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Scientists from several countries, including Russia and the U.S., will gather in the Kemerova region of Siberia to hunt down the Yeti, after alleged sightings of the legendary creatures increased threefold in the area over the past 20 years.
Originally posted by michaelmcclen
Nice find, also very intresting use of the word "hunt" hopefully if they do come across one they will humainley capture the animal instead of killing it.
*"hunt" to me implies rifles at the ready.
Igor Burtsev, who heads the Moscow-based International Center of Hominology, said, "When Homo sapiens started populating the world, it viciously exterminated its closest relative in the hominid family, Homo neanderthalensis. Some of the Neanderthals, however, may have survived to this day in some mountainous wooded habitats that are more or less off limits to their arch foes." Read more: www.foxnews.com...
Originally posted by Dionisius
reply to post by trollz
obsessed
past participle, past tense of ob·sess (Verb)
1. Preoccupy or fill the mind of (someone) continually, intrusively, and to a troubling extent: "he was obsessed with thoughts of Yetis".
reply to post by michaelmcclen
Nice find, also very intresting use of the word "hunt" hopefully if they do come across one they will humainley capture the animal instead of killing it.
Originally posted by Dionisius
haha dont make me laugh, Yetis are far too clever to let a human capture them
What tracking experience do scientists have anyway i wonder?
The findings have been published online in the journal Biological Conservation. "Conservation biologists routinely underestimate or ignore the number of animals or plants required to prevent extinction," says lead author Dr Lochran Traill, from the University of Adelaide's Environment Institute. "Often, they aim to maintain tens or hundreds of individuals, when thousands are actually needed. Our review found that populations smaller than about 5000 had unacceptably high extinction rates. This suggests that many targets for conservation recovery are simply too small to do much good in the long run."