. The research on the hair was conducted by Professor Frederic Wood Jones, F.R.S, D.Sc., (who died on September 29th 1954 ) and an expert in human and comparative anatomy.

The research consisted of taking micro-photographs of the hairs and comparing them with hairs from known animals such as the bear and orangutan.

He (Professor Woods-Jones) was of the opinion that the evidence of the hairs and the photographs, from the Pangboche monastery "scalp", proved it was not a scalp of any type. The reason for this is that although some animals have a ridge of hair beginning at the top of the head and extending between the shoulders to the back, he did not believe that any animals have a ridge such as shown in the photographs of the Pangboche relic running from the base of the forehead across the top of the head and ending at the back of the neck"

The hairs were black or dark brown in colour in dull light, and a "foxy-red" in sunlight. None of these had been dyed and they were probably exceedingly old.



19th century

In 1832, the Journal of the Asiatic society of Bengal published the account of B. H. Hodgson, who wrote that while trekking in northern Nepal, his native guides spotted a tall, bipedal creature covered with long dark hair, then fled in fear. Hodgson did not see the creature, but concluded it was an orangutan.

An early record of reported footprints appeared in 1889 in L.A. Waddell's Among the Himalayas He reported his native guides described a large apelike creature that left the prints, but concluded the prints were made by a bear. Waddell heard stories of bipedal, apelike creatures, but wrote that of the many witnesses he questioned, none "could ever give me an authentic case. On the most superficial investigation it always resolved into something that somebody had heard of."
Early 20th century

The frequency of reports increased in the early 20th century, when Westerners began making determined attempts to climb the many mountains in the area and sometimes reported seeing odd creatures or strange tracks.

In 1925, N.A. Tombazi, a photographer and member of the Royal Geographical Society, saw a creature at about 15,000 ft near Zemu Glacier. Tombazi later wrote that he observed the creature from about 200 or 300 yards, for about one minute. "Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being, walking upright and stopping occasionally to pull at some dwarf rhododendron bushes. It showed up dark against the snow, and as far as I could make out, wore no clothes." About two hours later, Tombazi and his companions descended the mountain, and saw what they took to be the creature's prints, described as "similar in shape to those of a man, but only six to seven inches long by four inches wide.... The prints were undoubtedly those of a biped."
Late 20th century

Western interest in the Yeti peaked dramatically in the 1950s. While attempting to scale Mount Everest in 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a number of large prints in the snow, at about 6,000 m (19,685 ft) above sea level. These photos have been subject to intense study and debate. Some argue they are the best evidence of Yeti's reality, but others contend the prints are from a mundane creature and have been distorted and enlarged by the melting snow.

In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reported seeing large footprints while scaling Mount Everest. Hillary would later discount Yeti reports as unreliable.

During the Daily Mail Snowman Expedition of 1954, the largest search of its kind, the mountaineering leader John Angelo Jackson, made the first trek from Everest to Kangchenjunga and in the process photographed symbolic paintings of the Yeti at Thyangboche Gompa. Jackson tracked and also photographed many footprints in the snow, many of which were identifiable. However, there were many large footprints which could not be identified. The flattened footprint-like indentations were attributed to erosion and subsequent widening of the original footprint by wind and particle action.

Beginning in 1957, Tom Slick, an American who had made a fortune in oil, funded a few missions to investigate Yeti reports. In 1959, feces reportedly from a Yeti were collected by Slick's expedition. Analysis found a parasite but could not classify it. Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that "Since each animal has its own parasites, this indicated that the host animal is equally an unknown animal."